Here comes another sports-inspired photo trend.
I use quotes because he had a facemask on so he really just brought his bicep to his mask, but it looked like he was kissing it.
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If he stood there shooting for the rest of his life, there is no way he could ever do this again.
Finn Jori Lehterä humiliates Slovak goalkeeper Rastislav Staňa without actually taking a shot.
During Sunday's KHL all-star game, Lehterä (a 2008 3rd-round pick of the St. Louis Blues) was awarded a penalty shot. If you look closely, he has a slight grin on his face as he picks up the puck at center ice.
Physically speaking, inertia scored on Staňa, a Pittsburgh Penguin. In fact that is how I would have listed it in the box score: GOAL (penalty shot) Inertia, 1.
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The Finns are crafty fuckers on penalty shots.
Check the move put on by Finnish league pro Tommi Huhtala — it's the last goal on this short highlight clip, below. Jump to :57 to skip his more pedestrian goals.
Yes, he fanned on purpose.
Announcer charmed by sideline reporter.
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Play-by-play legend Brent Musburger caused a bit of a stir during the BCS national championship game last week when he all but publicly professed his love for Alabama quarterback AJ McCarron's girlfriend Katherine Webb. It was an odd yet probably ultimately harmless moment, given that Musburger is 73 years old, but ESPN still saw fit to issue a public apology in the wake of the fiasco. (Webb, meanwhile, landed a spot in the upcoming Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue.) Musburger seems to be somewhere between peeved and bemused by the whole situation, if we're to take his smart-aleck comment at the end of last night's Kansas-Baylor game as any indication: as the broadcast wound down and Musburger thanked his colleagues, he noted that sideline reporter Holly Rowe had been "really smokin' tonight."
Brent, you salty old dog!
Dammit Charles!
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The photo was taken in 1886 during the Opening Day game between the New York Giants and the Boston Beaneaters (really?).
With one finger Charles "Old Hoss" Radbourn of the Boston Beaneaters (seriously?) earns a place in history as the first known man to flip the bird on camera. Bonus points for managing to photobomb in a time when photographs required almost a full minute of complete stillness not to come out blurry.
Yellow bracelets are viciously cut in half as the countdown to Armstrong's public admission of doping continues.
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It's not that Marcin Gortat wasn't interested in blocking a shot, he was just busy with other things at the time.
Pay attention to what happens after the dunk: An excited Kendrick Perkins trots over and slaps Durant in the face. Thanks for that, Kendrick.
All kidding aside, Gortat was a good sport about the whole ordeal, admitting to AZCentral Sports that "I ain’t going to deny; that was probably one of the top three dunks of the year."
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H/T Scott Bordow at AZCentral.com
Thanks for nothing, OWN.
We all jumped to conclusions on this one.
Turns out he just wanted to spice up his interior decor and maybe save his wood floors from a bit of wear and tear. Classic media blunder.
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If you've reached this point in your relationship, you no longer have a relationship.
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The rise and fall of America's greatest cyclist.
Armstrong was a prodigious triathlete as a teenager, and won the national sprint-course triathlon in 1989 and 1990.
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1993 was the year Armstrong really splashed onto the cycling scene. He beat cycling legend Miguel Indurain to capture the '93 World Championship in Oslo, and also won his first Tour de France individual stage. He would struggle to maintain the same level of success over the next few years, however, as he worked to reform his bulky triathlete's body into one more suitable to cycling. In his book It's Not About the Bike, Armstrong would actually say the ravaging effects of his cancer helped him become an elite cyclist, as he needed to completely rebuild his body. Within a year, Armstrong would begin working with Dr. Michele Ferrari, who gave him advice about doping and treated him for over a decade, according to the 2012 United States Anti-Doping Agency report.
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Armstrong was given less than a 50 percent chance of living, but underwent sugery and chemotherapy, and had one of his testicles removed. In February of 1997, Armstrong was cancer free.
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Today in frivolous lawsuits.
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On November 29th, the San Antonio Spurs played shorthanded against the Miami Heat and lost by five, 105-100, in what was a wholly entertaining game. Having played five road games in the span of seven days, Spurs coach Gregg Popovich sent Tim Duncan, Tony Parker, Danny Green, and Manu Ginobili back to San Antonio prior to their stop in Miami to rest. Popovich argued it was in the best interest of the team, but the NBA nonetheless levied a $250,000 dollar fine. For one Miami fan, that wasn't enough of a punishment.
Miami area fan and lawyer Larry McGuinness filed a class action lawsuit against the San Antonio Spurs, claiming that he "suffered economical damages" due to Popovich "intentionally and surrepticiously" sent home star players, according to ESPN. McGuinness's case is basically that tickets to a Spurs game cost more than tickets to a Bobcats game would — because of the star players involved and general success of the Spurs — and Popovich unfairly denied him that extra value.
