Fans get caught in crush to get close to the ex-footballer.
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A sudden revival in reputation for the NBA player who looks most like a dinosaur.
Miami Heat coach Erik Spoelstra has continually referred to Chris Bosh as the "most important player" on the team. Many other people have referred to Chris Bosh as a dork because he looks like a dinosaur, makes weird faces, and voluntarily went from being the top dog on the Raptors to the third viola on the Heat. But in Game 6 of the NBA Finals, he was no third viola. In Game 6 Chris Bosh was the undisputed, number-one viola champion.
With the final seconds ticking away in regulation and his team down three, Bosh, surrounded by Spurs players, grabbed a clutch rebound and dished the ball out to Ray Allen for the game-tying trey.
Only to follow that up with a monster block on Tony Parker in the final minute of overtime.
The results are in: These schools combine excellent athletics with high academic standards.
BuzzFeed plotted Forbes' academic rankings of colleges and universities against USA Today's tally of total athletic expenses (which doesn't include private schools like Stanford or Notre Dame, FYI) to determine which schools value both athletics and academics. Then we weighted both ranks equally and tallied them up for our top 10:
At eighth in athletics and 147th in academics, the Badgers come in at No. 10 for our combined ranking. Current NFL quarterback Russell Wilson attended Wisconsin in 2011.
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The Georgia Bulldogs are No. 9 overall, ranked 125th academically and 17th athletically. Two-time Super Bowl champion Terrell Davis attended Georgia from 1992–1994.
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The University of Illinois is No. 8 overall, ranked 86th academically and 28th athletically. Hall of Fame linebacker Dick Butkus played at Illinois from 1962–1964.
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It’s not just sports where victory or defeat can be decided in a single moment.
GAME 7: the razor's edge. The difference between glory and infamy. The difference between Michael Jordan and Karl Malone. The difference between riding a Rolls-Royce made of gold in a victory parade down Broadway and riding a Dumpstermobile made of wet bread in a shame parade down Suck Street. Tonight is the night of the deciding game of the NBA Finals between the Spurs and the Heat, but the concept of Game 7 is too excellent to be limited to sports. Below, some other make-or-break moments that mark the line between victory and defeat.
First date is getting to know the basics. Second date is about getting comfortable. The third date is the crucial tipping point. If you're not hooked yet, it's not going to happen. But if you're on date three and you're laughing and drinking white wine and feeding each other shrimp (without taking the tail off, apparently — rude), then IT IS SO ON.
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So you've made it past the third date and have been together for a while. You're talking about moving in together. And if you move in together, you'll need some more stuff. And if you need stuff and are at a stage in life where you're moving in with someone for the first time, you'll need to go to Ikea. And if you can successfully agree on home-design aesthetics in the middle of an absurdly crowded warehouse that it took you 75 minutes to get to on a Saturday that you might have otherwise spent having a more human-like experience, your union is built to last. Congratulations on your wedding. (The DJ's playlist is the Game 7 of a wedding.)
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It's pretty much impossible not to be an aimless, lonely twerp as a freshman. And it's hard to work your way into an established group of friends after junior year or so. (Though not impossible, so don't despair, kids who take life pointers from listicles written by idiots.) Sophomore year is the time to get locked in.
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Neymar is the next big thing.
When the World Cup comes to Rio next summer, an electrifying 21-year-old named Neymar is going to watched even closer than the likes of Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo. He may not be the best player in the world, but lithe striker's footwork and creativity makes him arguably the most exciting.
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Neymar was a one-man highlight show during Brazil's Confederations Cup match against Mexico, scoring one goal and assisting on the other in a 2-0 Brazil victory. He's the type of player that demands your attention whenever the ball touches his foot.
Don’t even try with Royce White if you’re not one of the most impressive women in American history.
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Royce White is a talented basketball player who was drafted by the Houston Rockets last year but hasn't played an NBA game yet, partly because of disputes with his team about how to handle his anxiety disorder. He also has pretty high standards for romantic partners, apparently.
Royce White has a Martin Luther King, Jr. complex. (The #BeWell is what really puts the condescension cherry on top of the dismissive sundae.) If necessary, though, he will also settle for Ghost Harriet Tubman or Vampire Hunting Betsy Ross.
Game 7 is fine and all, but seriously, anyone who knows what’s up is more into the earlier stuff.
This is the game when Mr. October was born. Reggie Jackson belted three home runs against the Dodgers to help the Yankees clinch the 1977 World Series.
Carlton Fisk's famous extra-inning home run against the Cincinnati Reds forced a Game 7 of the 1975 World Series, which the Red Sox ended up losing. But the image of him begging the ball to stay fair remains one of the most iconic in MLB history.
The 2002 Giants were eight outs away from getting Barry Bonds a World Series ring until the Angels' bats erupted in the 7th inning, a rally that spring-boarded the franchise to its own first World Series title one game later.
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Everyone knows this one. It's arguably the most well-known jump shot of the past 25 years. Jordan's last J as a Bull gave the team a 87-86 victory and helped secure the team's second three-peat.
If you don’t know, now you know (who to root for).
Pros:
- The best player in the NBA.
- Can play any position extremely well.
- Super strong.
- People seem really into whether he wears a headband.
- Hasn't done anything egomaniacal or entitled in a year or two.
Cons:
- Complains. A lot.
- Flops.
- We're still talking about the guy from The Decision.
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Pros:
- Makes the exact right play a freakishly high percentage of the time.
- Very good teammate.
- Got that hook shot.
Cons:
- Emotionless face and aforementioned total perfection makes him hard to relate to.
