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"Dear Drunk Guy": Brandon Phillips Gives Signed Ball To Heckler

Wednesday's Reds-Pirates game in Pittsburgh had a long rain delay, and was a blowout to boot. With a few hundred fans left by the end, you could hear every one. Brandon Phillips sure did....

The Detroit Red Wings have some practical advice for a self-proclaimed puck bunny....

Billy Hamilton Hits The Wall To Make Tremendous Catch

Billy Hamilton, who is fast as hell, made one of the better catches you'll see all year in the ninth inning of today's game between the Pirates and Reds. ...

David Ortiz Is Bitching About The Official Scorer Again

David Ortiz hit a game-tying home run in extra innings last night. In the clubhouse after the game, he didn't want to talk about that. He wanted to complain about a seventh-inning ground ball that glanced off the glove of first-baseman Joe Mauer and was ruled an error....

This Dated Video Helped Make The Case Against The Redskins Trademarks

What you see up there is taken from a VHS tape called Hail to the Redskins and produced by NFL Films in 1986. It's a compilation of highlights from the 50 seasons following the team's move to D.C. from Boston....

MLB's New Home-Plate Rule Had Its Lowest Moment [Update]

This run, the Reds' sixth of 11, didn't have much of an impact on the result of a game, which saw Pirates outfielder Travis Snider take the mound in the ninth (and strike out Joey Votto). But the controversial play at the plate may have been the best example yet that no one, not managers, coaches, o...

Photoshop Contest: The Redskins Logo

Now that the racist name of Dan Snyder's football team has had its trademark canceled, we decided this was as good a time as any to have a Photoshop contest. You know how this works: take the Redskins logo, do awful and funny things to it in Photoshop (I'm sure there's some new merchandising opportu...

Patent Office Rules Against Redskins, Cancels Trademark

The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office ruled today in Blackhorse v. Pro-Football Inc., a suit brought by a group of Native Americans seeking to have the Washington Redskins' trademarks canceled on the grounds that the name is disparaging. The plaintiffs achieved...

Jonny Gomes Loses Fly Ball; Brock Holt Saves The Day With Diving Catch

Red Sox left fielder Jonny Gomes just had no clue where this fly ball was. He seemed to lose it in the lights. Fortunately, Brock Holt—making his first career start in center field—saved Gomes with a fantastic catch....

John Oliver Made His Own Anti-Redskins Commercial

Inspired by the anti-Redskins commercial that premiered during the NBA Finals, Last Week Tonight host John Oliver decided to air his own version of the ad, one that lays out precisely how indefensible Dan Snyder's refusal to change the name of his football team is....

Pissed-Up Wanker Invades U.K. Horse Race, Manages Not To Get Killed

A while back we brought you an Idiot On The Field who ran onto the track during a harness race. Here's the thoroughbred version, from today's Cream Gorse Handicap race in Leicester....

One Accidental Backswing Sparked Two Beanings And Four Ejections

Does this fall under one of baseball's unwritten rules, or were the Braves just grouchy while losing during Thursday's game against the Rockies?...

Here's Fred's Dive In The Box To Give Brazil The Lead

Yea, that's not a penalty. ...

<em>Dredd</em> Is The Second-Best Drug-Fortress Action Flick Ever

For reasons we may never understand, movie studios, in their infinite wisdom, often decide to drop two movies about the same thing at the same time. That's how we end up with dueling volcano-based disaster movies, giant-asteroid-based disaster movies, or Truman Capote biopics. But in 2012, we got su...

Here's What The Top Prediction Models Say About The World Cup

The World Cup kicks off in a few hours, which means the results of the many, many prediction models that have popped up in the last few weeks will finally be tested. Below are some of the best examples; this is a good time to remind you that betting markets are usually the strongest predictors of al...

Pablo Sandoval Foul Ball Smashes Reporter's Laptop

MLB.com's Reds reporter Mark Sheldon had the first version of his game story all written up and ready to file, but he wanted to wait until the third out of the top of the eighth. With two outs, Pablo Sandoval fouled a ball into the Cincinnati press box, smashing the shit out of Sheldon's computer....

Mr. Redlegs, No!

David Price Hits Two, Stays In Game As Most Of Boston Is Ejected

The Red Sox and Rays cleared the benches last night which, by itself, is barely worth mentioning but then someone put a microphone in front of David Ortiz's face after the game. Ortiz was not very happy with Tampa's ace David Price, who plunked him with the very first pitch Ortiz saw since hitting t...

Harry Reid's Office Is Laughing At The Sad #RedskinsPride Campaign

We weren't going to do this, we swear. We figured there was no need for a Twitter roundup when it was immediately clear to everyone that the Redskins' latest PR move, an attempt to galvanize fans into flooding Sen. Harry Reid with support for the team name, was backfiring wildly. Then we heard from ...

Norichika Aoki Ends Up In A Heap With The Worst Swing This Season

Why did Royals outfielder Norichika Aoki swing at this offering from Astros pitcher Jarred Cosart? That was bad, Nori....