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This Dive Is Why Matt Besler Is Suspended For The Mexico Match
USMNT defender Matt Besler was carrying a yellow into Friday's World Cup qualifier against Costa Rica. One more, and he'd have to sit out the next match. This is how he "earned" it....
Dolla Dolla Bill Y'all (Just A Guy At Oxford)
Bill Bradley's Princeton days were famously covered by John McPhee. Later, Bradley wrote books himself, notably Life on the Run. Lesser known but still intriguing is Jack Mann's 1966 SI bonus piece on Bradley at Princeton: ...
You Must Be 18 To Play
I found this at a thrift store in South Carolina. How could I pass it up? (And yeah, the photo is blurry which only adds to its appeal.)...
Audiobooks Are For Communists And Charles Bronson Villains
We welcome September into our lives and all it has to offer: sweet weather, the NFL, meaningful baseball games and two months before I have to run 13.1 consecutive miles. It's a pretty decent time to be alive; let's talk about why it's not. Here's your Spotify playlist....
It Took The Tennessee Titans Exactly One Second To Fuck Everything Up
Pittsburgh got their season's scoring started with a safety on the kickoff, thanks to this dopey play by Titans returner Darius Reynaud....
Here is The Epic Djokovic-Wawrinka 13-Deuce Game In The Fifth Set
To give you an idea of just how nuts this was, we edited it down from 21 minutes to just under three. Wawrinka eventually won the game but Djokovic held on to win the match and advanced to his fourth straight U.S. Open final. ...
U.S. And Mexico Both Lose World Cup Qualifiers
This kid is everyone's spirit kid. He's pissed. And why not, everything about Friday night was a bummer. Before the U.S. men even dug themselves a 2-0 hole in the first 10 minutes, Michael Bradley went down with an injured ankle in the pre-game workout....
Guy You've Never Heard Of Misses Perfect Game By One Pitch
Yusmeiro Petit, of whom you've never heard, ensured his continued obscurity by missing out on a perfect game when on the final out he allowed a hit to the Diamondbacks' Eric Chavez on a 3-2 count....
Dominant Serena Williams Unleashes A Spectacular Double "Come On!"
Let us celebrate Serena Williams's dominant 6-0, 6-3 win over Li Na in the women's semifinals with, not one, but two successive come ons. The double come on. These were two of approximately 78 come ons she unleashed in her win this evening. Williams plays Victoria Azarenka in the women's final on S...
Skinheads, Drunks, And London Soccer In The Early '70s
Forty years after its publication, The Glory Game, Hunter Davies's behind-the-scenes classic about a season with Tottenham Hotspur, reads in a lot of ways like a supreme work of access journalism, one willing to betray the secrets everyone already knows in order to protect the real ones. So players ...
Just Put Your Lips Together And Blow
Our man Eric Nusbaum has a fun piece on the Lucha Libre star wrestler Maximo over at ESPN:...
Why Do Tennis Players Say "Come On!" So Much?
On Tuesday, in front of a small crowd at Arthur Ashe Stadium, the inconsistent Serbian Ana Ivanoivc had an early lead on Victoria Azarenka in the fourth round at the U.S. Open. At the end of a 14-shot rally late in the first set, Ivanovic slapped a weak forehand into the net. ...
Jürgen Klinsmann Came From The Future To Save American Soccer
The United States are playing Costa Rica in a World Cup qualifier tonight, and it's a big deal. The USMNT is first in their group, and a win would all but guarantee their place in Brazil next year. If some other results go the the right way, they could even clinch this evening. They've never won a q...
Even After Seven TDs, Peyton Manning Can't Escape John Elway's Shadow
According to the Columbus Dispatch, it was ol' No. 7 who put a historic hurting on the Baltimore Ravens last night. There's never really a good excuse for mistaking John Elway for Peyton Manning, but this definitely shouldn't happen the morning after a record-setting performance like the one Manning...
Man Ogles Victoria Azarenka Bikini Pics While Watching Her Match
Reader Darin snapped this picture while attending last night's Azarenka-Hantuchova match at the U.S. Open. Here's the webpage the guy was looking at. And just in case you were wondering, it's one of the top Google results for "Victoria Azarenka hot" and "Victoria Azarenka bikini." ...
"Iron Stan" Wawrinka Blows Out Andy Murray In US Open Quarters
So, who had Stan Wawrinka in straight sets, 6-4, 6-3, 6-2 over defending U.S. Open champion Andy Murray? That's what just happened....
The Time Eric Crouch Asked His Lineman To Spit In His Mouth
A reader alerted us to this story, which was written by former Nebraska quarterback and Heisman winner Eric Crouch for HuddlePass.com, a website featuring various first-person accounts from former college football stars about their playing days. Crouch's story is a pretty standard one about Week 1 j...
The Bryan Brothers Quest For Golden Slam Ends In Semifinals
The Bryan Brothers, two wins away from winning the golden Grand Slam, lost today in the men's doubles semifinals to Leander Paes and Radek Stepanek, 6-3, 3-6, 6-4. Bob and Mike Ryan were on the verge of becoming only the second men's doubles team to win all four Grand Slams in a single year. It happ...
Reds Run Suicide Squeeze With Two Outs In The 15th Inning
Dusty Baker called for a suicide squeeze with two on and two out in the 15th inning and guess what? It didn't work. The Cardinals took the lead the following inning on a Matt Adams home run and defeated the Reds 5-4....