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The Toronto Blue Jays Are Out Of The AL East Basement, Barely
The Blue Jays were so far south of their preseason projections that even after a 10-game winning streak they're still the most disappointing team in baseball this season. But! After a wild 11-day charge, they've gone from 12 games back in the AL East to 6.5 back. They're now above .500 for the first...
Manny Ramirez Is Leaving Taiwan
After three months as the single most popular person in Taiwan, Manny Ramirez will leave the EDA Rhinos by week's end. Weep not, Manny fans, because he's probably headed for the greener, more lucrative pastures of Japan....
Another Manny Ramirez Home Run, Another Batshit Taiwanese Call
Make that eight home runs on the season for one Manny Ramirez of the Chinese Professional Baseball League's EDA Rhinos. It's been a few weeks since we've had a fantastic Manny Takes Taiwan highlight for you. But this announcer's call might be the best one yet....
Man Dribbling Soccer Ball From Seattle To Brazil Gets Hit By Car, Dies
Richard Swanson, 42, planned to dribble a soccer ball from Seattle, Washington to Brazil. He started two weeks ago, on May 1, and was headed to Sao Paulo in time for the 2014 World Cup. Today, he was hit by a pickup truck while walking south on US Highway 101, in Lincoln City, Oregon. Swanson was de...
Manny Ramirez Continues To Bring Us Wonderful Highlights From Taiwan
No prodigious homers or announcers and fans going apeshit in this one. Just a classic case of Manny being Manny....
This Video Of Manny Ramirez's Latest Home Run Is Amazing In Every Way
Manny Ramirez today hit his third home run of the season for the EDA Rhinos, tying him for the league lead in the CPBL. But that's beside the point. You've got to see and hear this latest Manny blast to fully appreciate it....
Here's Manny Ramirez's First Taiwanese Home Run, With An Amazing Announcer's Call
Drink it in. This is history....
Agnieszka Radwanska Hit An Impossible No-Look, Behind-The-Back Winner In Miami Last Night
Sure, Agnieszka Radwanska got lucky with the net's part in this trick shot Tuesday night, but Agnieszka Radwanska also managed to spin around, blindly, and hit a behind-the-back, backhand drop volley with finesse and spin, so we'll forgive the net for interfering....
This Is Not Manny Ramirez
After being unable to find a job literally anywhere else, Manny Ramirez made his debut yesterday for the EDA Rhinos in Taiwan's top league. The fans were enthusiastic, and slightly confused....
Tonight's <em>WWE Raw</em> Crowd In Buffalo Engaged In An Extended "We Want Virgil" Chant
WWE's Monday night Raw showcase is themed "Old School" tonight, and such former pro wrestling dignitaries as Hacksaw Jim Duggan, Sgt. Slaughter, Honky Tonk Man, and "Million Dollar Man" Ted DiBiase have so far made appearances. Alas, DiBiase's valet Virgil is nowhere to be found. We'd figure our e...
Klay Thompson's Parents Are Docking His Allowance For Getting Involved In The Warriors-Pacers Fight
Aside from David Lee and Roy Hibbert, a number of players had supporting roles in Monday night's Golden State-Indiana mini-brawl. One of them was Klay Thompson, who was fined $35,000 for escalating the fight. You can see him in the video, No. 11, holding the basketball. He charges Hibbert from behin...
Non-English Team Wins English Cup
Today, Welsh soccer club Swansea City beat down Bradford City 5-0 to take home the Football League Cup, a biggish, semi-relevant tournament held in England every year....
Ahead Of The WBC, Taiwan Sends Scouts Posing As Umpires To Spy On South Korean Team
You might not realize it from the USA's roster, but many countries think the World Baseball Classic is important. One of those is Taiwan, which is expecting big things. After failing to get out of a group of death in the 2009 tournament, they enter this year's WBC ranked fifth in the world—just a sp...
<em>Charles Swan</em> Will Make You Hate Charlie Sheen All Over Again
It always struck me as so strange that Oliver Stone, when he was making his name with Platoon and Wall Street, saw Charlie Sheen as his ideal everyman, the audience representative, the proxy, the innocent surrounded by the rot and corruption Stone sees around every corner. Even then, before the drug...
Chelsea's Eden Hazard Kicks Ballboy, Is Sent Off From League Cup Semifinal Match
If you thought a League Two side making it to the League Cup final would be the weirdest thing to happen in the semifinals of the Capital One-sponsored English football competition, you'd be wrong. Chelsea, facing a 2-0 aggregate disadvantage on the road in Wales, later found themselves down a man...
Carmelo Anthony Has Been Fasting For 15 Days, Is Now Giving Up
Two seasons ago, when Carmelo Anthony was still playing for Denver, Ball Don't Lie's Kelly Dwyer pulled some averages from a 12-game stretch of the Nuggets' season:...
They Caught The Vikings Fan Who Wore A Purple Sombrero And Knocked Out A 50-Year-Old Man Outside Lambeau
This is Mark Swanson, from Lakeland, Minn. He was involved in the big brawl outside Lambeau Field after the Packers beat the Vikings, but if you were there you probably don't recognize him from his mug shot. That's because, according to police, he was wearing a large purple sombrero and a Vikings po...
CFL Team Puts Yule Log On Stadium Video Board; Four People Call Fire Department
The CFL's Saskatchewan Roughriders have been getting into the holiday spirit. On the Mosaic Stadium scoreboard, the team has been running video of a Yule log, crackling gently to bring some cheer and comfort in these cold Regina nights. In the past few weeks, four people have called 911 to report a ...
The NFL Pro Shop Can't Fit Michael Hoomanawanui's Name On His Jersey
Poor Michael Hoomanawanui. If any family members or fans want to show their support and buy the tight end's jersey from the NFL Pro Shop, it might be a couple letters short of his actual last name. For some reason, the previewed jersey can't fit Hoomanawanui's full last name....