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The Worst Soccer Miss Since The Last Worst Soccer Miss Of All Time
There is an understandable tendency, here and elsewhere, to call soccer misses such as this the "worst of all time." But by its very nature, any open net miss immediately trumps the former open net miss as the worst miss of all time. They're all, in their own unique ways, exceedingly awful. So we'...
Watch JR Hildebrand Lose The Indy 500 By Crashing On The Final Turn
The history book will show that Dan Wheldon won the 100th Indianapolis 500. The replay shows that he didn't so much win it as rookie JR Hildebrand lost it in ridiculously tire-breaking fashion....
Here's Video Of Lionel Messi's UEFA-Championship Winning Goal For FC Barcelona
Final score: Barcelona 3, Manchester United 1. In retrospect, the game ended the moment Lionel Messi seized the Best Player In The World chatter and made it reality....
The Greatest Baseball Highlight Ever Happened 20 Years Ago Tonight
The video's been played and replayed so many times, it almost no longer matters who and where and how. It's a dude running through a fence....
Here's Video Of Carlos Boozer's Hard Foul On LeBron James
Sure, this is a midair mugging. Even an impartial viewer would have to conclude LeBron asked for it, though....
And Here's A Brutal Hurdle Fall To End The Workday
Before you click play, know that she goes down on the final hurdle. The anticipation will be dreadful....
Watch This 13-Year-Old Score A Rooneyesque Bicycle Kick Goal
Que golazo by this adolescent from the Civitans Bengals in Arlington, Virginia. I grew up in Arlington playing soccer and not hitting bicycle kicks like this. Note the kids on the other team putting hands to head, utterly demoralized. That's what a chilena will do for you. It's like 20 slam dunks ...
Here's Tim Thomas With The Best Save Of The Playoffs
That endorsement from hockey minds across Twitter tonight. Steve Downie, in a one-goal game, would probably agree....
Here's Video Of The Time The Thunder's James Harden Flopped On National TV
The Oklahoma City Thunder had just cut their deficit to 19 points in the third quarter when big bad Tyson Chandler of the Mavericks didn't hit little good-actor James Harden in the face with an elbow....
Here's Video Of The Time The Philadelphia Union Gave The World Its Daily Soccer Highlight
Carlos Ruiz, the Philadelphia Union's prized free-agent pickup muffed a free kick last night, right in front of the Sons of Ben fan club seating area. Then, it bounced back out to Ruiz's left foot about 25 yards from goal. And then, a young franchise got an early "Goal of the Year" nominee....
Watch ESPN's Doris Burke Flub Her Lines About Oklahoma City Arena
Your morning roundup for May 22, the day some people in North Carolina started taking Pirates of the Caribbean too literally, but not in a cool swashbuckling way or anything....
Here's Video Of Roy Jones Jr. Getting Knocked Pretty-Much Lifeless In Moscow Today
Roy Jones Jr. was, at one time, the best boxer on Earth. That time has long since gone. But in his light-heavyweight non-title bout against Russian Denis Lebedev in Moscow today, Jones made it deep into the third minute of the 10th round. He was prevented from reaching the final bell, though....
Here's Video Of Kevin Durant Posterizing Brendan Haywood Of The Mavericks
Kevin Durant of the Oklahoma City Thunder turned the Mavericks' Brendan Haywood into a highlight-reel prop before the end of the first quarter of Game Two of the Western Conference Championship series. The Thunder went on to win the game 106-100 and even the series at one all....
Three Stooges Diversion Makes For Soccer's Greatest Set Piece
We're just seeing this now, but it needs to be seen. It's a brilliant piece of misdirection, and if I were on the victimized team, I'd want to kick someone's shins. [via Fark]...
This Is The Dunk That Made Reggie Miller Compare Udonis Haslem To Taj Gibson
Today in very recent historical comparisons, Reggie Miller gave credit to reincarnated Heat forward Udonis Haslem for his Gibsonesque slam. "I didn't know Taj Gibson was playing for Miami this game!" Miller said, in that characteristic lilt of his, all forced giddiness and wonderment. Perhaps TNT ...
Facekicker 2: The Kickening
Standard Liege midfielder Mehdi Carcela is in the hospital with a concussion and facial fractures, after being kicked in the face in the Belgian league playoffs. It was accidental, as most soccer highlights are, but still scary. Which doesn't mean you shouldn't mentally add the "Boom! Headshot!" a...
Watch This Kickboxer Get Destroyed By A Leaping 360 Roundhouse Kick
Here's a not-so-new video newly making the rounds. It's of a fight between Evgenij Alekseev and Vadim Masljanka that ends quickly. Alekseev lands the kind of kick we thought stopped working around the time Jean-Claude Van Damme stopped working. Guess not....
A Children's Treasury Of Athletes Breaking Trophies
Who: Pasi Nurminen, former NHL player and Finland goalie coach....
Watch Cristiano Ronaldo Tie The Spanish League Goal Scoring Record
After knocking in these two free kicks against Villarreal yesterday, Ronaldo upped his goal tally to 38 on the season, tying the record set by Athletic Bilbao's Telmo Zarra in 1951 and matched in 1990 by Real Madrid's Mexican striker Hugo Sanchez. Ronaldo also opened up a 14-point lead in the Gold...
Here's The Taj Gibson Dunk That Inspired Reggie Miller To Quote Martin Luther King On Air
The Bulls beat the Heat by 21 points at home in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals this evening. Taj Gibson, who finished with nine points and seven boards off the bench for Chicago, had the two best dunks of the game. The first left Reggie Miller speechless, and presumably on top of Steve Ke...