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Manchester Police: "Incredibly Lifelike" Explosive Device "Not Viable" [UPDATE]

Police have concluded their assessment of the suspicious package that led to the abandonment of today’s Manchester United-Bournmouth match, concluding that while the device was “incredibly lifelike,” it was “not viable.”...

Suspicious Package At Old Trafford Leads To Match Abandonment [UPDATING]

Manchester United’s match against Bournemouth has been abandoned after a “Code Red” situation led to stands being evacuated and the discovery of a suspicious package....

Anti-Trump Republicans Asked Mark Cuban, Bizarro-World Trump, To Run Against Him

Fearful that a self-promoting TV star billionaire without an iota of political experience could become president, GOP elder statesmen apparently reached out to, um, Mark Cuban to run against Donald Trump, the Washington Post reports....

Meanwhile, At The Soccer Halftime Show

How to not only get away with LARPing in public but actually be featured as an MLS match halftime show: declare it to be “Star Wars Night.”...

Curt Schilling Publishes Entertaining Endorsement Of Donald Trump

Meme enthusiast Curt Schilling has fulfilled his destiny, not merely endorsing Donald Trump but publishing a vigorous and detailed 1,500 word screed on his personal website explaining why he’s doing so....

What Are Your Weird Superstitions? 

Superstitions seem pretty stupid if you don’t believe them. The 13th day of the month falls on a Friday at least once a year and statistically, it isn’t any more dangerous than any other day. But when one of them worms their way into your psyche, you have to abide by it—just in case, even if only ou...

Anti-Doping Agency Says Kenya Is In The Midst Of A Doping Crisis; No One Cares

The run-up to this summer’s Olympics in Rio have been a disaster, between the prevalence of the Zika virus, Brazil’s political upheaval, and deadly problems with Rio’s Olympic infrastructure. It doesn’t help matters that the World Anti Doping Agency (WADA) is in the midst of a meltdown, with all man...

The Eastern Conference Finals start tonight, and we’re simulating the Lightning-Penguins matchup in NHL ‘94 on Genesis. Watch the game over on Facebook Live....

Kevin Durant Is Still The Shit

Since Steph Curry ate the NBA whole and arose as the preeminent superstar in the NBA last year, the luster on Kevin Durant has faded a little bit. The Thunder have stagnated since they made the Finals in 2012, and Durant and Russell Westbrook have only made incremental progress in learning how to en...

An Alaskan High School Football Player Let The Results Of A Bear Hunt Decide Where He'd Play In College

What’s your process for making a really tough decision? Do you flip a coin? Consult the wisdom of your parents? Maybe you make a spreadsheet. Chase Ferris of Palmer, Alaska had to decide between playing college football for the University of Mary or attending the University of Wyoming. So he went on...

Can Tom Dumoulin Become The Most Unlikely Giro d'Italia Winner Of His Generation? 

Cycling’s three-week Grand Tours are a sort of long, slowly unfolding lesson in the truth of Mike Tyson’s prophecy about how everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth. Every nine-man team charts out how they want their race to go, but 21-stage races are so chaotic that most get dashed ...

Why Are Bad Laws Still Protecting Penn State And Temple? 

The Penn State defense is so well-practiced, so perfected, that by now you can practically write it yourself. The accusations are unsubstantiated; too much time has passed; nobody remembers; there are no records. The language changes from email to email and statement to statement as the university b...

Zika And A Political Crisis Have Made The Rio Olympics A Looming Disaster

Writing in the Harvard Public Health Review, University of Ottawa professor of population health Amir Attaran makes a persuasive argument that the outbreak of the Zika virus in Brazil is so dangerous that the upcoming Rio de Janeiro Olympics—scheduled to kick off in 84 days—should be postponed, move...

Max Scherzer's 20-K Game Was As Unusual As It Was Brilliant

There’s nothing ordinary about striking out 20 guys in a single game, and Max Scherzer doesn’t really need any help shining up the diamond he gave us last night, but this performance stands out as unusual even amongst its peers....

MLS Player Knocked Unconscious After Getting Flattened By Keeper 

Vancouver Whitecaps forward Masato Kudo was going for a long ball when Matt Lampson lit into him with a vicious hit, flooring Kudo and rendering him temporarily unconscious while trying to scoop the ball up....

Holy Shit, Max Scherzer Struck Out 20 Batters

Max Scherzer tied the MLB record with 20 strikeouts against the Detroit Tigers tonight, throwing 96 strikes on 119 pitches in nine innings of work as the Nationals won 3-2. He had a chance to get 21, but James McCann grounded out to a sheepish Daniel Murphy. Scherzer struck out at least two Tigers i...

High School Relay Team Uses High Jump Pole Instead Of Baton, Wins

The 4 x 100 meter race is about pure, raw speed, but it also takes a good deal of coordination to time your handoffs right. This is much easier if you have a dang high jump bar to hand off instead of a tiny, near-weightless baton....

Todd Frazier Busted His Face Up Diving Into The Stands

Sometimes when you dive into the stands, you come up with the catch of the season, and sometimes, you get soda all over yourself and smash your face up....

White Sox Bullpen Catcher Snatches A Homer With His Bare Hand

I like bullpen catchers. They all look like jovial dads who would be happy to help you with your math homework before heading out to the backyard to have a catch. They never get any camera time, so it’s nice to see one shine when he gets the chance:...

Report: Richard Pitino Overspent Private Jet Allowance With Permission Of Sexually Harassing Ex-AD

Remember Norwood Teague, the former University of Minnesota athletic director who resigned last fall after he sexually harassed a number of women? A recent university audit found that, apparently with his encouragement, the Gopher men’s and women’s basketball teams misspent hundreds of thousands of ...