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Report: Terrorists Wanted To Hit Germany-Netherlands Match With 5-Bomb Attack
According to a report in German paper Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung, the impetus for canceling Tuesday’s Germany-Netherlands soccer match was a specific threat, discovered by French authorities, that a terrorist group had targeted the event with a coordinated attack involving five bombs....
<i>The Night Before </i>Is One Seth Rogen Bromance Too Many
A lot of comics have a shtick, and the trick is to give it enough flexibility so that it can be twisted and reshaped in myriad ways without breaking. Since Seth Rogen’s leading-man breakthrough in 2007’s Knocked Up, his has been impressively bendy, playing overgrown man-children who end up pulling t...
Things To Learn Because Your Fantasy Football Team Flamed Out
Your fantasy team is dead. That one guy—the one you don’t like—has everything on lock. On the one hand, that’s too bad for you and for your friends, who are in your league and whose teams are also dead; on the other hand, it presents you and your friends with the opportunity to take up new interests...
Nick Saban Gets Heated With Media, Offers Some Impromptu Marriage Advice
Alabama is playing FCS school Charleston Southern this week, a cupcake opponent that would be very easy for the Crimson Tide to look past. Well, some of those turkeys in the media might be overlooking Charleston, but Nick Saban sure as hell isn’t....
Scared White People Are Running Out Of Reasons To Hate Cam Newton
On Sunday in Nashville, the Carolina Panthers beat the Tennessee Titans 27-10 and extended their record to a perfect 8-1. Panthers quarterback Cam Newton sealed the game late in the fourth when he took a snap from two yards out on third and goal, bullied his way to the right, and reached over four T...
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Germany-Netherlands Soccer Match Canceled Over Bomb Scare [Updating]
Germany were scheduled to host the Netherlands in an international friendly later today, but the match has since been canceled after authorities noticed a suspicious-looking piece of luggage inside the stadium. And it’s looking like that might not be the end of it....
Upset Mom Writes Crazy Open Letter To Cam Newton
Cam Newton really makes people furious, man. He makes them angry enough to write letters to the Charlotte Observer, in which they admonish him for having the audacity to dance....
Cam Newton Is The Most Fun
Here’s the funny thing about Cam Newton, who has so far led the Carolina Panthers to a 9-0 record: his numbers aren’t even all that spectacular. They are perfectly good—2,037 yards through the air, 366 on the ground, 21 total touchdowns, nine interceptions—but they don’t have quite the same unassail...
How Ronda Rousey Lost
You’ve seen the kick. We’ve all seen the kick. Left shin meets jaw/neck, and Ronda Rousey is out. It was a brutal, iconic moment, but it’s almost beside the point: Holly Holm was already beating Rousey, and beating her badly. She wasn’t just edging her out; it was total domination from start to fini...
Antone Exum Takes Down Idiot On The Field
Antone Exum Jr. is known for being a helpful guy, and his spirit got the best of him today in Oakland when a fan ran onto the field and got taken down by the Vikings defensive back....
Panthers DE Charles Johnson Had To Buy His Own Ticket For Today's Game
Charles Johnson is currently on the IR for the 7-1 Carolina Panthers. He, of course, wanted to watch his possibly undefeated teammates play the Titans today, but he was shit out of luck as far as any free tickets, so he had to pay his own way....
Security Guard Tries To Tackle Fan Rushing The Field, Eats It
USF upset Temple last night at Raymond James Stadium, and students rushed the field because they’re not old enough to remember when the Bulls were actually good. Given the Buccaneers are playing on that field today, stadium security did its best to keep fans off the playing surface. That didn’t work...
French NBA Prospect Throws Down Huge Dunk In Adriatic League
This here is Timothé Luwawu-Cabarrot, a 20-year-old French player currently with Mega Leks of the Adriatic League. He was going to enter the 2015 NBA Draft, but decided to go play for Mega Leks instead. DraftExpress’ draft profile compares him to classic 3-and-D type wings like Danny Green and Thabo...
Ronda Rousey's Latest Challenger Is Entirely Legit And Has No Prayer
Tonight in Melbourne, Australia’s Etihad Stadium, Ronda Rousey, the greatest women’s fighter ever, will defend her bantamweight title for the seventh successive time. In sports, and especially in fighting, it’s important to account for the impossible. Still, Rousey is all but certainly going to win,...
College Basketball Game In Japan Cancelled After Wet Floor Causes Injuries
Pittsburgh and #9-ranked Gonzaga began their seasons yesterday at Foster Field House in the Marine Corps base on Okinawa, Japan, or at least they tried to. A slippery floor surface caused all manner of slips and falls, including the particularly gnarly one below, and the game was called off at halft...
Guinness Is Struggling, And This Gimmicky New IPA Won't Save It
If you came of drinking age in a certain era, Guinness Draught was quite likely the first good beer you ever had. As recently as a decade ago, it was common to walk into a middle-of-the-road American bar and be confronted with a tap list featuring Shit, Shit Light, Shit Ice, Lemon-Lime Shit, Cider S...
Dumb Birds Think It's Cool To Run Around Soccer Pitch In The Middle Of A Game
Really, guys? Haven’t we been over this before? Soccer is for people, you idiots....
<i>Skin Trade </i>Lets<i> </i>Dolph Lundgren Cook, And For A Dumb Action Flick, That's Enough
Dolph Lundgren has had a couple of cups of coffee with the American pop-cultural psyche: haughtily sneering over Apollo Creed’s death in Rocky IV, wearing a necklace of severed ears in Universal Soldier, that sort of thing. But he never crossed over to the upper tier of action stars, and it’s hard t...