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In An NBA First, The Canceled Celtics Game Won't Be Made Up
The Senators-Bruins game scheduled for last night was called off hours after the Boston Marathon bombings, and tonight's Pacers-Celtics game was the next to go. While the hockey will be made up, Indiana and Boston will finish the season with just 81 games played—and that's a first....
Ben Revere Makes Unbelievable Diving Catch
Catches don't get much more impressive than Phillies center fielder Ben Revere's second-inning, sprawling dive at the warning track in the Great American Ballpark tonight, robbing Cincinnati's Todd Frazier of extra bases. ...
How An Achilles Tear Affects NBA Players (Or, Why Kobe Is Screwed)
Kobe Bryant, your favorite high-functioning sociopath and mine, tore his Achilles tendon Friday night during a win against the Warriors. We've been hearing about "torn Achilles" for years now, but for most fans, the operational definition of the injury remains ambiguous. You hear a player has torn a...
The Warriors Hazed Rookie Festus Ezeli By Removing His Car's Tires
They also hid the tires in different spots, and even filmed Ezeli's reaction. Still not as bad as what they did last week to Kent Bazemore's car. Harrison Barnes and Draymond Green are hereby warned to keep an eye on their rides....
Will Johnson Responds To Alleged Gay Slur With Gorgeous Free Kick Goal
It was a feisty match tonight at Jeld-Wen as the Timbers pulled out a 1-0 win over San Jose thanks to a blistering Will Johnson free kick that's as good as any we've seen in MLS this season. It was Portland's best revenge after Earthquakes forward Alan Gordon appeared to deliver a gay slur in Johns...
Louisiana TV Station Refers To Guan Tianlang As A "Chinaman"
Dude, Chinaman is not the preferred nomenclature....
Carlos Quentin Ruins Everything, Drops Suspension Appeal On Eve Of Dodgers Series
Carlos Quentin was handed an eight-game suspension after he charged the much, much tinier Zack Greinke last Thursday, sparking a bench-clearing brawl....
The Orioles Used A Special Bat Named "Stumpy" Against Mariano Rivera
Buster Olney has a fun little Mariano Rivera story from former outfielder and current V.P. of baseball operations for Baltimore, Brady Anderson....
Now It's Bubba Watson Who Carded A 10 On Augusta National's Par-3 12th
It's called Amen Corner, but today it's been devilish—even for the defending Masters champ....
Golf Fans Are The Worst, And Golf Is OK With It
We know that someone ratted on Tiger for taking an incorrect drop after his pinseeker on 15 found the drink on Friday afternoon. But why do they do it, and how does the tournament handle the tips?...
Lindsey Vonn's Ex-Husband Gets All The Retweets
Could we have a name and face to go along with one of the key parties to the whole Tiger Woods drop shot scandal that dominated Saturday morning? Could it be that there is no fury like a Vonn scorned? Or is Thomas Vonn just a funny guy? ...
Multicultural Soccer Tournament Features Multicultural Scuffle, Multicultural Face-Punching
As for the Week in Ironic Soccer Violence, we bring you the comedic-tragic World Class Players Cup out of Regina, Saskatchewan. There, teams from different national backgrounds compete in a three-week tournament, under the auspices of multiculturalism and understanding and sportspersonship and not h...
In A Bizarre Flip Flop, Nick Faldo Changes His Mind On Tiger Woods
Wait, what? Nick Faldo was stomping around The Golf Channel this morning basically calling for Tiger Woods's head. He said that Woods should do the "manly thing" and withdraw from the Masters after he improperly took his drop several feet behind where he originally hit his third shot at the 15th ye...
The Greatest Shots On Augusta's Back Nine In Masters History
The best action at the Masters usually begins sometime tomorrow at around, oh, 4 p.m. Who knew we'd wake up to a fun Saturday morning controversy (thank you, HD TV)....
Masters Statement: TV Viewer Narced On Tiger Woods
Here's the statement:...
Watch The Yankees Turn A Crazy Triple Play
A triple play is one of those rare great pleasures in baseball—even when the Yankees turn it!—the kind of happening that makes you turn to your kid (or someone else's kid, if you have forgotten your own kid), and say, son, that's the reason we put up with hours and hours of stepping off the rubber a...
Nick Faldo Calls On Tiger Woods To "Do The Manly Thing" And Quit
Golf Channel analyst and three-time Masters champ Nick Faldo crushed Tiger Woods this morning, claiming Woods made no attempt to obey the rules of golf and that he deserved disqualification—then pleading with Tiger to "do the manly thing" and retire from the tournament....
Tiger Woods Avoids Disqualification From The Masters For Cheating, Is Penalized Two Strokes Instead
Tiger Woods will begin Round 3 of the Masters five strokes behind the leader after tournament officials elected to punish him with a two stroke penalty for taking an illegal drop at 15 Friday after this disastrous turn of bad luck....