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Enjoy Several Minutes Of Zeke The Wonder Dog Performing At The Oregon-MSU Game
Zeke The Wonder Dog is a Michigan State tradition, with some iteration of the frisbee dog performing at Spartans games since the 1970s. Here’s your most modern Zeke getting some action during halftime of tonight’s big game against Oregon. Good dog!...
It Was Really Too Wet To Be Playing Soccer In Brazil Last Night
When Brazilian Série B clubs Boa Esporte and Oeste faced off in Itápolis last night, the “field” they played on was really more like a lake. I’m actually kind of impressed by the highlights below: they sort of played a real game of soccer on a field you could teach a kid to swim on. The ball just di...
Flavia Pennetta Wins U.S. Open, Promptly Announces Her Retirement
Flavia Pennetta took down Serena slayer Roberta Vinci in straight sets 7-6, 6-2 to win the U.S. Open final, the first singles Grand Slam title of her career. Immediately afterward the 33-year-old used her acceptance speech to announce her retirement from professional tennis. ...
Cops: Browns CB Justin Gilbert Wrecked Car After Throwing Dip Spit At Other Driver
Browns cornerback Justin Gilbert crashed his Dodge Challenger into a ditch following a road rage incident with a driver he believed cut him off, according to the Brunswick police department....
Football Team Passes For 782 Yards, Scores 90 Points, Still Loses
Last year, the Meadville (Pa.) High School football team scored 78 points in one game while rushing for more than 600 yards and lost, 79-78, to Warren. Tonight the Bulldogs did that feat one better—by being the victor, and turning the Dubois Beavers into the sad loser in a 107-90 victory... in, obvi...
Remember When A Chelsea Player Waggled His Dick At Stranded Americans The Day After 9/11?
When the first plane hit the north tower of the World Trade Center, it was 1:45 p.m. in London; preparations were well underway across Europe for the eight Champions League matches set to kick off later in the day. The matches went ahead, but the next day UEFA postponed the week’s remaining eight Ch...
Roberta Vinci's Post-Match Interview Is An All-Time Great
It’s never easy being the anonymous athlete who knocks off a fan-favorite opponent in front of a national audience that wanted nothing to do with you, but I’ve never seen anyone handle being in that position better than Roberta Vinci....
Serena Williams Knocked Out In U.S. Open Semis By Unseeded Roberta Vinci
Serena Williams, two matches away from completing a calendar Grand Slam, fell today in the U.S. Open semifinal to the unseeded Roberta Vinci, who began the Open ranked 43rd in the world....
The Dixie Chicks Got A Raw Deal
In March 2003, during a show at London’s Shepherd’s Bush Empire, Dixie Chicks singer Natalie Maines had some righteous fire for then-President George W. Bush: “Just so you know, we’re on the good side with y’all. We do not want this war, this violence, and we’re ashamed that the president of the Uni...
Why Is ESPN Doing George W. Bush's Dirty Work For Him?
The ill-conceived remembrance is by now as much a 9/11 anniversary tradition as the insensitively branded 9/11 memorial tweet, but even by the degraded standards of the remember-when genre, today’s contributions by ESPN and Grantland are really out there....
<i>The Visit</i> Proves That M. Night Shyamalan Is Still Trying Way Too Hard
1. Man oh man, remember the Newsweek that dubbed M. Night Shyamalan “The Next Spielberg?” Has an entertainment-cover of a national newsmagazine ever aged worse? All right, maybe this one. But man, that Newsweek cover might have been the worst thing that ever happened to Shyamalan. The Sixth Sense wa...
Q&A: Speedy Ortiz's Sadie Dupuis On The Band's New Anti-Harassment Concert Hotline
Speedy Ortiz are a noisy, lurching, acerbic, ’90s-channeling rock band from Northampton, Mass., whose loudest release of 2015 is liable to be a phone number. On Labor Day, the quartet took to Facebook to announce the creation of “(574) 404-SAFE, our help hotline you can text if you are being harasse...
Bill Belichick's Fed Up
After Thursday night’s game, Bill Belichick was asked about the Steelers’ screwy headsets, because any reporter worth their salt would poke and prod the Patriots’ head coach on any remotely odd occurrences during the game. There’s no better time. Belichick was finally forced to say meaningful words ...
Ben Roethlisberger Says The Patriots Defense Bent The Rules
Oh, hey, that confusing headset brouhaha wasn’t the only spot of controversy in last night’s 28-21 New England win. Ben Roethlesberger took issue with the Patriots’ defense’s tactics on a crucial third-and-goal, a shift designed to draw the Steelers into a false start. It worked to perfection, and R...
What Exactly Happened With The Steelers' Headsets?
The Pittsburgh Steelers struggled with communication problems in the first half of their 28-21 loss at New England Thursday night, with their coach-to-coach headset system echoing the Patriots’ radio broadcast for most of the first half. Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin told reporters of the headset ...
The NFL Is Back: Welcome To Your Steelers-Patriots Liveblog
The Steelers and Patriots play the first game of the season tonight. Come hang out as we watch meaningful football....
Memphis Undoes Decision To Honor John Calipari After Fans Whine
Kentucky basketball coach John Calipari will be inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame this weekend for a career that has, over nearly 30 years, seen his teams advance to six Final Fours (two of them vacated) and win an NCAA title. Before Calipari coached Kentucky, however, he spent nine seasons ...
Richard Gere's Homelessness Drama <i>Time Out Of Mind </i>Will Hit You Hard
1. New York City is obviously the central setting of thousands of movies, and, being New York City, it’s adept at serving as whatever backdrop you want it to serve. It can connote romance or menace, limitless possibility or untold decadence, Candyland or the Hellmouth. But, as someone who lived ther...