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An Injured NFL Player Led To A Timeless TV Blooper

On Sept. 9, 2007, Buffalo Bills tight end Kevin Everett put his head down as he tackled Denver Broncos returner Domenik Hixon. Everett suffered severe injuries to his neck and spine and was paralyzed; doctors weren’t sure the then-25-year-old would walk again. Eventually, the NFL player recovered an...

Sassy LeBron Is Back

Whether you find it admirable or annoying, LeBron James has been remarkably consistent about one thing throughout his career: When things aren’t going his way in the Finals, he gets sassy as hell....

Lack Of Testosterone Limits Leads To Debate Over Transgender High School Athlete

Fifteen-year-old Cromwell High School freshman Andraya Yearwood won the girls’ 100-meter and 200-meter races at the Connecticut Class M track meet. In middle school, Yearwood competed as a boy. The transgender athlete intends to pursue hormonal treatment and sex reassignment surgery, but was able to...

Novak Djokovic Got Wrecked

Dominic Thiem has been the second-best player on this clay season, with the realest credential around: the only player to beat Rafael Nadal. During that run, Thiem’s worst loss came not at the hands of Rafa, but Novak Djokovic, who offered a brief flashback to the world-beating Novak of one year ag...

Ignorant Bird Almost Gets Mushed By Bunt

Birdfriend! I know it’s nice to sit in the grass, but go be in outfield! It’s much safer there....

Red Sox Announcer Jerry Remy Says Pitchers Shouldn't Get Translators, Should "Learn Baseball Language"

Boston Red Sox broadcaster Jerry Remy took bizarre exception to Yankees pitcher Masahiro Tanaka being visited by Japanese translator Shingo Horie and pitching coach Larry Rothschild in the fourth inning of Tuesday’s game....

"Fuck You, I'm Millwall!" Londoner Says He Took On Bridge Attackers After A Few Pints

A soccer fan from London said he tried to stop the attackers on London Bridge on Saturday after drinking, he said, “four or five pints, nothing major.” According to the Guardian, the Millwall fan, Roy Larner, was stabbed in the attack and was taken to the hospital with serious injuries, but is now o...

The Jets Did David Harris Dirty

The surprise isn’t so much that the Jets released David Harris today. It’s the way they went about doing it, which was savage, even by the NFL’s frosty standards....

Please Enjoy This Extremely English Politician's Awkward Campaign Ad<em></em>

I’m not quite sure what to say about this campaign ad recently released by Greg Knight, a Tory MP representing East Yorkshire. Consider that Knight told the press “I never aspired to be an Alan Partridge” after it went viral; consider that he did so because, to a first approximation, every single ou...

Cam Johnson Commits To UNC, Calls Out Pittsburgh For Blocking His Transfer

Shooting guard Cam Johnson, a summa cum laude graduate of Pittsburgh, announced on Tuesday that he will be taking his talents to Chapel Hill to play for the Tar Heels during his final two years of eligibility; the question now—the question that’s been unanswered for months—is whether the Panthers wi...

Arda Turan Quits Turkish National Team After Allegedly Choking Journalist

Barcelona midfielder Arda Turan has played for Turkey 97 times, making him the fourth most capped player in national team history. He is only 30 years old, so he was probably headed for the all-time record, but Turan announced yesterday his immediate plans to quit the national team for good after he...

Carl Yastrzemski's Silent Summer

This piece was originally published in the October 30, 1978 of the New Times. It is reprinted here with the author’s permission....

Bill Belichick Seems Thrilled To Chat About Tom Brady's Alleged Unreported Brain Injuries

Last month, Gisele Bundchen went on TV and said that her husband Tom Brady has played with several unreported concussions over the course of his career, including last year. In the past four years, Brady has been officially listed with a concussion zero times. Patriots coach Bill Belichick managed t...

Phillies Legend Mike Schmidt Trashes Phillies CF Odubel Herrera [Updated]

Mike Schmidt is perhaps the greatest Phillie of all time. The Phillies, as you probably know, have been the worst team in baseball so far this season. But Schmidt works for the Phillies as a color analyst on weekend home games, so you’d expect him to refrain from trashing the team when he appeared ...

Reports: Cavaliers Locker Room Smelled Of Weed After Game 2

After Game 2 of the NBA Finals, the Undefeated’s Mike Wise noticed some dank aromas in the Cavaliers’ locker room:...

Fans Give Packers Player Ride To Green Bay After He Misses Connection In Minneapolis

Packers cornerback Davon House was trying to get to OTAs on Monday night when his connecting flight from Minneapolis to Green Bay was cancelled. With no more flights leaving that night and a shortage of rental cars, House found himself in a tough spot:...

Michigan State Dismisses Three Players Charged In Sexual Assault Case

Judge Richard Ball of Lansing’s 54B District Court signed three warrants Tuesday morning, authorizing the arrest of a trio of Michigan State football players—sophomore wideout Donnie Corley, sophomore defensive end Josh King, and redshirt freshman Demetric Vance were all charged for their roles in a...

Pekka Rinne Is Good Again

“I don’t know what he needed to prove to anybody,” Austin Watson said of goaltender Pekka Rinne, but I think it was pretty obvious. Rinne had been awful in the first two games of the Stanley Cup final. He needed to prove he hadn’t collapsed completely—that he could, at the very least, again be the p...

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Preds Fans <i>Really</i> Love Their Hockey

This amorous couple couldn’t contain themselves after Nashville’s 4-1 win over Pittsburgh tonight to even the Stanley Cup Final at two games a piece, showing their love for, uh, hockey behind WSMV’s Chris Harris....