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NBA Teams Have Found Creative New Ways To Intentionally Foul
Because the NBA refuses to admit that intentional fouling is a real problem, its scourge is spreading. Tonight’s games featured four different players getting hacked, a new strategy that pushes the rulebook to the limit, and a refinement of the most hilarious kind of intentional foul....
Von Miller Shows Off Ball He Intercepted, Jokes About It Being Deflated
Denver Broncos linebacker Von Miller sure is a lot of fun. Here he is in the locker room after the AFC Championship game, making jokes about the ball he picked off Tom Brady being a little deflated:...
Seahawks Fans Are Fighting A Petition War
Fans of the Seattle Seahawks have gained a reputation as not dealing well with losing, which is weird, because they had all of recorded human history up until about 2003 to get good at it. They’ve also gained a reputation as the NFL fanbase most likely to start a pointless petition when things don’t...
Australian Rugby League Star Gets Drunk, Pees On Couch, Pretends To Fuck A Dog
American sports scandals are so boring....
Don’t Look Now, But China’s Buying Up A Lot Of Good Players
While the stupid money Tianjin Quanjian threw around in hopes of luring Alexandre Pato to China’s second division were shocking enough, they weren’t actually all that much of an outlier. China’s soccer teams have quietly been vacuuming up talent at exorbitant costs for a while now, and with a raft o...
Here's The Clippers' Equipment Manager That Blake Griffin Reportedly Punched
Blake Griffin, who was already recovering from a quadriceps injury, will be out for approximately four to six weeks with a broken hand after fighting with a Clippers staffer at a restaurant in Toronto earlier this week. According to USA Today’s Sam Amick, the other person involved in the fight is as...
Swimmers Narrowly Avoid Death By Pelican
A swim meet in St. Petersburg, Fla., was briefly interrupted by a pelican that understandably thought a big pool of water was a good place for it to hang out....
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Ducks' Shawn Horcoff Suspended 20 Games For Using PEDs [Update]
The NHL announced today that Anaheim Ducks center Shawn Horcoff will be suspended for 20 games without pay for violating the league’s performance enhancing substances policy....
Peyton Manning Told Bill Belichick "This Might Be My Last Rodeo"
Bill Belichick declined to share what he spoke about with Peyton Manning at midfield following Denver’s elimination of New England in the AFC Championship. Now, thanks to a conveniently thrust microphone, we know some of it....
Report: Blake Griffin Broke His Hand After Striking A Member Of The Equipment Staff Multiple Times
Clippers forward Blake Griffin has missed the last 15 games with a partially torn quadriceps, but he was expected to make his return to the floor as early as tonight in Indiana. That all went out the window last night, though, when ESPN’s Marc Stein and Ramona Shelburne reported that Griffin flew ba...
Line Umpire Suffers Blast To The Nuts
Here’s an Australian Open line umpire taking a blow “down under” during today’s Federer-Berdych match. Ow ow ow ow ow....
ESPN Suspended Bob Ryan For Calling Mark Jackson A "Bible-Pounding Phony"
ESPN suspended regular TV presence Bob Ryan for calling colleague Mark Jackson a “Bible-pounding phony” and “con man,” among other insults, on the Dan Le Batard Show, as first reported by The Big Lead. Ryan appears regularly on Around the Horn and Sports Reporters, and sometimes guest hosts Pardon t...
¡Súperman Una Vez Más!
Cam Newton is leading his Carolina Panthers team to an NFC championship and is almost certainly the NFL MVP. These achievements seem almost modest, you know, for Superman. But the Man of Steel took flight in the third quarter of tonight’s blowout NFC title game; ¡Es un pájaro! ¡Es un avión!...
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This morning, your Premiership highlights are brought to you by horrified woman in the background....
Boca Juniors And River Plate Combine For Five Red Cards, Nine Yellows, And One Brawl In A Friendly
There’s no such thing as a friendly between Boca Juniors and River Plate. Every Superclásico is an opportunity for the bitter crosstown rivals to humiliate the other, and yesterday’s match was no different. Boca had three players sent off with direct red cards, and River lost two. ...
Novak Djokovic And A Heckler Reach An Amicable Consensus
Novak Djokovic was, by one metric, historically bad last night for a Grand Slam match winner. He held on to beat Frenchman Giles Simon 6-3, 6-7 (1), 6-4, 4-6, 6-3 in the round of 16 at the Australian Open, but he committed 100 unforced errors. In a way, this is more indicative of Simon’s style (as y...
British Tourist Driving On Wrong Side Of Road In Spain Hospitalizes Half A Pro Cycling Team
Scary news out of Spain this afternoon, as half a dozen Giant-Alpecin riders were hospitalized after a car going the wrong way smashed into them on a training ride. Spanish outlet Informacion reports that John Degenkolb, Warren Barguil, Chad Haga, Fredrik Ludvigsson, Max Walscheid, and Ramon Sinkeld...
Three NHL Games, Two NBA Games Postponed By East Coast Blizzard
How are you planning on spending this snowbound evening? Hopefully you weren’t planning on watching the Wizards, Sixers (you definitely weren’t), or the Islanders play tonight. The NHL has postponed today’s Islanders—Flyers game as well as tomorrow’s Capitals—Penguins game. The Capitals game yesterd...