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More Video and Pictures of the Olympic Bottle Thrower Surface
Remember the other day when we told you about Usain Bolt‘s historic victory in the men’s 100m final, and how some guy threw a bottle out onto the track right before the starter fired his pistol? Well, the bottle-thrower’s name is Ashley Gill-Webb. He’s a vending machine repair man from South Milford in North Yorkshire, [...]
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A Hilarious Compilation Of Sports Fan Fails (Video)
How I Get Back My Love In the world of sports, it isn’t only the athletes that provide us with epic moments of failure. Oftentimes, the fans prove themselves to be equally capable of providing such moments. From places like Washington and Philadelphia, to halfway across the world in Japan, sports fans everywhere have proven [...]
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This Day In Sports History (August 9th) – Wayne Gretzky
It was on this day in 1988 that the Edmonton Oilers did the unthinkable and traded Wayne Gretzky. Gretzky was traded to the Los Angeles Kings along with Marty McSorley and Mike Krushelnyski in exchange for Jimmy Carson, Martin Gelinas, the Kings first round draft picks in 1989, 1991 and 1993 and $15 million in [...]
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Watch This Pole Snap In Three Places During Cuban Pole Vaulter’s First Attempt (Video)
Imagine you’re a pole vaulter. You bust your butt training six days a week for ten years, hoping to one day make the Olympics and get a shot at the ultimate prize; an Olympic medal. Now imagine you made the Olympics, and your big day has arrived. All you have to do is go out [...]
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Stat Line Of The Night — 8/8/12 — Giancarlo Stanton
The Miami Marlins rank an abysmal 29th in the league in runs scored this season, but their offense was certainly alive and well during last night’s thrashing of the New York Mets, and it was being led by none other than their slugging right-fielder, Giancarlo Stanton. Stanton stepped up to the plate five times during [...]
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New Zealand Female Field Hockey Player Whacked In The Head By Dutch Player’s Stick (GIF)
For those who enjoy watching all of the reckless slashing and hitting of the NHL, but also enjoy watching sexy women running around in short dresses, we have the perfect sport for you… Women’s field hockey! In case you haven’t noticed, women’s field hockey has been taking place at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, [...]
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France’s Nicolas Batum Punches Spain’s Juan Carlos Navarro In The Groin (Video)
France was eliminated from the 2012 Olympic men’s basketball tournament earlier today after losing their quarterfinal game to Spain by a score of 66-59. And while this may have been the last that we will see of this French team in London, they certainly left their mark… Unfortunately for Spain’s Juan Carlos Navarro, that so-called [...]
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German Discus Thrower Robert Harting Celebrates Gold Medal Like A Boss (Videos)
Basketball players have the NBA Championship. Soccer players have the World Cup. Tennis players have the Grand Slams. However, for most athletes at the 2012 Summer Games, the Olympics are the absolute highest level of competition, and nothing could mean more than winning a gold medal. It’s what they dreamed about since they were kids, [...]
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Olympic Gossip: Rumors Fly About Kobe Bryant’s Friendship With Australia’s Stephanie Rice (Pics)
You know what really sucks about cheating on your wife—you know, besides having to live with the fact that you’ve violated her trust and left her emotionally devastated? It’s that, for the rest of your life, any time somebody sees you in public with a woman who is not you wife (assuming she didn’t dump [...]
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15 Olympians And Their Celebrity Look-Alikes
The Olympics have a way of radically transforming the lives of athletes. One month a 17-year swimmer can walk down the street and nobody knows who she is. The next she’s a bona fide celebrity appearing on cereal boxes and doing interviews on the Today Show. Of course, not every Olympian needs success at the [...]
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This Day In Sports History (August 8th) — Pete Rose
It was on this day in 1990 that Pete Rose began serving his five month prison sentence at Marion (Ill.) Federal prison camp. The MLB all-time hits leader pleaded guilty to two charges of tax evasion on April 20, 1990, after filing false income tax returns and not showing income he received from selling autographs [...]
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Some Old Dude Told Aly Raisman’s Dad To Sit Down After Her Gold Medal Floor Routine (Video)
If there’s one thing I’ve learned from watching the Olympics and all the sappy Olympics commercials this year, it’s that it is probably harder to be the parent of an Olympic athlete than it is to be the athletes themselves—not physically, of course, but emotionally. How so? Because they’re just as emotionally involved in the [...]
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Stat Line Of The Night — 8/7/12 — Cole Hamels
The Philadelphia Phillies have been having themselves a terrible season by their standards, but for Phillies fans who are looking to take something positive away from 2012, they need not look any further than Cole Hamels’ performance on the mound. Hamels has been having himself a solid 2012 campaign, and it continued last night against [...]
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Here’s The Worst Olympic Dive You Will Ever See (GIF)
If this were a “who can make the biggest splash” competition, Stephan Feck of Germany would have easily earned a perfect score. Unfortunately for him, it wasn’t a “biggest splash” competition. It was a 3-meter springboard diving event at the 2012 London Olympics, and it earned him a last place finish in the competition and [...]
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German Weightlifter Matthias Steiner Drops 432 Pounds On His Head At Olympics (GIF)
Weightlifting is supposed to be one of the many non-contact sports taking place at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, but today it was anything but a non-contact sport for German weightlifter Matthias Steiner. You see, Steiner entered the men’s over 105kg weightlifting event as the defending Olympic champion, but during his second lift of [...]