"It was like going to Morton's Steakhouse and paying $63 for porterhouse and they bring out cube steak. That's exactly what happened here."
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Actually it's more like going to Morton's Steakhouse and paying $63 for a porterhouse but they ran out of porterhouse so they serve a similar cut and it's just about the best steak you can remember having but you're a stiff and decide to complain about not having the porterhouse. Hopefully next time you go to Morton's Steakhouse Dwyane Wade spits in your soup.
Well, this is adorable.
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NC State adopts a new slogan to commemorate one of their biggest fans.
Privette was quickly swallowed up by the mob of unruly State students, and had to be saved by forward CJ Leslie. The pair appeared on the Today Show this morning to tell their story, but NC State is now turning Privette's fearless rush into an officially licensed battle cry.
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John Rocker is still insane.
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“Help me burn that old man.” “Stop doing heroin.”
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His career is over, and his reputation in shambles. But Livestrong.com, a health and fitness website founded with his support, surges on.
In 2008, Livestrong — the cancer awareness and survivorship foundation originally created by Lance Armstrong — licensed out its name to SEO-juicing content farm Demand Media. The deal was flush for Armstrong at the time, bringing him hundreds of thousands of shares of stock that were sold for around $4.3 million.
And so for the last four years, there have been two sites bearing the Livestrong name, Livestrong.org and Livestrong.com. They have in common that they are no longer associated with Armstrong; in the wake of the United States Anti-Doping Agency issuing Armstrong a lifetime ban from competition and stripping him of all his titles since 1998, he stepped down as chairman of Livestrong the foundation, also ending his less direct association with Demand, which kept its perpetual license to use the "Livestrong" name.
Livestrong.org is the landing pad for Livestrong the foundation, which raises money for cancer awareness and survivorship (but not research, a cause that many often mistakenly associate with Livestrong). Livestrong.com, on the other hand, is a website in the vein of About.com or Demand Media's eHow that, through aggressive search engine optimization strategies, attempts to capture people Googling things like "How to lose five pounds in one week."
Demand's model depends on its ability to stay ever-so-slightly ahead of Google's monthly-updated search algorithm, which is designed to prevent search engine optimization from being too effective (in Google's perfect world, SEO would be impossible). Google is a traffic doping authority of sorts, working constantly to detect and ban unfair search-juicing techniques; as in Armstrong's heyday, however, the juicers have managed to keep in front.
Last November, Demand Media took steps to distance itself further from Armstrong. "The advertisers did care about the affiliation [to Armstrong]," a source told AllThingsD's Kara Swisher. "So it was time to say in no uncertain terms to them and shareholders that Lance Armstrong has nothing to do with Demand." During an earnings call, CEO and co-founder Richard Rosenblatt told investors "our relationship is with the Livestrong Foundation, not with Lance."
But since the site is less a central destination than set of landing pages for search queries, it has proven immune to the Armstrong fallout. In fact, according to a Demand Media spokesperson, it's been growing. "In this past year we've only seen continued growth in the number of people coming to Livestrong.com," Kristen Moore, Demand Media's spokesperson, told BuzzFeed. She says the site is up to 15m unique visitors a month, which is 62% higher than the same time last year — after Armstrong had started making headlines for doping.
As such, the company tone toward Armstrong seems to have softened. Asked if Demand Media had any plans to distance itself further from Armstrong, or to reconsider the Livestrong brand, Moore told BuzzFeed, "we'll continue to watch the news about Mr. Armstrong closely. However, our first priority is to listen to the consumers." And the consumers, it seems, don't mind the headlines a bit.
In other words, Lance Armstrong's most lasting, visible legacy — one that could survive long after he's faded into obscurity, and possibly even after Livestrong the foundation, hampered by the disappointment caused by its former chairman, becomes a shell of itself — could be the search results that come up when you search what to do about your hangnail.
The document, obtained from insider sources, reveals an intense discussion of Armstrong's future plans.
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BuzzFeed Sports has acquired the following exclusive preview of the Oprah Winfrey-Lance Armstrong interview that will air tomorrow.
PARTIAL TRANSCRIPT, OWN NETWORK, INTERVIEW #6754.
AIR DATE: 1/17/13 (part 1) and 1/18/13 (part 2)
SLUG: LANCE ARMSTRONG COMES CLEANOprah: Lance, thank you for being here. Thank you for showing the courage to be here.
Lance Armstrong: Thank you, Oprah.
OW: Let's get right to the heart of it. Right to what everyone wants to know — have you ever, during the course of your twenty-plus-year career in cycling, knowingly used performance-enhancing DRUUUUUUUUU-UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGS?!?!?
