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Heh, Look At This Striker Trick The Shit Out Of This Keeper
And the award for “The guy who feels like the biggest dummy in all of the Netherlands right now” goes to Fortuna Sittard’s Leon ter Wielen. No, you don’t get a speech....
How Simone Biles Broke Gymnastics
The following is excerpted from The End of the Perfect 10: The Making and Breaking of Gymnastics’ Top Score—from Nadia to Now by Dvora Meyers, available now from from Touchstone Books....
Simone Biles Just Put A Historic Whooping On The Women's Gymnastics Field<em></em>
Simone Biles, American hero, finished her dominant victory in the women’s all-around gymnastics competition with a 15.933 in the floor routine. She ended up 2.1 points clear of silver medalist Aly Raisman, which is higher than the combined margins of victory from every all-around competition from 19...
The U.S. Women's Gymnastics Team Just Dunked On Everyone
The United States women’s gymnastics team, which will go down as the best gymnastics team ever assembled, just won the gold medal with a historically dominant performance in the team final....
Report: Another Olympic Boxer Has Been Arrested For Alleged Sexual Assault
Last week, Moroccan Olympic boxer Hassan Saada was arrested in Rio after he allegedly sexually assaulted two waitresses working in the Olympic Village. Al Jazeera correspondent Gabriel Elizondo is now reporting that another Olympic boxer, Namibia’s Jonas Junius, has been arrested for allegedly assau...
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Photogs Capture Remarkable Images Of French Gymnast Samir Aït Saïd After Leg Break [Graphic]<em></em>
Photographers captured a remarkable set of images of French gymnast Samir Aït Saïd, who suffered a horrific leg injury after a vault and immediately proved he is a hell of a lot tougher than you are. After initially grimacing as if he’d stubbed a toe badly, his expression changed to the exasperated ...
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French Gymnast Suffers Horrific Leg Break [Graphic]<em></em>
French gymnast Samir Aït Saïd was coming in for a landing after flipping several times off of the vault, when his left leg buckled and snapped horrifically upon contact with the ground....
Japanese Gymnast Reportedly Racks Up $5,000 Bill Playing <i>Pokémon Go</i> At The Olympics
Kohei Uchimura is a six-time world champion gymnast, a four-time gold medalist at the Olympics, and, apparently, an aspiring Pokémon trainer. Playing Pokémon Go in different locales can be a great way to accrue a collection of new monsters, but it can also cost you severely. Uchimura reportedly play...
Alex Bregman <i>Just</i> Misses Grand Slam In MLB Debut
Another day, another top prospect for the Astros. Alex Bregman, the second overall pick in 2015, made his MLB debut last night in Houston’s 2-1 loss to the Yankees, and while it’s been barely more than a year, fans have been waiting for this for a while—Bregman got himself a standing O for his first...
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Minnesota United Goalkeeper Concedes Maybe The World's Dumbest Own Goal
I am wary of lapsing into superlatives over every old highlight, but with that qualifier out of the way, this might be the dumbest own goal I have ever seen....
Former Cardinals Scouting Director Will Serve Time For Illegally Accessing Astros' Database
Chris Correa, the former St. Louis Cardinals scouting director who illegally accessed the Houston Astros database known as Ground Control, was sentenced to 46 months in prison today in Houston federal court....
Joe Cole Bicycle Kick Delivers Rowdies Win; Yes, You Read That Correctly
Joe Cole, who in his younger days scored a number of famous goals for Chelsea and the English national team, showed a small spark of the wonder years last night in St. Petersburg with a bicycle kick that helped pace his current Tampa Bay Rowdies squad to a 3-0 win....
Max Kellerman Replaces Skip Bayless On <i>First Take</i>
ESPN has officially announced that Max Kellerman will be Skip Bayless’s replacement on First Take, confirming weeks of reports that he was the leading contender for the job of sitting stone-faced while Stephen A. Smith yells. Kellerman will give up his radio show and duties on SportsNation to take t...
Gilbert Arenas Goes To Nick Young's House And Acts Like An Asshole
Former NBA player Gilbert Arenas, who at this point will do anything for attention, showed up at Lakers guard Nick Young’s house last night and documented his visit on Snapchat....
ESPN Interrupts Wimbledon Coverage To Let Stephen A. Smith Destroy Chris Broussard
Today Serena Williams beat Svetlana Kuznetsova 7-5, 6-0 with a blistering nuclear warhead of a second set, but that destruction pales in comparison to the wasteland of Chris Broussard left by one Stephen A. Smith as they debated Kevin Durant’s signing with the Golden State Warriors....
It Takes Just A Second To Wreck A Dozen Cars At Daytona
If NASCAR is racing at Daytona, then one car can ruin a lot of people’s day—as happened on the 90th lap tonight when Jamie McMurray’s #1 got just a bit too much into Jimmie Johnson’s way, leading to The Big One. Kevin Harvick’s car didn’t look so great afterward:...
Jose Altuve Is A Pint-Sized Destroyer
Last night, Jose Altuve went 4-for-5 with two singles, a double, and a triple. It was the second time this week he’s come up one hit shy of the cycle—he would have had it during Saturday’s game against the Royals had not tripped over second base on his way to a triple—but even without the attention ...
Holy Shit, The Canadiens Traded P.K. Subban
Minutes after the Oilers sent Taylor Hall to the Devils for Adam Larsson, the Montreal Canadiens traded P.K. Subban to the Nashville Predators for Shea Weber in a one-for-one trade. The hockey stove is so fucking hot....
Tony Stewart's Wild Win At Sonoma Is, As Always, Called Best On Fox Deportes
We’ve long broadcast our admiration for Fox Deportes NASCAR announcers Tony Rivera and Luis Rodriguez—the network even blurbed us in a promo—and Rivera once again turned in a terrific performance in calling the bump-and-grind final lap of yesterday’s race at Sonoma....