High School Baseball Team Forfeits Championship Rather Than Play Against A Girl
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My Eyes! It’s The Barkely-Shaq Shirt-Off We’ve Been Dreading (Video)
If you need any more definitive proof that Inside the NBA has take a turn for the dumber since signing up Shaq, we’re here to help with this video of a “shirt-off” between Shaq and the Chuckster, Charles Barkley. Apparently TNT didn’t think the NBA was entertaining enough come playoff time, so we’re looking at [...]
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Why Yes, Manny Pacquiao DOES Have Some Thoughts On Obama’s Support Of Gay Marriage
Manny Pacquiao, not one to be outdone by nemesis-never-to-be-met Floyd “Money” Mayweather, has opened his mouth to reveal that Mayweather might not only be the lesser boxer, but that Pac-Man is giving him a run for his money in the bigotry department, as well. This rivalry knowns no bounds. Manny Pacquiao, in an interview with [...]
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Baserunner Pulls Some Parkour-Like Moves In Walk-Off Steal (Video)
For our purposes (and because the video doesn’t specify), the team is unimportant, the locale is unimportant, and the players are unimportant. Let this video simply embody the spirit of sportsmanship and competition as the Greeks celebrated them. (Again, we’re really sorry we don’t have more context for this video. Oh well.) Walk off steals [...]
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13-Year-Old Boy Keeling Pilaro Granted Permission to Play on Varsity Girls Field Hockey Team
Usually when there is a controversy over boys and girls playing on the same team, we’re talking about a girl who wants to play on a boys team. That was the case last week when we told you about the ultraconservative Our Lady of Sorrows Academy in Arizona, which forfeited a championship baseball game because [...]
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Here’s An Up Close Look At The NY Giants Super Bowl Ring (Pics)
Why it’s…it’s…kind tasteful! Who the hell greenlit this design? I thought Super Bowl rings were supposed to be fourteen different colors and have neon and strobe lights on them. Oh well. An earlier representation of the ring was made available by Steve Weatherford, the punter for the Giants, who tweeted a pic of the ring on Eli [...]
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Charles Barkley Loves the Shake Weights (GIF)
Hey, did you watch Game 2 of that Pacers-Heat playoff series the other day? Because I did, and it was revolting. Not the game itself, mind you. That was great—Indiana won 78-75. No, I’m talking about Charles Barkley’s use of a shake weight during the halftime show. Totally uncalled for. And the funny thing is, [...]
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Dodgers Justin Sellers Makes Awesome Over-the-Shoulder Basket Catch, Ends Up In Front Row (Video)
Dodgers utility infielder Justin Sellers may only be hitting .193/.282/.287 in limited playing time so far this season, but the rookie sure is trying to make up for the slow start at the plate with a hard-nosed effort in the field. On Monday, he turned in a highlight reel play over at third base so [...]
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11 Classy Baseball Wives of the 50s and 60s
It’s always seemed to me that baseball wives of the 1950s and 60s, in addition to being beautiful, were so classy and dignified when compared to the baseball wives of today. But I kind of figured this was probably a false perception—chalk it up to black and white still photography and the mystique of “the [...]
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Boxer Nick Casal Hit In Head With Golf Club…15 Times and Almost Dies
BoxerNick Casal was scheduled to fight on ESPN2 next month. In light of this weekend’s events, it doesn’t look like boxer Nick Casal will be fighting on ESPN2 next month.After he got a call from his girlfriend to pick her up at an unfamiliar address at 5 AM, Nick Casal was probably very suspicious. That [...]
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Blue Jays’ Brett Lawrie Hit the Umpire With His Helmet Last Night (Video)
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: umpires have a tough job. Players and fans alike demand nothing short of perfection from the men in blue, and that’s just not possible. But it’s one thing to err—it is human, after all—and quite another to be an incompetent douche. Last night in Toronto, in [...]
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This Day In Sports History (May 16th) — Michael Jordan
It was on this day in 1985 that Michael Jordan was named the NBA rookie of the year. He would beat out the likes of Charles Barkley, Hakeem Olajuwon, Sam Perkins and Sam Bowie to win the prestigious award. Jordan averaged an incredible 28.2 points, 6.5 rebounds, 5.9 assists and 2.4 steals per game that [...]
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Watch Niklas Kronwall Flatten Latvia’s Kaspars Saulietis at IIHF World Championships (Video)
Well, the bone-crushing hits just keep coming at the IIHF World Championships. We’ve already told you about the ones levelled against Kazakhstan’s Roman Starchenko and the USA’s Alex Goligoski. And today we’ve got another one to show you. This time it’s Latvia’s Kaspars Saulietis one the receiving end. Latvia was facing Sweden yesterday in the [...]
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Stat Line Of The Night – 5/15/12 – Hunter Pence
The Philadelphia Phillies currently sit in last place in the National League East, and they have really missed sluggers Chase Utley and Ryan Howard so far, who are unavailable because of injuries. Last night the Phillies took on the Houston Astros at home in Citizen’s Bank Park, looking to build on a short two game win streak [...]
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Check Out This Little League Umpire’s Awesome Punchout Move (Video)
Umpires have a tough, thankless job. They have to stay completely focused on every pitch while wearing 30 pounds of cumbersome padding, dealing with hecklers in the stands (and dugouts), and getting hit in the nuts by wild pitches. When they do their job poorly, they hear about it from everyone. But when they do [...]
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Golf Ball-Shagging Dog Does Exactly What The Name Would Lead You To Believe (Video)
Because who really wears slippers any more? A man that we only know goes by the YouTube handle “RyHillz” has a very special best friend. His pet turns his backyard into a full-service driving range by chasing down and returning every ball hit out into the woods from the dude’s back porch. Note: the video [...]
