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This Is What It Looks Like To Be A College Baseball Catcher
South Carolina gave catcher Grayson Greiner a helmet cam for the Gamecocks' bout Wednesday against Wofford, and after some editing put the footage up on YouTube. ...
John McCain Introduces Bill That Would Ban Sports TV Blackouts
We can't speak to the chances of McCain's bill passing. We can only say that we very much want to live in a world where teams that play in publicly funded stadiums are no longer allowed to black out home games that don't sell out....
The Nationals' New Rainout Policy Is Only A Problem If You Have A Job (UPDATE)
The Nats game was rained out last night; it happens. Fans can exchange their unused tickets for tickets to a future game; as is standard. Unfortunately, that "future game" is very specifically Thursday afternoon's game, no substitutions. ...
1985 Bo Jackson Scouting Report: "The Best Pure Athlete In America"
Bo Jackson was already known as an extraordinary athlete in April 1985, when he was a junior at Auburn. But just how gifted did those who were paid to evaluate his talents think he was at the time? According to a baseball scouting report unearthed by a Reddit user, the answer ranged somewhere betwee...
Brittney Griner First Came Out To Her Mother In The Ninth Grade
It's been a few weeks since Brittney Griner casually came out by announcing she was already out. Today, in a first-person essay for The New York Times, she provides the backstory, which begins with a conversation she had with her mother when Griner was in the ninth grade:...
Outdoorsman And TV Host Bill Dance Has A Spectacular Blooper Reel
Bill Dance has been imparting his knowledge of the outdoors as the host of Bill Dance Outdoors since 1968. He has also spent much of that time committing hilarious fuck ups while filming his show—fuck ups which have been compiled into one wonderful blooper reel....
Hey Look, It's Craig Sager Passed Out In A Milwaukee Hotel
These pictures have been readily available on the internet since April 27, when Twitter user @2SMIDGET2QUIT and her friends stumbled upon a very sleepy Craig Sager in a Milwaukee hotel. We cannot apologize enough for having just now become aware of them. Anyway, enjoy staring Craig Sager's weird eye...
Snakebite Victim's Post-Surgery Foot Is Still Horrifying (NSFW)
You shouldn't have looked the first time. We told you not to look, but you looked anyway. You shouldn't look this time, either. Because guess what? When you suffer the most horrific snake bite of all time, that shit is still going to look gross as fuck even after surgery. Disgusting NSFW photo after...
Bear Grylls's Producer Got A Horrific Snake Bite (NSFW)
Professional adventure stager Bear Grylls tweeted this photo earlier today: "our man vs wild producer suffering from a brutal snake bite - fighting the injury with courage." You really don't want to see the rest of this photo. It is not worth your lunch. Just don't click after the jump, and you don'...
Why Does It Matter If Jason Collins Is A "Bad" Pro Basketball Player?
Right behind the army of people congratulating Jason Collins for coming out today was a smaller army of dedicated wiseasses who were determined to remind you that Jason Collins has had a rather unremarkable 12-year NBA career....
NBA Player Jason Collins Says He's Gay
NBA free agent Jason Collins, who played his college ball at Stanford and has been bouncing around the league for the past 12 years, came out in a Sports Illustrated cover story today. "I'm a 34-year-old NBA center," the essay begins. "I'm black. And I'm gay."...
The Boston Bombing Suspects' Final Day On The Run: A Reconstruction
One week ago, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev killed a police officer, engaged in a massive shootout that wounded another and left Tamerlan dead, and set off a manhunt that put Boston on lockdown. Many of the initial reports were a confused jumble, and we're only now able to recreate the Tsarnaevs' m...
Scouting Report: Roger Goodell
With the NFL draft now upon us, we feel it's only appropriate to present this scouting report on commissioner Roger Goodell. What follows are the assessments of various NFL players, plus one television executive, and one online dictionary. ...
Original Sin
Here's Glenn Stout's 2004 piece on Jackie Robinson's tryout with the Red Sox: "Tryout and Fallout: Race, Jackie Robinson and the Red Sox." ...
The First Photos Of The Boston Bombing Suspects' Shootout With Police
Andrew Kitzenberg lives on Laurel Street, in Watertown, Mass. On Friday morning, just before 1 a.m., he heard a series of pops from outside his window. The Boston Marathon bombing suspects, Tamarlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, were engaging in a wild shootout with police. Kitzenberg's Twitter account was...
Jim Nantz Nearly Jumped Into The Stands During The Super Bowl Blackout
CBS got hammered for its dreadful coverage during the Super Bowl blackout, and Jim Nantz is finally ready to talk about it. When the lights went out, the announcer says, he called his producer and offered to jump into the stands from the broadcast booth and race down to the field to offer aid to str...
Good News, Thunder Fans Have A New Fight Song To Sing While Shirtless
Nice song, Mathias in Southern California. Nice pecs, too. Keep doing you. ...
The Tigers And Mariners Struck Out At Historic Levels Last Night
Max Scherzer and Felix Hernandez are both fine pitchers who strike hitters out in gobs. But they had never before been part of something like last night's Tigers-Mariners game. Nor had any other Tiger or Mariner....
Brittney Griner Outs Herself As Already Out
It's been two days since Brittney Griner was unsurprisingly picked No. 1 overall in the WNBA draft by the Phoenix Mercury. As far as anyone can tell, Griner has not publicly mentioned her sexuality before. Now, in the most subtle of ways, the former Baylor star just did....