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What Is This Weird-Ass Sport I Saw On TV Yesterday?
Yesterday a reader tweeted at me, urging me to tune into Fox Sports Midwest where "unathletic adult men" were "racing tiny bikes around a tiny track." He wasn't lying, and I watched a good half hour without ever figuring out exactly what, or who, or where I was watching....
Athletes Among Us: The Stories Behind These Cool Photographs
Last year the photographer Jordan Matter released a super-cool book called Dancers Among Us. He put dancers in everyday situations—in the middle of a park, a subway station, on a busy sidewalk—and photographed them, out of context, doing their dance moves. As a follow-up to the book, Matter has rel...
Ohio State Football Game Makes One Mesmerizing Timelapse Video
This is just cool. Timelapse videos are beautiful, but sort of all look the same at one point. This is a new one on us, though. Here's Ohio State playing Wisconsin last week, sped up beyond recognition. ...
Bring On The Bad Guys
Check out this cool series of pictures by the Toronto-based visual artist, Hieram Weintraub. ...
Genius Impressionist Reimagines Mike Francesa As A 1776 Radio Pundit
This, the work of @BizzaroZaun, is one of the best Mike Francesa impersonations you will ever see. And it's not just Francesa's voice that Zaun nails; everything about this impression—the smugness, the dismissive attitude towards callers, the fact that Francesa would have been a loyalist stooge in...
Entire Buckeye Team Lines Up To Hug Anchor After His Daughter's Death
Dom Tiberi, sports director at the CBS affiliate in Columbus, lost his 21-year-old daughter in a car crash on Sept. 17. That Saturday, Ohio State honored the local legend with a moment of silence before its game. Tiberi returned to Ohio Stadium for this weekend's win over Wisconsin, and as the playe...
Report: Vince Wilfork Is Out For The Season
The Patriots have weathered a complete overhaul of their offense, but the surprising fact is that it's New England's defense that has them 4-0. So the loss of all-everything nose tackle Vince Wilfork, most likely for the rest of the year, could come as the biggest blow yet....
Bob Kraft And Money Mayweather, Chilling: Your Pats-Falcons Roundup
Patriots 30, Falcons 23: At one point, New England held a 30-13 lead. Bob Kraft thought the game was over, gleefully taking photos with Floyd Mayweather in his box seats. But Atlanta rallied back and came extremely close to a 17-point comeback in under six minutes. ...
Through Four Games, The Broncos Have Been Better Than The 2007 Pats
The 4-0 Broncos are annihilating right now; that's not news to anyone. The eye-popping part, though, is how they're beating teams at a pace significantly surpassing the 2007 Patriots, a team that also dropped huge amounts of points on opponents in the regular season....
Henderson Álvarez Throws The Weirdest No-Hitter In Decades
Marlins pitcher Henderson Álvarez joined the immortal list of pitchers to throw a no-hitter, but he needed the help of his opposing Tigers pitcher to pull it off....
Some Drama May Be Brewing Between The Pats And The Gronkowskis
Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski is inactive for today's game against the Atlanta Falcons, despite cautiously optimistic reports that Gronk was ready to return to the field. So what's the hold up? According to NFL.com's Ian Rapoport, it's Gronkowski's father that's pushing to keep his son off the f...
Which TV Market's Getting Screwed Today? Your Week 4 NFL Viewing Maps
A guide to the best and worst of the NFL slate (and to which fans are stuck with the most of worst). Maps via 506sports.com....
"He's Trying To Charm The Cobra": Wrestling Is The Weirdest
I don't know either, guys. Just watch it. ...
Escalator Speeds Up, Separates Feuding Soccer Hooligans
This is like the "Yakety Sax" shrimp video but with Swedish soccer hooligans instead of a crustacean. Following a match between rivals Malmö FF and Helsingborgs IF that ended in a 3-0 Malmö win, fans of both teams got a little rowdy on their way into the subway. The place also happened to be lousy w...
Carlos Ortiz's Flip-Flopping Might Make It Harder To Convict Aaron Hernandez
The testimonies of Carlos Ortiz and Ernest Wallace are crucial for the prosecution if it wants an airtight argument that Aaron Hernandez shot and killed Odin Lloyd. So far, Ortiz and Wallace stood by accounts that ended Hernandez pulling the trigger, but now, Ortiz is altering a big detail in his s...
We've Found The Craziest Fantasy Football Player In The World
Reader Trajan alerts us to the existence of a man who really, really, really likes fantasy football. We don't know his real name, but we do know that he has created a fake radio personality named Mark Callahan, who is the host of the "Mark Callahan Fantasy Football Radio Show," which is a fake radio...
Old Lady Flips The Bird In Couple's Proposal Photo
This incredible scene unfolded at a recent Colorado Rockies game. That's Kenny Lovelace proposing to his girlfriend, Molly Ryan, in the background. And that's a salty old lady wanting nothing to do with the romantic scene, in the foreground. ...
Let Hunter Pence Teach You How To Play Baseball Like An Idiot
Anyone who’s ever watched Giants outfielder Hunter Pence play baseball has had at least one of the following thoughts cross their mind: Why does he run like that? Why does he throw like that? Who the hell taught this guy how to play baseball?...
John Lardner Evaluates Ted Williams
From a John Lardner column for Newsweek, “The World’s Richest Problem Child”:...
Atlanta-Milwaukee Brawl Was Brewing For Three Months
An awful lot to unpack from last night's Brewers-Braves bench-clearing scrum/fracas/donnybrook/other term that only gets used for baseball near-brawls. It started after Carlos Gomez took his time rounding the bases after homering off Paul Maholm, jawing at three different Braves along the way. But i...