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Yes, That Is Mark Cuban Wearing A Suit
The Dallas Mavericks (minus Delonte West) are getting the NBA Champions' treatment at the White House today, which for coach Rick Carlisle means a chance to tickle the ivories....
ShortCenter: The Denver Broncos' Big Win, Reduced To Buzzwords
What is ESPN prattling on about right now? We condense your morning SportsCenter to its essence....
Teamwork Results In One Of The Greatest Cricket Catches You'll Ever See
From New Zealand domestic competition, Central Districts' Bevan Small corrals the ball as he sails over the boundary rope, and flips it back to Michael Mason to save the six. Cricket!...
Holly Rowe's Been In The Interview-Muscle Racket For Years
We brought you video last week of Holly Rowe giving the Worldwide Leader's Elbow to an as-yet-unidentified reporter after the Sugar Bowl. It's no secret Rowe can be aggressive in protecting her employer's interests (ESPN uses its own monetary muscle to shut out other media outlets from the best po...
The Steelers Overestimated Tim Tebow Before They Underestimated Him
We're doing a season-long NFL roundtable with our friends at Slate. Check back here each week as a rotating cast of football watchers discusses the weekend's key plays, coaching decisions, and traumatic brain injuries....
Harvey Updyke Jr. On Bourbon Street, Where There Are No Trees For Him To Poison
Your morning roundup for Jan. 9, the day we learned another way to open a beer bottle. Photo via @IzzyGould. Got any stories or photos for us? Tip your editors....
Why The Steelers Lost To Tim Tebow
We're doing a season-long NFL roundtable with our friends at Slate. Check back here each week as a rotating cast of football watchers discusses the weekend's key plays, coaching decisions, and traumatic brain injuries....
Tim Tebow Just Made You A Believer: His Game-Winning Touchdown Pass On The First Play Of Overtime
And lo, on the day of Epiphany a great light shone, and all fell to their knees, Tebowing, in awe of the sight they had seen. [CBS]...
This Is What It's Like When Your Bungee Cord Breaks While Hurtling Toward Victoria Falls
Australian college student Erin Langworthy went on a summer vacation to Africa, and decided to take the tourist plunge—literally—taking a New Year's Eve bungee jump from the Zambezi river bridge at Victoria Falls, along the border of Zambia and Zimbabwe....
NFL Wildcard Weekend: Pittsburgh Steelers at Denver Broncos
Here is your open thread for the final game of the weekend. You know the drill....
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Hakeem Nicks Treated The Falcons To His Own Interpretation Of "The Dirty Bird" [UPDATE: Jamal Anderson Responds]
After splitting coverage and making the Atlanta Falcons defense look absolutely foolish, Giants receiver Hakeem Nicks celebrated his touchdown with his take on the Falcons' Dirty Bird—a dance popularized when Nicks was in the fourth grade. [Fox] ...
Last Night's Phoenix Coyotes Broadcast Featured Some Lady's Five-Hole
It's unclear where the blame falls for this shot that lingered for several seconds up this woman's skirt: on the director who zoomed in, on the woman for whom modesty seems not to be an issue, or on Fox Sports Arizona reporter Tyson Nash for wearing such a ridiculous outfit. Either way, it's a howl...
Professional Bowler Does Thing You Usually Only See From The Very Drunk
Josh Blanchard is a rookie PBA bowler. If he manages to have a long career in pro bowling, he's unlikely to ever live this moment down, from a World Championship qualifier in Las Vegas today....
The "Respect United" Soccer Tournament Was Canceled After Fans Brawled With Riot Police
Fans of the German indoor soccer team St. Pauli—perhaps after imbibing too many of a beverage hawked by local Fräuleins—brawled with spectators and Hamburg police, bringing a premature end to the Schweinske Cup tournament....
Delonte West Had A Twitter Meltdown
Delonte West won't be making the trip with his teammates (he's on the Dallas Mavericks now) to visit President Obama at the White House, as is customary for all championship teams these days. Background checks are now required and West apparently flunked his thanks to weapons charges from 2009. App...
Eli Manning and Matt Ryan: Post-Turnover Face-Off
The quarterback matchup today isn't just about who can throw for more touchdowns, it's also about who can make the most ridiculous face after giving one away to the other team. While the Manning face is certainly more renowned, Matt Ryan is certainly no slouch. In anticipation of today's head-to-h...
Watch The Republican Presidential Field Try And Fail To Pretend They Know When The College Football Championship Is Played
Last night's Republican presidential debate moderators, in a gesture of cruelty posing as kindness, asked the candidates to wrap up by saying what they'd rather be doing with this Saturday night, giving them a chance to show off their human sides. If any of these people were human a year ago, thou...
Here's The <em>Saturday Night Live</em> Sketch In Which Charles Barkley Does His Shaq Impersonation
Last night's Charles Barkley-hosted SNL was more miss than hit, and even some viewers of this five-minute riff on TNT's Inside The NBA called it "the worst ten minutes in SNL history."...
Blake Griffin Destroyed Ersan İlyasova With A Monster Dunk
Hillary Clinton had to phone Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to apologize for the utter destruction and humiliation of their son Ersan İlyasova after Blake Griffin dunked on him in the second half of the Clippers' bout with Milwaukee Saturday night. [NBA TV]...
Arian Foster's Touchdown Run Is Just Embarrassing For Chris Crocker
This twinkle-toed TD from the Houston Texans' Arian Foster made NFL safety Chris Crocker look more like internet celebrity Chris Crocker. Leave Chris Crocker alone! (The Texans won 31-10.) [NBC]...