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Body Parts Do Not Bend That Way: Gruesome Sports Injuries As Seen On TV
To celebrate Blood Week, here's the nastiest injury screencaps from the past three years, as archived by 30fps. Herein lies brutal ACL tears, broken ankles, snapped tibias, and—of course—plenty of blood. Consider yourself warned! (Most screencaps can be clicked to expand for closer inspection.)...
Rudy Fernandez Beats Buzzer With Just The Tip
A half-court heave from Corey Brewer went wide, but a streaking Rudy Fernandez was there to set things right. The Clippers hung on to win, but wins don't get you on YouTube....
A J.P. Morgan Vice President Has Very Specific Tactical Plans For His Rec League Basketball Team
The latest entry in our overwrought emails series comes from the world of high finance... rec-league basketball. A vice president at J.P. Morgan in London is very enthusiastic about the upcoming season. But he's not gonna stand for his players flailing around on the court, like Mike D'Antoni might. ...
A Plea To Joe Posnanski: Stop Writing Mealy-Mouthed Nonsense About Joe Paterno
Sports Illustrated's Joe Posnanski is in a tough spot. He's a gifted writer and by all appearances a decent guy. His decency is his defining characteristic; he grew up rooting for doomed Cleveland teams and covered the worthless Kansas City Royals, but he never gave in to the urge to be a hatchet ma...
Larry Nance Jr.'s Jumpman Slam Was The Spitting Image Of Michael Jordan
Michael Jordan's the name most people associate with the NBA Slam Dunk Contest, but few remember it was Larry Nance who won the 1984 inaugural edition of the competition. Nance's son (who had plenty of opportunities as a youth to watch Jordan style over his dad's Cavaliers) now plays for Wyoming a...
Fausto Carmona Is Not Fausto Carmona
He is Roberto Hernandez Heredia. That is all....
J.R. Smith Shattered Three Pairs Of Ankles (Including Stephon Marbury's) In A Single CBA Game
Here is video evidence that J.R. Smith's extended stay in China has, statistically speaking, involved more broken ankles than brawls spearheaded by his sister. Heart of Beijing has dutifully compiled video of three incidents: The first you see here actually caused an injury, and the final step-bac...
Fernando Torres Gets Cuckolded, And Other Videos Of Note From Last Weekend's Premier League Action
As NFL football winds down, are you ready for some ... EPL football? From now until the end of the season, we'll be posting a number of clips from the previous weekend's English Premier League games. These won't necessarily be goal videos. These may not even be highlights. These will merely be momen...
A Confusing NHL Racial Controversy Gets Muddier, As Banana Reference Nets A One-Game Suspension
We thought this one was going to be cut-and-dried. We thought Krys Barch said something hateful and racist and unacceptable to P.K. Subban, and the NHL would come down with all its disciplinary might to show that there's no place for racism in hockey, and then we'd all move on. Naturally, nothing's ...
We've Found The Dirtiest HS Basketball Players In America, And They're Two Chunky White Guys
This has apparently been making the rounds (to the point where the local news did a story on the "viral video"), but it's new to us, and it's fantastic. It shows a high school game from Washington State, and a series of (uncalled) flagrant fouls at the hands of two Connell High School players who ...
The First Two Points Of Kenneth Faried's Career Came On This Silly Rudy Fernandez No-Look Alley-Oop
I hope Faried knows they're not all going to be this easy, or this pretty....
Something Appears To Be Wrong With Chris Kuper's Ankle
That's Denver Broncos offensive lineman Chris Kuper with a left ankle pointing about 90 degrees in the wrong direction. He can expect a call about post-career opportunities soon from Tim Krumrie....
Who's Racist In English Soccer This Week?
It can be difficult to keep up with racism in the English Premier League, so here's a brief, handy roundup from this week's news:...
Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About How Spectacularly Broke The Mets (And Their Owners) Are
Dan Lewis at Amazin' Avenue makes sense of the Mets' finances so you don't have to. Essentially, they're fucked independent of Bernie Madoff, and everything the team could conceivably sell is mortgaged. Makes you yearn for a couple months ago, when the team was a fuzz less fucked, but still fucked. ...
Why Erin Andrews Filed Another Suit Against Her Stalker And The Vanderbilt Marriott
On Thursday, Erin Andrews filed a lawsuit in Davidson (Tenn.) County Circuit Court alleging negligence and invasion of privacy on the part of the Nashville Marriott at Vanderbilt, where she claims hotel staff gave Michael David Barrett her room number, allowing him to set up a hidden peephole camera...
Paterno, Chairman Of Jerry Sandusky's Charity Were Pursuing $125M Real Estate Deal When Sandusky Was Caught Allegedly Sodomizing Boy
One might be tempted to say this thickens the plot, but let's resist temptation and merely state the facts: When Mike McQueary told Joe Paterno in 2002 that he'd seen Jerry Sandusky raping a 10-year-old boy in the shower, Paterno was in business with longtime Second Mile board chairman Robert Poole ...
Securities And Exchange Commission Investigating Marlins' Stadium Deal Because Of Fishy Accounting
We've written before about the deplorable public financing of stadium projects, and so we're excited to see the Miami Marlins' gleaming boondoggle face the SEC's federal scrutiny. Investigators have subpoenaed Marlins financial records and communications between Bud Selig and owner Jeffrey Loria, am...
"The Eighth Wonder Of The World Essentially Crumbling Before Our Eyes": What Happens When Teams Leave Their Stadiums
Ryan Holeywell at Governing.com decided to check in on Houston's Astrodome, which has become a blighted mess:...
Erin Andrews: Drenched
Aggressive Women's Magazine Photographer: ERIN! Hey girl, what's poppin'? Today we're supposed to be snapping you in action at your job at the Baylor-Oklahoma football competition...what is it again, let me see here...SIDELINE REPORTING. Okay, now, let's get you acting natural? Wait, that's it? Yo...
Penn State Paid $28 Million To Another Company With Close Ties To Sandusky's Charity
Yes, Penn State and The Second Mile overlapped in many ways. Penn State grad students wrote essays for the charity's annual reports. Second Mile kids participated in programs on the university campus. And companies controlled by Second Mile board members scored juicy contracts from Penn State. Earli...