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Lacrosse Goalie Scores Full-Field Goal While Other Goalie Isn’t Paying Attention

Denver Outlaws goalie Jack Kelly intercepted a pass with just five seconds left in the third quarter. So he did what anyone would do in that situation: He flung it as hard as it could at the other goal, hoping for a miracle. He got one....

Gerard Deulofeu Returns To Barcelona, Which Is Just The Stupidest Idea

Goddammit. You were so close to making it, Gerard, and then you had to go and do this....

Who Is This Guy The Kings Just Made The Highest-Paid Rookie In NBA History?

With the 27th pick in the 2014 NBA Draft, the Phoenix Suns selected Serbian guard Bogdan Bogdanovic (not to be confused with Wizards forward Bojan Bogdanovic or famed Serbian architect Bogdan Bogdanovic). Three years later, Bogdanovic is finally coming to play in the NBA, reportedly agreeing a three...

NBC Has Totally Fucked Its Premier League Coverage

Have you been loving NBC’s amazing English Premier League coverage these past few years, as they’ve coupled smart and engaging studio and commentary teams with unparalleled access to the matches through multi-channel broadcasts and a streaming service that brought every single league game live to yo...

Jake The Very Good Dog Brings Water To Thirsty Umpires<em></em>

Minor league baseball is probably America’s greatest invention. From last night’s Fort Wayne TinCaps game, here’s Jake the Diamond Dog, a Golden Retriever whose job it is to carry a basket of bottled water out to the umpires between innings:...

Minor League GM Apologizes For Razzing Tim Tebow

Tim Tebow, who used to be a bad NFL player and is now a bad minor-league baseball player with the Columbia Fireflies, took some ribbing from the Charleston RiverDogs this past weekend. Now the RiverDogs are very sorry about it....

Baseball Dog Shirks His Duties, Remains A Good Dog

The Frisco RoughRiders, the Double A affiliate of the Texas Rangers, have a team dog named Brooks. The team recently tried to teach Brooks to be a bat dog, and things didn’t go so well:...

Behold Sicnarf Loopstok, Runner-Up Of The Carolina League Home Run Derby 

Tonight’s Carolina League Home Run Derby was, as always, the year’s premier display of lower minor league power hitting on the East Coast. Glorious! But this year’s event brought us more than dingers. This year brought us Sicnarf Loopstok....

Brazilian Star Oscar Starts Massive Brawl In Chinese Super League Match 

Brazilian international and ex-Chelsea player Oscar, who joined his countryman Hulk on Chinese Super League side Shanghai SIPG for an obscene amount of money in December, has managed to score only one goal in league play this season. But during Shanghai SIPG’s match against Guangzhou R&F yesterday, ...

Antoine Griezmann's New Contract Means He Isn't Going To Manchester United—Yet

One of the most important decisions shaping the upcoming Premier League season didn’t actually involve any team from England. That decision was in the hands of the Court of Arbitration for Sport, which had to rule on Atlético Madrid’s appeal of their FIFA-imposed two-window transfer ban. Though not ...

Indoor Football Player Penalized For Pooping The Football

Cedar Rapids Titans receiver Damond Powell earned a penalty in his team’s IFL game against the Arizona Rattlers today when, after scoring a touchdown, he celebrated by pooping the football....

David Moyes Fined For Telling Female Reporter She "Might Get A Slap"

The English Football Association has fined former Sunderland manager David Moyes £30,000 for threatening comments he made to a female reporter after a match against Burnley in March....

Two Dipshits Tried To Crash Real Madrid's Champions League Title Celebration

This video is in Spanish, but you don’t need much familiarity with the language to 1) cringe in vicarious embarrassment over the shamelessness of these two apparently random “fans” who snuck onto the pitch following Real Madrid’s Champions League final victory this weekend, and 2) appreciate the goo...

Minor League Team Wants You To Come Ogle Some Ladies At "Hourglass Appreciation Night" [UPDATE]

Minor league baseball is a land of bizarre promotions; from speed dating night to toilet seat night, farm clubs will always go the extra absurd mile to keep up the enthusiasm—and this can be excused, when the on-field entertainment consists of just-passing-throughs and never-will-bes....

Real Madrid Won Everything And Don't Have Much To Show For It

Real Madrid, whose riches and fame and consistent, historic success as a club are unmatched in soccer’s long history, just capped off one of their greatest seasons ever—and it was just the latest of a string of triumphant years that by all rights should indelibly brand this era as their own. They pu...

Former Newcastle Midfielder Cheick Tiote Dead At 30 After Collapsing During Training

Former Cote d’Ivoire international midfielder Cheick Tiote died this morning after collapsing during a training session with his Chinese club. A spokesman for second-division side Beijing Enterprise confirmed the news to the BBC. Tiote spent the bulk of his career with Newcastle, amassing 156 appear...

Smoke 'Em If You've Got 'Em

It’s not going well for the Italian side in the second half. ...

Juventus Equalize On Mario Mandžukić<em></em> Overhead Golazo Off Stunning Passes

Mario Mandžukić’s overhead stunner came off a series of volleyed passes to draw Juventus even with Real Madrid in the first half of today’s Champions League final; this one absolutely must be heard with the Fox Deportes commentary, because it is manic commentating done to perfection....

China's Building A Lionel Messi Theme Park

As part of China’s state-supported effort to become a player on the global soccer stage, Chinese investors have been making moves, such as buying shares in internationally renowned teams like AC Milan and shelling out insanely high transfer fees for global soccer superstars like Carlos Tevez. While ...

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