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This Girl Fight Is The Best Comedy And Action Movie Of The Year
There's a Vine going around the internet today of a girl hitting another girl in the head with a flying shovel. It's hilarious. It's also taken from an eight-minute YouTube video of a fight between the two girls, which also happens to be one of the best pieces of American cinema you will ever lay ey...
What's Up With Nets.com Now?
With the Nets prevailing in their first-round series over Toronto, it's time for one of basketball's newest yet most venerable traditions—the ceremonial redirecting of Nets.com to the website of Brooklyn's next opponent. ...
How Rick Carlisle Turned The Misfit, Mismatched Mavs Into Contenders
The Mavericks got clobbered in yesterday's Game 7 against San Antonio, but just being there was a minor miracle in itself. Here's Brett Koremenos's breakdown on how this mismatched Mavs roster took the invincible Spurs to 7. ...
Paul Pierce And Kevin Garnett Couldn't Stop Gushing About Toronto Fans
The real star of the thrilling first-round series between the Nets and Raptors turned out to be Toronto itself. The success-starved sports town brought its A-game, even as Brooklyn prevailed in seven, to the point where the Nets' biggest stars had nothing but love for the opposing fans....
Soccer Player Dances Like A Monkey In Response To Fans' Racist Jeers
Papakouli Diop of Spanish club Levante reacted to racist taunts by Atletico Madrid fans after the match by dancing for them....
Mark Cuban: Hands-On Owner
Cubes even massages his players during the game. What a guy....
How Rick Carlisle Turns The Misfit, Mismatched Mavs Into Contenders
Every team loves rooting around for under-appreciated, undervalued, post-Moneyball players; the Mavericks have simply taken it to an extreme. Under Rick Carlisle, Dallas has thrown out conventional fit in order to focus strictly on value, the way you might in baseball, but which has failed again and...
Let's Watch Evgeni Malkin Get A Lap Dance (NSFW)
It's Sunday. Here's an undated video of Evgeni Malkin getting a lap dance....
<em>SNL</em> Lampoons Donald Sterling Scandal In Cold Open
Adam Silver, Donald Sterling, Dennis Rodman, and others made appearances in tonight's Saturday Night Live cold open, which didn't skewer the scandal involving the L.A. Clippers owner as much as it did make mildly amusing references to it....
Fan Tries To Catch Home Run With Beer; Fan With Glove Gets It Instead
Turns out, it's easier to catch a ball with a glove than a plastic cup full of Bud Light. Still, I've watched this and the video a whole lot, and I can't figure how it happened....
Reports: Fan, Police Shot At Coppa Italia
At least two men, one a fan and the other a police officer, have been shot in the lead up to the Coppa Italia between Fiorentina and Napoli in Rome. Outside of that, we don't know much at this point. The start of the match has been delayed while everything is sorted out....
Spurs Use 6-On-5 Power Play Against Mavericks, Still Lose
The Dallas Mavericks held on at home to defeat the Spurs 113-111 and force yet another NBA playoffs Game Seven tonight, and they had to overcome some tough odds to do it. Specifically, 5:6 odds....
V. Stiviano Appears On <em>20/20</em>, Says Donald Sterling Is Not A Racist
While Donald Sterling spurned his date with Barbara Walters, V. Stiviano did appear on 20/20 this evening and told the ABC host that she believes the banned Clippers owner "comes from a different time," but is not a racist—and that they are still a couple. Other revelations: Sterling's been paying h...
Super Bowl Economic Impact Quantified
New Jersey Transit took a $5.6 million net loss on the Super Bowl for the honor of shuttling fans to and from New York, where they actually stayed and dropped their cash. Public funds well spent!...
Donald Sterling Still Planned To Attend Clippers Game After Tape Leaked
ESPN's Ramona Shelburne has the definitive—so far—tick-tock of the release of the Donald Sterling audio and the reactions from Clippers players and the NBA. You'll want to read it, not least for the glimpse of how Doc Rivers handled it when the news of Sterling's lifetime ban came down....
Banana Truthers Say "We Are All Monkeys" Campaign A Media Conspiracy
You can fool all of the people some of the time, some of the people all of the time, but you'll never fool some Villareal fans into believing your simplistic racist narrative, lame-stream media....
Jeremy Guthrie Chucked A Ball Into The Upper Deck
Royals starter Jeremy Guthrie, presumably upset about a home run allowed earlier in the inning, snagged a line drive for the third out and hurled that sonofabitch to the heavens. ...
Jeffrey Eggleston Really Will Answer Any Question You Might Have
If you're like me, 90% of the people you follow on Twitter are elite runners, most of whom are kind enough not to post anything halfway interesting. So you can imagine the delight when I fired up the old iPhone last night and saw the following at the top of my feed:...
If you're interested in the history of the dominant force that was the Soviet national hockey team, Red Army will play later this month at the Cannes Film Festival. It'll get a release later this year; here's the trailer. Werner Herzog's an executive producer, so it's not going to be half-assed. [AN...
How To Sneak Into A Baseball Game With Nothing More Than A Baby Bottle
The rest of this, I could take or leave. But there are important life lessons to be gleaned from that first bit—namely that looking purposeful, entitled, and a little bit harried will open many doors for you. (That's how Nick Young snuck into the NBA, isn't it?)...