Sports Lists
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21 Awesome Football Celebration GIFs
Every sport has its own distinct style when it comes to celebrating big plays. But in North America, when it comes to enthusiasm and creativity, nothing beats the football. Scored a big touchdown? There’s a dance for that. Made a big interception? There’s a dance for that, too. Sacked the quarterback? Yep, another dance. Kicked [...]
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15 Hot Cricket WAGs
Yesterday it was brought to my attention that a major cricket competition is going on right now in Sri Lanka: the Twenty20 World Cup. And while I myself am not a cricket fan, I do appreciate the fact that there are close to a billion people who are, and that this makes the Twenty20 World [...]
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The 15 Most Awesome Retirement Gifts Given To Chipper Jones
You know, it might be easy to overlook the career of retiring Braves third baseman Chipper Jones. Throughout his entire 18-year, the man only led a significant statistical category three times—OPS in in 2006, and BA and OBP in 2007. However, when you look at his career numbers, they’re actually kind of mind-blowing: .303/.401/.529, with [...]
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30 of the Creepiest NFL Fans You’ll Ever See
Now that October is finally here, a lot of people will probably spend the next few weeks planning elaborate costumes to wear on Halloween. But of course, not everyone needs Halloween as an excuse to wear a crazy costume. On any given Sunday from September through January, you’ll see gobs of ghouls and ghosts at [...]
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20 Ridiculous High School Team Names
Did you ever notice how the further down you go on the sports pyramid, the weirder the mascots get? For example, there aren’t really any professional sports teams with bizarre names. Sure, some are unusual (Indiana Pacers), anachronistic (Cincinnati Reds), offensive (Washington Redskins) or just plain dumb (Minnesota Wild), but none of them are bizarre. [...]
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17 Most Ridiculous GIFs From The NFL’s Replacement Ref Fiasco
Well, the replacement ref nightmare is over. Just before the clock struck midnight yesterday, the NFL reached an agreement with the referees’ union that will have the regular zebras back on the field for tonight’s game between the Ravens and Browns. Apparently Roger Goodell and company couldn’t stomach the idea of another nationally televised game [...]
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The 15 Hottest Pro Lacrosse Cheerleaders
If you’re a big sports fan, you probably knew that there was a professional lacrosse league. But did you know that there are two professional lacrosse leagues (the NLL and the MLL)? And that both of them have cheerleaders? Well, they do. And while these cheerleading squads aren’t nearly as hot as the squads you’ll [...]
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16 Awesome TV Shows About Sports
The other day I had a terrifying thought: did I miss the season premier of The League? But I looked it up and discovered, thankfully, I had not. The kickoff to season 4 is still a few weeks away. However, my moment of panic got me wondering why on earth there aren’t more shows about [...]
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The Top 20 Active MLB Career Strikeout Leaders
If you follow Major League Baseball, then you’re probably aware that we’re in the midst of a golden era for pitching. Or at least, that’s what the experts say. However, there’s always two ways to look at any statistical phenomenon. And the other day, as I was watching part of a Chicago White Sox Game—which [...]
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15 Athletes Who Are Really Good At Getting Women Pregnant
Earlier this week, Los Angeles Angels first baseman Albert Pujols missed a few games because his wife, Deidre, had their fifth child, Esther Grace. My first thought when I heard that was, “yikes, Esther?” Then, my second thought was, “aww, that’s nice, good for them.” And, finally, my third thought was, “wait, just 5 kids [...]
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21 Hilarious Referee GIFs
Referees have tough jobs. They have to be experts on the rulebooks and make difficult, on-the-spot decisions and interpretations. And what do they get for their efforts? Well, if they do a good job, they get no recognition whatsoever. If they do a bad job, however, they become utterly despited and the targets of vitriolic [...]
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12 Hot Sports WAGs You Should Follow On Twitter
It used to be that, to know anything about sports WAGs, you had to depend on celebrity gossip rags and internet message boards. However, in the age of social media, you don’t always have to resort to snooping. Lot’s of hot player wives and girlfriends put all their laundry—clean and dirty—out there for everybody to [...]
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The 15 Best Dressed Players in the NFL (2012 Edition)
When it comes to fashion sense, NFL players certainly have come a long way. After all, it wasn’t that long ago that every football player wore those goofy oversized suits with five buttons that came right up under the chin. In fact, those things were just one more button away from being pajamas. But these [...]
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15 Craziest NHL Contracts
Well, the NHL officially locked out the players over the weekend. Now the entire 2012-13 season is in jeopardy, just 7 years removed from the 2004-05 lockout that cost us an entire season. The great irony here, of course, is that the owners are complaining that they aren’t making enough money and demanding pay cuts [...]
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15 Awesome Sports-Related Guinness World Records
Every sport has sacred records. In baseball it’s the home run records—career and single season—though the hitting streak is also pretty special. Football has career rushing yards, or touchdown passes in a season, just to name two. Basketball has career points and, maybe more impossible to break, points in a single game. And of course [...]
