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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....
Jerry Jones Says Rushing Tony Romo Back Was Worth it
Way back in September, when the Cowboys were 2-0 and looking like they could win a weak NFC East, Tony Romo broke his collarbone. The injury held him out for eight weeks, during which the Cowboys went 0-7. With the NFC East a shitpile at that point (for the record, it’s still a shitpile), the 2-7 Co...
Bournemouth And Everton Just Combined For the Best Finish Of The Premier League Season
Bournemouth and Everton just finished up a 3-3 barnburner that featured a Ross Barkley goal in the 95th minute, a mob of Everton fans rushing the pitch, then a Bournemouth equalizer after that in the 98th. Bournemouth’s first came in the 80th from Adam Smith, the English right back and noted economi...
Jürgen Klopp's Got Jokes
Liverpool’s 2-1 victory over Bordeaux yesterday featured one of the stranger goals you’ll ever see....
Romo Down
A bad game for the Dallas Cowboys got worse when quarterback Tony Romo was injured after Panthers linebacker Thomas Davis sacked him....
<i>Red Cliff </i>Is The Crazed War Epic John Woo Was Reborn To Make
It’s probably fair to say that John Woo went limping back to Hong Kong. In the ’80s and early ’90s, Woo changed the Hong Kong film industry by making some of the best action movies of all time: Hard Boiled, The Killer, A Better Tomorrow, Bullet in the Head. He then spent a decade in Hollywood, where...
Zlatan Gets Sentimental About His Boyhood Club Ahead Of His Game Against Them
For the first time in his career, PSG striker Zlatan Ibrahimović will face Malmö, the hometown club where he got his start, in a competitive match today. In the video above, he explains why the club, the city, and the people have meant so much to him....
How To Celebrate Thanksgiving With Your Friends Instead
Oh, hell yeah. What you have ahead is a four-day weekend in your own city. You’re not traveling. You’re not dealing with family. And you get to enjoy one of America’s greatest holidays with your friends instead....
Do Not Post Naked Pictures Of Your Toddler On Facebook
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If You Aren't Up On Ben Simmons Yet, It's Time To Change That
LSU freshman forward Ben Simmons played in his first nationally televised game last night, hanging a dominant 21-20-7 line in a one-point loss to Marquette. If you haven’t seen Simmons play, you might look at those 20 rebounds and seven assists and assume that he’s a big, overpowering forward who’s ...
How To Get Four Offensive Rebounds In 11 Seconds, Starring Andre Drummond
This sequence, from last night’s Pistons-Bucks game, is just hilarious. That’s Andre Drummond—the biggest, baddest rebounder in the league—deploying his brute strength, nose for the ball, and lack of finesse in a way that perfectly encapsulates him as a player....
The<i> Rocky </i>Movies, Ranked
Sylvester Stallone’s recent sit-down with Robert Rodriguez for The Director’s Chair made a pretty compelling case that the Rocky movies ought to be taken seriously as Sly’s greatest artistic achievement. Sure, most of them are exactly the same movie. (Rocky has to fight somebody no one thinks he ca...
Case Keenum Suffers Head Injury, Stays In Game, Gives Up Game-Losing Fumble
Just a few minutes after Joe Flacco tore his ACL, the quarterback opposite him suffered a nasty injury of his own. Case Keenum got rocked here yet nobody made any moves to remove him from the game. Look at his teammate pick him up like he’s a bag of flour. ...
Joe Flacco Will Miss The Rest Of The Season With A Torn ACL
Well shit. Everyone on the Ravens is getting catastrophically injured. Joe Flacco has a torn ACL and will miss the rest of the season. He tore it on the play above but stayed in to finish out the game despite “an enormous amount of pain.”...
Justin Forsett Leaves Game With Broken Arm
The Ravens’ terrible season got worse today. Justin Forsett left today’s game in Baltimore against the Rams with a broken right arm that he suffered on this play when Aaron Donald got into the backfield and tossed him down. The Ravens confirmed the diagnosis. Javorius Allen is in at running back for...
The <i>Hunger Games</i> Are Over, But Jennifer Lawrence Is Only Getting Better
1. It seems insane to think about now, but there was a time when everyone was worried about whether or not Jennifer Lawrence could pull off the Hunger Games films. Cast as Katniss Everdeen just a year after her breakthrough in Winter’s Bone, Lawrence was considered by many an undeniable talent but a...
The Grisly, Goofy <i>Starship Troopers </i>Played Dumb To Make Hollywood Look Even Dumber
The moment when you discover what Starship Troopers is really about is one of the great eureka moments in the life of any young movie dork. I’ve got vivid memories of staggering out of a suburban multiplex in 1997 and sputtering, “What the fuck was that?” To my teenage self, it was basically Saved b...
Derek Jeter Denies Giving Gift Baskets To One-Night Stands
The fun and beauty of Derek Jeter gossip isn’t in its truthfulness—it’s that it can go so far while still remaining plausible, which says more about the Jeter mythos than an accurate rumor ever could. Jeter’s engaged now, but he took a minute to finally address one of the more famous rumors from his...