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Here's Video Of A Greek Soccer Match That Involved Riot Police And Hoses
That AEK defeated Atromitos 3-0 to win the Greek Cup Final to claim its first trophy since 2002 is good for them. That fans threw flares at one another during the national anthem, goals resulted in "pitch invasions" and the faithful turned the VIP section into a target-rich environment is good for...

Here's Video Of A Very Pretty Goal From Today's Chelsea/Tottenham Hotspur Match
Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur are currently tied at halftime of a match that, if Tottenham wins, would awaken Chelsea from any delusional dream that they can catch, and surpass, Manchester United to win the EPL this season....

Young Man Wants You To Realize The Grizzlies Beating The San Antonio Spurs Is A Really Big Deal
Your morning roundup for April 30, the day we deal with Ouzo hangovers from George Kalpaxis and Julie Herrmannsdoerfer's lovely wedding....

Soccer Team Signs One-Year-Old After Audition Goes Viral
Maybe you're one of the three-plus million folks who saw Baerke van der Meij putting away his toys with some well-placed boots. Adorable, right? Dutch Eredivise side VVV saw it too, and saw a future strike....

As Good As It Feels, Coaches Probably Shouldn't Hit Reporters
Randers FC had a rough season, just barely escaping being relegated from the Danish Superliga. So it's inevitable that the media wanted to talk to manager Ove Christensen, and also inevitable that Christensen wouldn't want to talk....

Deion Sanders May Have Found A New Football-Playing Host Upon Which He Can Attach
Your morning roundup for April 29, the day "special cookies" in zip-lock freezer bags got real....

Real Madrid Is So Butthurt Right Now
Real Madrid's official website has produced a short video purporting to show that Pepe didn't deserve his red card in yesterday's Clásico, complete with zooms, isos, and super slow mo shots. They've also cited the learned opinions of the legends of the game, like Rio Ferdinand and, er, Chad Ochocinc...

Here's A Beautiful Animation Of The First Of Five El Clásicos This Year
Your morning roundup for April 28, the day we learn that God's advice for ending a 46-day beer-only fast is with a bacon smoothie, forever and ever, Amen....

Here's Video Of An Egyptian Soccer Player Named Shadi Mohamed Apparently Spitting On His Goalie
It didn't much matter to Mohamed Sobhi that he and his Ismaily teammates were up 3-2 in the waning moments of their match against El Gounah. What mattered most to the goalkeeper was that he apparently thought his defender Shadi Mohamed spat in his face after some action in front of the net....

Both Barcelona And Real Madrid Managed To Embarrass Real Madrid During, After El Clásico IV
FC Barcelona's Lionel Messi, unarguably the best soccer player on the face of the Earth, scored two goals within 11 minutes during Wednesday's first-leg UEFA Champions League semifinal match against Real Madrid....

Clint Dempsey Bangs One In With A Flying Side Volley
You know what's hard to do? This. Clint Dempsey has never embraced the workmanlike Yankee style that many American players appear to have stuck in their chromosomes. The man takes risks. He's good at it. It's why he's good....

Your Real Madrid-Barcelona Tercero Clásico Open Thread
Lots of really awesome and famous soccer players will play soccer against each other in Madrid in the first leg of their Champions League semifinal. Cristiano Ronaldo will wow. Lionel Messi will wow. And the two team coaches, er, managers, will definitely wow. They always do. Sometimes the action ...

Wheelchair-Bound Fan Storms Field, Very Slowly
That's 18-year-old quadriplegic soccer fan Derry Felton with the slow motion pitch invasion during League Two side Northampton Town's match this weekend. "I said to my mate 'If they score I will go on the pitch,'" Felton said. "But I didn't believe that they would. Then they did and it was a bit o...

Sideline Reporter Looks Accustomed To Getting Pummeled In The Head With Soccer Balls
We're just as impressed with the aim of the player on the field as we are with this fellow's easy return to reporting....

Here's An Unintentionally Splendid Moment In Soccer-Match Photography
ESPN opted to feature a middle-finger wielding drummer on its Soccernet homepage this afternoon. It accompanied a tease to a story about Arsenal and its fans realizing their dream of an English Premier League title this season died off the 90th minute head of Bolton's Tamir Cohen....

Marriage License: Chris Bosh Is Officially Spoken For. Chris Bosh: No I'm Not.
Your morning roundup for April 24, a day Gabrielle Giffords continues struggling to recover, but recovering she is....

Here's The Scene That Awaited The Orlando Magic's Jason Richardson After Last Night's Pimp-Slap Ejection
Your morning roundup for April 23, the day we hear about how a Tennessee woman's heart stopped beating for five minutes as a Lady Gaga tribute....

Juan Agudelo Scored A Special Goal Against DC United Last Night
It's weird to see an American striker do this. We're so used to our forwards scoring as a function of being in the right place at the right time. Agudelo scored last night despite bad service and good marking. He created this goal out of nothing. No more Jozy Altidore comparisons, please....

Today In Great Ledes
"A footballer was badly hurt after a teammate shoved a pool cue up his backside at an end of season party." [Mirror]...

The Copa Del Rey Trophy Ended Up Lodged Under A Bus Bumper Last Night
As we alluded to earlier, Real Madrid's Sergio Ramos dropped the team's fresh Copa del Rey trophy off the top of a promenading bus in Madrid last night. Just hours after the team earned the title for the first time in 18 years (thanks to Cristiano Ronaldo's header against Barcelona), Ramos let go....