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Matt Schaub Gets Bonked In The Head, Stays In Game, Throws Spectacular Pick-Six
Matt Schaub whacked his head on the turf after going down on this play while running away from two Dolphins defenders. He did well to get out of an intentional grounding penalty, but he took this hit for his troubles. Schaub went immediately back into the game....
Ohhhhhhh, Track & Field Organizations Are Supposed To Serve Track & Field Athletes. Oops!
It has come to track and field athletes’ attention that during all those gutting workouts, dark-thirty in the morning, when the rent was due and cupboards bare, and it seemed like no one had their back—they were right. No one had their back. While they were pounding out repeat 1000s, the organizatio...
Mike Condon Somehow Saved This Shot Without Seeing It
Les mighty Canadiens de Montréal fell 3-2 to the Carolina Hurricanes last night, but keeper Mike Condon kept them in it with this brilliant, telekinetic wondersave in the third....
U.S. Soccer Doesn't Care Enough About The Women's National Team
The United States Women’s National Team is scheduled to play a friendly in the Alamodome on Thursday. Right now, the game is slated to be played on a new turf surface that is about a year old. The last time the USWNT played at the Alamodome, Australian forward Kyah Simon tore her ACL. She lasted 27 ...
Scrappy Underdogs Chelsea Show Heart, But Can't Beat Bournemouth
15th place Chelsea almost scored an upset against fellow lower table side Bournemouth today, but they couldn’t handle Glenn Murray on this corner. They are a mere three points out of the relegation zone, but this ramshackle band of underdogs looks like they’ll be able to stay up and ensure safety. W...
So How Did Zack Greinke End Up On The Diamondbacks?
The Los Angeles Dodgers are a remarkable experiment in what happens when you take the financial brakes off a team and see how far you can fly with pure spending. On the field, their ethos is pretty simple: get men on base and hit homers on offense, then strike people out when they have the ball. Las...
A Completely Dumb And Unnecessary Argument About Sex Scenes
Batman v Superman is coming out soon, and the man in charge of this fiasco was also the architect of arguably the worst sex scene in movie history. But what makes a sex scene terrible, apart from the tragic decision to include a Leonard Cohen song? And can a sex scene ever REALLY be bad so long as i...
Diamondbacks Unveil So Goddamn Many New Uniforms
The headline on the Diamondbacks’ official site is maybe less than objective: “D-backs wow with cutting-edge new uniforms.” Well, whatever else you can say about the uniforms unveiled yesterday, you can’t deny there sure are a lot of them....
75 Voters In Argentine Soccer Federation Election Somehow Produce 76 Votes
All Alfredo Dagna could do upon taking in the results of the Argentina soccer federation’s presidential election last night was collapse into his chair, propping his head up with his hand, probably so that he didn’t start banging it against the table. Those results? 38 votes for the challenger, 38 f...
How To Say Goodbye To City Life
There may come a time in your life when, through choice or necessity, you will find yourself abandoning the metropolis you’ve called home for however many years. The bars you’ve been kicked out of, the parks you’ve surreptitiously pissed in, the various former workplaces where you once spent so much...
The First Three <i>Rocky</i> Movies Were Nothing But White Wish Fulfillment
This piece originally appeared in the August, 1982 issue of Film Comment. It is reprinted here with permission. ...
Omar Ramos Accidentally Scores A Bomb From Way, Way Out
Who cares that he didn’t mean to do this. Holy smokes, this is some goal. Here’s video:...
What's The Most Baller Thing A President Can Do? Send A Boring Soccer Game To Penalties In The 63rd Minute.
Sometimes, you’re sitting around watching a drab draw and you’re like “Bruh, I wish y’all could wrap this up.” Sometimes, you’re also a country’s preeminent political leader, and you have the power to make it happen. Allegedly....
NFL Demotes Officiating Crew After Screwups In Cardinals-Niners Game
Sunday’s Cardinals-49ers game was a disaster for the officials, one that stood out even against the backdrop of an especially woeful season for the zebras. How bad was it? The crew responsible has been demoted from primetime....
Ravens Return Blocked Field Goal For TD With No Time Left To Beat Browns
We weren’t looking forward to tonight’s Monday Night Football matchup between the 2-8 Browns and the 3-7 Ravens—neither was ESPN—but dammit if it didn’t turn out to be an incredibly exciting game, with the most batshit insane ending of the year....
Even ESPN Is Trying To Warn You About Tonight's Dreadful Ravens-Browns Game
Tonight, the Ravens and Browns will play what will most likely be the least appealing Monday night game of the season. Look at the schedule. Vikings-49ers was horrid, but at least we had Jim Tomsula reaction shots to entertain us. This game will have nothing....
Edmonton Wins Cup
The Edmonton Eskimos defeated the Ottawa Redblacks 26-20 Sunday and won their first Grey Cup since 2005. Here’s where we’d say you wasted your time watching another week of regular-season NFL, but the 4 p.m. Steelers-Seahawks game was pretty damn good. The Grey Cup was good, too....
Nobody In Sports Is Having As Much Fun As The Monmouth Bench
The Monmouth Hawks are a pretty good college basketball team (who’ve already upset Notre Dame, UCLA, and USC) attached to a improv troupe of a bench. What follows is a gallery of their best celebrations through the first six games of the season....
Controversy Over Lumberjack Celebration Engulfs Grey Cup
In what’s probably the most Canadian sentence I will ever write, the Edmonton Eskimos have successfully lobbied the Canadian Football League to restrict the Ottawa Redblacks from bringing along the loggersports team that traditionally saws off a celebratory log slice after touchdowns. The Grey Cup t...
Evgeni Malkin Scores One Of The Best Goals Of The NHL Season
The Edmonton Oilers got a rare win last night in Pittsburgh against Evgeni Malkin and the Penguins. But the Penguins did send it to a shootout, on a comeback that Evgeni Malkin started here. He now has two of the prettiest goals I’ve seen all year....