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MLB Managers Are Playing Less Small Ball Than Ever
It's well documented we're in an era of dominant pitching, with declines in home runs and batting averages coinciding with the highest strikeout rates in MLB history. But there are also other, less prominent stats gravitating toward record rates that have slipped by most fans. ...
Richard Sherman Had His Hair Pulled, Responded With Vicious Shit-Talk
Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman has always walked a fine line between showman and dickbag. After infuriating Pierre Garçon to the point of hair-pulling, and dismissing his football worth entirely, I bet I could guess which side Garçon would come down on....
According To The NFL, NFL Security Is Incompetent
The NFL has given ABC News a detailed account of the league's attempts to obtain information about the night that Ray Rice was arrested for assault, and it portrays NFL security as a stunningly incompetent organization. As told to ABC News by NFL spokesperson Brian McCarthy, the NFL attempted to obt...
Miller Lite Just Won Gold At The Great American Beer Festival. How?
The Brewers Association held their prom this past weekend, and in keeping with timeless prom tradition, I was left home alone while all the cooler boozers attended the Great American Beer Festival in Denver. (Incidentally, my invitation to the Spring Formal was also lost in the mail, as April 11 s...
Miami Dolphin Arrested, Tazed For Allegedly "Touching Females" At Club
Miami Dolphins defensive end Derrick Shelby was arrested early Saturday at a Florida nightclub for allegedly causing a disturbance. That's one way to spend a bye week. He resisted nonviolently, according to the police report, and his mugshot shows the police handled it their way....
The Royals Partied With Fans And Eric Hosmer Bought Everyone Drinks
After sweeping their best-of-five division series, some Royals—who had popped champagne in the locker room—made their way to a bar in Kansas City's Power & Light District. For this leg of the party, they invited the fans....
Katy Perry Is Living It Up In Oxford, Mississippi
Katy Perry served as guest picker on College GameDay this morning, and appears to be celebrating her successful prediction of Ole Miss over Alabama by getting crazy at a bar called Funkys. Your full Vine, via Nick Rutherford, below:...
TCU Runs Trick Kick Return, Screws It Up With Stupid Penalty
TCU's locked in a thriller with Oklahoma right now, and one of the coolest plays of the game came on this Sooners kickoff, during which the Horned Frogs used a bit of camouflage and their own end zone to run an especially tricky trick play....
Ice-Skating Canadian National Anthem Singer Trips On Rug, Keeps Singing
It's hard to say why Mark Donnelly was singing "O Canada" on skates, doing laps around the teams at a junior hockey game in Penticon. But he plows right through that hit like a Rich Peverly meme in a tuxedo....
A Day After Ray Rice Video Went Public, Ravens Asked For Arrest Report
The Baltimore Ravens did reach out to the Atlantic City Police Department about the Ray Rice investigation—on Sept. 9, a day after TMZ published video showing the team's running back punching out his then-fiancée in a casino elevator in February. They wanted a copy of the arrest and police repor...
Dude Faints Three Damn Times While On Slingshot Amusement Park Ride
Videos of people freaking out while on the slingshot ride have become an entire YouTube genre, but aside from the one in which DMX rides the slingshot with a stranger, none of them have made me laugh as much as this one did....
Somebody Deck This Guy
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Chart: How Sabermetric MLB Forecasts Stacked Up Against Vegas
From Skidmore College statistics professor Michael Lopez comes the handy chart you see above, plotting the 2014 win totals of all 30 MLB teams against preseason predictions from Vegas and what Lopez calls his "Statsheads Prediction."...
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Model Strips Naked, Fights Cops At Aussie Rules Grand Final [NSFW]
The lady you see above is a Scottish model named Heather McCartney. That's her being escorted out of Saturday's Australian Football League Grand Final, essentially the sport's Super Bowl. She was kicked out of the stadium because, while watching the game from a corporate box, she decided to get supe...
Colts Immediately Cut Da'Rick Rogers After DUI Arrest
Da'Rick Rogers was arrested early this morning for driving under the influence in downtown Indianapolis, Fox 59 reports today. Fellow Colts cornerback Loucheiz Purifoy was his passenger. Here's what the police report said, according to Fox 59....
Ryan Fitzpatrick Went A Little Nuts During His Pregame Pep Talk
Before beating the Buffalo Bills 23-17 yesterday, Houston Texans quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick gathered his team let them know that he really, really wanted to beat his old squad. Here is a rough transcription of his speech:...
ODU Streaker Spikes Football, Evades Security (For A While) [NSFW?]
It took awhile for us to find good video of this streaker from last night's MTSU-Old Dominion game, but it was worth the wait. Here, from WAVY, is a censored clip of the gentleman who ran onto the field, spiked a football, and evaded a half-dozen security members—all while in full-on streaker mode....