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Extra-Cool Iguana Is Now The King Of This Tennis Court
There is, supposedly, tennis being played at the Miami Open today. However, all the footage I’ve seen from the tournament indicates that some sort of benevolent reptile takeover is going down....
Lawsuit: DEA Warnings Didn't Stop NFL Doctors From Repeatedly Breaking Federal Drug Law<em></em><em></em>
An exhibit attached to a lawsuit filed by former players against the 32 NFL teams in federal court in San Francisco contains a log appearing to show audited instances of NFL teams traveling with controlled substances in violation of federal regulations....
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Lawsuit: NFL Teams Repeatedly Broke Federal Drug Laws, Handed Opioids Out Like Candy [Updated]
A federal lawsuit filed by former NFL players details allegations that teams repeatedly ignored federal drug laws while pumping players full of mind-blowing amounts of addictive opiate painkillers. The document, originally filed in February, was heavily redacted; the Washington Post revealed some of...
The Spy Who Compiled The Golden Showers Dossier Helped Bring Down Sepp Blatter
A day after Donald Trump held a press conference to decry Buzzfeed’s reporting, spout nonsensically about how he doesn’t do treason, and claim that he wouldn’t take part in a golden shower party because he’s a germaphobe, the Wall Street Journal has reported the identity of the British spy who helpe...
Where The Fuck Are This Girl's Legs?
“The internet is going crazy over this insane optical illusion.” It’s the sentence that’s started a million blogs in the past and will continue to start a million blogs in the future—and for good reason. Because where the fuck are this girl’s legs?...
Real Piece Of Shit Column: Corruption Is Fine
As much as Republicans groaned about Donald Trump, they were always destined to fall in line once he actually had power. They are still falling. ...
Report: Kenya's Olympic Team Was Torpedoed By Their Own Comically Corrupt Officials<em></em>
Kenya finished the Rio Olympics with 13 track and field medals, second only to the United States who finished with 32. That’s a gulf, not a gap, but after reading details about how thoroughly the team was sold up the river by their own Olympic committee, I’m impressed that Kenya managed that many....
Do You See Gray Or Blue In The Vegas Golden Knights Logo?
This is the logo for the NHL’s Vegas Golden Knights, as you may or may not already know. According to the franchise, the team’s new color scheme features four colors: steel gray, gold, black, and red. But some of us see a different color....
Harry Redknapp Wonders "Who Gives A Shit?" About His Players Betting On Matches<em></em><em></em>
The Telegraph continues publishing the results of their investigation into corruption in soccer—which has already resulted in England manager Sam Allardyce losing his job—this time taking a detour into gambling. ...
England Manager Sam Allardyce Reportedly Caught Telling Businessmen How To Cheat FA Rules
Last year, FIFA outlawed the practice of third-party ownership of players, which is essentially a way for businesses to hold a stake in a soccer player and collect a cut of their transfer fees. It comes with a minefield of conflicts of interests and can help explain why certain elite players get squ...
Disgraced San Diego Padres GM A.J. Preller Certainly Seems Like An Idiot
MLB announced that Padres general manager A.J. Preller has been suspended without pay for 30 days following the league’s investigation into his team’s shady handling of player medical data. What’s remarkable about this isn’t that a GM has been suspended for concealing medical information about his p...
Cool New Baseball Strategy: Have Two Guys Cover First At The Same Time
Oh, so your baseball team uses defensive shifts? They sometimes put the shortstop on the other side of the infield when a lefty is at the plate? Wow. Cool. How revolutionary....
FIFA Reveals $80 Million In Probably Illegal Payments, Headquarters Raided Again
FIFA headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland, were raided yesterday by police, as they sought evidence that former top FIFA officials Sepp Blatter, Jerome Valcke, Markus Kattner illegally awarded themselves $80 million in pay raises and bonuses, AP reports. Blatter and Valcke were previously banned from...
You Only Get One Chance With This Optical Illusion
A brick wall, sure. There’s a little something in the middle there, a grey rock or a gap or a smudge or... it kind of looks like a turtle’s head, but that doesn’t make any sense, does it?...
Here's What Happened When We Used Snapchat's Face Swap Filter On An Episode Of <i>PTI</i>
Because we are sick in the head, we were curious what would happen if we took today’s episode of Pardon the Interruption and ran it through Snapchat’s face swap filter. The results are, as you might expect, horrifying....
Caption Contest: What Is Roger Goodell Saying To This Child?
Roger Goodell and the NFL PR apparatus stopped by Ariel Community Academy in Chicago today, launching something called the Character Playbook, a Chrome browser extension that tells you how to hide the symptoms of a traumatic brain injury, probably. Who knows....
Something Sketchy Is Going On Between Nike And The Kenyan Athletics Federation
Kenyan runners have dominated men’s and women’s distance running for decades now, and they own 18 world records, from the middle distances to the marathon. Nike has an exclusive sponsorship agreement with the Kenyan athletics federation (Athletics Kenya), wherein they pay a boatload of money for Ken...
Wow, So This FIFA Exec Was An Even Bigger Corrupt Sleazeball Than We Thought, Huh?
When Jérôme Valcke—formerly Sepp Blatter’s righthand man as FIFA secretary general—was suspended and investigated after documents tying him to a shady World Cup ticket reselling racket came out, we all thought we were dealing with your run-of-the-mill venal FIFA greaseball. Now that FIFA has conclud...
Reports: Leaked Documents Indicate Major Match-Fixing In Tennis, Including By Grand Slam Winners
BuzzFeed UK and the BBC have teamed up on an investigation that details major match-fixing evidence in tennis, including by “winners of singles and doubles titles at Grand Slam tournaments.” While the report focuses on 16 players who have ranked in the top 50 with a number matches that had highly su...
WADA Report: "Corruption Was Embedded" Within Track & Field's Governing Body
Executives of the International Association of Athletics Federations—world track and field’s governing body—“could not have been unaware of the extent of doping” among Russian athletes nor “the level of nepotism that operated” within the organization, according to a report released Thursday by the W...