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UFC Fighter Charged With Pistol-Whipping Strip Club Employee
Cops charged Diego Brandão with battery and assault charges Friday after the UFC featherweight allegedly hit an Albuquerque strip club employee in the face with a handgun....
The Padres Made A Highlight
The Padres, they didn’t get out to a great start this year. They needed 31 innings before they scored their first run of the season. And they’re still at the bottom of the NL West ... but now in a tie, at least, with the Diamondbacks, who make great company for misery....
Dwight Howard Drops Mic
Dwight Howard ended his presser after Houston’s 104-78 thrashing at the hands of the Warriors by dropping the mic. He didn’t pick it back up....
The Pacers Beat Toronto In Game 1, Where The Raptors Always Go To Die
The Indiana Pacers, the seventh-best team in the NBA’s Eastern Conference during the regular season, just rolled into Toronto and stole Game 1 from the Raptors, the second-best team in the East. They were able to do this because the Toronto Raptors have a streak to keep alive: Having never won a Gam...
Newly Hired UNLV Coach Jumps Ship For Texas Tech
Less than a week ago, UNLV’s regents formally approved the hiring of Arkansas-Little Rock’s basketball coach Chris Beard to fill the same position for the Runnin’ Rebels. Yesterday afternoon, Texas Tech announced that they had hired Beard to coach their basketball team next season. After Tubby Smith...
This KO Is Everything Beautiful And Terrible About Boxing, In 2 Brutal Seconds
What the hell did boxing fans do before still video? (Or, for that matter, still photography?) It’s no coincidence, I think, that the sport peaked long before people could actually see what was happening in the ring, sometimes even when they were watching it in real time. Take this KO from a lightwe...
Striker Makes PK Save After Keeper Sent Off With No Substitutes
MK Dons found themselves in a perilous predicament today against Preston North End, as the relegation-zone Championship side had their keeper sent off after they had already used up their three substitutions. That left them to put striker Alex Revell in goal to face what would have been the deciding...
Let's Make Compound Butter, Because Butter Is Good, And This Shit Is Even Better
A dumb thing to do, here, would be to tell you that the basic goodness of compound butter, its fundamental appeal, is much of anything other than that it is butter. It’s butter! That’s it. Butter good....
Keylor Navas Makes Stunning Short-Range Save Off Indirect Free Kick
It’s another cruise in the park for Real Madrid against Getafe today, but make no mistake: keeper Keylor Navas is getting his work in. Here’s the Costa Rican laying out to make the stop on an indirect free kick from right in front of the goal....
Jonathan Toews Was A Weirdly Intense Tween
This Chicago Tribune story tracing Blackhawks star Jonathan Toews’s competitive drive back to his earliest days kicks off with one hell of an anecdote—a deleted scene from The Omen, maybe....
This Tight New Dance Is Taking College Basketball By Storm
About two weeks ago, Maryland Terrapins sophomore Jared Nickens posted a video of himself dancing to Ghost Town DJ’s “My Boo” with teammate Jaylen Brantley. It’s a fun dance!...
Here, Have Five Solid Minutes Of Warriors Highlights
I’m going to be honest, before I clicked play on this video I thought to myself, “Man, I’ve spent the whole dang season watching Warriors highlights. I’m going to get bored with this in under 30 seconds.” Then I ended up watching the whole thing from start to finish....
Get A Load Of This Young Soccer Boy Just Savaging People On The Pitch
I know absolutely nothing about this video or this kid, other than that this child of unknown origin has a taste for snatching the souls of his opponents with his incredible skills and that he needs to get onto the USMNT ASAP:...
ESPN Radio Features Remarkably Awkward News Update About Marbles
While we all loved that video of the marble race (go ahead and treat yourself to another viewing while you’re here), I’m not sure it deserved a shoutout in an ABC news update during the Mike & Mike radio show this morning. Still, that’s exactly what happened. The strange segment got even stranger wh...
Alcides Escobar Made One Hell Of A Double Play
Royals shortstop Alcides Escobar can do a lot of cool things in the field, and last night he turned in his first stunner of this season....
UW-Milwaukee Basketball Play-By-Play Guy Quits, Burns Every Single Bridge On Way Out
Bill Johnson, who has been the radio play-by-play guy for UW-Milwaukee basketball for the past 16 seasons, announced on Instagram last night that he was retiring. Accompanying his announcement was a blistering broadside against the UW-Milwaukee athletic department, calling department executives “a t...
Vin Scully Patiently Explains Why 13 Isn't An Unlucky Number
It’s storytime with Vin Scully, who is calling his 67th and final Dodgers season. His train of thought directed by an RBI single by Arizona’s Nick Ahmed, who wears uniform No. 13, Scully launched into a recitation of just how much the number 13 means to this great nation—with brief interrupts to cal...
Joe Pavelski Muscled The Sharks To A Series Lead
Sucks for those of us on East Coast time, but the three most intriguing first-round playoff series are out West. The West has most of the best teams this year, and the best storylines, and for now the best match-ups, and none better than this year’s (first, maybe) California series. And if you went ...
The Flyers And Capitals Did All Sorts Of Fighting In Their Series Opener
The Washington Capitals opened their Stanley Cup Playoffs with a 2-0 win over the Philadelphia Flyers tonight. John Carlson pinged a slapshot in off a series of Flyers in the second period, and Jay Beagle added another in the third period. Two goals is far less than the nine that the Islanders and P...