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Rick Pitino Makes Good on Promise to Players, Gets Louisville Championship Tattoo (Pics)
After the Louisville Cardinals lost an epic, emotionally-draining quintuple-overtime game to Notre Dame back in February, Rick Pitino made a promise to his crestfallen players: if they won the last seven games of the regular season, the Big East Tournament, and then the National Championship, he would get a tattoo commemorating the achievement. Well, right [...]
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Three-Legged Gator Interrupts Play During Zurich Classic at TPC Louisiana (Videos)
Think your local golf course has some nasty hazards? Try playing golf in Louisiana and dealing with the alligators. Just two days ago, PGATOUR.com correspondant Fred Albers wrote a nice little piece about the upcoming Zurich Classic golf tournament being held at TPC Louisiana. In that piece, he told a little story about a particular [...]
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The 25 Covers of EA’s Madden NFL Football
On Wednesday night, Charissa Thompson and Marcellus Wiley of ESPN’s SportsNation announced the final results of fan voting in the 64-player Madden cover tournament. In the end, fans had to choose between reigning NFL MVP Adrian Peterson and former NFL MVP (and fellow member of the 2K yards-club) Barry Sanders. And as you may have read somewhere, Barry Sanders won. Today, [...]
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Jets Fans Unhappy with Team’s Draft Picks, Chant “WE SUCK! WE SUCK!” at MetLife Stadium (Videos)
Here’s a nice little tale of two cities—and two fanbases. When the folks in Kansas City learned their team had selected left tackle Eric Fisher with the number one overall pick in the 2013 NFL Draft, they weren’t exactly thrilled (except for that one guy), but they weren’t upset, either. Everybody would love to see [...]
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Nats Pitcher Gio Gonzalez and Attractive Sideline Reporter Julie Alexandria Get Doused with Gatorade (Video)
Last night the Washington Nationals’ Gio Gonzalez threw a one-hitter against the potent Cincinnati Reds. What did his teammates think of the accomplishment? Well, they deemed it worthy of a Gatorade shower. Thus, after the game, while Gonzalez was being distracted—err, interviewed—by attractive Nationals sideline reporter Julie Alexandria, a couple of his teammates crept up [...]
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Watch Taj Gibson Posterize Kris Humphries (Video)
Poor Kris Humphries has been posterized a lot in recent years. J.J. Hickson got him pretty good a few years back. So did Blake Griffin and Kobe Bryant. You might even say Humprhies is the poster boy for getting posterized. And you can bet that Kanye West has a whole room in his house displaying [...]
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This Day In Sports History (April 26th) – Coors Field
It was on this day in 1995 that the Colorado Rockies played their first ever game at Coors Field. The Rockies would beat the New York Mets 11-9 to earn their first victory in their new ballpark. Coors Field is known as a hitters’ ballpark due to the fact that it is located in Denver, [...]
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Kansas City Chiefs Fans Were Really Excited About Drafting OT Eric Fisher (GIF)
The first round of the 2013 NFL Draft didn’t feature a lot of “sexy” picks. The NFL is all about explosive passing offenses these days, but there is a dearth of high-end quarterbacks in this year’s class. For that reason, teams looked to add players who could protect the quarterbacks they have or attack the [...]
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Stat Line of the Night — 4/25/2013 — Gio Gonzalez
After putting together a 21-8 record and a 2.89 ERA in 2012, Gio Gonzalez stumbled out of the gate in his second year with the Washington Nationals. He has failed to last more than six innings in any of his first four starts in 2013, and he entered last night’s contest with a 1-1 record [...]
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QMJHL Playoff Game Ends in Massive Bench-Clearing Brawl (Video)
The Quebec Major Junior Hockey League playoffs have been underway for quite a while now—36 days and three rounds, to be exact. And if you haven’t been paying attention, you may want to start. Why, you ask? Because if you don’t, you might miss another bench-clearing brawl, much like the one that unfolded following last [...]
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The Anatomy of Yu Darvish’s Five-Pitch Arsenal is Incredible (GIF)
Yu Darvish is off to a scorching start in just his second season in the Majors, as he has allowed just six earned runs against over the course of his first five starts, compiling a 4-1 record, 1.65 ERA (3rd in AL), 0.80 WHIP (2nd in AL) and 49 strikeouts (1st in AL). His solid [...]
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Umpire John Hirschbeck Gets Hit in the Nuts by a Pitch. Again. (Video)
Poor MLB umpires. The only time they ever get an ovation from the crowd is after they get hit in the nuts by a fastball. Last night the Texas Rangers were in Anaheim taking on the Angels, and things unraveled pretty quickly for Angels starter Michael Roth, who was making his first career start. After [...]
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‘Madden NFL 25′ Cover: Fans Choose Barry Sanders Over Adrian Peterson (Video)
Legendary NFL running back Barry Sanders may have retired over a decade ago, but next year he will grace the cover of Madden NFL 25. Of course, the selection of Sanders was only possible because, for the special 25th anniversary edition of the most popular sports video game franchise of all time, the powers that [...]
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13 Biggest Steals in the History of the NFL Draft
Every time the NFL draft rolls around, everyone starts analyzing stats and assessing risks in an attempt to figure out which prospects are the real deal and which are bound to go down in history as major draft busts. Ultimately, however, after all the studying and thinking and discussing, success and failure balance each other [...]
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Somebody Stole a Five-Foot Plaque Commemorating Barry Bonds’ 756th Home Run Right Off a Wall at AT&T Park
Are you one of the many baseball fans who do not consider Barry Bonds to be the legitimate home run king of baseball? Would you like to see the utterly insane, roid-fueled home run totals the guy posted in the twilight of his career—346 home runs hit from ages 25-34, 351 hit from ages 35-43—erased [...]
