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FIFPro Calls For Concussion Probe After Alvaro Pereira Gets Knocked Cold
Uruguay's Alvaro Pereira took a knee to the head in yesterday's England match. He was out on the pitch—completely unconscious. Just minutes later, he overruled the team's medical staff and returned to play. Today, world soccer's players' union called for an investigation using some pretty basic logi...
Idiot Rays Fan Has The Worst Videobombing Routine
What's this guy doing? He has the perfect opportunity to do something—anything—interesting in the background of Kevin Kiermaier's postgame interview, but he doesn't. It's a waste of TV time....
Gallery: England's Saddest Fans
England wouldn't be England if, in today's match, they didn't fall down early, get back up, only to get shoved right back into the mud afterward. And England fans wouldn't be England fans if they didn't look hilariously sad about it in the aftermath. Here's a collection of the best Sad England Fans:...
Tony Gwynn Was The Babe Ruth Of Not Striking Out
Since Tony Gwynn died Monday, many stories have been written about what a great player he was. But among all the mentions of his eight batting titles and 15 All-Star games, there's an extraordinary facet of his game that goes slightly underappreciated even as it's constantly mentioned—his incredible...
This Dated Video Helped Make The Case Against The Redskins Trademarks
What you see up there is taken from a VHS tape called Hail to the Redskins and produced by NFL Films in 1986. It's a compilation of highlights from the 50 seasons following the team's move to D.C. from Boston....
Celebrating Spurs Fan Falls Out Of His Moving Truck And Onto His Face
The face plant is funny, but it's the momentary daze, followed by the hurried waddle that carries our hero out of the frame that really makes this. That is the gait of a man who is convinced that if he just keeps moving, the massive amount of pain that awaits him will never come....
Meet Lucy Li, The 11-Year-Old Golfer Playing This Year's U.S. Open
Lucy Li, just 11 years old and still in sixth grade, teed off for her opening round at the U.S. Women's Open earlier this morning. Li is the youngest golfer to ever qualify for the tournament, and she is also cute as hell....
Girl Jumps Onto The Field During College World Series Game
Tonight, a girl named Abby (Abbie? Abbi?) ran on the field during a College World Series game in Omaha. And she didn't even require 50,000 retweets to follow through with it!...
Minor League Hockey Team Buries Owner, GM Alive To Sell Season Tickets
Last year, the Arizona Sundogs—the Central Hockey League affiliate of the Phoenix Coyotes—put their co-owner, GM, captain, and marketing director in a scissor lift until they sold 300 season tickets. (It took six grueling days, but they did it.) The Sundogs have another stunt this year, but this tim...
Santiago Is Partying After Chile's Victory Over Spain
After Chile upset Spain 2-0 today to seal La Furia Roja's flame-out, Chile fans swarmed downtown Santiago to celebrate and make tons of noise, because that's what a country does when it takes out the defending World Cup champions....
This NESN Reporter Does Not Seem To Understand Irony
NESN reporter Ben Watanabe is very upset at the Philadelphia 76ers. If you were to read the first half of this, you might come away with the impression that Ben Watanabe is upset at the Sixers for being so tight-lipped with the media about Andrew Wiggins's recent pre-draft workouts. But that's not r...
Twitter Diary Of A Failed Pitch Invader
Arsenal blogger and man-about-the-internet Hugh Wizzy had decent seats for Spain-Chile. Had. Here, a tragicomedy in four acts:...
Chile Fans Have Bum-Rushed The Stadium
Chile supporters are out in force for their match against Spain this afternoon, a red sea descending upon The Estádio do Maracanã in Rio—many of them without tickets. About an hour before kick-off, the dam burst....
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Angry Outtakes From Mike Ditka's 1993 <em>SNL</em> Appearance Are Glorious
The Chicago Bears fired legendary coach Mike Ditka on Jan. 5, 1993, Four days later, in Saturday Night Live's cold open, the recurring "Super Fans" characters, famous supporters of "Da Bears," wrote a protest letter to the team, with Ditka himself making a cameo at the end. We've come across footage...
Ambiguous "Pole Vault Relay" Includes Many Poles, No Vaults
It's unclear what exactly is going on here. There seem to be plenty of spectators and official timing equipment, implying a track meet, and cheering, indicating competition. But there is no such thing as a pole vault relay....
New Video Of Bills Fan Falling From Upper Deck Leads To Conviction
Technically, Robert Hopkins was found guilty of second-degree reckless endangerment and third-degree assault because he landed on and seriously injured a fan below, but this is as close as you can get to being convicted of being an idiot....