This is why the Internet was made.
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Metta World Peace Sees Kid Therapists In The Greatest Web Series Ever
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Dimitar Berbatov Is The Kobe Bryant Of Soccer
Just give him the damn ball.
Fulham striker Dimitar Berbatov is having a somewhat resurgent year after escaping Manchester United's bench, and scored his sixth Premier League goal of the season today.
After he scored, Berbatov took off his jersey to reveal a surprisingly brash message on his undershirt for a guy with six goals: "KEEP CALM AND PASS ME THE BALL."
Berbatov was given a yellow card for taking off his jersey. We imagine his manager won't be too pleased, either.
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2012 Sports Cursing Compilation
It was a dirty year for live sports! NSFW Audio.
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How The Clippers Became The Best Team In The NBA: A Guide
The Los Angeles Clippers are on a 14-game winning streak and putting in a serious claim to be the league's team to beat.
Image by Jason Redmond / AP
In a massive turnaround from pretty much every season in franchise history prior to this one, the Los Angeles Clippers have established themselves as the league's best team about a quarter of the way through the season. Now, by best, do I mean that they'll be holding a championship trophy come June? Not exactly — as logic dictates, the Miami Heat are still the team to conquer, with Oklahoma City firmly ensconced in second place. But right now, the Clippers are dominant; they've won a remarkable 14 games in a row, and their average point differential of +9.6 is not only a full point above the second-place Thunder's — if it held, it would also be one of the best in NBA history.
So, how have the perpetually moribund Clippers reached such great heights? I'll show you.
Chris Paul reached a peak in performance during the 2008–09 season before seeing a dip, partly caused by injuries and partly caused by a lackluster Hornets supporting cast, from 2009–2011. But his trade to the Clippers before last season reinvigorated the league's best point guard, and his numbers this year — 16 points and 9.5 assists per game on .479/.368/.889 shooting — hint at how superb he's been. More than just stats, though, it's the winning percentage that really conveys how good Paul, as the team's floor general and quarterback, has been, and if hockey assists were counted in basketball (a pass that leads to a pass that leads to a score), you'd see that he's involved in basically every Clippers play when he's on the floor.
Like any top point guard in the modern NBA, Paul can score for himself, though it's not his preferred mode of operation. Compensating for his small stature, Paul has magnificent handles and a well-measured floater, which he put above the excellent shot-blocker JaVale McGee during this possession from the Christmas night game against the Denver Nuggets.
And then there are passes like these, the ingenuity and thrill of which are as great as any in basketball.
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The RGIII Christmas Carol Is The Cutest Thing
An elementary school choir singing a Christmas song about their favorite football player? Yes please.
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R.A. Dickey Got Star Wars Pajamas For Christmas
Everything's coming up Dickey in 2012.
Image by Alan Diaz / AP
R.A. Dickey had a pretty good year in 2012. He won 20 games for the Mets and became the first knuckleballer in the history of the league to win the Cy Young award. He parlayed that into a three-year, $29 million dollar contract from the Toronto Blue Jays earlier this month. But nothing compares to what Dickey received this Christmas.
Via: @RADickey43
This is a 38-Year-Old Cy-Young winning pitcher in a Star Wars onesie. And he couldn't be happier.
Via: @RADickey43
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A Year In The Life Of The World's Weirdest Pro Athlete: JaVale McGee's 2012
It was a year full of suspicious babies, Segways, platypuses, and DJ Roombas.
JANUARY: Well, the year started off right. JaVale, then with the Washington Wizards, was stared at by a baby.
Cool baby.
Source: s3-ec.buzzfed.com
JaVale also made huge strides in the field of mobile DJs by attaching speakers to a roomba. DJ Roomba in the HIZZOUSE.
We discovered that he walks around his apartment in an astronaut suit.
Source: s3-ec.buzzfed.com
And he closed out the first month of a great 2012 by throwing an alley-oop to himself in a loss to the Houston Rockets. Note: this is not OK to do in a game. At all.
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The 27 Must-Read BuzzFeed Sports Articles Of 2012
The best of the sports GIFs, essays, photos, and inspiring stories BuzzFeed brought you this year.
