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Chipper Jones Rescued Freddie Freeman In The Snowstorm
A state of emergency has been declared in Georgia, as a rare snowstorm has dumped up to four inches across the state. Babies born on the interstate, hundreds of schoolkids unable to get home, and for Atlanta residents, it's a travel nightmare unseen in years. Braves first baseman Freddie Freeman was...
I Can't Stop Watching This Snowflake Dive Bomb The CBS Camera
Yeah, yeah, make adjustments and play four quarters and all that stuff. Whatever. Look at this snowflake crash right into the center of the camera lens between Tracy Wolfson's and Army head coach Rich Ellerson's heads. Like a field goal. It's mesmerizing....
What It's Like To Shoot Football In The Snow
A photographer explains the challenges and victories of working the Lions-Eagles game in a blizzard. [News Journal]...
Columnist Who Wants Super Bowl At Lambeau Frets About Snowy Super Bowl
Should the NFL allow the Super Bowl to played in outdoor, cold-weather stadiums? ESPN columnist Ashley Fox, whom we've met before around these parts, seems to be very conflicted about the issue....
Nothing Is Better Than Football In The Snow
That's it. After four hilarious, exciting, sloppy, just downright fun snowbound games, I don't want to hear a single person complaining about the possibility of bad weather at the Super Bowl. Football isn't just designed to be a cold-weather sport; it's so much better that way....
Lions-Eagles Is A Beautiful, Snow-Filled Mess
Snow! At a football game!...
Mets-Rockies Last Night Was Really, Really Snowed Out
It's April, right? Like, the month in which the crocuses pop up and the skies yield warm water every 20 minutes or so? The month in which, save for a few chilly nights, baseball is played at its proper temperatures, before summer stickiness sets in?...
Worried About The Sochi Weather, Russia Has Begun Hoarding Snow For The Olympics
With the Olympics serving, in a larger geopolitical sense, as a jingoistic opportunity to laugh at everything that goes wrong, host cities sure spend a lot of time and money on the one thing they can't actually control: the weather. China reportedly seeded clouds before the 2008 games, so they'd exp...
Snow Clash: Watching Soccer Get Weird At 5,000 Feet
DENVER— By almost every measure, Dick's Sporting Goods Park in Commerce City, Colo., is a thoroughly modern stadium. Built for $147 million in 2007 and home to Major League Soccer’s Colorado Rapids since then, it seats 18,000 soccer fans just north of Denver. The entire complex contains 24 soccer fi...
Costa Rica Is Not Happy About This
Last night it was very cold in Colorado, and there also may have been some precipitation. Despite the inclement weather, Costa Rica played its World Cup qualifier against the U.S. Men's National Team, and lost (fair and square) 1-0. For some reason, they are piqued. From Reuters:...
This Bro Skiied Through An Abandoned Five-Story Building In Alaska
Why is there an abandoned, haunted five-story government building in Whittier, Alaska? Oh, hell, who cares? It's snowing....
Louisiana Hates Snow, Is A Buzzkill
Remember Patriots-Raiders in 2001? The Snowplow Game? Dolphins-Cowboys on Thanksgiving 1993? A bunch of games from the 1940s and 50s that most of us weren't alive for? Snow games might be low scoring, but they are awesome, and people want more of them....
It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year
Yesterday's Dinamo Zagreb-Dynamo Kyiv Champions League match in Croatia found itself being played under those most beautiful of conditions: a massive snowfall that blanketed the pitch. (It led to one of the prettiest delayed games you'll see in awhile.) In the end, a stoppage-time penalty allowed Z...
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MLS Couldn't Dig Itself Out Of The Snow Or Its Own Ass [UPDATE]
The weather had already shafted DC United. The higher seed, they lost homefield advantage when MLS switched the legs of their home-and-home with the Red Bulls because the New York area was still cleaning up after Hurricane Sandy. It wasn't fair, and United fans were pissed, but it's hard to see that...
ESPN Reports The Diamondbacks-Cubs Game Is Being Delayed By Snow
As far as we know, there is no snow at Wrigley Field on July 13. But we will update you if we learn that there is snow at Wrigley Field on July 13....
Today In Cool Basketball Photos
Today FIBA's Twitter account posted this photo of one devoted baller, digging out the snows of Norway to practice his baseline J. We're reposting it because it's totally neat. Nothing can stop basketball, except maybe Dwight Howard's fake back spasms. [Twitter]...
Skiing Through New York Blizzard At 40 MPH Is Exhilarating, Terrifying
The Snowpocalypse looks even more like a Mad Max wasteland when you tow a dude on skis down Park Avenue at high speed....
Frivolous Lawsuit Theater: Seahawks Fan Hit By Jet's Giant Snowball Wants Some Money
You'll recall the Jets being pelted with snowballs by the Seattle crowd, when Shaun Ellis decided to return the favor. Two years later, a fan has decided to sue....
Your Late Games Open Thread
Read one Atlanta beat writer's odyssean attempt to make it to New Jersey for the game. Lazy blogger 1, real journalists who have to actually cover the games, 0. Discuss the snow-delayed games here. [AJC]...
Bears Grounded in Chicago
The Chicago Bears are unable to make it to Baltimore, because of the massive terrible snowstorm that literally everyone in the mid-Atlantic area is being a tremendous baby about....