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Huge Fight Breaks Out In Front Of Press Box At Eagles Game
Around the middle of the third quarter, the beat writers covering the Eagles-Chiefs game in Philly started tweeting about a "major" fight that broke out in the stands below them. It was three rows deep. Women were involved. Security was late getting to the melee. Beer was thrown. It sounds amazin...
The NFL Wants $1.5 M. From M.I.A For Flipping The Bird At Super Bowl
Remember when M.I.A. flipped the bird at the Super Bowl halftime show? Yeah, it's sorta fuzzy for me, too. The NFL apparently does remember, and being that this is the NFL, the offense will not go unpunished....
Bare-Chested Russian Soccer Bros Brawl In The Streets
Welcome to Tuesday Night Fights, a weekly celebration and analysis of street-fight videos found on YouTube. Tonight's fisticuffs: "Mad brawl fight Бешеная драка." Tonight's commentator: Me. (Coming next week: A live look-in of a fight in the Philippines.)...
It'll Be A Lot Harder To Scalp Super Bowl Tickets This Year
You are not going to the Super Bowl. You are not a corporate sponsor or a Bruno Mars roadie or the guy who polishes the Snoopy sculpture outside of MetLife Stadium, so you can absorb this news as an abstraction: the NFL is majorly jacking up the prices of the best seats for its first cold-weather Su...
Jerry West: Master Builder
There has been a lot of good writing about Jerry West over the years. This is one of the best—Richard Hoffer's 1990 SI profile, "Mister Clutch, Master Builder":...
German Soccer Club Scores Incredible Goal Seven Seconds Into Match
RB Leipzig deployed some ingenious early game strategy in a match against VfB Stuttgart II this past Saturday. At the start of the match, Leipzig bum rushed six extra players into Stuttgart's side of the field, a brilliant move which resulted in the goal you see above. I don't know who Leipzig's co...
Here's A Bench-Clearing Brawl At A Men's Slow-Pitch Softball Game
This happened recently at the USSSA B World Tournament, which is another way of saying it's a bunch of old guys with beer guts rolling around in the dirt in Florida!™...
Reports: Atlanta Is Up Next For An MLS Team
Local and national reports say MLS is relatively close to an agreement with Falcons owner Arthur Blank to bring an MLS expansion team to Atlanta, one of the five new franchises coming in the next seven years. The two would share the billion-dollar retractable domed stadium—aka, "The Sphincter"—that'...
Report: NFL Agents Funneled Money To College Players
A big Yahoo report dropped today, presumably to ride/torpedo the momentum of SI's flawed Oklahoma State exposé. It claims that NFL agents and financial advisers funneled tens of thousands of dollars to five college players, including Alabama tackle D.J. Fluker....
Wladimir Balentien Ties Single-Season Japanese Home Run Record
Wladimir Balentien has already put together one of the best seasons in baseball history as a member of the Yakult Swallows in the Japanese professional baseball league, and now he has his name in the record books. ...
This 9/11, Bama Wants You To Make Your Profile Pic Bear Bryant's Hat
If you, like many Americans, can only express emotions through useless social media gestures, why not join thousands across the nation in honoring this sacred day by changing your Facebook photo to Bear Bryant's houndstooth fedora?...
A Philly Cop Explains Why He Wouldn't Have Broken This Brawl Up Either
Welcome to Tuesday Night Fights, a weekly celebration and analysis of street-fight videos found on YouTube. Tonight's fisticuffs: "Philly's Finest Crackhead" and "Crazy woman get's a mother-daughter beatdown!" merged into one. Tonight's commentator: A Philadelphia police officer. (Coming next week:...
Illinois Pizza Place Offers Free Pizza If You Show Your Boobs
One late-night pizza place on an Illinois college campus has engineered a creative way for girls to pay for pizza slices in lieu of cash. Wait, did I say "creative"? I meant "fucking creepy." ...
That Time Jim Harbaugh Broke His Hand Punching Jim Kelly
Coach/angry person Jim Harbaugh is still talking about an incident in yesterday's Niners-Packers game where Clay Matthews took some slaps at the head of Joe Staley during a scrum. "Come with some knuckles," Harbaugh said. He would know....
Your Handling-Lots-Of-McDonald's-Food-At-Once Problems Are Solved
Hey guys, remember back when you'd go to the drive-thru at McDonald's, and you had to, like, read the menu and, like, pick some stuff to eat, and then friggin' tell the guy what you wanted, and then you drove up to the window and opened your mouth and they fired all the food at your face with a gian...