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Couple Making Out During National Anthem Must Really, <i>Really</i> Love America
Here’s a couple getting after it during the national anthem that preceded last night’s Stadium Series game in Pittsburgh. Which part is more unsettling: the irreverent PDA, or the fact that he’s in a Penguins jersey and she’s wearing a Flyers one?...

USF Forgot, Left Behind Two Players Who Fell Asleep At The Airport
After losing to Tulsa on Thursday night, the USF men’s basketball team headed home to Tampa the next morning. There was just one problem—two players fell asleep at the airport, and no one noticed they weren’t on the plane until it was too late according to The Daily Stampede....

The Game That Brought Jim Bouton Back From Exile
This profile originally appeared in the June 12, 1978 issue of New Times. It is reprinted here with the author’s permission....

College Basketball Team's Leading Scorer Arrested After Appearing To Punch, Head-Stomp Opponent During Game
Three people are under arrest after a brawl interrupted yesterday’s Division III basketball matchup in New Hampshire between Daniel Webster and Southern Vermont. Among those arrested: DWC’s leading scorer, Marquise Caudill—who appears to punch and then stomp the head of an opponent in the brawl....

Lesson Learned
Joe Harding tried his best Ali, or at least Broner, during a British Challenge MMA match against Frenchman Johan Segas tonight. It did not go well for Mr. Harding, who spent several minutes on the canvas....

Youth Basketball League Kicks Two Girls Off Of Fifth-Grade Team; Team Forfeits In Protest
A group of 10-year-olds in New Jersey decided to forfeit the rest of their basketball season rather than play without their female teammates, who had been kicked off the team by the league. ...

Two Minutes After Tweeting "Game Over," Sunderland Got Scored On Again
Here is Sunderland nearing the end of today’s match against Southampton:...

Looks Like David Johnson's Feeling Fine
On the Arizona Cardinals’ New Year’s Day season finale win over the Rams, Cardinals running back David Johnson suffered a scary-looking knee injury, later classified as an MCL sprain. Let’s check in on him....

Unruly Hockey Kid Fights Ref
This large hockey son is definitely getting booted from his high school hockey game in Buffalo, NY for knocking down the ref trying to put him in the penalty box. But to be perfectly honest, I’m pretty sure the ref shoved first....

Jon Gruden Has Had It With These Geniuses Who Are Ruining Football
The New York Times ran a story this morning on USA Football’s annual conference down in Orlando where officials met and discussed, among many other issues, the precipitous decline of youth participation numbers. They’re trying to correct the course of a sport that’s seen the amount of boys ages 6 to...

Mikey Garcia Wins WBC Lightweight Title With Brutal Knockout
Mikey Garcia seized the WBC lightweight world title by knocking out the previously-undefeated champion Dejan Zlaticanin with a horrifying punch that left the Montenegran unconscious on the canvas for several minutes....

Danny Welbeck Is Back
Starting for Arsenal for the first time in nine months today, Danny Welbeck is clearly not bothered any more by the knee injury that kept him sidelined for so long. Welbeck scored the first two goals of the day and helped out on the third to put Arsenal up 3-0 over Southampton in the FA Cup, showing...

Paid Political Hacks Are Scum
Turns out that Robby Mook was the perfect campaign manager for Hillary Clinton after all. He’s just like his boss: can’t win an election, but can get rich giving revolting speeches afterwards....

I Believe The Children Are Our Future
The nation is in safe hands, everybody....

Newly Hired Oregon Strength Coach Suspended For A Month After Workout Hospitalizes Players<em></em>
The Oregon Ducks announced this evening that new strength coach Irele Oderinde would be suspended for a month without pay after intense offseason workouts sent three players to the hospital late last week. Two players remain hospitalized as of Tuesday night and one was released earlier today. Oderi...

Report: Three Oregon Ducks Players Hospitalized After Grueling Workouts
The Oregonian is reporting at least three Oregon Ducks football players are in the hospital following a series of “grueling strength and conditioning workouts” last week at the university. Multiple sources told the paper that players had to finish the same workout this week, with one witness saying...

Scott Boras Wouldn't Advise California Players To Seek Early Free Agency
Yesterday, we considered the legal viability of baseball players using Section 2855 of the California Labor Code to enter free agency early. The state law stipulates that employees cannot be held to contracts of longer than seven years; over at FanGraphs, Nathaniel Grow speculated that Mike Trout—an...

Could Mike Trout Exploit A California Labor Law Quirk To Become A Free Agent Early?
There isn’t a team in Major League Baseball that wouldn’t jump at the chance to sign Mike Trout, whose two MVP awards in his first five years of big league service vastly underrepresent how good he really is. And there isn’t a team that could afford to do so that wouldn’t throw hundreds of millions ...

You Will Fail
Congratulations on your resolve to get into the best shape of your life this year. You will fail....

Bad Soccer Teen Cut For Savage Tweets To Premier League Player
Alfie Barker, the 19-year-old striker who before today played in England’s 10th division, watched yesterday’s Bournemouth-Arsenal match and had some thoughts. He was none too impressed with Bournemouth giving up a three-goal lead in the eventual 3-3 draw. And so he sent these tweets to Harry Arter, ...