The Most Bizarre Moments Of The Olympic Opening Ceremony
The Olympics happened this year! Which means we got another bizarre Olympic opening ceremony. Relive the madness.
Queen Elizabeth's 16 Most Excited Faces Of The Olympic Opening Ceremony
Queen Elizabeth was pumped for the Olympics. Like super pumped.
A Chinese Hurdler Falls Clutching His Achilles, Refuses To Quit
China's Liu Xiang gave us what may have been the 2012 Olympics' most powerful moment after he suffered a terrible injury.
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Dwyane Wade Kicked Another Player In The Nuts, Got Away With It
Ouch.
During last night's Heat-Bobcats game, Dwyane Wade was pissed at Ramon Sessions, so he kicked Sessions in the balls. No, seriously.
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BOOM.
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The Best Marketing Stunt Of 2012
The hands-down winner.
This is the only flash mob I've ever liked.
The spot ran during the 2012 Super Bowl, but only in Canada.
Though the framing was heavy-handed (to be expected when the "King of Beers" is involved), the commercial was better than all the American Super Bowl crap.
And yes, I know Improv Everywhere did the idea with Little Leaguers, but this stunt is better, simply because these men have no dreams of going pro.
Ad agency: Anomaly, NYC.
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The Brooklyn Nets Have Fired Coach Avery Johnson
Only 28 games into the season, the Nets have decided to part ways with their embattled coach. As part-owner Jay-Z might say: on to the next one.
Image by Adam Hunger / Reuters
After coaching the Brooklyn Nets to a 14–14 record 28 games into the 2012–13 season, Avery Johnson has been fired by the team. The news was first reported by Yahoo's Adrian Wojnarowski and later confirmed by the team. Ironically, this is by far the best Nets record during his tenure as coach through 28 games — in both 2010–11 and 2011–12, the team was 8–20 — but with a considerably deeper pool of talent and a much higher payroll, the Nets were expected to contend for the conference championship by owner Mikhail Prokhorov.
The team started the season 11–4 but have won only 3 of their last 10 games after suffering injuries to starting center Brook Lopez. Highly paid guards Deron Williams and Joe Johnson have both struggled to score efficiently and work well together so far this year, and Williams, the cornerstone of the team both financially and on the court, claimed to be having trouble with Johnson's system. Williams is widely thought to have led to previous coach Jerry Sloan's departure when he was with the Utah Jazz; Sloan had coached the team for 23 seasons before resigning in 2011. Considering D-Will's past trouble, people are already thinking that he may have led directly to Johnson's firing as well.
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Fired Brooklyn Nets Coach's Son Went Off On Twitter
“I'm sorry are [sic] best players couldn't make open shots. Yeah that's my dads fault totally…”
The Brooklyn Nets fired head coach Avery Johnson this morning after losing 7 of the last 10 games after being coach of the month for November. Johnson's system had been recently criticized by the team's star Deron Williams.
Image by Adam Hunger / Reuters
Well Johnson's son Avery Johnson Jr. took to Twitter to voice his discontent.
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If You Want To Trap Kobayashi, Lure Him With Twinkies
Takeru Kobayashi, may be known for hot dogs, but the man loves Twinkies.
The video is an ad for Thuzio.com. It's a site that allows you to pay to book athletes for appearance or "experiences." Some of them seem pretty cool (private basketball lessons with Rick Barry) others (like dinner with former baseball player Jacque Jones or basketball's favorite drunk Vin Baker) they'd have to pay me for..
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9 Examples Of Notre Dame Fans Acting Very Smug
The smuggest in the nation, by far.
This uninspired stab at Alabama.
Via: @JimmyClausen
This slightly funnier but still reprehensible shirt.
Via: @Jinxzito
Naming a dog "Domer."
Via: @DickieV
Claiming this sign as a "Notre Dame tradition."
The "Play Like A Champion Today" sign didn't come from Notre Dame, it has a history at Oklahoma dating back to the 1940s. It didn't appear in the Notre Dame locker room until the Lou Holtz era.