[audience applauds wildly]
LA: Can I first — I have a statement I'd like to read.
OW: You seem shaken.
LA: This is emotional for me. I'd like to read a statement, if I could.
OW: Of course. Take your time. This is hard.
LA: To the employees of Livestrong, my fans, and fans of cycling. While I am disappointed by recent events, today marks the start of a new era in the career of Lance Armstrong and my new not not-for-profit foundation, LanceArmstrongStrong. All the money collected by LanceArmstrongStrong will go towards the fight against homelessness as it pertains to Lance Armstrong.
OW: This is not what I was expecting.
LA: [holds up a shriveled coin purse] LanceArmstrongStrong will be distributing these LanceArmstrongStrong pouches, which are recreations of my amputated testicle, and all proceeds will go the LanceArmstrongStrong Foundation for Lance Armstrong.
OW: That's quite unusual.
LA: Well, it's one-third scale. This isn't actual size. These were made by the same company that makes rubber vaginas and to make it actual size, as far as the current rates for Taiwanese freight, would...
OW: That's not what I meant by "unusual." [sighs] Let's bring out a friend of mine, who as a fellow Texan, can hopefully get through to you. Please welcome, Dr. PHIIII-IIIIIIIIIIIIL!!!!!
[audience begins to riot]
[trapdoor in the floor swings open and Dr. Phil rises from the blackness in a cloud of dry ice]
Dr. Phil: Lance, Lance, Lance, Lance...
LA: Dr. Phil.
DP: Lance, let me ask you something.
LA: Shoot.
DP: You ever hear that saying about how in the summer heat out in the Texas panhandle a jackrabbit'll burrow down deep in the ground to get away from hot ol' sun and as it burrows down and makes its warrens in the deep, dark earth it'll begin to molt, know what I mean, and shed all that fur and down there in the blackness it'll find a mate and they'll roll around and make little jackrabbits, rolling and turning in the dusky warrens until the sun goes down and then he'll come up into the Texas night and look around and think "what'm I doin' with my life in these deep, dark holes, coming up at night for food? How's that workin' for me?" and he'll bound across the dew-drop fields and chew on plants and drop his little fecal pellets all around the...
[Oprah rises and tasers Dr. Phil in the neck]
[audience applauds as Dr. Phil is dragged offstage by Stedman]
OW: Lance, I can't help but feel like Phil was on to something. I can't let you off the hook. For years now you've been adamant that you have never used PEDs. When journalists and whistle-blowers would surface and attempt to link you to performance enhancers, you would go out of your way to discredit and destroy them. Now, after all your old teammates have turned on you, and in the wake of an exhaustive investigation by the USADA, are you ready to come clean?
LA: I am, Oprah. [takes a deep breath] I would also like to announce that I'm sorry.
OW: For what?
LA: Just in general. For stuff. For instance, I inspired Sheryl Crow to write at least one song. That's pretty bad, and I'm sorry for that. Sorry that happened. But I'm a survivor; that's how I inspire people. I survived the cancer that burst out of my balls and I was able to do that because of my will and the medicines doctors gave me. Yes, medicines. Did I use PEDs? Cycling is an ultra-competitive sport, Oprah. It's filled with self-centered egomaniacs who do anything and take anything to win; who relish ruining people as a matter of course; and who have no compunction about turning on those closest to them if doing so can at all benefit them. But there's a dark side to the sport too, Oprah. You want me to name the performance enhancers I've supposedly taken? Listen, I'd drink donkey urine if I thought it would help me win and I don't mean just because donkey urine is a very effective masking agent, or so I've heard. So, yes, I took things to help me compete with all the other dirtbags; I call those things medicines.
OW: Well, that's a start, I guess.
[polite applause]
LA: It is; it's a brand new start. That's what my new foundation LanceArmstrongStrong is all about — fresh starts.
OW: Lance, getting back to the perfo...
LA: My new foundation? [holds up shriveled pouch] The LanceArmstrongStrong foundation to support Lance Armstrong is a not not-for profit —
OW: Not for profit?
LA: Not.
OW: Not FOR profit...
LA: Not...not.
OW: Just to be clear, do you or you do not profit from LanceArmstrongStrong?
LA: Exactly.
OW: Lance, again, I can't help but feel like you're not being one-hundred percent truthful.
LA: What good has the truth ever done, Oprah? Can you inspire people with the truth? Maybe, but can you inspire millions of people with the truth? In my opinion, you can't.
OW: I...
LA: Jodie Foster is gay.
------END PARTIAL TRANSCRIPT------
What a strange direction this story seems to have taken! We'll let you know more as we hear it.
Dirk floated up into space on a balloon! Hey, Space Dirk.
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