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USWNT Shock Japan With Four Goals In Sixteen Minutes, Win World Cup
Soccer matches are 90 minutes long, and most of the time the ball is nowhere near a goal and 18 of the 22 players on the pitch are walking. But there are stretches—two minutes here, two seconds there—in which the players do unimaginable things with the ball and work with their teammates in a way tha...
Listen To All Five U.S. Goals As Called By Telemundo's Andrés Cantor
While Fox’s J.P. Dellacamera did an adequate job calling today’s Women’s World Cup final, an even more legendary soccer broadcaster called the match elsewhere on U.S. television: Andrés ¡GOOOOOL! Cantor, on Telemundo. Since you were probably watching on Fox, we’ve compiled all five U.S. goals as air...
U.S. Obliterating Japan, Now Up 4-0 As Lloyd Earns Hat Trick
Carli Lloyd is singlehandedly destroying Japan, having earned a hat trick just 15 minutes into today’s Women’s World Cup final with a long-range bomb that caught the keeper off her line. ...
Carli Lloyd Scores Twice In First Five Minutes As U.S. Start On Fire
Carli Lloyd has already scored twice in the first five minutes of tonight’s Women’s World Cup final against Japan, both off set plays. This is the start of which U.S. fans could only dream....
Here Is Your 2015 Women's World Cup Final Liveblog
Here we go. The United States women’s national team is taking on Japan in the World Cup final. Follow along as we yell and jingoistically babble our way through the game while the Americans attempt to Do The Whole Shit for the first time since 1999....
LaMarcus Aldridge Will Sign With The Spurs
LaMarcus Aldridge, this summer’s most coveted free agent, will sign a four-year, $80 million deal with the San Antonio Spurs, reports Yahoo’s Adrian Wojnarowski. ...
AFL Teams Perform Moving Postgame Tribute To Murdered Coach
Collingwood and Hawthorn came together in a circle following last night’s match at Melbourne Cricket Ground to remember Adelaide coach Phil Walsh, who was murdered in his home this week....
Aussie Rules Football Coach Killed, Son Held For The Stabbing
Phil Walsh, the head coach of the Australian Football League’s Adelaide Crows, was stabbed to death in his home at around 2:00 a.m. Australian time today. Paramedics and police arrived after somebody in the house (likely Walsh’s wife) called Australia’s version of 911, but they were unable to save h...
Cards Fire Scouting Director Who Reportedly Admitted To Hacking Astros
The St. Louis Cardinals just announced that scouting director Chris Correa has been fired. Although no specific reason was given for the firing, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that Correa was let go because he participated in last year’s hack of the Astros’ internal database....
Who Is Russell Westbrook Side-Eyeing Here?
Yesterday, between 3:30 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. EDT, Russell Westbrook disapproved of something, or multiple somethings. Since there is no other NBA news to speak of, and especially since there is nothing miserable or at all depressing happening in New York, let’s use this downtime to figure out who cros...
Whose Disgusting Baseball Chin Is This?
Welcome back to Whose Disgusting Baseball Chin Is This? a regular feature in which we ask readers to identify a baseball player based on a closely cropped image of his disgusting chin. So, whose chin is this? Use the image slider below to find out....
Justin Turner's Future Self Shows Up In Arizona
Is this the twin of Baseball Sasquatch Justin Turner, or a time-traveling version from the future? Either way, the two didn’t talk....
Lakers Baffled That Free Agents Don't Like Their Bad Basketball Team
I don’t want to keep piling on the Lakers (yes I do), but their failed wooing of LaMarcus Aldridge sounds like the biggest free-agency botch since Kobe Bryant spent a couple hours yelling at Dwight Howard across a conference-room table. And each new detail that comes out is sadder and more hilarious...
I Think The 76ers Just Fleeced The Kings
The 76ers are approximately $40 million under next season’s salary cap, but they aren’t chasing LeBron James, LaMarcus Aldridge, or any other big name free agents. Instead, they’re making themselves available to teams looking to shed salary, trying to pick up future assets in return. ...
Lakers Delete Embarrassing Recruiting Tweets After Other Teams Complain
As part of the effort to lure free agent LaMarcus Aldridge, the Lakers engaged in a frankly embarrassing 12:01 a.m. Twitter recruiting campaign. It doesn’t seem to have worked. Almost a day later, at least four of those tweets have been deleted. ...
The Lakers Really Boned Themselves Out Of LaMarcus Aldridge
At the start of the day, the Los Angeles Lakers were feeling pretty good about their chances at signing free-agent forward LaMarcus Aldridge. They were even the first team on his meeting schedule! Of course, that meeting didn’t go as well as they thought it did, and now we’re starting to hear why....
<i>Terminator Genisys </i>Is Like A Loud, Lousy, Super-Confusing Cover Band
1. Terminator Genisys seems specifically designed to give you a headache. It’s a reboot, a sequel, a reimagining, and a rehash of the previous Terminator films all churned up and spackled together, a film that conjures up all your memories of those movies only to eradicate them with little explanati...
A Lakers Story, In Four Tweets
The Lakers had the first crack at meeting with free agent LaMarcus Aldridge last night. They were actually the first of several teams to get a meeting, and Aldridge insisted that all meetings happen in L.A. Lots of people were excited about the meeting. ...
How The USWNT Finally Figured It Out
After toiling in mediocrity for the whole tournament, with players playing out of position, no organizational structure, and no defined individual roles, the USWNT finally came out last night looking like the World Cup favorites we all thought they’d be. Because of that, we’re left with one question...
The Spurs Are Reloading
We’re just a few hours into the NBA free-agency period, and the San Antonio Spurs—the team that spends most offseasons chilling, drinking wine, and then eventually scooping up scrap-heap free agents who will later win them a playoff game—are making some goddamn moves....