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Soccer Fan Travels Halfway Around The World To Visit Tiny Club He Plays On <i>Football Manager</i>

You’d think that Runcorn Linnets, the name of an English soccer club currently competing in the North West Counties League a whopping eight divisions below the Premier League, wouldn’t hold much importance outside of the tiny pocket of ostensible fans tucked away in northern England. You’d be wrong....

Triple H's Nutritionist Makes, Walks Back Candid Steroid Comments

That bodybuilder Dave Palumbo was a nutritionist for Paul “Triple H” Levesque—the wrestler-turned-WWE exec who only performs occasionally now—has never been a secret. They talk about their work together all the time, whether it’s Palumbo interviewing Triple H and his wife Stephanie McMahon, the two ...

Bad Quarterback Performance Of The Week: The Browns Scrape Up Kevin Hogan

Welcome to Bad Quarterback Performance Of The Week, a recurring feature in which we celebrate the worst quarterback play the NFL has to offer....

Barstool Sports Founder Asks If Harvey Weinstein Should Be Allowed To Exchange Sex For Work

Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy, a guy who once took great pleasure in calling women “cunts,” posed a question to one of his female subordinates live on the radio. The question was: Actually, should Harvey Weinstein be allowed to demand sex from actresses in exchange for roles in movies? Get re...

There's Reason To Hope For The Future Of The USMNT

While the senior members of the United States Men’s National Team are holding their heads in intense shame after getting owned in horrifying public fashion and failing to qualify for the World Cup, the U.S. under-17 national team is killing it. The U-17 group is stocked with some of the hottest pros...

Everything You Never Really Wanted To Know About Cauliflower Ear

Today’s column is about fucked-up ears....

Al Michaels Is Out Here Cracking Harvey Weinstein Jokes [Update]

“And let’s face it: the Giants are coming off a worse week than Harvey Weinstein, and they’re up by 14 points!” ...

Japanese Playoff Baseball Game Turns Into A Mud Bowl

In the first round of the Nippon Professional Baseball playoffs in Japan, the Hanshin Tigers and Yokohama DeNA Baystars battled through absolutely absurd conditions to play an entire baseball game in the mud. The result was unlike any baseball game I’ve ever seen. To watch the highlights with the fu...

The Jets Got Screwed Out Of A Touchdown

As the Jets were trying to make a comeback against the Patriots, it appeared that Austin Seferian-Jenkins had scored a hard-fought touchdown when he crossed the goal line with the ball to cut New York’s deficit. However, a confusing ruling that claimed Seferian-Jenkins had fumbled the ball out of th...

Oh My God In Heaven

Lovely Act Of Kindness And Sportsmanship Marred By Bullcrap Football Game

Tennessee and South Carolina played an ugly, low-wattage football game today, combining for one touchdown, six field goals, and a botched extra point, in a contest that didn’t even have the decency to include a couple goddamn turnovers. The Gamecocks came out on top after scoring 12 unanswered secon...

Trump Voters Say They Choose Trump Over The NFL

Vox journalist Dylan Scott, you will get no argument here: that chart, showing the reported opinions of Trump voters on the NFL, is indeed pretty nuts! The data, compiled by an online survey company called Morning Consult and laid out at the New York Times’s Upshot blog, tells the story of how the o...

NESN Suspends Anchor For Unleashing Stream Of Insults At Woman Who Told Him No [Updated]

Alyssa Labrie first posted on Facebook privately over the weekend, saying New England Sports Network anchor Marc James exploded at her in a string of angry text messages after she said she didn’t want to get drinks with him. Labrie told me that after she heard from people saying it needed to be kno...

"This Is An Utter Embarrassment" 

“WHAT ARE WE DOING? WHAT ARE WE DOING!???”...

Harvey Weinstein Wouldn’t Take No For An Answer<em></em>

In an audio recording released today by the New Yorker, you can hear the true, common-as-all-hell approach Harvey Weinstein used against the women who say he assaulted them: Wear them down....

Falling From High Places Might Be Shane McMahon's Best Skill

You know what’s not fun? Watching a pro wrestling match in 2017 with a genuine fear that someone is about to be maimed....

Bad Quarterback Performance Of The Week: What Is Jay Cutler Even Doing Here?

Welcome to Bad Quarterback Performance Of The Week, a recurring feature in which we celebrate the worst quarterback play the NFL has to offer....

Western Michigan Tight End Doesn't Blame Sister For Prematurely Running Onto Field To Celebrate

A good sibling supports their kin when they achieve their goals. Maybe Western Michigan tight end Donnie Ernsberger’s sister Shalene shouldn’t have invaded the field after her little brother scored a touchdown in overtime, since the game wasn’t actually over, but her instinct was understandable....

This Man's Father Is A Billionaire

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The Eagles Pulled Off A Ridiculously Elaborate Baseball-Themed TD Celebration

Famous South Jersey native and baseball player Mike Trout is at the Eagles game today, so the team’s offense performed an impressively elaborate baseball celebration to honor him (and possibly recruit him for the Phillies, who knows)....