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Watch The NBA's Terrific New "We Are One" Promo Spot
The Los Angeles Clippers website responded quickly to its owner being banned for life from basketball. The NBA followed suit with this fantastic spot promoting the league's more positive qualities. If you missed it, we have it here....
Bob Costas Abandons Broadcast Booth Mid-Inning To Pee
Bob Costas handed over play-by-play to MLB Network commentator John Smoltz in the bottom of the seventh inning tonight at Yankee Stadium, escaping the booth to hit the little boys' room....
The Footage USATF Doesn't Want You To See Doesn't Show Much
Earlier this morning, USA Track & Field accidentally released 37 minutes of footage used to disqualify, then un-disqualify, Gabe Grunewald at the 2014 USA Indoor Championships in February. For a video so important, it doesn't show much....
Bryce Harper's Hair Is Still Styled Post-Surgery
Nats outfield Bryce Harper underwent surgery today to repair a torn ligament in his thumb, suffered sliding head-first. He just tweeted out this photo from recovery:...
Dumb Twitter Users Rage Against Death Of The First Amendment
Donald Sterling's tenure as owner of the Los Angeles Clippers wasn't the only thing that died today; so did the First Amendment. The much-loved guarantee of freedom of speech was 223 years old, and was killed by NBA commissioner Adam Silver, who cited broad powers in the league constitution as the b...
Korean Baseball Player Way Too Eager To Get To Home Plate
Before you click play, allow me to set the stage: It's the top of the ninth in a one-run game, the bases are loaded, there are two outs, and the count is full. OK, now go ahead and start the video....
Fastest Loss In MMA History Is Immensely Unsatisfying
What, you were expecting some kind of awesome flying knee right after the bell? Sorry, buddy, but all you get is a mystifying tapout and some guy yelling "AAH NAW. AAH NAW."...
Last Night's <em>Wheel Of Fortune</em> Featured A Hilariously Bad Puzzle Solve
I mean, look, some people are just always going to associate the shore with boozing. It's not their fault everyone else isn't partying as hard as they are....
Report: Former Warriors Assistant Was Taping Conversations
In the Pacific division, you should probably just assume everything you say is being recorded....
Florida Man Kicks His 6-Year-Old Son Down A Halfpipe
Hey look, it's the worst dad ever....
Sterling Lawsuit Against Mistress Is Funny, Not About Embezzlement
When news broke last Friday of the Donald Sterling audio, we noted that Sterling's mistress/girlfriend, V. Stiviano, was being sued by the Clippers owner's wife, Rochelle. The official statement from the team claimed that Stiviano "is the defendant in a lawsuit brought by the Sterling family allegin...
Yankees Fans Boo Picture Of Robinson Cano, Until The Real Cano Shows Up
This is another great gag from Jimmy Fallon, along the same lines as the Matt Harvey prank Fallon pulled on Mets fans. The setup here is pretty simple. A producer gets Yankees fans on the street to boo a large picture of Robinson Cano and after they boo and turn back to the camera, the producer tel...
Kyle Korver Shows Off His In-The-Building Range
Kyle Korver draws all net from about 30 feet out and he's not even curling off a screen or walking into the shot; he's completely flat-footed. ...
First-Person Footage Of Paraskiing Will Make You Want To Go Paraskiing
This is such a stupid idea. This is also a fantastic idea, and I want to do it right now....
Runaway Novelty Beer Blimp Just Floating Around, Forever And Ever
If you live in the Canadian province of New Brunswick, keep an eye out for a 21-meter beer blimp that is currently floating, aimlessly, through the Canadian sky. ...
The Moment A Mississippi TV Station Evacuated For A Tornado
This is meteorolgist Matt Laubhan, of WTVA in Tupelo, Miss, warning viewers to find cover—and then fleeing the studio just ahead of a large tornado that caused major damage in the city....
The Incredible Paintings of Frank Frazetta
Via the cool blog, This, That & Also, Etc. check out Donald Newlove's 1977 Esquire profile of Frank Frazetta. ...
The Fast-Food Bacon Wars: McDonald's Goes High, Burger King Goes Low
Over the past decade, the American burgersphere has been shaped by three major forces: The first and most odious is the grind-your-own contingent's constant harping about how to flip a fucking hamburger. Having declared victory in their charcoal-fueled war against convenience (gas grills are still m...
Donald Sterling Thinks He Owns His Players; He's Not Alone
Whatever else you say about Donald Sterling, give him this: the man has defeated criticism. There is no way to say anything about this spectacular American grotesque that doesn't amount to congratulating anyone who happens to be less racist than he is for being less racist than Donald Sterling. So, ...