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Jesse Palmer Saved Chris Fowler's Life With The Heimlich Maneuver
Jesse Palmer is more than a pretty face, impossible hairdo and your mom's favorite. He's a hero! Just listen to Chris Fowler....
Kevin Garnett Is Not Suitable For Children
This is from Christmas, but it's the gift that keeps on giving. Kevin Garnett disagreed with a call from the referees (or maybe he was uncomfortable in those jersey tee-shirts) and voiced his displeasure. Little man in the Nets tee and Yankees hat got an assist from his older brother (?), who earmu...
Turkish League Player Misses Goal From One Yard Away
It takes an enormous amount of skill to kick a soccer ball toward a goal from one yard away and miss the target. Romanian soccer player Bogdan Stancu must be really skilled!...
Dad Gets Bears-Fan Daughter A Packers Jersey For Christmas
Man, parents can be real assholes sometimes. ...
Cardiff City Owner Boos Own Team After Blown Lead In Final 10 Seconds
Cardiff City owner Vincent Tan is earning his reputation as the soccer world's Jerry Jones. After sacking manager Malky Mackay for airing "dirty linen" earlier this week, the Malaysian billionaire joined an angry crowd of Welshmen in booing his own team after a late Sunderland goal led to a 2-2 dra...
First-Half Lowlights From The Pinstripe Bowl
Notre Dame and Rutgers square off in the Pinstripe Bowl at the New Yankee Stadium. You can almost taste the tradition. ...
World Junior Championships Linesman Levelled By Czech Player
Michal Plutnar of the Czech Republic just ran over a linesman in a World Junior Championships game against Canada. I'm not sure how many times the broadcasters asked, in various ways, "what was he thinking," but it was a lot. ...
How To Eat The Raw Oyster, Goodness In Its Pure Form
No one has moderate feelings toward the raw oyster (except perhaps for the terminally indifferent, may they ride the Meh Bus straight to hell): Either you ohmigod love love loooooove them, or you think they are gross little brine-loogies and have bad taste in things....
Cavaliers Suspend Andrew Bynum Indefinitely
The Cavaliers say they have suspended Bynum,—who did not travel with the team to Boston yesterday—indefinitely for conduct detrimental to the team. ...
How Anderson Silva Turned Loss Into Victory
Anderson Silva and Chris Weidman will fight for the middleweight title tonight in a rematch of their bout from July, and it's a strange one, because despite Weidman having finished Silva off last time, no one really has any idea what to expect. Weidman could wax an aged and suddenly vulnerable Silva...
Tony Romo: Poor Bastard
Ordinarily, the idea of someone or something being "cursed" is reserved for those who think The Flintstones was based on a true story and baseball writers. But this? This is almost too much to bear, even for people with brains. ...
Minnesota Was <i>This</i> Close To Winning The Texas Bowl
Ohhhh. Syracuse wins. ...
The Worst Films Of 2013
Yes, many people are already writing their Top 10 movie lists for 2013. We're saving ours for the last week of the year. While we wait for this terrific movie year to wind down, we're going to start looking back at some highlights. Today, it's the five worst films each of us saw this year, in alp...
The Story Behind The Story: The Manti Te'o Hoax
Let's go behind the scenes of one of our most notable stories from 2013. Here's how "Manti Te'o's Dead Girlfriend, The Most Heartbreaking And Inspirational Story Of The College Football Season, Is A Hoax" came to be....
Russell Westbrook Is Out Until After The All-Star Break
Russell Westbrook underwent arthroscopic surgery on his right knee today, and will be out until after the All-Star break, reports Darnell Mayberry of The Oklahoman. ...
It Was A Great Year For Sportswriting; Here's Some Of The Best Of It
Every so often, some crank will write something suggesting that sportswriting is in decline. The argument goes that due to ease of publishing, a general lowering of standards, the reading public's divided attentions, and millennial narcissism and careerism, an entire art has been lost, subordinated ...
The Redskins' Incompetent PR Guy Is Also A Giant Cry Baby
We've met Tony Wyllie—the Washington Redskins' deeply stupid, duplicitous shitbag of a PR flack—around these parts before. He's the man who once compared Dan Snyder's ridiculous libel suit against Dave McKenna to the plight of Egyptian protestors in Tahrir Square. He's also the guy who threatened to...
Kevin Harlan Doing His Kevin-Harlan-In-NBA2K Impression Is Perfect
Chris Paul tore up the Blazers last night. And while Portland pulled out the win, CP3 went off hard enough that Kevin Harlan broke out the NBA2k routine. ...
Photoshop Contest: New York Knick Carmelo Anthony
The Knicks had a wholly shit Christmas, and Carmelo let us see exactly how he felt about it, which was... Sleepy? Disdainful? The defeated yet removed seething of a man who has an opt-out clause coming up? (Maybe he was simply peeing his pants.)...