Tag Archives: controversy
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12 Epic Home Plate Collisions
Ever since Buster Posey broke his leg in a brutal home plate collision at the start of the 2011 season, there has been a lot of talk about eliminating that play from baseball. In fact, the debate flares up pretty much every time we see such a collision now, whether anybody gets injured or not. [...]
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Kobe Bryant on Ankle Sprain: Dahntay Jones “Jalen Rose’d me” (Videos)
On Wednesday night in Atlanta, Kobe Bryant missed a game-tying two-pointer from the baseline that cost the Lakers the game. However, much more painful than the loss to the Hawks was the fact that Kobe suffered a severe ankle sprain on the play. And this isn’t a regular old severe ankle sprain. It’s a controversial [...]
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11 Biggest NFL Quarterback Controversies of All Time
While the 2012 NFL Season hasn’t featured any truly epic quarterback controversies, we have seen an inordinate amount of minor ones. There’s Vick vs. Foles in Philly, Kaepernick vs. Smith in San Francisco, Cassel vs. Quinn in KC, Gabbert vs. Henne in Jacksonville, and, of course, Sanchez vs. Tebow in New York. But, like I [...]
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It Turns Out The San Diego Chargers Might Just Be A Big Bunch Of Dirty Cheaters
Gee, I wonder what could possibly be more embarrassing than blowing a 24-0 halftime lead and losing 35-24 to a division rival on Monday Night Football? Maybe if it was revealed that you were cheating the whole time and still managed to choke? Yeah, that would be awfully embarrassing…right, San Diego Chargers? Seriously, as if [...]
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Meet The 300-Pound 12-Year-Old Who They Say Is Too Big For Pee Wee Football (Video)
For most kids sports, being freakishly huge and gifted is a blessing. You’re twelve years old, 6’1″, and you throw 80 mph? Hello Little League World Series! Eleven with the body of a 14-year-old and mad soccer skills? That’s the fast track to a college scholarship. But if you’re twelve years old, 6’1″, 297 pounds, [...]
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15 Biggest Summer Olympics Scandals
When you gather 10,500 athletes from 205 nations together for a major international sports competition, you can expect a good scandal or two. But the 2012 Summer Olympics are just one week old, and we’ve already seen four fairly historic controversies—two regarding the outcomes of events, and one that almost kept an event from happening [...]
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Minor League Umpire Ejects Music Guy For Playing “Three Bling Mice” Over The PA (Video)
We told you earlier today how it’s been a tough year for baseball umpires, who have just been inundated with all kinds of nonsense that most of us never have to deal with at work. Well, it seems that at least one minor league baseball umpire had seen/heard enough. So the other day, when “Three [...]
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Man Violently Arrested at Toronto YMCA is Sueing Police and YMCA (Video)
On January 11, 2011, a 42-year-old man named James Bishop was arrested by the Toronto Police while playing basketball at the YMCA. During the arrest, while three officers were trying to handcuff Bishop, a fourth delivered six baton blows and three elbow jabs to the man’s body, and it was all clearly visible on the [...]
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Swedish Butt Soccer Outrages Anti-Bullying Organization (Video)
Sweden’s Euro 2012 squad was upset at the hands of host nation Ukraine by a score of 2-1 on Monday. But that doesn’t mean Zlatan Ibrahimovic and company are panicking. In fact, this week they kept their practices decidedly light, playing a certain game soccer players all over the world play all the time. What [...]
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9 Most Controversial Boxing Decisions of All Time
People have always been a little suspicious of boxing. Maybe it’s because the sport relies on the interpretation of judges to pick a winner when nobody gets knocked out. Maybe it’s because of shady characters like Don King. Or maybe it’s because half the fights take place in Vegas, the sports-betting capital of the world. [...]
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Promotor Bob Arum Rips Decision In Pacquiao-Bradley Fight (Video)
Nobody was really expecting all that much from the Pacquiao v. Bradley fight this weekend. We all thought Timothy Bradley was overmatched, and our beliefs were confirmed as the fight went on, with Manny Pacquiao winning round after round after round. But then something really funny happened: the official judges for the fight lost their [...]
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High School Baseball Team Forfeits Championship Rather Than Play Against A Girl
You can call the folks who run Our Lady of Sorrows Academy in Phoenix old-fashioned, outdated, or even chauvinistic, but you certainly can’t call them hypocrites. That’s because they chose to forfeit a championship high school baseball game rather than face a team that has a girl playing second base—which apparently is against their beliefs. [...]
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Kimbo Slice’s Latest Boxing Knockout Victory May Have Been Fixed (Video)
Two of Kimbo Slice’s first three boxing matches ended only seconds into the bout. As for his latest knockout victory during Saturday night’s fight against Brian Green, it came with only seconds remaining in the bout, and the manner in which it occurred has some questioning its validity. Kimbo’s promoters have placed tomato cans in [...]
