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Peterborough United Desperately Sweeps To End Snow Delay
Snow days were great, and if you have the opportunity to get one as an adult, you should absolutely take it. But props to third-tier English soccer team Peterborough United for powering through and doing the absolute most they could do to avoid going home early on account of the late-February flurri...

Lovable Large Boy Kyle Schwarber Is No Longer Large
Cubs slugger Kyle Schwarber, the big burly lad who everyone loves, spent the offseason trying to get ripped. It appears that he succeeded:...

Russell Westbrook Downs Kings With Soul-Crushing Buzzer-Beating Three
With less than two seconds remaining in tonight’s Thunder-Kings game, Sacramento got what seemed like it should be the killer play it needed to seal a trip to overtime: Vince Carter from waywayway back, and Justin Jackson redeeming him with a put-back that tied the game. ...

St. Joe's Must Be Sick Of Getting Owned By Cool Buzzer-Beaters
A mad scramble and a stunning three gave St. Joe’s and George Mason a case of deja vu in their second meeting of the season tonight. Ian Boyd hit a game-winning, buzzer-beating three that put his GMU Patriots over the Hawks....

Someone In Tom Brady's Family Sold Their Super Bowl LI Ring For $345,000
It would appear a member of Tom Brady’s family has sold a Super Bowl LI championship ring, and for an absolutely bonkers $344,927. This is from a Darren Rovell report on ESPN:...

Hank Aaron Sparked Pro Wrestling's First Major Racism Story 25 Years Ago<em></em>
25 years ago this week, the top story in pro wrestling was, in many ways, also the biggest pro wrestling story in the history of the business’s insider press....
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Report: Two Baylor Football Players Are Connected To Sexual Assault Investigation [Update]
Two redshirt Baylor football team freshmen are under investigation in connection with a sexual assault report involving members of the university’s equestrian team, according to KWTX in Texas....

Hafþór Björnsson<em></em> Deadlifted 1,000 Pounds While His Rowdy Pals Went Wild
When we last checked in with strong man and Game of Thrones star Hafþór Björnsson, he was bent out of shape about possibly being screwed out of the World’s Strongest Man title. That loss only seems to have fueled his quest to become even larger and more powerful, because now he can deadlift 1,000 po...

An Interview With A Shooting Expert About Markelle Fultz
Herb Magee is the all-time Division II leader in wins, a member of the Basketball Hall of Fame, and No. 3 among all NCAA men’s basketball coaches in wins, ever. In his 51st season as the men’s basketball coach at Jefferson University—formerly known as Philadelphia University—he’s also a renowned sho...

CSKA Moscow Fans Delay Match With Spectacular Flares
Traveling Russian fans delayed the second half of CSKA Moscow’s Europa League draw against Red Star Belgrade thanks to a terrifying flare offensive. The Moscow faithful set off a fiery blaze during the break and the pyrotechnics created a spectacularly hellish effect, with a wall of flames lining th...

Von Miller Tries To Woo Kirk Cousins To Denver With Cereal And Rainbows
Assuming Washington isn’t crazy enough to franchise him—though no moronic idea should ever be put past a team owned by Dan Snyder—Kirk Cousins appears to be headed to free agency. Von Miller would really like you to know he wants Cousins to sign with the Broncos....

Philly Cops Briefly Thought Corey Clement Was A Barricade-Jumper At The Super Bowl Parade
The problem with being a pro football player is that people might not know what you look like. You wear a helmet while you play. Sure, casual fans know what the star athletes like the quarterback look like—but maybe not anyone else. (For more private individuals, this may be a feature.)...

We Got A Minor-League Hockey Goalie Fight
The Walleye no longer play at the Toledo Sports Arena, but the ECHL action tonight brought back memories of that smoke-filled brawlatorium as tonight’s game against the Kansas City Mavericks got feisty in the third period:...

The Eagles Beat The Patriots With A Heaping Dose Of Their Own Medicine
The Philly Special will rightly be the play that forever defines the Eagles’ victory over the Patriots in Super Bowl 52. But such ballsy trickery wasn’t some one-off bit of well-executed brilliance: The Eagles rolled up 538 yards and scored 41 points on the Pats, and they did it by doing a lot of th...

Rafael Barba Was <i>Law & Order: SVU</i>’s Best ADA, Fight Me
At the end of his first-ever appearance as Assistant District Attorney Rafael Barba on the 14th season of Law & Order: SVU, actor Raúl Esparza takes off his leather belt, hands it to a defendant in the jury box, and asks him to choke him with it....

Eagles’ Jason Kelce Cuts An Incredible, Profane Promo At The Super Bowl Parade
Jason Kelce—dressed in a Mummers outfit from the Avalon String Band—delivered an absolutely bonkers five-minute promo at the Eagles’ victory parade. He talked about team executive Howie Roseman losing his power struggle with Chip Kelly, called Ringer doofus Mike Lombardi a “clown,” sarcastically lis...

Eagles Fans Are Not Disappointing At Today's Parade
The Eagles’ Super Bowl parade is currently underway, and center Jason Kelce got things started on the right note. Philly fans have since livened up the festivities in their particular way....

Jason Kelce Is Having A Great Time At The Eagles’ Super Bowl Parade<em></em>
The Philadelphia Eagles’ Super Bowl parade is today. Jason Kelce—dressed as a Mummer—is already having a good time, as you can see from this clip from Action News....

It Was Not A Great Morning For Michigan
Today’s the first National Signing Day since the implementation of the new early signing period, which means the normally hectic day of 30-year-olds tweeting feverishly at teens they’ve never met is a bit more subdued this year. There is still plenty at stake today, however, and things are already g...

The Only Thing That Works About The NFL Is Football
My friend tackled Shaun Alexander. Not recently, I should note. This was years ago, and years before the brief period during which Alexander was the best running back on earth. Alexander led the league in rushing in 2005 and was voted NFL MVP by the Associated Press, and then was out of the league ...