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What If A British Soccer Announcer Called The NBA Finals Game 7?
This is goddamn delightful. Here's a funny British guy combining some of the best things in the world—soccer commentary, the NBA basketball, gross and sweeping incompetence—and making something wonderful. ...
David Eckstein Stars In Commercial For Fake <em>Parks & Rec</em> Law Firm
Last week, the producers of Parks & Recreation graced the show with our favorite television easter egg of all time: a sabermetrics-inspired fake law firm. Now, they've gone and outdone themselves by getting David Eckstein to shoot a commercial for the fake law firm. ...
You Could Spend All Day Playing "Six Degrees Of Kevin Garnett"
Over at Slate, Ben Blatt has put together something amazing and useless and entirely engrossing. Plug in any two athletes from the history of professional baseball, football, and basketball, and it will connect them via teammates in as few steps as possible....
Here's What All The NFL Logos Would Look Like If They Were Fat
The genius who brought you every NFL quarterback as his team's name and Peyton Manning's face in every NFL logo has struck again. This time, he's re-imagined the logo for each NFL team as a fatter version of itself. My favorite entry is the one for the Bears, obviously. Head over to Kissing Suzy Kol...
Man Wins £125,000 On Bet His Infant Grandson Would Play For Wales
On Tuesday, 16-year-old Harry Wilson made his international debut for Wales in a World Cup qualifying match against Belgium. It was a big day for Wilson, but perhaps an even bigger day for his grandfather, who cashed in big time on a 15-year-old bet as soon as his grandson stepped onto the pitch....
Sad And Drunk Colts Fan Expresses His Sorrow Through Song
This guy did not have a whole lot of fun watching his Colts lose to the Chargers last night, so he did what any of us would have done: He got real drunk and then made up a song about his thumb....
Broadway Singer Belts Out Extended National Anthem, Confuses Everyone
As all good Americans know, The Star-Spangled Banner is actually much longer than the version that gets sung at sporting events every day. Based on the video above, some of the people who recently attended minor league baseball game are not good Americans....
Jack Clark's Lawyer Responds To Albert Pujols's Lawsuit With Pizazz
Albert Pujols is suing former baseball player Jack Clark because Clark recently went on his now-cancelled radio show and told listeners that Pujols's trainer once told him that Pujols had been "juicing." Judging by a settlement offer that was sent from Clark's attorney to Pujols's attorney this morn...
Watch This Awesome First Person POV Of A Famous Horse Racing Jockey
These really never get old. Here's John Velazquez riding Greyfall, a two-year-old colt, at the Keeneland Race Course. He wore "camera glasses" (off-brand Google Glass?) and captured video of exactly what it looks and sounds like to be out on the track. ...
How Those Painfully Awkward Local Commercials With Athletes Are Made
You've probably seen a local commercial with one of your area's athletes, and it was most likely awful and unnatural. For me, nothing will beat Dustin Pedroia's cringe-worthy Sullivan Tire ad. ("I don't believe it. It's Jim Rice.") This funny video featuring Scott Hartnell proves that there's a scie...
New Mexico Fans Have Raised The $2,000 A Rival Fan Should've Won
Last week we brought you the smh-worthy tale of the cosmic nut-punt that went down at a New Mexico State football game. Tired of empty stands, university honchos had whipped up some cash awards to entice students to witness the (winless) Aggies, with a $2,000 prize reserved for a randomly selected s...
Son Surprises His Dad With Bengals Tickets; Dad Gets All Weepy
Until today, I never thought that the Cincinnati Bengals were capable of bringing their fans to tears of joy instead of sorrow. But that's exactly what happened when one Giants fan surprised his father, a lifelong Bengals fan, with airfare and tickets to an upcoming Jets-Bengals game at Paul Brown ...
Here's Vin Scully Calling Don Larsen's Perfect Game 57 Years Ago Today
On Oct. 8, 1956, in Game 5 of the World Series, Don Larsen took the mound at Yankee Stadium against the Brooklyn Dodgers and threw what remains the only perfect game in MLB postseason history. Behind the microphone in the broadcast booth that day was 28-year-old Vin Scully, already in his seventh se...
Here's Hannah Storm Anchoring <em>SportsCenter</em> In Spanish On ESPN Deportes
It's "Ladies Week" on ESPN Deportes (yes, "Ladies Week," as opposed to "Semana De Las Señoras") and tonight's SportsCenter features all-female hosts/hostesses. One of the presenters? The awesome Hannah Storm, from "real" ESPN....
Athletes Among Us: The Stories Behind These Cool Photographs
Last year the photographer Jordan Matter released a super-cool book called Dancers Among Us. He put dancers in everyday situations—in the middle of a park, a subway station, on a busy sidewalk—and photographed them, out of context, doing their dance moves. As a follow-up to the book, Matter has rel...
Ohio State Football Game Makes One Mesmerizing Timelapse Video
This is just cool. Timelapse videos are beautiful, but sort of all look the same at one point. This is a new one on us, though. Here's Ohio State playing Wisconsin last week, sped up beyond recognition. ...
L.C. Greenwood: The Smiling Badass Of The NFL's Baddest Front Four
The Steelers of the 1970s had the scowl of Mean Joe Greene and the gap where Jack Lambert's four front teeth should've been. But there was nothing quite like the menace presented by the smiling L.C. Greenwood, who died Sunday of kidney failure at the age of 67. A smile on that front line was like a ...
Genius Impressionist Reimagines Mike Francesa As A 1776 Radio Pundit
This, the work of @BizzaroZaun, is one of the best Mike Francesa impersonations you will ever see. And it's not just Francesa's voice that Zaun nails; everything about this impression—the smugness, the dismissive attitude towards callers, the fact that Francesa would have been a loyalist stooge in...
Entire Buckeye Team Lines Up To Hug Anchor After His Daughter's Death
Dom Tiberi, sports director at the CBS affiliate in Columbus, lost his 21-year-old daughter in a car crash on Sept. 17. That Saturday, Ohio State honored the local legend with a moment of silence before its game. Tiberi returned to Ohio Stadium for this weekend's win over Wisconsin, and as the playe...
Death Of A Legend
I've learned more from reading Marcella Hazan's cookbooks over the years than I have from any chef other than Jacques Pepin. She was tough, unsparing, beautiful....