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Rick DiPietro Is Injured Again, This Time In Germany [UPDATE]

DiPietro, who missed most of last season with a groin injury that required surgery, is keeping warm by playing for SC Riessersee, in Germany's second division. Did I say "playing?" I meant rehabbing another injury....

If there were no NHL lockout, this wouldn't exist. End the lockout....

Now's Your Chance To Chat With Jeremy Roenick, Nine-Time NHL All-Star And NBC Analyst

Jeremy Roenick scored 513 goals in his 18 NHL seasons with the Blackhawks, Coyotes, Flyers, Kings, and Sharks. (You will recall, since it's not so active at present, the NHL is an occasionally operational professional league in which rich men compensate other men to play hockey.) Roenick retired in ...

College ShameDay: Who Embarrassed Themselves On Saturday (Besides Kentucky's Joker Phillips, RIP)?

Our weekly college football shame index. ...

Locked-Out Hockey Player Scales Tall Building

Flyers center Max Talbot, 20-story office tower in Philly, etc. [WMMR, via The 700 Level] ...

The Winter Classic Is Canceled

The Winter Classic, scheduled to be played at Michigan's Big House between the Red Wings and Maple Leafs, is not going to happen. Once again, everybody loses....

Yep, Some Movie Or TV Show Being Filmed With The Use Of Generators In A Manhattan Neighborhood Still Without Power [UPDATED: Looks like it's an SNL skit]

The photo above was sent to us by a Manhattan resident who's still without power. It was taken at approximately 5 p.m. yesterday. That's Xavier High School, which is located on 16th Street in Chelsea. Says our tipster, who lives across the street and shot this from the 15th Street side:...

Did Mike Trout Lose The Gold Glove Because His Corner Outfielders Were Too Good?

The Gold Gloves were handed out this week, and without Derek Jeter as a finalist, we were prepared for a controversy-free awards. We were wrong. Mike Trout, the statistical darling who’s totally going to lose the MVP to Miguel Cabrera, couldn’t even get named his league’s best center fielder, losing...

Barry Melrose's Twitter Feed Is A Depressing Barometer Of The NHL Lockout

With the NHL in the middle of another lockout, ESPN analyst/hockey man/mullet person Barry Melrose has been occasionally chronicling his thoughts on Twitter the past several weeks. In that time, we've seen hockey's only voice on the Worldwide Leader slowly lose his hopes for an NHL season. ...

Things We Cannot Endorse: This Gary Bettman Shooting Range Target

I am every bit as frustrated about the lockout as you are. I am a hockey fan, and also I would rather suck on an antifreeze lollipop than write about escrow payments. But I'm also a pussy coastal liberal and am slightly uncomfortable with people pointing guns at even a caricature of another person, ...

Large MMA Fighter Goes From Bad Ass To Moron In A Matter Of Seconds

Here's a thing that makes an MMA fighter look super tough: Taking a flurry of punches and kicks right on the chin and responding by acting like an indestructible maniac....

Youth Football Coaches Arrested For Running Gambling Ring

"Who the hell would ever bet large sums of money on little league football?" is a question that has only two answers: absolutely no one ever, and people in Florida. South Florida, specifically, where nine little league coaches have been arrested on charges of bookmaking for running a gambling ring t...

Czech Fans Chant "Monkey, Monkey" At Wayne Simmonds

Flyers winger Wayne Simmonds recently signed with a team in the Czech Republic to try and ride out the lockout. It is exciting for Czech fans to see real life NHLers, but also scary for some of them to see a black person. So a sizable portion of the crowd in Chomutov did not take it well when Simm...

In Polish MMA, Fighters Simultaneously Headbutt Each Other Into Unconsciousness

Marcin "the Polish Hammer" Mencel and Mateusz "the Polish Hammer" Zawadzki end their fight this weekend with the rare technical draw. Note: headbutting is also how Poles kill mosquitoes, screw in light bulbs, and christen screen-door submarines....

College ShameDay: Who Embarrassed Themselves On Saturday (Besides Poor Bob Stoops)?

Our weekly college football shame index. ...

Steve Spurrier Says Marcus Lattimore Dislocated His Knee, Thinks He Can Come Back [UPDATE]

Steve Spurrier met with Marcus Lattimore Sunday morning and said the junior running back's spirits were not dampened by this devastating injury. Spurrier informed the press that Lattimore suffered a dislocated knee and "South Carolina team doctor Jeffrey Guy was able to put Lattimore's knee back i...

Here's Former Wide Receiver Ed McCaffrey's Super Cheesy Motivational Speaker Video, Featuring Ed's Thoughts On 9/11

It would be a slight exaggeration to say McCaffrey compares breaking his leg to 9/11 (see about 3:45 in), but he does say the two events are "forever linked together," which—correct us if we're wrong, anyone out there who immediately thinks of Ed McCaffrey's 9/10 broken leg on Monday Night Footbal...

South Carolina Running Back Marcus Lattimore's Knee Exploded In A Gruesome Injury

Just a year after losing his 2011 season to a knee ligament injury, South Carolina running back Marcus Lattimore suffered another leg injury that will make you wonder if the Gamecocks star will ever play football again....

The NHL has canceled all games through November 30. They "deeply regret" the action, but probably not as much as we do....

Who Needs The NHL? Your Weekly English-Language KHL Update

With a growing number of European NHLers threatening to stay in foreign leagues after the lockout, maybe it's time the fans did too. After all, the Kontinental Hockey League—the consensus second-best league in the world—has made it easier than ever for North American fans to follow the action. They'...