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College Scores 109-Yard Punt Return TD In First Ever Football Game
Arizona Christian University started a football program this school year and played their first game Saturday night against Evangel University from Missouri. The Firestorm lost to Evangel, but there was one highlight when their punt returner turned a screwup into an entertaining punt return for a to...
Ain't No Liga Like The One I Got: Your 2014-15 La Liga Preview
Here we are. The La Liga season has just started up, and now we get to watch the league with the world's three best players, its two best teams, and the saddest hodgepodge of patsies since Enter the Dragon. In spite of these financial realities, Spain managed to produce Europe's wildest title race...
Little League Pitcher Mo'ne Davis Can Also Break Ankles In Basketball
Little league pitching phenom Mo'ne Davis is a multisport athlete, and she's got great dribbling skills for a point guard, judging from this highlight....
Single Bee Delays U.S. Open Match, Nearly Outwits Three Ballkids
A stubborn bee with a really excellent sense of comic timing caused a brief delay during a first-round match at the U.S. Open, pestering Kimiko Date-Krumm to the point where three ballkids had to come out and put on a slapstick routine in an attempt to chase it away....
Morgan State Football Player Dies Two Weeks After Collapsing At Practice
Marquese Meadow, an 18-year-old defensive tackle for Morgan State University, died Sunday. Two weeks earlier, Meadow was practicing with the football team before becoming disoriented and then hospitalized: ...
Adam Silver Is More Like David Stern Than You Think
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Matt Cassel Named Vikings' Starting QB Over Teddy Bridgewater
Per Jay Glazer, Vikings players were told this morning that Matt Cassel will be the No. 1 QB, while rookie Teddy Bridgewater will start the season on the bench. ...
Beyoncé's VMAs Performance, With Her Vocals Isolated
When we put up the isolated vocal track from Taylor Swift's MTV Video Music Awards performance last night, skeptics protested that "you could do that with any performer and it would sound just as bad." In response, here's Beyoncé's full 16-minute, show-ending mini-set, using just the unaltered audio...
It's August, So Let's Talk About Bleaching Your Smelly Balls
Jolie Kerr is a cleaning expert and advice columnist. She'll be here periodically to answer your filthiest questions....
MLS Used A Blind Draw To Decide Where Jermaine Jones Will Play
In one of those "only in MLS" stories—and not one of the charming ones, either—World Cup standout Jermaine Jones is now a member of the New England Revolution, but only because the Revs' name came up in a random draw....
Taylor Swift's VMAs Performance, With Her Vocals Isolated
Taylor Swift performed her new single, "Shake It Off," at tonight's MTV Video Music Awards. It's a song about all her "haters," many of whom say the pop-country star can't sing live. So here's her isolated vocal track....
Sam Bradford Out For The Year With Torn ACL
Rams quarterback Sam Bradford went down in the first quarter of the Rams preseason game against the Browns last night with a left knee injury. Bradford was playing in his second game since returning from a season-ending ACL tear of the same knee last year. Initially it was believed that Bradford's i...
Matt Prater Suspended Four Games, Could Have Been The Whole Season
Broncos kicker Matt Prater negotiated a year-long suspension for an alcohol-related violation of the NFL's substance abuse policy into a four-game suspension. Prater has been in the league's alcohol program since he was charged with DUI and leaving the scene of a crash in August, 2011. ...
This Is The Best Hockey Goal You Will See All Day
OK, so this is also the only hockey goal you are likely to see today, but do you know what that changes? Nothing. You are watching 20-year-old Kloten winger Vincent Praplan turn Champions Hockey League opponent HV71 into his own personal Washington Generals. ...
Adeiny Hechavarria Momentarily Saves Game With Great Diving Grab
The Rockies beat the Marlins 5-4 on a walk-off single in the 13th inning Saturday and the only reason it wasn't an inning earlier is because of this play. With two outs and men on the corners, Justin Morneau hit a flare out into no man's land between second base and left-center field. Adeiny Hecha...
Bayer Leverkusen Scores On Borussia Dortmund Nine Seconds Into Match
Karim Bellarabi set a new Bundesliga record when he scored the opening goal of Borussia Dortmund-Bayer Leverkusen just nine seconds into those teams' league season....
Marcin Gortat Driving A Humvee With Usain Bolt
Marcin Gortat's go-to move for public appearances is driving a Humvee. In June, Gortat rode into his basketball camp in Poland manning the enormous gun mounted on a Humvee. Earlier today, he uploaded a video to Instagram that shows him driving another Humvee, this time with Usain Bolt ( THE CHAMP)...
Too Busy For Girls: Off The Field At The Little League World Series
SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa.–You'd think the best part of being a player at the Little League World Series would be the girls. And yes, there are always girls, and lots of them. But being a superstar gets old quickly....
Love-For-Wiggins Trade Official; T-Wolves Announces Haul In Ad
The Cavaliers and Timberwolves agreed in principle to this deal weeks ago, but it could not become official until today, when Andrew Wiggins became eligible to be traded. NBA rookies can't be traded for 30 days after they sign a contract. Now, officially, Minnesota sends Love to the Cavaliers in e...