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Spelling Bee Semifinalists Set To Ultimate Warrior's Intro Music

Is there anything better than watching kids gleefully race to the stage after hearing their names called as Scripps National Spelling Bee semifinalists? Yes, there is! It's watching kids gleefully race to the stage with the Ultimate Warrior's theme music, "Unstable," as musical backing....

Where Jürgen Klinsmann Comes From

Before Jürgen Klinsmann snubbed Landon Donovan, before he coached Bayern Munich or the U.S. and German national teams, before he won the UEFA Cup as a player with Internazionale and again with Bayern, before winning the World Cup and captaining the German team to the European Championship, he lived ...

​Are Triple-Doubles More Common In The Playoffs? (Also: Why?)

So far these playoffs, Russell Westbrook is the only player to score a triple double—and he's already got three. He nearly came up with his fourth triple double of the playoffs last Friday, finishing with 23 points, 13 assists, and 8 rebounds in 37 minutes. It was an awesome game, but the weirdest t...

This Is What A <em>WWE Raw</em> Script Looks Like

Pro wrestling is scripted in two senses. The first is, obviously, that match outcomes are predetermined, and that's the one that detractors, missing the point entirely, fall back on to taunt viewers. (Though WWE did have a problem with leaked outcomes last year.) The second is almost more important...

Nobody Has Ever Pimped A Home Run As Hard As This Guy Did

This was uploaded on YouTube a long time ago, but we've never seen it before, and we feel the need to share it with all of you....

The Yankees Turned A Triple Play

Yangervis Solarte, to Brian Roberts, to Scott Sizemore (in his first career start at first base). And just like that, the Yankees converted a triple play against the Rays....

Your Field Guide To WrestleMania XXX

WrestleMania is the kind of thing you can really only discuss in superlatives: it's the biggest, the loudest, the most-hyped, the most outrageous, the most ridiculous, and the most fun. Yes, pro wrestling is a totally unique performance art, one of the last direct links to an old, weird America, etc...

This morning Pulitzer Prize-winning Associated Press photographer Anja Niedringhaus was shot and killed in eastern Afghanistan by a local police officer. Last November, The Atlantic ran a large collection of her work from the country. Above, Afghan men fight each other with slings in Kandahar as par...

Here's A Guy With Three Testicles [NSFW]

For the second time in three months, Reddit brings you an account of a guy blessed with a little more than the rest of us. Here's a guy with three balls. 2014 has been weird so far. ...

The Best, Most Deranged Story About Gwar You'll Ever Read

Gwar frontman Dave Brockie, known professionally as Oderus Urungus (that's him on the left), was found dead Sunday evening in his Richmond, Va. home. He was 50. In his honor, let us revisit this delightfully unsavory late-2010 profile from Decibel magazine. RIP....

1,000 High School Students Celebrate Olympics With Patriotic Flash Mob

So, we're not entirely sure what's going on here, but the person who originally uploaded this video to Facebook claims that it happened in a Kentucky hotel on Wednesday, and was done to mark the start of the Olympics....

Sochi Hires Private Company To Murder Stray Dogs Ahead Of Olympics

Remember when Olympic officials said they weren't going to murder stray animals in Sochi? Well, turns out they are definitely murdering stray dogs now. ...

I Got A Manicure In The Super Bowl Media Lounge

It's been a long day and you've been busting your ass on the radio for hours and hours, dishing out your strong takes to the loyal listeners of ESPN's regional radio affiliate in Altoona. You need a break. You need to come in from the WINDSWEPT MOONSCAPE of this cold weather Super Bowl week. Well...

Richard Sherman Answers Question About Strippers The Best Way Possible

Super Bowl Media Day is a circus, and the mass of "journalists" allowed to ask questions inevitably results in events like this, when Richard Sherman is asked a question about how to prevent girls from becoming strippers....

Wilt Spins

From Up North Trips comes this cool photograph of Wilt Chamberlain. Wonder what record he's playing?...

Very Cool: Cal Ripken Jr.'s High School Scouting Report As A Pitcher

A reader sent this to us last night, and we want to share it with you: a baseball scout's 1978 evaluation of Cal Ripken Jr., then a high school senior—and a starting pitcher....

Jeff Triplette Is Working A Playoff Game For Some Reason

How many referees' names do you actually know? In an ideal world, it'd be Ed Hochuli, and that's it. But the name Jeff Triplette has popped up a few times this year, and not for anything good: Triplette's crew had major game-changing screw-ups in consecutive weeks. And what do you know? Triplette's ...

First-Half Lowlights From The Pinstripe Bowl

Notre Dame and Rutgers square off in the Pinstripe Bowl at the New Yankee Stadium. You can almost taste the tradition. ...

The Devil And Phil Robertson: My Day With <em>Duck Dynasty</em>

So GQ sent me down to Monroe, La. (GUMBO GUMBO GUMBO), to hang out with the Duck Dynasty family. You can read the story right here, and whenever I go deep into the heart of 'MERICA—be it for this assignment or the Kid Rock cruise or the Values Voters Summit—I'm always careful not to be the sneering ...

Get Hourly Updates On Which NBA Team Is Tanking The Best

For fans of shitty NBA teams, the 2013 season is about little more than which team can manage to suck the hardest for a chance to draft Andrew Wiggins or Jabari Parker. Thankfully for those fans, TankingForWiggins.com exists....