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Pros:
- Dating Gabrielle Union.
- Excellent shooter after receiving a cortisone shot.
- Can throw a full-court alley-oop.
Cons:
- Spells his name wrong.
- When he's off, he's really off.
- Big ego.
- Constant flopper.
- Drama queen.
- Whiner.
- We don't like Dwyane Wade that much.
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Pros:
- Great facilitator.
- Can speak French.
- Calls Tim Duncan "Timmy."
Cons:
- Has a hamstring injury.
- Is French.
- French jokes still always funny for some reason.
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When the pressure was on, LeBron James delivered.
Game 7 of the NBA Finals between the Heat and the Spurs, a.k.a. the LeBron Bowl, a.k.a. the Rumble in the Swampland, started off with tight play and superb defense. Chris Bosh picked up right where he left off from Game 6 with this monster block in the first quarter.
Both teams started slowly, but LeBron's jumper was working the whole game — fortunate for him given that the Spurs' strategy seemed to be to back away from him to keep him from driving — and would finish with 37 points.
The Spurs kept close with shots that seemed to go down whenever it seemed like Miami was about to put the game in the bag and then throw the bag into a canal where it would be discovered three months later by a DEA agent. Gary Neal's bankshot three was just one such example.
Dwyane Wade led all scorers at the half with 14 points — two from this sweet pivot and spin — and Miami led by two after the second quarter.
Seven hard-fought NBA Finals games pass without a single scuffle or technical foul.
In public, people who write and talk about sports look down on pushing, shoving, trash-talking, and smack-jiving. Words like "ugly" and "loss of composure" are used to describe such shenanigans. In private, though, you rarely meet a fan who gets upset by a little beef. No one wants to see cheap shots causing injuries, but let's just say this...
...did not make the 2004 ALCS between the Red Sox and Yankees less exciting.
It is in this context that this year's NBA Finals were a reminder — a chastening and embarrassing one, if we're being honest — that clean and civil doesn't have to mean boring and emotionless.
You can't possibly complain that the games weren't competitive enough. The second halves of Games 6 and 7 in particular were played at a continuous sprint and decided by a combined ten points. About eight different guys made huge clutch plays that seemed, as they were being made, like they could be the decisive moments of the series. All ten players on the court moved with desperation. TV timeouts were actually a relief amidst the fury of the last five minutes of yesterday night's game. Humans were pushing each other to the pinnacle of achievement and whatnot.
He plays in the Broadway League on the Rock of Ages team and is basically the best player.
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Frenzy for the Stanley Cup.
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There is no earthly way to know how many overtimes a playoff hockey game can take, and broadcasters apparently don't want to drag out the disruption to their schedule any more than they have to. To that end, there are no TV commercial breaks in the extra sessions, so by the time someone scores, even if it's only after a few minutes, your brain and heartrate pretty much feel like the above. (Remember, stay hydrated and breathe.)
Mikael Roche had quite a time trying to stop Spain, the best soccer team in the world, from scoring.
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I mean, breakfast IS the most important meal.
After helping the Heat win back-to-back NBA titles one man ended his night at the place where all champions go to bask in the glory of reaching the mountaintop: Denny's.
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This video of Chris Bosh nearly choking on confetti is the greatest thing, by far, that will happen in the current millennium.
Mia Hamm can suck on it. Just kidding, they’re friends.
Last night, United States women's national team striker Abby Wambach scored four first-half goals against South Korea to become the all-time leading scorer in women's international soccer, surpassing Mia Hamm's mark of 158 goals. The record-breaking goal came off of a header in the 29th minute of the match, sent in from a corner kick by Megan Rapinoe.
Afterwards, Mia Hamm tweeted the following message to Wambach:
Dunks! Three-pointers! Blocks!
Ian Kinsler is handsome AND tough.
Gruesome collisions at home plate have been a part of baseball since the sport began. Runners will do anything to avoid being called out and catchers try their damnedest to keep the runner from scoring. During a game this week between the Texas Rangers and Oakland Athletics, Rangers second baseman Ian Kinsler added to the long list of home plate casualties.
Kinsler took a solid shot by A's catcher John Jaso that caused him to get three stitches in the clubhouse between innings.
The Blackhawks can win the Stanley Cup Monday night in Boston.
In the Always Important Game 5™, Patrick Kane got Chicago on the board just before the first intermission by sneaking in behind the Boston defenders and tapping one by Tuukka Rask.
Boston tried to keep up the defensive pressure on Chicago, even once plays were whistled over.
Run it out!
'Twas a tie game in the bottom of the eighth in last night's Tigers-Indians contest when Nick Swisher hit a dribbler up the third base line. Now, Swisher is usually known as a guy who plays hard. And what he should've done — what every Little League coach in the world would've been yelling at him to do — is run to first just in case something weird happened and the ball went fair. Even the most lackadaisical hot-doggin' big shot could've told him that turning his back on the play was most definitely a bad idea.
But Swisher didn't run, and what do you know, the ball spun fair. And the Indians lost a potentially key baserunner in a big intra-divisional matchup. And Nick Swisher learned a valuable lesson. And probably got yelled at a lot in the locker room by manager Terry Francona later on. Or at the least got a raised eyebrow that indicated "do that again and your new home will be 'Terry Francona's Doghouse-ville.'"
Speaking of kids, note the youthful excitement on Tigers catcher Brayan Peña's face as he eats Swisher's lunch. Peña is having a transcendent experience at the Church of Hustle.
Swisher also fell on his face while rounding third base in extra innings.
