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The USMNT Dances, Sings, And Chugs Beer After Victory Over Mexico
After clinching a World Cup berth with a 2-0 victory over Mexico, the USMNT came back out onto the field for some good old-fashioned celebrating, America style....

Texans Fan Drinks Own Piss In Irrational Display Of Loyalty
There are many baffling things about this video of a Texans fan drinking his own urine in the wake of his team's comeback performance against the Chargers late Monday night. Why does he combine jars of warm urine and cold urine? Also, why the hell is he drinking his own piss? Here he is, in his own...

<em>Dos A Cero</em>: How Columbus Became Home To A Great U.S. Soccer Tradition
An hour after the final whistle, as Honduras hung on for a tie and clinched a World Cup berth for the USMNT, the Americans spilled out of the locker room and back onto the pitch to celebrate. The fans chanted "Clint missed on purpose," and Dempsey smiled and danced. Maybe he did. This is Columbus, a...

A Philly Cop Explains Why He Wouldn't Have Broken This Brawl Up Either
Welcome to Tuesday Night Fights, a weekly celebration and analysis of street-fight videos found on YouTube. Tonight's fisticuffs: "Philly's Finest Crackhead" and "Crazy woman get's a mother-daughter beatdown!" merged into one. Tonight's commentator: A Philadelphia police officer. (Coming next week:...

We Have Seen The Worst Pass Ever Thrown: 125 FBS Teams, Ranked
Each week during college football season we put the conventional polls to shame by ranking every FBS team from 1-125, by whatever standard we see fit. Last week's rankings were not consulted....

Chargers Greet Fans At Stadium With Big Ol' Typo
Via For the Win, this was a sign outside Qualcomm Stadium last night. Coughing up a three-touchdown lead in the second half wasn't the only weclome the Chargers would extend to their fans....

Stakes Are High In Tonight's USMNT Match Against Mexico
After 12 straight wins, which included improbable triumphs against world powers like Germany and Bosnia and dominant victories against all comers during the CONCACAF Gold Cup, the USMNT finally lost on Friday, 3-1, in a World Cup qualifier away to Costa Rica. Costa Rica, for some reason still seethi...

Is It OK To Participate In A Threesome With Your Cousin?
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Vanity Fair Turns 100
Slide on over to Vanity Fair and dig their 100th Anniversary site. ...

Why Lionel Messi Is Even Better Than You Think
One of the key findings of The Numbers Game: Why Everything You Know About Soccer Is Wrong is that soccer, more than any other team sport, is a weak link game: matches are won and lost, and championships and relegation are secured, by the genius and quality of a club's superstars, but even more so b...

The Greatest Comic Book Of 'Em All: Superman Vs. Muhammad Ali
One of the juiciest pop culture sports books ever made is this 1978 gem with art by Neal Adams. ...

Your Sheets Are Filthy. Here's Why (And How) To Change Them.
Jolie Kerr is a cleaning expert and advice columnist. She'll be here every other week helping to answer your filthiest questions. Are you dirty? Email her....
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NASCAR Driver Intentionally Spins Out To Put Teammate In Playoff [Update]
This is not mere conspiracy theory, not just bitter-but-unfounded suspicions from Ryan Newman and Jeff Gordon fans angry that they just missed out on a spot in NASCAR's Chase for the Sprint Cup playoff. This is a thing that happened clear as day—a driver deliberately spun out to screw them over and ...

<em>Sports Illustrated</em> Falls For Satire About Nick Saban Visiting Texas
What you see above is the story that went screaming out on the SI Wire at SI.com earlier today. Technically, it's true: Nick Saban is indeed visiting Texas this weekend—but only because Alabama's showdown with Texas A&M is still scheduled for Saturday in College Station. But that's not all SI.com is...

Sometimes ESPN is alright. Friend of the program Eric Nusbaum writes about gay and transgender Mexican wrestlers and the people who play them, and it's wonderful. "The beso is the ultimate expression of the exótico's differentness in the ring—the pinnacle of lucha libre as slapstick comedy." [ESPN]...

Photographs From the Set of Raging Bull
Time's Lightbox has a photo gallery of Brian Hamill's pictures from Raging Bull. ...

Dolla Dolla Bill Y'all (Just A Guy At Oxford)
Bill Bradley's Princeton days were famously covered by John McPhee. Later, Bradley wrote books himself, notably Life on the Run. Lesser known but still intriguing is Jack Mann's 1966 SI bonus piece on Bradley at Princeton: ...

Beardo And Dreads Pulled Off The Best Videobomb On Erin Andrews
You're not looking at any ordinary videobombing. This duo—that will now be known as Beardo and Dreads—was dedicated to their creep game. Props....


Disturbing Allegations Emerge In Vanderbilt Rape Case
Further details have come out concerning the June 23 rape of a 21-year-old woman that led to the dismissal of four Vanderbilt football players, including junior college transfer, Brandon Vandenburg. According to a report from BuzzFeed, the incident was worse than previously reported and at least one...