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Champion Powerboat Racer Who Faked His Death Surrenders To Authorities
Andrew Biddle—the champion powerboat racer who authorities suspected of faking his own death in a boating accident—surrendered in Atlantic County Superior Court today. Biddle and a friend were supposedly in a boat that crashed into a buoy off of Longport (N.J.) last July. The friend swam to shore an...
Gronk Plays Dodgeball At Minor League Hockey Game, Loses
Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski, who wasn't born so much as fermented in a vessel for two months, played dodgeball at Wednesday night's Florida Everblades game. Gronk's instinct was probably to catch any ball thrown near him, but it failed him this time. He got eliminated twice, by throws that loo...
How Players Manage To Scalp Their Super Bowl Tickets
The MMQB's Robert Klemko has a great story about a ticket broker hustling his way through the crazy, somewhat-shady secondary ticket market that sprung up at this year's Super Bowl. There's a lot of good stuff in here, including an answer to the question we've all found ourselves asking: Do players ...
How Harry Kane Owned The Best Weekend Of The Premier League Season
You want to know why the Premier League is the best league in the world? It's for weekends like this past one, which feature a handful of headliner games, a couple more you didn't think would be that competitive but end up going down to the wire, and even when the title race is all but decided alrea...
Atlético Destroyed Real Madrid, Proving Their Continued Greatness
November 29, 2010 remains infamous for all who remember what took place in the soccer world that day. The date itself probably doesn't ring a bell, but if I showed you a picture of an elated, triumphant Gerard Piqué stabbing the air with his raised hand, each of his digits spread wide, it'd probab...
Copa Barry Singlehandedly Wins Africa Cup For Ivory Coast
Ivory Coast backup goalkeeper Boubacar Barry delivered his home country its first Africa Cup Of Nations since 1992 when he stopped his counterpart keeper's goal and then scored his own in the eleventh round of a penalty shootout....
Gronk Catches A Bra, Pretends To Wear It, Signs It For A Fan
Human cloud of hookah smoke Rob Gronkowski did so much Gronk stuff during the Patriots' championship parade that video evidence of his antics are still trickling in almost a week later. In this clip, sent to us by reader Timothy, we see Gronk having a grand ol' time with a bra that someone in the cr...
Reports: Kings Already Tired Of New Coach, Want To Hire George Karl
According to numerous reports (Sacramento Bee, Yahoo!, USA Today) the Kings are prepared to fire head coach Ty Corbin over the All-Star break, and want to hire former Nuggets coach George Karl in his place to be their third coach this season. Sitting at 11-13 in the brutal West two months ago, the...
BBC Report On '67 Merseyside Derby Gets Unexpected Guest
In the run-up to today's Merseyside Derby between Everton and Liverpool, the BBC sent their roving man on the streets to interview people about historic matches between the "friendly" rivals. The reporter hoped this old man would be able to remember an FA Cup match from 48 years ago, but little did ...
Atletico Go 2-0 Up On Real Madrid With This Bicycle Kick
"Magic! Gahhh! Genius! Magisterial goal of the highest order. A beautiful setup again, there is nothing capricious about it! This midfield is being ravaged, torn apart like confetti!"...
"How's Your Dick?": The Rise And Fall Of An Alleycat Race
"Stupor Bowl is dead," Gene Oberpriller pronounced after the 18th annual alleycat bike race. The fact that you—hopelessly mainstream as you are—are reading this is proof. As any nightclub owner will confirm, underground cachet is a fragile beast. It's only minutes, or entries in this case, between t...
Anthony Davis Buzzer-Beater Downs Thunder In Bonkers Ending
The New Orleans Pelicans avoided an embarrassing meltdown when Anthony Davis's double-clutch buzzer-beating three delivered his team a 116-113 win over the Thunder in Oklahoma City....
How Atlético Will Rely On Their New-Look Attack To Beat Real Madrid
Here we stand, on the eve of what will be the sixth Madrid derby of the season, and it's still a little weird acknowledging that perennial little brother Atlético Madrid should be considered favorites. After their devastating late defeat in last year's Champions League final, Atléti have beaten Real...
Super Bowl Fighters Fined
Four players have been fined for their roles in the fight at the end of the Super Bowl. Seahawks LB Bruce Irvin, who started things and was ejected from the game, owes $10,000. Michael Bennett, Rob Gronkowski, and Michael Hoomanawanui came in for fines of $8,268 each....
The One Question Red Auerbach Wouldn't Answer
The following was originally published in the Dec. 1986 issue of Sport magazine. It is reprinted here with the author’s permission....
Listen To Patriots' And Seahawks' Reactions To Game-Ending Interception
We saw pieces of this yesterday—Pete Carroll's dismay and Tom Brady's screeching—but here's a fuller picture of the on-field reactions to Malcolm Butler's Super Bowl-winning interception, captured by NFL Films' microphones for "SoundFX."...
LeGarrette Blount Holds Up "Bitch Mode" Shirt At Pats' Parade
That's cold, LeGarrette. Too cold, perhaps....
Stop Trying To Convince Yourselves Seattle's Pass Call Wasn't Stupid
On Sunday, the Seattle Seahawks made a grievously bad playcall, and Malcolm Butler won the Super Bowl for the Patriots, and millions of football-watching Americans reeled in reflexive disbelief at the sheer boneheadedness on display....
Seahawks Fan Probably Still Catatonic
Earlier, I wrote that if Russell Wilson can get over one of the most heartbreaking losses in Super Bowl history, Seahawks fans probably can too. That does not apply to this girl. She may never recover....