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Lorde Live-Tweeting A Bulls Game Is Pretty Weird
Lorde has a weird intersection with the sports world it seems. Earlier, we learned an old photograph of George Brett inspired her song "Royals" and tonight she is at a Bulls game live-tweeting the action. She's basically just observing what is happening around her but when you take a step back and l...

Francisco Rodriguez Can't Pitch Because He Stepped On A Cactus
Francisco Rodriguez sees your weird spring training injury, Jake Peavy, and he raises you a foot full of cactus barbs....

Jake Peavy Suffers The First Weird Baseball Injury Of Spring
Thanks to Jake Peavy, we don’t have to worry about this spring coming and going without anyone fulfilling one of baseball’s greatest traditions: players hurting themselves in really stupid ways during spring training. ...

College Basketball Game Ends In A Tie
Winston-Salem State and Johnson C. Smith blew college basketball's world with a tie game. OK, it was called due to a broken light, but it's still incredibly rare....

You've Got Something On Your Face
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Figure Skater Yan Han Makes Weird Faces In Slow Motion
Every figure skater makes weird faces while performing. This much is true due to torque and physics, but we were especially taken by Chinese skater Yan Han during his performance today in Sochi, one that helped him land an seventh place overall position in men's figure skating. We thought we'd highl...

Let's All Watch Bob Costas Make Weird Faces For Two Minutes
Here's some fun video from the Saints-Broncos game in 2012. Bob Costas prepares to wrap up the Sunday Night Football broadcast, and apparently his face needs some warming up....

Lookin' Good, Gunslinger
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The Evolution Of Troy Aikman's Face, 2010-2014
Troy Aikman's not a bad broadcaster, but he sure makes a lot of weird faces when he talks. Here's a Vine showing 28 different versions of Aikman's face taken from screencaps on broadcasts over the past four years....
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Lamborghini Driver Is Impersonating MSU FB Player? [UPDATE: Not Really]
A reader sent us this photo last night, claiming he and a buddy ran into Mississippi State center Dillon Day at a gas station near St. Louis. He thought it was curious a college football player was driving a Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder. We thought it was curious Dillon Day was spotted nearly five ho...

What The Hell Is Going On With Brock Lesnar's Pants?
This is former MMA fighter Brock Lesnar posing for a photograph with the founders of the Jimmy John's sandwich chain. Good god, what are those pants?!?...

Female Fan Receives, Sniffs Rugby League Player's Dirty Shorts
After a World Cup quarterfinal match against France, England rugby league player Sam Burgess took off his game shorts and gave them to an excited female fan. She was so elated to get Burgess's post-match shorts that she took a big whiff of them....

Stay Out Of The Kitchen: Day One At The World Shuffleboard Championship
A dozen pale Norwegians seek shelter among the 200 stadium seats, mercifully covered by a roof. A young, bearded American wrings out a wet towel over his bald head. An orange-clad Dutchman creaks by, white hair poking out from beneath a Florida Gators baseball cap. Elderly Japanese men stretch agai...

High Five Gone Wrong Leads To Eye Injury
Australia's Brad Haddin went to celebrate a wicket with teammate James Faulkner during Sunday's cricket match against India. Yes! High five! Shit. Sorry....

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....

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....

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...