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Curling Injury Much More Gruesome Than You Would Expect Curling Injury To Be
2006 Olympic gold medalist Brad Gushue was rushed to a hospital today in Nova Scotia after a fall left him gushing blood all over the ice at the Grand Slam of Curling....
Pierre Garçon Is Leading A Class-Action Lawsuit Against FanDuel On Behalf Of NFL Players
On Friday Pierre Garçon filed a federal class-action lawsuit in Maryland against FanDuel on behalf of all the NFL players whose likenesses and names the site uses, he says, without proper permission. FanDuel has marketing agreements with 15 NFL teams, including Washington, who was one of the first t...
Report: NFL Investigated Patriots Sideline Staff After Jets Complaint
During last Sunday’s 30-23 win over the New York Jets, the NFL interrogated three Kraft Sports employees on the Patriots sideline after the Jets complained about radio communication systems. According to a report from the Boston Herald, NFL officials looked into the three employees and determined th...
Hinkie Traded This Sign For Draft Picks: Your Philadelphia <i>College GameDay</i> Sign Roundup
ESPN’s College GameDay went to Philadelphia today for the unpredictably-huge Notre Dame-Temple game. Phillyfan was there, and Phillyfanned as hard as he could. Your sign roundup, with help as always from SEC Nation:...
A Night In Hell: The Savage Horrors Of World Series Game 2
“The path to paradise begins in hell.” —Mr. Baseball, My Life and Memories, Volume 2: The Childhood Years (Book 2, Ages 3 through 5)....
Raiders Owner Mark Davis Cheered By Fans He Wants To Abandon Or Steal From
The NFL held its third and final town hall meeting on relocation last night. After giving fans in San Diego and St. Louis a chance to vent and make a case for why their football teams shouldn’t be relocated to Los Angeles, a group of NFL execs trudged into the Paramount Theater in Oakland to hear it...
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¡Es Insano! Timbers Advance In MLS Playoffs After Breaking Physics In PKs
Portland Timbers are moving on in the MLS playoffs after defeating Sporting Kansas City in a wild match that required eleven rounds of penalties—with the winner being scored by, and then saved by, Timbers keeper Adam Kwarasey....
How To Crash A Party Like A Pro
Yesterday, the New York Times’ Ben Widdicombe wrote about a vilified archetype of NYC nightlife: the Party Crasher. These are wily revelers who show up uninvited to the kind of high-brow parties that are usually thrown by rich wannabe celebs and big, bougie brands. The story gives examples of some o...
Johnny Cueto Was Tremendous Tonight
Johnny Cueto’s postseason form has oscillated between extremes. He shut down the Astros to take the Royals into the ALCS, giving up two runs in eight innings, then reversed those stats and gave up eight in two to the Blue Jays in his next start. The key difference was that Cueto’s dominant start, wh...
There Are No Innocent Black People
Monday afternoon, video emerged of a white man approaching a small, black girl sitting in a classroom, noosing a thick arm around her neck, slamming her to the ground while she was still entangled in her desk, picking her up again, throwing her some distance across the room, and then again pinning h...
"Baked Sausage Meat Ring" Is Much Better Than It Sounds (Or Looks)
The Woe of Cooking is an ongoing fiasco where the guy who does the Beer Idiot unearths the weirdest, grossest recipes he can find in The Joy of Cooking, and cooks/eats them. It has been awhile; we missed you. ...
How To Make New Friends As An Adult, And Why
When I was growing up, my best friends were simply the ones most available to me. That’s true for most of us, probably—even if we don’t realize it at the time. My next-door neighbor Miranda was my closest childhood confidant: She was the cooler, older girl who pretended to be witches with me when we...
Fox Loses Broadcast During World Series
It’s not just you: during the bottom of the 4th inning of tonight’s World Series game from Kansas City, Fox’s broadcast cut out. After a few seconds Fox cut to a clearly confused Dan O’Toole in the studio, who explained that power was lost to Fox’s truck, and got Dontrelle Willis to blab about god k...
911 Call: Employee Told Cops: "I Don’t Feel Comfortable" Letting John Henson In Store
Milwaukee Bucks forward John Henson said last week he had been racially profiled at a Whitefish Bay, Wis., jewelry store, where he went to buy his first Rolex only to find the doors locked. Henson rang the bell and nobody answered, because store employees were in the back calling the cops....
The Hateful Life And Spiteful Death Of The Man Who Was Vigo The Carpathian
You’ve seen a painting of Norbert Grupe. A heavy, creased brow and shoulder-length hair framing a frightening scowl, the massive work hung in the fictional Manhattan Museum of Art in Ghostbusters II. When the medieval sorcerer pictured within the painting begins to physically manifest, it is on the ...
Skins Fan Enjoys Obstructed View
As the Skins took on the Buccaneers on Sunday, one fan at Washington’s stadium was doing her own thing. Specifically, she was sitting on the floor in the stands, with another fan’s crotch in her face as he watched the game....
The Ravens Are (Rightfully) Pissed Off About The Officiating
Every team has calls go against it over the course of the game, but two in particular boned the Ravens last night, both in big spots, and both more or less inexplicable. Baltimore WR Steve Smith is not going to let the officials get away with this: “Two stars. That’s what I’m putting on my Yelp.”...
Cop Attacks High School Student In Her Classroom
Video has come out of a cop—a school resource officer, or SRO, tasked with performing law enforcement duties in an educational environment—attacking a student today at Spring Valley High School in Columbia, S.C. The footage is graphic....
Backwards Runners In Reverse Look Like Regular Runners, Only Weird
It takes a second to figure out what you’re watching here, but when you finally do, it’s merely very strange. It’s people running backward, but the video’s in reverse, so it makes them look like they’re casually jogging away from something chasing them. The ghoul from It Follows, maybe, or a particu...