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Marathoner Sets Course Record, Is Named Winner, Realizes He Accidentally Ran The Half-Marathon Route
Yesterday looked like it was going to be a hell of a day for Olok Nykew, a 37-year-old St. Paul man who was running the Sioux Falls Marathon. Barely tired, Nykew suddenly spotted the finish line ahead, with no other runners around him. Had he really run 26.2 miles? It didn't feel that way, but the c...
Dusty Baker Addresses Uniform Malfunction With An Assist From His Pitching Coach
There are reasons you, as a manager, want a reliable staff of coaches on the bench: To manage the pitchers, keep an eye on the team when times get tough, and to let you know (with an ever-so-casual hand over the mouth) that your fly has been open for who-knows-how-long. We see what you did there, ...
Braves TV Reporter Gets Busted Taking A Bite Of His Tasty Burger, Doesn't Skip A Beat
On-air talent foibles often reside in the realm of unfortunately pronounced everyday words, but there are other times when they get caught stuffing their face with some ginormous, burger-y goodness while the cameras are rolling. But good for Tom Hart, rolling with it and even using the moment to tea...
Stupidest Football Play In History Occurs As Player Returns Fumble 58 Yards In Wrong Direction Only To Have Opponents Tackle Him
This actually happened! Kent's Andre Parker recovered a blown punt return after the ball grazed a Towson player, only to return the recovered fumble toward his own goal. The only thing that stopped him from scoring a safety for Towson? Towson's punt return team, who foolishly tackled him before h...
Allen Pinkett's "Notre Dame Needs More Criminals" Comment Earns Him Suspension From Saturday's Broadcast
Notre Dame officials have removed broadcaster and Fighting Irish legend Allen Pinkett from this weekend's broadcast of the Navy-ND game in Dublin after Pinkett told a Chicago radio station the Irish "need more criminals" in order to be competitive....
Dallas Cowboys Pregame Show Host Can't Remember Which Station He Works For
Mickey Spagnola's the NFL-approved beat writer for DallasCowboys.com, and this role calls for him to be an occasional pre-game host during Cowboys broadcasts on local affiliate KTXA....
UCLA Beats Oregon In Football, According To Every Newspaper And TV Station In The Country
College football season doesn't begin until this weekend, and UCLA and Oregon aren't even scheduled to play one another this season. But if you were to check out the website of just about every newspaper in the country right now, you'd come across a headline that tells you "Bruins stun Oregon," comp...
Looks Like The Redskins Will Be Just Fine With Griffin At Quarterback
You've got to be feeling good if you're a Washington Redskins fan. Your team signs cornerback Cedric Griffin in the offseason to help bolster your secondary, but it turns out (at least according to ESPN.com) that he's a more-than-capable stopgap at quarterback, filling in until Robert Griffin III is...
One Norwegian Runner Had An Unfortunate Uniform Malfunction During His Race
Poor Henrik Ingebrigtsen. He competed Tuesday in the 1,500-meter final and actually set a new Norwegian record with his fifth-place time, but all anyone is going to remember is that his shorts busted open and his jock was dangling out by the time he crossed the finish line....
Pole Vaulter Realizes It's Not His Day As His Pole Shatters Mid-Vault
Cuba Lazaro Borges finished second in the world at last year's championships. But when he cleared 5.90 in South Korea, presumably he did it with a pole that didn't snap into three pieces underneath him....
Now Kobe Bryant Has Trouble With His Camera, Has To Be Told To Remove The Lens Cap
Like we said yesterday when we noticed a professional photographer covering the Olympics had the same sort of trouble, this kind of oopsie can happen to anyone. Including Kobe Bryant, who was caught by Bravo's cameras asking some guy for help at the Roger Federer match, only to be told right away ...
Olympic Photographer Forgets To Remove Lens Cap, Can't Figure Out Why He Can't Take Pictures
A moment of levity yesterday, as one sad-sack photographer struggled to work out why he couldn't get some good closeups of eventual all-around gold medalist Kohei Uchimura. After 10 solid seconds of checking his camera, a revelation: the lens cap was still on. We've all been there, guy....
NBC's Local Affiliates Don't Understand How Spoilers Work, Either
On Monday NBC inadvertently spoiled the result of a race they had yet to broadcast by showing its winner celebrating in a promo for the following morning's Today show. It seems its local affiliates aren't quite getting how to play the tape-delay game, either. Here's a clip from last night's 6 p.m....
NBC Runs <em>Today</em> Promo Spoiling Outcome Of Race They Were About To Air
NBC can't even do tape delay properly, it seems. Tonight's heavily-hyped broadcast of Missy Franklin's 100 backstroke became a moot point after the Peacock Network ran the above promo for Today...in the commercial break before the race actually aired. If you're one of the fools who actually avoids...
North Korean Women's Soccer Team Refuses To Take Field After Venue Screwup Shows South Korean Flag On Scoreboard
The London Olympics are off to a kicking start after a screw-up at Hampden Park in Glasgow led to the South Korean flag being displayed before North Korea's women's soccer match against Colombia and the subsequent refusal of North Korea's side to take the field. (You can see a photo of the mix-up h...
Chris Webber Refers To Ron Jeremy Instead Of Ron Burgundy During NBA Summer League Broadcast
Not sure what about this I like best: Webber making the mistaken Anchorman reference at the 22-second mark, the nearly 10 seconds of awkward silence until he corrects himself, or the minute-plus the rest the broadcast crew then spends laughing at him. It's a hard one....
The Los Angeles Kings Have Lost The Stanley Cup-Winning Puck
No one could blame the Los Angeles Kings for losing track of anything in the immediate delirium that accompanies the clinching of the franchise's first Stanley Cup, but if there's one thing you're going to want to keep dibs on in the aftermath, it would be the whereabouts of the final puck. Now, it ...
Rugby Celebration Results In Blood-Inducing Flying Head Butt
Scotland had lost seven games in a row and hadn't won in Australia since 1982. So when the Scots won last night's one-off over the Wallabies in Newcastle on Greig Laidlaw's penalty kick in time added, it was somewhat understandable that they nearly lost their heads....
Phillies Fan Goes Knuckle-Deep
I'm not sure what this Phillies fan, who made it up to Citi Field for last night's win over the Mets, should be more embarrassed about. The fact that the cameras perfectly caught him prospecting for green gold, or that he's wearing a division championship shirt. (H/T Debra)...
The Gibb Brother Who Wasn't In The Bee Gees Died Years Ago Of "Fart Failure," Reporter Says
All this time, it was believed that Andy Gibb died in 1988 of an inflamed heart condition caused by an infection. But Lucy Yang of New York's ABC 7 is here to tell us otherwise....