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Man, Vince Lombardi Really Dumped On The AFL After The First Super Bowl
One of those historic sports things I understand but don’t really get is the state of football leading up to the NFL-AFL merger. It was the first of the three big sports mergers over the next decade, and it’s absolutely alien to me: I’ve never lived through a successful competitor to a Big Four spor...

Argentine Cup Match Suspended After Players Won't Stop Beating The Shit Out Of Each Other
Argentina’s traditional summer tournaments came to an end last night with a suspension of the final Copa Ciudad de la Plata match due to both teams’ inability to cease punching and kicking each other....

San Franciscans Have Declared War On Super Bowl Sculptures
The NFL sure is mighty excited to be holding the Super Bowl in the Bay Area. San Francisco residents appear less than excited to have them....

Middle Schooler Wins League Championship On Insane, Three-Quarter-Court Buzzer-Beater
St. John of the Cross was a 16th century doctor of mystic theology who was chiefly famous for living a life of poverty, and, according to newadvent.org, being “saved from certain death by the intervention of the Blessed Virgin” twice....

Let's All Watch Another Buzzer-Beater
We have no context for this, but it appears to be from Saturday’s Indiana high school JV game between Cascade and Speedway. Good buzzer-beater! ...

Sergey Kovalev Quacks At Adonis "Chickenson," Who Then Comes After Kovalev
Sergey Kovalev battered Jean Pascal in retaining his three light heavyweight belts tonight in Montreal, but the Russian wasn’t content to stop landing blows after Pascal’s trainer Freddie Roach threw in the towel after the seventh round. Kovalev brought up the failed attempts at unifying the light h...

UFC Golden Boy Sage Northcutt Loses By Submission
We’ve previously illustrated here how UFC has positioned weird robot Sage Northcutt as the future of the franchise, but the blond teenager’s rise up the MMA ranks appears to be retarded a bit after he lost by submission to Bryan Barberena—a fighter of whom you’ve probably never heard, and whose obsc...

It's Gotta Get Stiff From Jackin' It That Many Times
“Does he keep it lubricated, or...” Sixers color man Alaa Abdelnaby wants to know some very intimate details about Steph Curry....

Thomas Davis Has "11 Or 12" Screws In His Arm, But He Plans To Play In The Super Bowl
A quick, gruesome recap of the maladies Panthers linebacker Thomas Davis has suffered: he’s torn his right ACL three times (no other player in NFL history has come back from three such tears on the same knee), he dislocated his finger then relocated it and made a tackle all on the same play, and he ...

UMass Forward Antwan Space Also Hits Long-Range Buzzer-Beater
We earlier showed you Roosevelt Jones’s three-quarter-court buzzer-beater, and here’s another one today by a player better known for dunks than threes. Here’s senior UMass forward Antwan Space drawing his own team even with Fordham at the half; unfortunately for the Minutemen, they eventually fell 7...

Butler Forward Roosevelt Jones Drills Three-Quarter-Court Buzzer-Beater
Coming into today’s game at Marquette, Butler big man Roosevelt Jones had attempted 1,150 field goals. Three of those shots came from behind the three-point line, and zero went in. So be shocked that Jones’s attempt from three-quarter-court at the end of the half not only found the basket, but allow...
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Even Angelique Kerber Thought She Wouldn't Beat Serena Williams [UPDATE]
All that stood between the #7 tennis player in the world exiting in the opening round of the Australian Open to an unranked opponent was a single point. Angelique Kerber was down to match point against Misaki Doi in the second set, until she found her form, roared back, and took the second and third...

Chris Martin's Masterful Assist Sets Up Equalizer For Derby County
Manchester United is even 1-1 with Championship side Derby County at the half of their FA Cup match after George Thorne found the net courtesy a gorgeous over-the-top pass from Chris Martin....

Counterpoint: Oh God, I Think I'm Going To Be Sick
Here, as best I can approximate it in text, is the sound I made when I saw the above photo for the first time: Whuuhhuuhuhhhhhhuulckk. It was the sound of the sudden fear that I might puke. If the internet contains a more distressing photograph than that one, I will just have to take your word for i...

Would You Eat This? I Would Eat This
I don’t remember how, but we stumbled upon this recipe earlier in the week: a “Pepperoni Pizza Football Cheese Ball,” made by our new buddy Trish at Mom on Timeout. There were those on staff who were grossed out by what appears to be a neutron star of meaty cheesy gluttony. I disagree. Actually, the...

They Painted The Wrong End Zone At The Super Bowl
Members of the media got to poke around Levi’s Stadium yesterday, and watched the grounds crew paint the various logos on the field. But a couple of particularly observant folks noticed a minor screw-up....

It’s Your All-Star Super Bowl Deadcast!
The Super Bowl is here! KIND OF! Only… (looks at calendar, lets out heavy sigh) 10 more days until the game, and you need to plan! What horrifying-looking-yet-tasty dip will you inflict upon your houseguests? Should you REALLY root for Peyton Manning to win one last title? Does rooting for Cam make ...

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:...

A Broncos Pass Rusher Tried To Rub His Dong And Balls In Tom Brady's Face
The Denver Broncos went into Sunday’s AFC Championship game with a clear mission: Hit Tom Brady as many times as possible, and send the all-world quarterback running for his life. Thanks to The MMQB’s Robert Klemko, we know the Broncos’ intimidation campaign was mental as well as physical....

Broncos Fan Allegedly Pushes Over Porta-Potty With Patriots Fan Inside
The narrator of this video says that a Broncos fan kicked over a portable toilet, with a Patriots fan inside, after Sunday’s game in Denver....