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Ann Wilson Puts Barracuda Spin On "Star-Spangled Banner"
The Seahawks went with Ann Wilson, lead singer of Heart, for the pregame national anthem. Anthem traditionalists might hate the creativity on the climax, but this is Ann Wilson. She can do what she wants. The crowd's building cheers towards the end were pretty cool, too....

Nick Saban Doing The Electric Slide?
Nick Saban doing the Electric Slide. (No, really, this is Nick Saban doing the Electric Slide.)...

Spacey Royals Fan Is Worst Person To Ask About School Shooting Plot
Kansas teenager Brendan Moore was arrested and charged last week for planning a school shooting at Topeka West High School. A crew from local news station WIBW wanted a fellow student to interview for a reaction, and they found Nate Magers. They should have kept looking....

Vitali Klitschko Sprayed With Fire Extinguisher During Kiev Protests
What's Vitali Klitschko up to these days? The retired boxer was trying to keep the peace during protests in Kiev, Ukraine's capital, asking demonstrators not to provoke police. In return, someone sprayed a fire extinguisher in his face....

High School Basketball Player Makes A Wild, Unintentional Bounce Shot
Logan Jurgensmeier of Hinton (Iowa) was only trying to keep the ball in play against Sioux City West (Iowa), but his bad bounce pass turned into an accidental two points when it kissed off of the rim and spun in. Jurgensmeier looks as baffled as the rest of us....


UConn Coach Kevin Ollie Flips His Shit After Uncalled Foul
UConn coach Kevin Ollie was pissed when the officiating crew missed a rather obvious foul by Louisville's Wayne Blackshear on Niels Giffey during Saturday's game. Even though Ollie's anger was justified, he was quickly hit with two technical fouls and ejected from the game....

CrossFit Athlete Paralyzed After Severing Spine During Competition
CrossFit athlete Kevin Ogar was paralyzed from the waist down after severing his spinal cord in the middle of a competition last Sunday in California....

Drake Played An Ever-Denying Alex Rodriguez In The <em>SNL</em> Cold Open
Drake is pulling double-duty as host and musical guest on tonight's episode of Saturday Night Live, and the show broke from tradition a bit by featuring its host in the cold open. Here's Drake appearing as Alex Rodriguez on Piers Morgan Tonight....

Flames-Canucks Features Line Brawl Two Seconds Into Game
It took only two seconds into tonight's Flames-Canucks game for total madness. After the opening puck dropped, every player on the ice—but the goalies—paired up and threw punches....
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HBO Boxing Extreme Closeup Is Really Gross [Not Safe For Stomachs]
HBO's airing a bout between Mike Perez and Carlos Takam on the undercard of a Bute-Pascal light heavyweight fight from Montreal tonight, and Perez suffered a nasty cut in the third round. Read on only if you want to see something pretty gross....

Paul George Unleashed A Once-In-A-Lifetime 360 Windmill Dunk
You had better watch this dunk, because it's probably never going to happen again....

Nick Faldo Is A Cupcake Magician
Spoiler alert: it's not really magic. Faldo was giving Gary Player a hard time about his fitness advocacy and played like he was going to eat the cupcake before tossing it over his shoulder. It hit the glass window behind the booth and stuck there. ...

Metrodome Deflated For Final Time; Demolition Begins Monday
The home of the Minnesota Vikings has been deflated for the final time. This is time lapse video of the roughly 35-minute process. Once home to the Twins, Vikings and Timberwolves, the Metrodome slowly lost all its major tenants but the Vikings. Now that the Vikings have a new billion-dollar facil...

Kansas And Oklahoma State Need To Be Separated After Thunderous Dunk
Kansas, in the midst of a 13-0 first-half run against the Cowboys, brought Allen Fieldhouse to its feet with this crushing dunk from Tarik Black. The noise might have caused some confusion on the Oklahoma State side because Markel Brown tries to push the ball up the court while Travis Ford called a...

Patriots Asked About Smoking Weed While In Denver
The Patriots are on the road this week in Denver to play the Broncos in the AFC Championship game, so let's talk about drugs. Denver is in Colorado, where (like Washington, host to the NFC Championship) the recreational use of marijuana is legal. On Friday, multiple Patriots, including Bill Belichic...

The Evolution Of A Flop, In Four Angles
At first blush, Jerrone Maymon looked to have knocked out Andrew Harrison with a wild elbow to the face. But with each successive replay here you can see that it was a flop and an absolutely ridiculous one at that....

Dick Vitale Goes To Billy Joel Concert, Tweets Nearly Every Song Title
Sometimes Dick Vitale is just the best. Last night he went to a Billy Joel concert and live-tweeted the experience. Something you should know: Dick Vitale live-tweeting a Billy Joel concert is basically a stream of tweets with just the names of Billy Joel songs in all caps....

How To Cook Chicken Cutlets, And Give Yourself A Reason To Keep Living
These are dark times, friends. Literally! It's dark as hell all the time, because it is winter, and everything is polar vortices and bitter bullying winds and frostbite and uncontrollable sobbing and making a fort out of couch cushions and hiding inside the fort shrouded in sweaters and jackets an...
