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Yet Another Green Man Eludes Capture At A Minor League Baseball Game
For the record, the Battle Creek Bombers defeated the Madison Mallards 4-1 in some Northwoods League minor-league baseball action on Wednesday night....
Your Afternoon Downer
Here are two awful stories from the world of sports to depress yourselves with. [Star Tribune, Denver Post]...
A Eulogy For The Boogeyman, Hockey's Quintessential Goon
He had no hockey skills to speak of. He couldn't skate, pass, or shoot, and he couldn't check. Derek Boogaard could do one thing: fight. He died Friday of unknown causes, at age 28. If fighting killed him, as some fear, it was also the only thing that gave him a career. READ » • Elsewhere: The New Y...
Watch This Kickboxer Get Destroyed By A Leaping 360 Roundhouse Kick
Here's a not-so-new video newly making the rounds. It's of a fight between Evgenij Alekseev and Vadim Masljanka that ends quickly. Alekseev lands the kind of kick we thought stopped working around the time Jean-Claude Van Damme stopped working. Guess not....
Derek Boogaard, The Quintessential Goon
This is Derek Boogaard, younger, still the same player....
Watch People Cheer For A Suicidal Turtle At The Players Championship
Your morning roundup for May 15, the day Lazy Cakes, Kush Cakes and Lulla Pies start becoming Public Enemy Nos. 1-3....
The Grizzlies Were Prince To The Thunder's Morris Day Last Night
Your morning roundup for May 14, the day after a homeless Bulgarian man beheaded an elderly British woman in a Spanish supermarket, walked away "clutching the head by its hair, leaving a trail of blood dripping to the ground," but got caught after an Italian motorcyclist threw a helmet at his face....
Harvard-Princeton War Of SAT Words Escalates, Yale Joins The Fray
Big basketball game Saturday afternoon, folks: Harvard (23-5, 12-2 Ivy) and Princeton (24-6, 12-2 Ivy) fighting to the death on Yale's court, a neutral site, for the Ivy League's March Madness bid. Extra high stakes for Harvard, who hasn't appeared in the tourney since 1946, back when RFK was punchi...
Hockey Player Misses A Check, Sails Directly Through Sheet Of Plexiglas
Minor league hockey player Patrick Bordeleau of the Lake Erie Monsters missed a hit and slammed straight through the Plexiglas on Friday night. Bordeleau went through the entire pane, raining down shattered glass and hellfire all over the scorer's bench....
High School Basketball Game Ends With Shattered Backboard
Click to view It only served to turn a 14-point loss into a 12-point one, but an Oregon high-school sophomore's dunk ended the game with a shattered backboard, it's a watchable novelty....
Van Damme Takes "Kickboxer" Sequel Pitch A Bit Too Literally
At a time when Steven Seagal has become an obese parody of himself on A&E, Jean-Claude Van Damme announces that he'll return to a kickboxing ring to evolve beyond a Hollywood life of drinking, "cocaine and all that shit."...
Embargoed ESPN Book Already Being Shopped To Checkbook Journalists
Although it's still months away from hitting the book stores, the Miller/Shales bomb-throwing oral history of ESPN, "Those Guys Have All The Fun," is already being peddled on the internet black market....
Ron Zook Freaks Out, Has A Jim Mora Moment
After Illinois' loss to Minnesota last Saturday, Ron Zook addressed the team's prospects for bowl eligibility. It's one of the finest moments in Motor-Mouth History. H/T Erik...
World's Worst Muay Thai Ref Sees No Problems With Garbage Can Lids
A pretty exciting Muay Thai match becomes a whole different animal after the introduction of some garbage can lids. Then it becomes a regular match again, all the while the referee does nothing. Niche sports are fantastic sometimes. [The Spoiler]...
SportsCenter Attempts To Standardize American Spelling
Because no one reads the newspaper, and SportsCenter's anchors are too perky for this early in the morning, Deadspin combs the best of the broadsheets and internets to bring you everything you need to know to start your day....
Chicago Reporter Fired, Possibly For Dating A Player
Jen Patterson was let go by Comcast SportsNet Chicago, a week after her relationship with Blackhawk Nick Boynton became public. That's a quick fall for one of CSN's "rising stars."...
British Kickboxer (Allegedly) Loses Bar Fight, Kills Victor (Allegedly)
British kickboxer Lee Aldhouse is being sought by Thai police after allegedly stabbing an American tourist in the chest after the two earlier engaged in a bar fight. This has the makings of the best Locked Up Abroad yet. [Daily News]...
Female Kickboxer Is Killed At Sloppily Organized Tournament
Sunday in Orlando, Lindsay Scheer fought Adrienne Simmons in the Muay Thai lightweight women's final of the International Kickboxing Federation National Amateur Tournament. The two women were not evenly matched. Lindsay Scheer won the fight. Adrienne Simmons died....
Best News Lede Ever? Best News Lede Ever.
"A German court on Tuesday threw out the case of a schoolteacher against a pupil who allegedly tormented her by scrawling pictures of rabbits on the blackboard to aggravate her rabbit phobia." [The Local] (H/T Tom K.)...
The Jason Whitlock Bobblehead Doll Is My Next Purchase
Oh, but if only it could talk. Like, you'd pull a string and it'll spew all sorts of angry, nonsensical musings on race, sexuality, sports culture and social media pick-up lines: "I c u r a tulane grad." [KCStore]...