Via: youtube.com
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Alabama Quarterback's Girlfriend Attended Hated Rival, Auburn
It's like Romeo and Juliet, only it takes place in the south and college football is involved.
This is AJ McCarron. He's the star quarterback of the Alabama Crimson Tide.
Image by The Tuscaloosa News, Michelle Lepianka Carter / AP
Alabama's biggest rival is Auburn. To say the school's dislike each other would be an understatement. Their hatred for one another is nearly unmatched in college football.
Source: saturdaydownsouth.com
Which is why this photo of McCarron and Miss Alabama Katherine Webb together on Christmas Eve is so interesting. Webb is an Auburn grad.
[Notation my own.]
Webb met McCarron on Twitter and the two have gotten closer since. After Webb tweeted the photo on Christmas Eve, her friends began commenting on it. This exchange in particular seemed to point to a relationship.
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How To Troll: A Masterclass By A Professional Gambler
Poker pro Bob Voulgaris, who was featured as a basketball betting genius in Silver's book “The Signal And The Noise,” gets a lot of crap on Twitter from haters, so he put on a masterclass in trolling.
This is Haralabos "Bob" Voulgaris. He's a professional poker player who has gained a reputation over the last few years as a very successful NBA gambler.
Simmons often dubbed the Voulgaris episodes "Smart Guy Wednesdays."
Voulgaris has a star turn in New York Times stat guru Nate Silver's new best-selling book "The Signal And The Noise."
Image by Robert Gauldin / AP
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This Mind-Bending Buzzer Beater Went In Against All Laws Of Basketball
Even as far as last-gasp desperation shots go, Darren Collison's buzzer-beater was gasp-y and desperate. And yet, the basketball gods do answer some prayers.
Thursday night, the Oklahoma City Thunder came back from a double-digit deficit to take the lead on the Dallas Mavericks right at the end. The Mavs had 2.2 seconds to tie. It didn't look likely. But.
Mavs point guard Darren Collison managed to hit a totally improbable and unconventional buzzer-beater to send the game into overtime.
Check it out: The ball, which I've helpfully highlighted in red, left Collison's hand with only 0.2 seconds left on the clock.
You can tell from Collison's body language that even he had no confidence in that ball going in. And that's not surprising — he tossed the shot up about as haphazardly as possible.
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One Of The Greatest Punts Ever Punted Was Punted Last Night
This ridiculous corkscrew of a kick defies physics, probability, and common sense, and it might be the longest without the aid of wind in the history of college football.
Last night in the Belk Bowl, Duke freshman Will Monday uncorked what is probably the best punt you'll ever see.
The punt will officially go down as a 79-yarder, but Monday kicks the ball at about the 11, and it tiptoes down the sideline before taking a strange turn just before the opposite goal line. That's an 87-yard punt, if punts were measured at the point of the kick. His previous season long was 60.
What makes it so remarkable isn't just the kick itself, which covers a very impressive distance in the air, or how it somehow hugs the sideline without going out of bounds. It's the way that, right at the one-yard line, the ball comes to a complete stop despite momentum and expectations. The best possible result for a punt, short of forcing the other team into a turnover, is for it to stop at the one-yard line, and that's exactly what this punt does.
The NCAA record for FBS schools is 99 yards, set by Pat Brady of Nevada against Loyola Marymount in 1950, but Brady had some help in the form of high winds. At least one observer suggested that this was the longest punt in NCAA history without the aid of wind.
Via: @realDHB
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A Guide To The NFL Finale's Must-Watch Games
Robert Griffin vs. Tony Romo and Adrian Peterson going for the rushing record are among the highlights of a fantastic last weekend of the NFL regular season.
The last game before the playoffs. The final weekend of the regular season. A chance to make a statement going into the coldest winter months, or an opportunity to continue limboing toward that lowest possible draft pick. Either way, Week 17 means something even in an NFL where every game means something. Here's what to know about each game, and which ones you should focus your limited time on, based on whether they determine nothing, have seeding implications, or mean everything for the teams involved.
