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Dudes Use Giant Lumberjack Machine To Save Bear Stuck In Milk Can
This is my new favorite bear video....
LeBron's Free Agency Circus Is Officially Underway
LeBron James's 2010 free agency remains the most entertaining thing to happen in the NBA in years, with fans, suitors, and speculators running around like headless chickens for a week, all while James maintained complete control of the timing and tenor of his decision. (Sorry, his Decision.) As an...
Embrace Your Fate
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Cubs Trade Jeff Samardzija And Jason Hammel To Best Team In Baseball
Good news, Jeff Samardzija! You are now a starting pitcher for the Athletics, owners of the best record in baseball. It may smell like old, decaying, actual shit in Oakland, but that's just a modern plumbing problem, not an ancient, metaphorical one like your old home. ...
Here Is Your Final Colombian TV ¡GOL! Of The World Cup
Brazil eliminated Colombia 2-1 yesterday, which means the Caracol TV call of James Rodriguez's goal from the spot is the last time we get to feature Javier "El Cantante del Gol" Fernández's wonderful announcing. Enjoy....
James Rodríguez Attacked By Horrifying Animal After Penalty Kick
James Rodríguez nailed home a penalty kick to draw Colombia within a goal of Brazil, and the first thing to celebrate with him wasn't a teammate but this giant green scary-as-shit bug. WHAT IS THAT THING?...
Blue Jays Challenge Play To Get Their Own Runner Out
Blue Jays manager John Gibbons used MLB's instant replay in an unusual but clever decision in the top of the second of Thursday's game against the Athletics....
Joel Embiid's Twitter Recruitment Of LeBron James Is Adorable
One of the post-draft delights has been discovering that new 76er Joel Embiid is really good at Twitter. In between World Cup tweets, recovery tweets, and some savvy sponsor promotion, Embiid has been attempting to convince LeBron James to shock the world and sign with Philadelphia....
One Fight In Bangkok: The Holy-Shit Elation Of <em>Ong-Bak</em>
There are stuntmen in Thailand willing to do ridiculous things without wires, motion-capture suits, or green screens helping them out. In Born to Fight, that meant fighting atop moving trucks. In Ong-Bak 2, that meant running on the backs of moving elephants. And in 2003's original Ong-Bak, that m...
Nasty Dread: Beware The Ersatz Island Schmaltz Of Magic!
It's the rare band that makes Smash Mouth seem edgy by comparison. It's the rare band that makes Sublime seem arty, that makes 311 seem novel, that makes Jack Johnson seem… tolerable. But here we are, and here we go: Magic. Oops, make that Magic!—the exclamation point being one of many red flags ind...
Happy Canada Day
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Jürgen Klinsmann Isn't Happy About Getting An Algerian Ref
The match kicks off in seven hours. The gamesmanship has already begun, with Jürgen Klinsmann publicly casting a side-eye toward FIFA's choice of an Algerian referee for today's USA-Belgium clash....
How Two Infamous Ex-ESPNers Benefited From A Bristol VIP's Night Out
One of the most influential men in sports pawing women in a hotel bar in front of a couple enemies with old scores to settle—and much of it surreptitiously captured on video? It sounds like the stuff of an investigation carried out by one of ESPN's harder-charging journalistic franchises. Instead, i...
LeBron James Wants To Get <i>Paid</i> Next Year
LeBron James wants teams to know that when he signs his new contract, it's going to be for the maximum salary next year, which shakes out to about $20.7 million. LeBron has never been the highest paid player on any team he's ever played on and he's looking to rectify that....
Saying Goodbye To Roger Ebert: <em>Life Itself</em>, Reviewed
When Roger Ebert died on April 4, 2013, it felt like a death in the family, not only because I'm a film critic, but because he and Gene Siskel are a huge part of the reason why. The different incarnations of their Siskel & Ebert show were instrumental in my upbringing, driving home the idea that ...
Jason Kidd Has Been Traded To The Bucks
Well, that escalated quickly. Over the weekend, reports about Brooklyn Nets head coach Jason Kidd's unhappiness with his employers began to surface, along with talk that the first-year head coach was looking to escape to Milwaukee. Now it's being reported that Kidd has gotten his wish....
Jason Kidd Could Already Be Leaving The Brooklyn Nets
After just one season, Jason Kidd might be done as head coach of the Brooklyn Nets, and possibly head to Milwaukee....
No One Wants To Play Colombia, Because James Rodríguez Is Unstoppable
The World Cup has always been a tournament of superstars. What separates the fates of these hodge-podge collections of countrymen wrangled together a couple dozen times per year to form some semblance of chemistry and playing coherence ahead of the Big Shebang is very often one particular player's a...
The James Rodríguez Golazo, As Called On Colombian Television
You knew this was coming, didn't you? Here's how the brilliant James Rodríguez goal that put Colombia up 1-0 on Uruguay sounded on Colombian TV broadcaster Caracol. ROCK OUT. Update: here's James's second goal, as aired on the same network:...
James Rodríguez With The Wonder-Goal For Colombia
Shit man, this is pretty. ...