it Page 1027 - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights
Reminder From Russell Westbrook: Don't Get It Twisted
The Celtics beat up on the Durant-less Thunder last night, and Marcus Smart had a better game than opposing point guard Russell Westbrook. After the game, one reporter asked Westbrook if Smart, being a big, physical guard, is a particularly tough matchup for him. Westbrook did not take kindly to thi...
Is Ronda Rousey A GLORY GIRL?
Hey, Ronda Rousey got her butt (and head and neck) kicked the other night. How did such a seemingly dominant athlete manage to end up losing so decisively? Was Rousey ill-prepared for Holly Holm’s cagey boxing style? Was she unnerved by Australia’s counter-clockwise toilet swirl? Did she take a dive...
Jamie Vardy Is The Premier League's Most Unlikely Star
For many in the England team, this international break was just another tune-up before the culmination of a long process in France next summer. Most all of them have been groomed from a young age; the majority of these Englishmen had been noticed and selected for greatness when they were teens. This...
How Ronda Rousey Lost
You’ve seen the kick. We’ve all seen the kick. Left shin meets jaw/neck, and Ronda Rousey is out. It was a brutal, iconic moment, but it’s almost beside the point: Holly Holm was already beating Rousey, and beating her badly. She wasn’t just edging her out; it was total domination from start to fini...
This Antonio Brown Flip Is The Best Touchdown Celebration
Pittsburgh is hosting Cleveland today and, despite losing starter Landry Jones to an early injury, they have a healthy lead late in the fourth. This is partially because Antonio Brown’s two touchdowns, the second of which he celebrated with this impressive flip....
Security Guard Tries To Tackle Fan Rushing The Field, Eats It
USF upset Temple last night at Raymond James Stadium, and students rushed the field because they’re not old enough to remember when the Bulls were actually good. Given the Buccaneers are playing on that field today, stadium security did its best to keep fans off the playing surface. That didn’t work...
Holly Holm Annihilates Ronda Rousey, Claims UFC Title
We told you Holly Holm was no match for Ronda Rousey, and the challenger made us look like idiots tonight in Melbourne as Holm knocked out Rousey a minute into the second round with a head kick —ripping the title from who we previously considered the world’s most dominant athlete....
Ronda Rousey's Latest Challenger Is Entirely Legit And Has No Prayer
Tonight in Melbourne, Australia’s Etihad Stadium, Ronda Rousey, the greatest women’s fighter ever, will defend her bantamweight title for the seventh successive time. In sports, and especially in fighting, it’s important to account for the impossible. Still, Rousey is all but certainly going to win,...
College Basketball Game In Japan Cancelled After Wet Floor Causes Injuries
Pittsburgh and #9-ranked Gonzaga began their seasons yesterday at Foster Field House in the Marine Corps base on Okinawa, Japan, or at least they tried to. A slippery floor surface caused all manner of slips and falls, including the particularly gnarly one below, and the game was called off at halft...
NBA.com Removes "Oriental" From Post About Jeremy Lin
On November 2, after the Charlotte Hornets home opener, NBA.com’s official Hornets blog posted a story about the team’s home opener. The post originally read, “The Jeremy Lin impact was evident as a lot of Oriental fans were present to support the Harvard prodigy giving a new feel to the Charlotte-s...
Paris Explosion Heard From Inside Stadium During Soccer Match
There have been multiple reports of explosions and gunshots in Paris, and the death toll from the attacks has reportedly reached 26. Many reports state that one or more of the explosions took place near Stade de France, during the French national team’s friendly against Germany. At the eight-second ...
Missouri Football Coach Gary Pinkel Announces Resignation
Missouri football coach Gary Pinkel is resigning on Dec. 31, or until the Tigers hire a new coach, according to a statement issued by the school today....
Guinness Is Struggling, And This Gimmicky New IPA Won't Save It
If you came of drinking age in a certain era, Guinness Draught was quite likely the first good beer you ever had. As recently as a decade ago, it was common to walk into a middle-of-the-road American bar and be confronted with a tap list featuring Shit, Shit Light, Shit Ice, Lemon-Lime Shit, Cider S...
Jerry Sandusky Is Getting His Pension Back
Jerry Sandusky will spend the rest of his natural life in prison for molesting and assaulting numerous boys over a 15-year period, all met via his Second Mile foundation. The day he was sentenced, Pennsylvania’s State Employees’ Retirement Board cut off his sizable pension from his years of service ...
<i>Skin Trade </i>Lets<i> </i>Dolph Lundgren Cook, And For A Dumb Action Flick, That's Enough
Dolph Lundgren has had a couple of cups of coffee with the American pop-cultural psyche: haughtily sneering over Apollo Creed’s death in Rocky IV, wearing a necklace of severed ears in Universal Soldier, that sort of thing. But he never crossed over to the upper tier of action stars, and it’s hard t...
Why Are Hot Takers Truthering The Missouri Fiasco?
Missouri is playing a football game this Saturday night—a game that was recently put in jeopardy by the ongoing firestorm at the school. It’s a big ol’ shitshow that promises to get messier before it gets cleaner, with potential strikes, ousted chancellors, professors begging for muscle (coming righ...
WADA Report: Drug Testing Works, But Bribery Works Better
The corruption at the top of track and field and the institutionalized doping miasma makes me tired. It’s supposed to. If it is ugly and confusing enough, lousy with unintelligible acronyms, most observers will just say, The hell with it, they’re all juiced to the gills, and most athletes will say, ...
The Ballet Barre Workout That Burns, Oh God, It Burns
So New York magazine reported back in September that no one is really doing pilates anymore, which makes sense: It’s not exactly the only fitness-niche game in town. Not by a long shot. I’ve personally tried many of them, from spin to Zumba to hot yoga; today, please welcome to the stage, Pure Barre...
Men's Rights Activists Trolled With Lines From <i>Good Will Hunting</i>
Scaachi Koul is a BuzzFeed Canada writer, and her pieces are mostly about race and gender. Beyond the garden variety garbage men bombard every woman on the internet with, Koul’s occupation and beat means she is subject to especially vile tweets, emails, and Facebook messages....