THE GAMES YOU CAN IGNORE
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Jets at Bills: Ryan Fitzpatrick and Mark Sanchez square off to 1) determine who will come in last in the AFC East, and 2) provide an audition tape for other suitors next year, because they've both pretty much worn out their welcome on their respective teams.
Buccaneers at Falcons: Atlanta has the #1 seed in the NFC, along with home-field advantage, locked up, and since the Bucs are both well clear of the playoffs and no longer relevant thanks to the end of fantasy leagues — we had a good run, Doug Martin — there's nothing to see here. That is, unless you'd like to continue rubbernecking at the implosion of Josh Freeman.
Panthers at Saints: If you'd like to watch two mediocre, underachieving football teams complete the last stage of dragging down their supremely talented quarterbacks, than boy, do I have the game for you!
Browns at Steelers: As a normal human being capable of love and emotion, you probably hate the Steelers. Therefore, you probably rejoiced last week when Pittsburgh tripped and fell down the sluggish, semi-operational escalator that is the Cincinnati Bengals. (As a metaphor, I will also accept that the Bengals are like those moving walkways in airports.) And this week, you'll probably pull for the Browns to beat the Steelers and make them feel bad. Or maybe you're a Steelers fan, in which case, ah, well, you can't win the Super Bowl every year.
4:25 p.m.
Raiders at Chargers: Whichever team wins this game should get to move to Los Angeles so they can be relevant again.
THE GAMES THAT MEAN SOMETHING BUT NOT EVERYTHING
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Some Dude Threw His Skiing Child Down A Slope While Yelling "Pizza" At Him
Sometimes, skiing is fun. Sometimes, it's the scariest thing ever. Sometimes, it's like this.
I remember when I first tried to snowboard as a child down a hillside near my home. I made it about 10 feet, crashed to the ground, got snow inside my gloves and gave up. The whole thing sucked, but that was kind of the point: I learned that snowboarding might not be for me.
The folks at Hypervocal recently posted this video of "jackass dad" teaching his young child to ski, and it's harrowing. A simple trip down what looks to be a bunny hill quickly escalates, and all of a sudden your child is hurtling down a mountain dodging other skiers and trying not to break every limb in his body.
A second-by-second recap doesn't place the "jackass dad" in a good light.
:09 - With a slight nudge from a woman who is presumably his mother, the kid slowly crawls down the slope. The dad hollers "Yeah, you got it!" encouragingly.
:12 - The kid is picking up some speed, but handling things rather well. We can tell this isn't the kid's first voyage on skis. The dad, a total bro himself, yells "YEEEEEEEEEAH BROOOO!"
:17 - "PIZZZA!!!!" The dad, realizing that "Holy shit my kid is pulling away from me oh my god," tells the child to point his skis together at the tips, forming the shape of a pizza. "Pizza" slows you down, whereas "French Fries," holding your skis parallel, speeds you up. Eight seconds into his ride, it was long past Pizza time.
:23-:29 - If you listen very closely, you can hear the kid sqealing for dear life. He probably feels as if he's going 200 miles per hour, and he barely misses a stationary skier by about two feet. Trees are coming into view. Pants are likely soiled. The father screams a bloodcurdling "PIZZZAAAAAAAAAA! DO A PIZZAAAAAA!"
:43 - Finally, the kid loses his composure and crumples to the earth, rolling a few times to a complete stop. The kid's crying, but the father seems kind of ecstatic: "Aw bro! You gotta pizza!"
1:02 - The father reaches out for a high-five. "You're good!" Meanwhile, the kid is hysterical.
Kid: "I'M NOT DOING IT AGAINNNNNNNNNNN!"
Father: "Dude, good job dude! Dude, you survived!"
Is that bad parenting? (We're assuming this bro is the child's father; for all we know, it's his cousin/brother/guardian/friend/etc. In which case: is this bad guardianship?) I don't think so. How the hell else do you learn to ski? Skiing is a dangerous hobby. If skiing was easy, we'd all live in cabins in Colorado and ski to work. Give it a week, and this kid will probably want to ski again.
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