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This Dumb Keeper Is Soccer's New Trickster God
Just look at this idiot. Maritzburg United goalkeeper Glenn Verbauwhede, of the South African Premier Soccer League, has developed an incredibly crazy strategy of baiting referees into giving opponents fouls. First, he lures opposing players into his personal space, then intentionally lunges at thei...
Taurean Prince Provides Amazing Answer To "How Did Yale Out-Rebound Baylor?"
Yale upset Baylor in our first 12-over-5 of this year’s NCAA tournament, and in the post-game presser Bears star Taurean Prince was asked how the Bulldogs managed to grab more boards than the larger Big XII squad. Prince’s very literal answer is spot-on....
Taurean Prince Shoves Rico Gathers After Heated Exchange
Things are not going well for the five-seeded Baylor Bears right now. They are currently losing to 12-seed Yale, and their players are openly going after each other during timeouts. ...
John Kasich's Jumper Is Trash
Ohio Governor John Kasich won the Republican primary in his home state last night, and celebrated the victory by channeling his inner Bernie Sanders:...
Of All The Dumb Things Ever Written About Analytics, This Might Be The Dumbest
We don’t really bother to cover the Basketball Analytics wars anymore, because what’s the point? “Analytics” is simply a numbers-based way of understanding what is happening on the court, whether those numbers are expressed as points or RAPM. It is self-evident that teams should use every tool avail...
Why Your Children's Television Program Sucks: <i>PAW Patrol</i>
It’s time once again for our ongoing series surveying the awful shows you’re forced to endure before you can finally kick the kids out of the TV room to watch sports for eight hours....
Holy Shit, Christen Press's First Touch Will Make Your Knees Buckle
Oh my god look at this first touch from Christen Press. She doesn’t just expertly control a cross whipped into her, but no-look uses the outside of her foot (her heel?!) to gently drop the ball just a few feet in beside her to wheel around and smash home. It should be illegal to be this skilled and ...
GOP Candidates Offer Super Bowl Predictions In Meaningless, Waste-Of-Time Debate Question
Tonight’s GOP primary debate in New Hampshire has succeeded despite itself as candidates attack each other while ABC moderators stand by, barely acknowledging their non-answers to the question prompts. One of those questions? “Who’s going to win tomorrow’s Super Bowl?” (None of the candidates offere...
Documents: Mets Owners' Real Estate Fund Was $300 Million In The Hole This Past June
The owners of the New York Mets are no strangers to financial calamity. After losing $550 million in Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi scheme and paying out $80 million to settle a lawsuit claiming they were in on the scheme, Fred and Jeff Wilpon managed to keep their team by taking out loans and slashing payro...
Why Your Children's Television Program Sucks: <i>Mickey Mouse Clubhouse </i>
It’s time once again for our ongoing series surveying the awful shows you’re forced to endure before you can finally kick the kids out of the TV room to watch sports for eight hours....
Dalton Prout Given Double-Minor, So One Minute For Each Cross-Check
Columbus Blue Jackets defenseman Dalton Prout let loose this vicious series of cross-checks late in the third period of a 5-2 loss to the Penguins. This is no inadvertent penalty or being a bit overzealous; it’s straight-up assault on Sergei Plotnikov....
Calvin Pryor Blames Rishard Matthews's Injury On Ryan Tannehill's Bad Throw
On the Dolphins’ third play from scrimmage in their 38-20 loss to the Jets, Ryan Tannehill threw a short pass behind Rishard Matthews. When Matthews turned for the ball—it went past him—Jets safety Calvin Pryor slammed into Matthews’s torso. He would leave the game with what were described as rib an...
Ablaye Mbengue Doesn't Even Need To See The Goal To Score Golazos
It’s not at all easy to score from this distance while facing the goal, let alone with your back to it and shooting the goddamn ball backwards and over your head. If this is the best goal Ablaye Mbengue ever scores in his life, he will be perfectly happy....
Has An American President Ever Watched Porn In The Oval Office?
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32 Paragraphs About 32 Teams: A Thinking Fan's Guide To The NFL Season
The following is excerpted from the team chapters of the always-excellent Football Outsiders Almanac. Buy it here as a PDF, or here in print....
Sean Price, RIP: In Praise Of The Brokest Rapper You Know
If Sean Price’s rap career had ended in 1996—if his only contribution to the genre was that year’s ingenious Nocturnal, the debut album from his duo Heltah Skeltah—he would still be worthy of the respect, admiration, and mourning that has poured forth since the announcement of his sudden death this ...
Nike Coach Alberto Salazar Accused Of Drug Violations
The distance running world was shaken a few months ago by top-level Kenyan and Russian doping convictions, but, you know, that was somewhere else. It was over there, not here in the US of A. Until yesterday, ironically, National Running Day. Two Molotov cocktails—an article on ProPublica by David Ep...
Bryan Price Ejected From Game Before It Even Starts
Reds manager Bryan “Stick It Right Up My Ass” Price got himself ejected from today’s game against the Indians before it even started by picking an argument with the umpiring staff....
Stadium Lied To; Fans, Players Cheer Title They Didn't Win
Strap yourselves in, because this story is batshit....
35-Meter Strike No Problem For Anton Sosnin
Your long-range goal of the day comes from the Russian Premier League, where Kuban Krasnodar defender Anton Sosnin took aim from 35 meters out to open the scoring against cross-town rival (we are assuming) Krasnodar. ...