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Rangers Mascot Uses Fake Spider To Scare The Shit Out Of A Fan
Should you ever dangle a fake spider in an unsuspecting person’s face, so as to scare them half to death? No way, man. That would be a dick move. You are, however, allowed to laugh when someone else does it:...
Cardale Jones And Other Buckeyes Fooled By Living Mannequin Prank
The living mannequin prank is always a good one, especially when you can get Cardale Jones—no stranger to pranks himself—to execute an army cover-and-roll to get out of the way. I also like the dude that just keeps on walking like nothing happened. ...
The Time Ken Stabler Maybe Planted Cocaine On A Sportswriter He Hated
Last Friday, we republished Pete Axthelm’s great old profile on Ken Stabler, the swashbuckling former NFL quarterback who died at the age of 69 last week. In that profile is an unbelievable anecdote about a “prank” that is impossible to imagine happening in today’s NFL....
April Fool’s Day, As Orchestrated By My 9-Year-Old
1. I wake up and walk downstairs....
Hey, Guy, Just Shake Marc Gasol's Hand
After Tuesday night's game against the Hawks, Grizzlies center Marc Gasol was giving daps to fans as he headed into the locker room. One fan did not want any of Gasol's daps, though, and pulled the ol' pull-the-hand-back-and-rub-your-hair handshake prank....
Girl Spends Year Tricking Brother Into Posing For Pics That Are Videos
This is a top-notch sister own. Few people have ever been owned so hard by their sister....
Suns Pranked By Old "Dinosaur In The Arena" Trick
Completely blowing the Flyers' Halloween prank out of the water, the Suns' Goran Dragic teamed up with one of those animatronic dinosaur puppets to scare the crap out of his teammates. Please be sure fast-forward to 3:15 for the Morris twins; even the gif can't do it justice....
Flyers Pranked By Old "Snake In The Cooler" Trick
For Halloween, the Flyers' equipment manager decided to freak out his players by sticking a plastic snake in a beverage cooler. Whole lotta f-bombs, which is the only appropriate way to react to a king cobra guarding your water....
Burger King Phone Mixup Inspires Hilarious Series Of Pranks
There's a guy in Chicago whose office phone somehow got listed on a Burger King website as the contact number for one of their local restaurants. As you might imagine, he gets a lot of calls from people looking to complain about service, apply for a job, or check on when their shift starts. But rath...
Jeremy Lin Pulls The Wax-Statue Prank On His Mom And Some Other Fools
Jeremy Lin is the latest NBA player to participate in the age-old tradition of going to Madame Tussauds and scaring the crap out of people by pretending to be a wax figure....
Adam Schefter Was Once Pranked Into "Reporting" John Elway's Nipple Ring
In a SportsJournalists.com message board thread on this week's excellent Adam Schefter profile in the Washington Post, one long-memoried poster recalled a wonderful story from Schefter's days on the Broncos beat, one of the better and meaner sports media pranks of all time....
Clemson QB Scares People; One Guy Reacts By Slapping Him
Clemson Tigers quarterback Cole Stoudt dressed in full football gear and stood in a hallway so he could frighten victims walking by, because scared people in pranks are amusing when they aren't you....
"Louis Slungpue" Pranks News On UCLA Flood Cause: "A Really Large Dump"
"Ah, yes ma'am, it's 'Slung-poo.'" ...
Jeff Francoeur's Teammates Prank Him, Again
Jeff Francoeur was called up the San Diego Padres today. Congrats, Frenchy! As he was making his way back to the bigs, though, his teammates revealed today that they had made him the victim of one more prank....
Prankster Poses As Ukraine Eyewitness, Calls MSNBC Host "Dumbass"
MSNBC's Krystal Ball couldn't foresee being called a "dumbass" by a prankster posing as an eyewitness to today's MH17 flight disaster, even after the guest—claiming to be stationed at the U.S. embassy in Kiev—claimed the plane was shot down by "a blast of wind from Howard Stern's ass."...
Dodgers Work Together To Give Scott Van Slyke A Hot Foot
It took teamwork and patience by the Dodgers dugout, but they successfully gave outfielder Scott Van Slyke a hot foot....
Indians' Corey Kluber Pelted With Seeds, Water, Powder During Interview
It's become more common for teammates to pester MLB players doing in-game dugout interviews, but that doesn't make this instance with Indians pitcher Corey Kluber any less amusing....
Soccer-Loving Grandma Does Not Appreciate Her Grandkids' Prank
Some mischevious Man City supporters decided that it would be fun to trick their grandma into thinking that City had scored an early goal during its title-clinching game against West Ham yesterday. Granny did not appreciate their shenanigans....
Jeff Francoeur's Teammates Pulled A Hilarious Weeks-Long Prank On Him
Jeff Francoeur's currently playing for the El Paso Chihuahuas, the Padres' Triple-A affiliate, and he was recently the victim of a truly funny month-long prank at the hands of his teammates....
This Photo Is An April Fools' Joke, But We Wish It Weren't
No, Hank the dog did not bite one of the Milwaukee Brewers sausage racers on the dick, but we really wish he had. The photo, which has been floating around Twitter today, is from an obviously joke-y post on OnMilwaukee.com. But the fact that this photo is fake doesn't mean that Hank the dog isn't st...