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Sports category stumps Jeopardy! contestantsAs Thursday’s eventual Jeopardy! winner Caleb so eloquently put it “the internet’s going to love that!” and he’s correct, unlike him and his two opponents during the “High School Reunion Tournament” who were at answering sports questions. The category “In The Sport” listed more peculiar sports terms...

National football powerhouse Mater Dei is trying to make assault allegations disappearIn November, Mater Dei High School in Orange County, Calif. lost its first football game since before the COVID-19 pandemic. Bryce Young’s high-school program was defeated by St. John Bosco, 24-22, at the Rose Bowl in the Southern Section Division I Championship Game. There’s no shame for high schoo...

Hey James Harden, you've got airmailJames Harden’s most iconic sequences are so identical they blur together. Jab step, dribble, dribble again, dribble behind the back, dribble between the legs, dribble one more time… I check my phone… he stutter-steps — oh wait — one more dribble, crossover dribble, crossover dribble, step-back. The ...

2022 NFL Draft: A few thoughts on each pick in the first round

The first 10 picks of the NFL Draft are the Oscars in reverse. The biggest honorees are rewarded first. Fans show up and shout insults at the host and bone-rattling contact with Roger Goodell is encouraged....

Poll shows fans’ changing feelings on the paying of college athletes and sports gambling

You can’t turn on a firehose of cash and expect it won’t change anything. And in the last 40 years, that’s just what has happened in college sports. Although it took far too long, the revenue has finally disrupted the system and who sports fans believe should benefit from it....

James Madison gets its moment in the Sun (Belt)

Conference realignment trickle-down has officially reached the Football Championship Series, as the Sun Belt Conference officially announced the addition of James Madison University Saturday by a unanimous vote of its members’ CEOs....

Three American Water Polo Players Injured In Night Club Balcony Collapse That Killed Two People

While out celebrating out celebrating the women’s world championship victory, athletes from Team USA’s men’s and women’s water polo team were injured on Saturday after a balcony they were standing on inside a South Korean nightclub collapsed. ...

Get To Know The Rich Assholes Charged With Paying Millions In Bribes To Get Their Kids Into College

Parents obsessing over their kids getting into good colleges is nothing new, but committing actual crimes to make it happen would seemingly require a particular mindset and financial position. When the Justice Department announced yesterday charges and indictments in an absolutely batshit college ad...

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Here Are All The Incredible Details From The College Admissions Bribery Scandal<em></em>

Surely by now you have read about the hilarious FBI bust on and subsequent dismantling of The Edge College & Career Network (aka The Key), and its nefarious efforts to get the underachieving sons and daughters of the rich into colleges they either didn’t deserve to attend on merits or couldn’t bribe...

by Patrick Redford|

|Wed Mar 13 2019

Which Olympic Sport Would Be Most Likely To Literally Kill You?

I’m watching water polo right now, and it was maybe 20 minutes into the match, as the players yet again swam from one end of the pool to another on a change of possession, that I realized I would just give up then and there. I’m a fine enough swimmer, but it’s exhausting just to toss around a frisbe...

by Barry Petchesky|

|Wed Aug 17 2016

This Is How Olympic Pools Are Prepared So The Water Doesn't Turn Green<em></em>

On Tuesday, Olympic officials attributed the extremely green diving pool to a “proliferation of algae,” caused in part by “heat and a lack of wind.” Today, after the water polo and synchronized swimming pool also turned green, officials clarified that the issue was a drop in alkalinity in the pools....

by Kevin Draper|

|Thu Aug 11 2016

Green Death Spreads To Olympics Water Polo Pool

Algae bloomed overnight in the diving pool at Rio’s Maria Lenk Aquatics Centre, and it was only a matter of time that it spread to the competition pool next door—which, from watching today’s water polo action, it has....

by Timothy Burke|

|Wed Aug 10 2016

NBC Should Really Stop Using This Underwater Camera For Women's Water Polo [NSFW]

Four years ago, we noted that NBC’s coverage of live women’s water polo included some nudity. Today, they did it again. Live television, folks!...

by Timothy Burke|

|Tue Aug 09 2016

Von Miller Won't Even Let Cam Newton Play Water Polo In Peace

A fun picture of Cam Newton playing water polo with the U.S. Olympic team was making the rounds yesterday. Von Miller saw the picture, as well as this ingenious Photoshop job by @LLtweets, and couldn’t resist the opportunity to rib the man he spent the entire Super Bowl torturing:...

by Tom Ley|

|Wed Apr 13 2016

NCAA Unionization Means Sink-Or-Swim For Smaller Sports

At this point, the professionalism of collegiate athletics seems to be not a question of if, but when. This inevitability has triggered those high in the NCAA food chain to insinuate that every sport save football and basketball is doomed. Case in point: the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athl...

by Jon Gugala|

|Wed Sep 28 2016

This High School Water Polo Player Is A Very Sore Loser

What you are looking at are members of the St. Thomas Aquinas and Belen Jesuit water polo teams lining up to shake hands after their state championship match in Miami. What you are also looking at is one of the Belen players deciding to go out with a flourish....

by Tom Ley|

|Fri May 03 2013

Field Hockey America Vs. Rodeo America: Mapping The Faultlines Of America's Regional Sports

America is a beautiful, horrifying, crazy-ass mishmash of distinct geographic regions, as we know from watching John King's index finger on election night. This extends to all aspects of American life, of which the most important is obviously sports. Beyond the televised pro leagues (and their colle...

by Reuben Fischer-Baum|

|Mon Jun 17 2013

Water Polo Coach Celebrates Gold By Jumping Into The Pool, Lands Crotch First On Some Other Dude's Head

The US women's water polo team took gold today, stomping out Spain 8-5. When the game ended, the team and coaching staff linked arms and took a ceremonious plunge into the pool. One of the coaches, who was already a little late to this party, jumped in after them, only to land crotch-first on the ...

by Kate Bennert|

|Mon Jun 17 2013

Hungary Forced Overtime In Women's Water Polo With A Buzzer-Beating Sneak Attack

It was all over, and then it wasn't. In the women's water polo bronze medal game, Australia looked like it had everything sewn up when goalkeeper Alicia McCormack stopped Rita Keszthelyi's long-range shot with about 10 seconds to go. The celebration began, since all the Aussies had to do was run ou...

by Dom Cosentino|

|Mon Jun 17 2013

NBC Networks Challenging Fox For Most Boobs On Television [NSFW]

Thanks to the tens of you who alerted us to yet another boob on an NBC network. This one appeared on MSNBC's coverage of water polo featuring China and Australia. It appears to be Paul Hogan an Australian boob....

by Sean Newell|

|Mon Jun 17 2013

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