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Yeah, This U16 Girls' Hockey Slash Should Probably Be Prosecuted
This is from an international tournament in Budapest, Russian Svetlana Starovoytova literally breaking her stick over the head of American Hannah Bates. That's bad....
WWE's "Russian" Characters Referenced The Malaysian Airlines Crash
On last night's WWE pay-per-view, Lana and Rusev, playing Russians—or at least Russophiles; they're not totally clear on the details— made reference to Americans blaming Russia "for the recent current events." ...
Red Sox Ball Girl Fields Fair Ball, Immediately Regrets It
In the top of the fourth inning last night in Boston, Eric Hosmer hit one on the screws down the first base line and an overeager ball girl scooped up the obviously fair ball. Her reaction is so great. ...
Prankster Poses As Ukraine Eyewitness, Calls MSNBC Host "Dumbass"
MSNBC's Krystal Ball couldn't foresee being called a "dumbass" by a prankster posing as an eyewitness to today's MH17 flight disaster, even after the guest—claiming to be stationed at the U.S. embassy in Kiev—claimed the plane was shot down by "a blast of wind from Howard Stern's ass."...
The International And North American Junior Girl's Archery Champion, 1935
Another sure shot from the Lively Morgue. ...
Why England Should Fear The Crafty, Italian Genius Of Andrea Pirlo
If international soccer teams' styles represent their national characters—and Henry Kissinger says they do, so who am I to argue?—few encounters bring that out better than England-Italy. To the English, the Italians have always been skillful, stylish, crafty, and untrustworthy, both on the pitch and...
Girl Tries Pole Dancing At Vegas Beach Club, Fails Miserably
This girl partying at Encore Beach Club in Las Vegas attempted to show off her pole dancing skills. It ended very, very poorly....
France's Manager Sues Samir Nasri's Girlfriend For "Public Insult"
After Samir Nasri's girlfriend took to Twitter earlier this week to slam the French national team for leaving her man off the World Cup team, said France manager Didier Deschamps has brought a lawsuit against her for public insult. This is so French....
Samir Nasri's Girlfriend Is Not Happy With France's World Cup Team
It's been a bit of an up and down week for French star Samir Nasri. On Sunday, his Manchester City team won the Premier League. Way up! But today, Nasri found out he was left off France's World Cup squad. Way down!...
Shovel Girl Is Doing Just Fine, You Guys
Yesterday, the world got to meet Shovel Girl, the star of the greatest eight minutes in YouTube history. But many were left wondering about Shovel Girl's well-being, due to the fact that she got hit in the head with a shovel. It looks like she's doing just fine....
This Girl Fight Is The Best Comedy And Action Movie Of The Year
There's a Vine going around the internet today of a girl hitting another girl in the head with a flying shovel. It's hilarious. It's also taken from an eight-minute YouTube video of a fight between the two girls, which also happens to be one of the best pieces of American cinema you will ever lay ey...
14-Year-Old Girl Arrested After Joke Tweet To Airline
A 14-year-old Dutch girl was arrested a day after foolishly tweeting a terrorism joke at American Airlines. The arrest was confirmed by Rotterdam police....
Orioles Ball Girl Ignores Umpire, Fields Live Baseball
We understand the role of ball boys/girls when it comes to protecting bullpens from foul balls, and occasionally they make highlight plays. But they sure do screw up a bunch, and today a ball girl in Baltimore committed the ultimate sin by ignoring the third base umpire's fair signal and fielding a ...
Don't Tweet Menacing Things To Airlines, Like This Girl
Messing with companies on Twitter is fun, unless it involves sending an airline an ominous tweet that implies a future hijacking. That route of trolling is really, really dumb....
Padres Ball Girl Makes Catch Of The Year
(The year is young. Still a great catch though.)...
Chicago Sports Radio Host Shits In The Studio, Flees The Building
Les Grobstein, overnight host for 670 The Score, is a sort-of legend in Chicago, not just for his encyclopedic knowledge of area sports but for being, basically, the real life Oscar Madison. (See this great old Ben Joravsky piece, which among other things details how Grobstein got the infamous Lee E...
Andrea Pirlo Just Scored Another Incredible Free Kick Goal
This is Juventus's Andrea Pirlo. He's 100 years old, and, aside from the greatest flowing mane of hair to ever grace a human's head, looks older than that. No one has seen him move in earnest in six or seven years, but he scores stunning free kicks all the time. This is one of those times. ...
Coach Fired For Playing In High School Girls' Soccer Matches
High school coaches: Even if you get that itch to relive your athletic career and make one more comeback, don't do it, because you'll probably be canned....
Our 20 Most Anticipated Movies of 2014
Now that all the year-end best-of lists are finally over, it's time for some lists that look forward rather than backward. 2014 has a lot to live up to; 2013 was one of the best movie years in recent memory....