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How Michael McDonald, The Affable Captain Of Yacht Rock, Lost His Voice
Even 28 years after his last hit, Michael McDonald can still trigger laughter and tears. Though he's still a fixture on the R&B/soft rock nostalgia circuit (catch him with Toto and Kenny Loggins this summer), that sui generis voice has been touring without him, so to speak, for decades. Recently, th...
Replay Review Doesn't Prevent Umpires From Completely Blowing Call
In the seventh inning of last night's game between the Rockies and Cardinals, Matt Carpenter went to first after seemingly being hit by a Franklin Morales pitch. The Rockies challenged the play, and after a lengthy replay review, the original call was upheld despite it being pretty damn clear to eve...
Corey Dickerson Boned Himself Out Of An Inside-The-Park Home Run
With his team down 6-4 in the bottom of the ninth inning of yesterday's game against the Brewers, Corey Dickerson stepped to the plate and ripped a pitch into the right-field wall. With the ball caroming sharply into no-man's land, it looked like Dickerson had himself a guaranteed triple and a possi...
Brewers Score Three Runs On Wild Pitch
Here's something you don't see every day: a bases-clearing wild pitch. With the bases loaded for Aramis Ramirez in the top of the third, Rockies starter Christian Friedrich threw a wild pitch that Michael McKenry couldn't handle and one run scored. Then McKenry threw it past Friedrich as he tried to...
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....
Man Holding Kid Casually Catches Troy Tulowitzki's Home Run Ball
Troy Tulowitzki's two-run homer in today's Rockies-Giants game created a solid Father's Day moment for one man in the stands. Catching a home run with one bare hand while carrying a kid was no big deal to this dude....
Rex Brothers Pitched The Fifth Immaculate Inning Of The Season
Colorado Rockies reliever Rex Brothers added another immaculate inning to the 2014 MLB season in the eighth inning of Saturday's game against the San Francisco Giants....
College Baseball Coach Has Violent, Profane Locker-Room Meltdown
Scott Norwood resigned as Arkansas-Little Rock's head baseball coach Monday, 10 days after the university completed an investigation into allegations of physical and sexual harassment. Norwood was cleared in the investigation, but the audio recording below—one of what we're told are dozens in which ...
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?...
Blues Brothers: Why Jack White And Patrick Carney Won't Shut Up
"I hear ads where the music's ripping off my sound, to the point I think it's me," Jack White told Rolling Stone recently. "Half the time, it's the Black Keys."...
Watch Hall Of Fame Broadcasting Legend Marty Brennaman Flip The Bird
Longtime Reds radio man Marty Brennaman is a legend in the industry, and earned the Hall of Fame's Ford C. Frick award in 2000 as recognition of his contributions. Tonight he flipped the bird toward the Colorado Rockies' TV team, and we wholeheartedly support it....
Meet The Guy Who Wrote Those Bizarre Scouting Reports For NFL.com
Think of the most important thing you'd want to know about an NFL prospect. The piece of information that should be listed first on his NFL.com draft profile. It is, almost certainly, nothing like these:...
You Can't Really Get Troy Tulowitzki Out Right Now
Troy Tulowitzki hit two more home runs last night, bringing his season total to nine, ballooning his slash line to .408/.512./.786, and raising his fWAR to a league-leading 3.1. Those cartoonish numbers speak for themselves, and are bound to regress, but Tulo is doing things he's never done before i...
Jeremy Lin Calls Teammate "Donald Sterling" After Panda Express Crack
Jeremy Lin and Chandler Parsons engaged in some friendly joking on Twitter earlier today after Lin offered fans a chance to win a pair of his sneakers. Lin told followers that the first person to guess where his first meal in Palo Alto was would get the shoes. Parsons responded with Panda Express, a...
Science! Explains Why You Suck At Rock-Paper-Scissors
Don't ever say science never did anything for you: Chinese researchers have published a paper tracking player behavior over tens of thousands of games of Rock-Paper-Scissors, information that provides an optimal strategy for winning the game. Unsurprisingly, players don't choose their throws randoml...
Rockets Fans Go Through Emotional Wringer Of Parsons And Lillard Shots
This is heartbreaking and absolutely hilarious. These guys are so fired up for the Chandler Parsons shot that gave Houston the momentary lead in last night's game that it makes the reference-room silence after the Lillard buzzer-beater devastatingly funny. Unless you're a Rockets fan, obviously. ...
Front-Row View Of Damian Lillard's Buzzer-Beater Is Awesome
This Vine is awesome. It's a court-level view of Damian Lillard curling around a screen, clapping for the ball, and sinking the game-winning buzzer-beater from behind the arc against Houston last night. Everything about it is perfect. The angle, the clapping, the shot, the buzzer and mostly, the cro...
Lillard Buzzer-Beater Delivers Portland To First Series Win Since 2000
Damian Lillard hit a buzzer-beating three to give the Trail Blazers a 99-98 win over Houston, Portland's first series win in the NBA playoffs in 14 years....
Rock Climbing Bear Is The Most Xtreme Bear
We've seen some good bears, but we've never seen a bear who is this extreme. Oh, you like playing with a tether ball, Tether Ball Bear? That's neat, but Rock Climbing Bear is over here riding the razor's edge, man. Excuse him while he kisses the sky....
Rockets Owner Wants Adam Silver To "Stab A Sword" In Sterling's Ownership
Houston Rockets owner Leslie Alexander wants Donald Sterling out of the league as soon as possible. To that end, he's spoken to commissioner Adam Silver and suggested that the league let every man on the the Clippers roster become a free agent....