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Woman Sucker-Punches Fire Chief At Charity Softball Game
Welcome to Delaware. Please, take a seat and learn the story of a husband-and-wife tag-team brawl at a charity softball game for burn victims hosted by a volunteer fire department....
Antonio Smith Tore Off Richie Incognito's Helmet, Swung It At His Head
During Saturday night's Texans-Dolphins preseason game, a one-on-one between defensive end Antonio Smith and offensive guard Richie Incognito escalated when Smith ripped Incognito's helmet off of him and swung it at his head, just missing the target....
No Stopping Grown Man's Pursuit Of Souvenir Little League Baseball
This is from Saturday, but we're just now catching up on our review of the weekend's slate of Little League World Series games, by which we mean we only now saw this vid over on Busted Coverage....
Halberstam Takes Down Patrick Ewing
David Halberstam was not a sports writer but he wrote about sports often. He was rarely vicious which makes this Page 2 column on Patrick Ewing stand out:...
Rick Reilly's Wife Does His Dirty Work On Twitter
Cynthia Reilly's Twitter presence is small. She's tweeted just 42 times and follows only nine people. She has three followers. But she's there for an important reason: to get people to call her husband, ESPN writer Rick Reilly....
Legit Streaker Dodges Tackler In Cleveland, Pummeled By Groundskeeper
After what feels like months without a legitimate, full-frontal streaker in the sports world, we had one last night in Cleveland during the Lions-Browns preseason bout....
Little Leaguer Fooled By Nasty Curveball Almost Falls On His Ass
In all honesty, I played organized baseball till I was 14. I stopped not long after I similarly bailed on a simple curveball. I'm no expert, but I'm gonna guess this kid from Panama hasn't seen too much breaking stuff before....
The Madness of Pro Football
This one is a keeper. From Men's Journal in May, 2011—“The Ferocious Life and Tragic Death of a Super Bowl Star,” by Paul Solotaroff and Rick Telander:...
Kauffman Stadium Scoreboard Promotes Tweet From "@mustacherides69"
You're everyone's hero today, Zach....
Terry Southern on Stanley Kubrick
Everything You Always Wanted To Stop Worrying About The Bomb over at Cinephilia and Beyond including these two notable items by screenwriter Terry Southern:...
Goalie Completely Whiffs On Clear-Out Kick, Gives Up Easy Goal
I'm not sure how extensive the complete list of things goalkeepers are not supposed to do is, but I imagine it contains something along the lines of "Don't ever dribble the ball back toward your own goal," and "Don't whiff like a goddamn fool when you try to kick the ball and there's an attacking o...
Tiger's $54 Million House Is A Slowly Sinking Metaphor For Something
You know, $54.5 million just doesn't go as far as it once did. Tiger Woods, who scraped together enough dough to get a mortgage at that price in Jupiter Island, Fla., two years ago, is already finding that out. We've all been there....
Former Dallas Mavericks Dancer Allegedly Kills Four In Shooting Spree
Dallas, Texas, police are alleging that Erbie "E-Luv" Bowser, a former dancer on the Dallas Mavericks' all-fat-male Maniaacs dance team, went on a killing spree last night, in which he killed four people and injured others using guns and a grenade....
Fan Interrupts Chelsea-Real Madrid Match To Embrace Cristiano Ronaldo
Another day, another Idiot On The Field. This one came from Miami, and we're frankly surprised that city doesn't produce more Idiots....
The Killing of Gus Hasford
A monster story from the late Grover Lewis:...
Vikings Owner Zygi Wilf Likely To Pay Huge Sum In Fraud Case
Here's a quick reminder that Browns owner Jimmy Haslam isn't the only NFL owner to have had his name linked with some shady business dealings. Vikings owner and real estate mogul Zygi Wilf is now on the hook for what could end up being tens of millions of dollars after losing a civil suit to former ...
