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Martell Webster Just Made The Most Boneheaded Play Of The NBA Season
Down three in overtime to Denver with 4.9 seconds left, Minnesota's Martell Webster answered Timberwolves fans' prayers and intercepted a Nuggets inbound pass—only to leave them cursing his name after driving to the hoop instead of attempting a three to force double-OT. The National Post's Bruce A...

Shabazz Napier Downed Villanova With This Buzzer-Beating 30-Footer In Overtime
After a game marked by ineptitude by both teams (especially in the waning moments of regulation) UConn guard Shabazz Napier shocked the home Villanova crowd with this extra-long-range game-winning three-pointer. The best part, of course, is that it gave us an "ONIONS!" from Bill Raftery. [ESPN]...

The CBA All-Star Game Featured The Worst Sequence Of Professional Basketball Ever
The Chinese Basketball Association All-Star Weekend just passed, and featured the same things you'd expect from such an event: a rising stars game, slam dunk contest, three-point competition, and a half-heartedly played All-Star Game....

Lionel Messi Closed The Gap With Ronaldo For The Lead In La Liga Goals After This Four-Score Performance
Barcelona stands 10 points behind Real Madrid in the La Liga standings, and after allowing an early goal to Valencia today appeared to be playing the same uninspired soccer that's plagued Barça recently....

There's Linsanity In The Garden After Jeremy Lin's Steal-And-Dunk
The Knicks came back from a 12-point deficit with the help of this Jeremy Lin steal-and dunk, capping a 9-0 New York run. [ABC]...

Brighton Conceded Three Own Goals In Its FA Cup Match Today, And The Third Was A Work Of Art
Brighton actually outscored Liverpool 4-3 in today's 5th round FA Cup match at Anfield (one punctuated by this streaker). Unfortunately for Seagulls supporters, three of those goals were directed into their own net....

Florida State Erased A Nine-Point Deficit In 70 Seconds To Beat Virginia Tech
Michael Snaer proved the hero again for Florida State tonight, hitting a three-pointer in the final seconds to help the Seminoles beat Virginia Tech 48-47....

It's Official, Dominic Moore Is Always Worth A Second-Rounder
In 2009, Dominic Moore went from Toronto to Buffalo for a second-round pick....

Steal, Fast Break, Pass Off The Glass, Dunk. All By The Same Player.
That's Darrion Pellum of Hampton University last night against Maryland Eastern Shore. There's really nothing else to say, is there? [via]...

Introducing Glory Days: Send Us <em>Your</em> Greatest Sports Moments
The scene: Kenney Gym in Urbana, Ill. A winter's evening in 1996. University High School trailing DeLand-Weldon 57-50 with 38 seconds to go. A skinny kid from Uni, No. 22, knocks down a three-pointer. Then, after a foul and a missed free throw the other way, he nails another one. DeLand-Weldon mak...

George Mason Won On A Buzzer-Beating Three-Pointer, Too
George Mason downed rival (and reigning Final Four participant) VCU with a Sherrod Wright 30-footer as time expired in a matchup between rivals in what's quietly become one of the NCAA's best college basketball conferences....

Here's What An Own-Goal Header Off An 80-Yard Assist Looks Like
You probably already know that Once Caldas and Itagüi Ditaires drew their Liga Postobón match at two goals each in Colombia this weekend....

This Division II Player's Dunk Is One Of The Best You'll See This Season, At Any Level
That's Cal State San Bernardino's Kwame Alexander taking off with two feet just before the free-throw line and basically dunking over a defender from Cal State Stanislaus on Friday night. And it happened exactly one week after Alexander had done this with another dunk on an alley-oop. [The Dagger]...

High School Hockey Player Scores Absolutely Filthy Shorthanded Goal
That is a pretty sick goal. Going top shelf like that is no easy feat, but let's get to the bottom of what we're all puzzling over. What's the back story on the long hair? From tipster Mark:...

Cristiano Ronaldo Seals Hat Trick With Sublime Strike
You are unlikely to see as perfect a soccer goal as this for a very, very long time. Cristiano Ronaldo, who's hoarding goals at such a clip it's as if he's trying to make every Spanish soccer fan forget the name Messi forever, finished a natural hat trick against Levante with this shot, his 119t...

Jeremy Lin Is Eating Derek Fisher Alive
Jeremy Lin has 18 points at the half of the Knicks' home battle against Los Angeles, and the Lakers' strategy of having Derek Fisher guard the New York sensation isn't working out so well—as you can see with this spin-o-rama drive. Expect Kobe to be be on Lin for the second half in an attempt to ...

Watch Maurice Evans Run Away From The Chance To Be On The Jeremy Lin Poster
Yes, Knicks insta-sensation Jeremy Lin shook John Wall with a nasty crossover last night, on his way to a highlight dunk against the Wizards. But the true measure of Linsanity comes from Washington's Maurice Evans, who sees No. 17 coming, takes a tentative slide step toward stopping him, then chan...

Rodney Harrison Is An Idiot. Let Rob Gronkowski Dance!
You may have seen this video of Pats tight end Rob Gronkowski and tackle Matt Light, fresh off of losing the Super Bowl, doing what I would be probably be doing if I just lost the biggest game of my life: getting shitfaced, dancing shirtless, and trying to get laid. But of course, Rodney Harrison do...

Some Dude From Brooklyn Who Thinks He's A Jedi Master Is Whining About His Light Saber Getting Stolen
"The Bedford-Stuyvesant engineer was at a Myrtle Avenue bar last fall when a thief snatched what Obi-Wan Kenobi once described as 'an elegant weapon for a more civilized age' - a $400 custom sword Michael used to teach young Jedi honor and self-esteem. 'Who steals somebody's light saber? It's like ...

Shirtless Matt Light Also Has An Onstage Dance Video
Yawn. Do something better than that, Light. Glowsticks exist for a reason....