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The Twins Pranked Mike Pelfrey Good
Mike Pelfrey is a Wichita State alumnus. Knowing this, the Twins decided to have a little fun with him, and force the introverted pitcher to deliver a pump-up speech to what he thought was the Shocker basketball team in advance of their NCAA Tournament appearance. It was really just his teammates in...
Here's What Happened When We Hijacked The Hawks' Twitter Feed
When we first took over the Atlanta Hawks Twitter feed yesterday, the Hawks marketing department got a call from the NBA league office to alert them that their account had been hacked, probably because they saw this......
Guy Drops A "Deez Nuts" During Interview On <em>People's Court</em>
Meet the man who just lived the lifelong dream of anyone who ever attended a public middle school. We've all fantasized about pulling off a classic "Deez Nuts" joke on TV, but this guy actually went out and did it....
Free Throw Attempt Features Flopping, Flagrant Foul
It's rare that a free throw attempt is delayed for five minutes, but it happened tonight in El Paso as the Conference USA semifinal between Southern Mississippi and Louisiana Tech forced officials to review footage of what was, essentially, a prank....
Fake Chef Fools Midwest Morning Shows, Makes Reporters Eat Gross Food
Over the holidays, Keith Guerke appeared on five morning shows in Wisconsin and Illinois to promote his new cookbook and prepare some meals made from leftovers. One little problem: Chef Keith doesn't know how to cook....
"Diehard" Soccer Fans Pretend To Know Players Who Don't Exist
Well, well, maybe Americans aren't the only ones who don't know anything about soccer. ...
St. Louis Rams Players Execute Tame Car Prank
The makeshift single-car garage you see above is apparently the handiwork of some St. Louis Rams players, who decided to prank a couple of their teammates. Looks like their pranking ability is a lot like their team: pretty mediocre....
Police Arrest Prankster Who Offered Tony Dungy The USC Job
When last we met Ken Tarr, he was riding high off the Dungy-to-USC prank and planned on offering Will Muschamp a middling position at a middling program just to "see if he gets insulted or not." Now he's in a Los Angeles jail, on suspicion of felony eavesdropping. ...
Guys Who Prank-Called Bills And Bucs GMs Won't Go To Prison
The two men who set up and recorded a conversation between then-Bills GM Buddy Nix and Buccaneers GM Mark Dominik will likely avoid prison time through an agreement with the government....
Browns Prank T.J. Ward With Fake Rat In His Locker
And Phil Taylor caught the whole thing on camera and put the video on Instagram. Afterward, with his teammates laughing all around him, Ward did all there was left to do: He sheepishly rubbed his balls a lot....
Meet The Prankster Who Offered Dungy The USC Job. He's At It Again.
[Update, Dec. 9: Tarr has been arrested and charged with felony eavesdropping.]...
Someone Hung A Dead Goat From A High School Football Team's Goalpost
No big deal, you guys. Just a ritual animal sacrifice being performed in the name of a football rivalry. ...
Sadsack Former NFL Player Punked—Twice—By Drunken Comedians
As with all great ideas, the initial plan was hatched by a couple of drunk guys at a bar who had nothing better to do....
Entire Team Pranks QB By Playing Dead
Tonopah Valley (Ariz.) played a fun little trick on its QB. At the snap, they all hit the deck. The only thing that would have made it funner is if the pass rushers kept coming. ...
Atlanta Braves Batboy Uses Actual Bat In Cruel Hoax
A real, winged bat flew onto the field in the middle of last night's Phillies-Braves game. If you've seen this story by now, you probably think that the batboy scooped the bat from shortstop Paul Janish's glove and then ran, cradling it, to the Braves dugout. You may have read or incorrectly invoked...
Michigan State Coaches And Players Fall For Mannequin Prank
The cruelest part of dressing a student up as a statue then having him surprise unsuspecting coaches and players is doing it at 6:30 a.m., as everyone arrives for practice. That's far too early to pee yourself....
How Those Fake Pilot Names Made It On TV
Heads have rolled over KTVU's airing of four prank pilot names after the San Francisco plane crash last month—four station staffers and one NTSB intern lost their jobs. But until now, we had no idea where the fake names actually came from....
Producer Fired Over “Ho Lee Fuk” Prank Says His Reputation Is “Intack”
That incredible prank that snookered a Bay Area television station into reporting names like "Sum Ting Wong" and "Ho Lee Fuk" as the flight crew of that downed Asiana airplane? It cost three producers at KTVU in the Bay Area their jobs. TheWrap reached out to all three. One of them responded....
A Young Karl Malone Once Fell For A Great Frank Layden Prank
The Salt Lake Tribune caught up with Karl Malone, who turns 50 tomorrow, a fact that ought to make any kid who followed basketball closely in the '80s and '90s feel really old. Malone tells the newspaper the story of his first visit to Utah in 1985, a little more than a month after the Jazz drafted ...
Groom Tricked With Elaborate Bungee Jumping Prank At Bachelor Party
This is from Norway. The groom is terribly afraid of heights, and bungee jumping and parachuting are two activities he specifically wants to avoid during his bachelor party. But he's got great friends, so of course they're taking him bungee jumping. Or so he's led to believe....