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Victor Wembanyama passes first testIf it wasn’t obvious from Victor Wembanyama’s interview on J.J. Redick’s podcast, this young man is ready for NBA life. Las Vegas, the slow July sports news cycle, Britney Spears, all of it crashed down on him in less than 24 hours. However, when it came time to address the scenario, Wembanyama was ...

The Olympic torch relay is going just greatJapan has a fire to put out....

Joe West wins suit vs. Paul Lo Duca in a story with no heroesThey say justice is blind, which means that’s one thing justice has in common with Joe West....

Vincent Trocheck Taken Off Ice On Stretcher After His Leg Does Several Wrong Things All At Once

Vincent Trocheck of the Florida Panthers was stretchered off the ice Monday night after twisting and bending his right leg in horrifying fashion. In hockey parlance, this is just another lower body injury; in layman’s terms, Trocheck’s leg bends too far at the knee, and in too many directions below ...

The Minnesota Wild, Who Backed Into The Playoffs, Don't Want To Hear That They Backed Into The Playoffs

The Minnesota Wild lost their fourth straight game on Tuesday, but clinched a playoff spot anyway. Because the Colorado Avalanche also lost last night, their fourth in a row, they were eliminated from contention, and so Minnesota stumbled through the tape into their fourth straight postseason appear...

Olympic Torchbearer Briefly Lights Self On Fire

As former Olympic bobsledder Pyotr Makarchuk carried the torch through the Siberian city of Abakan on Wednesday, he spilled some flaming liquid fuel onto his jacket. It was promptly put out by his escorts, avoiding the worst Gazprom commercial ever. ...

The Olympic Torch Keeps Going Out

The Olympic torch relay began in Moscow two days ago, and the flame has already been extinguished four times. It's a slight embarrassment for the host nation, but a fairly large one for the factory that made the torches, and also happens to make ballistic missiles....

Russian Meteorite Damages KHL Arena, Putting Playoffs In Jeopardy

A meteorite exploded over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk today, shattering glass, damaging buildings, and injuring nearly 1,000 people. (Head over to Gawker for all your bolide porn.)...

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Who Will Light The Olympic Flame? This Dude, Probably.

We've shown you the best Olympic flame-lighting ceremony of all time, as well as the worst (and most genocidal.) But who gets the honor tonight?...

by Barry Petchesky|

|Mon Jun 17 2013

Olympic Flame Extinguished During White Water Raft Ride

After traveling for 50 days through Greece and the UK, the Olympic torch was briefly extinguished by a pesky splash in the middle of the canoe slalom venue. Zachary Franklin, the torch bearer, tried his best to keep it "well away from the water," but the Eternal Flame was no match for the swift rap...

by Kate Bennert|

|Mon Jun 17 2013

Children Invade Torch Relay, Try To Steal Olympic Flame

A pair of West Midlands ragamuffins jumped the barricades as the Olympic Flame made its way through Coventry this morning, and laid their grubby mitts on the torch before being hustled off by security. From a police statement:...

by Barry Petchesky|

|Mon Jun 17 2013

Is This The Ultimate Insult To A Rival Team?

Your hated geographic rivals are suffering one of the worst humiliations in their 130-year history. What's a devoted fan who takes pleasure from the misery of others to do? Fly a goddamn airplane banner over their stadium....

by Barry Petchesky|

|Mon Jun 17 2013

No, Vancouver Is The Other Way!

Got an image you'd like to see in here first thing in the morning? Send it to [email protected]. Subject: Morning crap....

by Dashiell Bennett|

|Mon Jun 17 2013

Olympic Torch Carried By Athlete On Steroids

The Vancouver games are only starting the torch relay, and we've already got a doping controversy. Oh, Olympics, how we've missed you....

by Barry Petchesky|

|Mon Jun 17 2013

Yuk It Up, Stoners. The Olympics Torch Looks Like A Doob.

At left is the official torch of the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, and, yes, I realize it looks like someone rolled up half of Humboldt County in the world's biggest Zig Zag....

by Tommy Craggs|

|Mon Jun 17 2013

Hey, Don't Bogart The Olympic Torch, Man

Got an image you'd like to see in here first thing in the morning? Send it to [email protected]. Subject: Morning crap....

by Rick Chandler|

|Mon Jun 17 2013

Olympic Torch Relay Update: We're Runnin' In Circles Here!

OK, we have a new leader for the lamest Olympic Torch Relay idea yet: In Jakarta, Indonesia on Tuesday, torch runners did laps inside of a closed stadium in order to avoid protests. Yes, in this genius move, all the Indonesian torch runners took turns running in circles, as a crowd that was hand-pi...

by rickchand|

|Tue Jun 18 2013

Jackie Chan Threatens To Chop Protesters, Make 'Rush Hour 4'

Leave it to diminutive Kung Fu dervish Jackie Chan to put this Olympic Torch protest thing into perspective. Chan, who will be a torchbearer when the relay comes to Beijing next week, says that he will deal harshly with any miscreants who might try to grab the flame from his tiny, powerful mitts....

by rickchand|

|Tue Jun 18 2013

Passing The Torch: Buenos Aires, You're Up

The beleaguered Olympic Torch is in Argentina today, where protesters in Buenos Aires say that they will be out in force, but will not try to snuff out the flame (wink, wink). Of course, crossing the Chinese government is one thing; but when you anger the McDonald's Corporation (pictured right), you...

by rickchand|

|Tue Jun 18 2013

Bang The Gong Slowly; Olympic Torch A No-Show In SF

San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom didn't exactly win friends and influence people on Wednesday when he decided to play an elaborate game of Hide the Salami with the Olympic Torch. The relay's only North American stop was scheduled to be a happy, glorious people's jog from AT&T Park, down the waterfr...

by rickchand|

|Tue Jun 18 2013

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