The University of Mexico? Mexico State? Mexico Tech? Or just some confused television producer?
They might be amazing athletes, but these smiley, happy dogs are also completely adorable!
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This is the closest to basketball greatness most of us will ever get.
"SHUT UP! You're not guarding "red shirt," you're guarding Brian. My name is Brian."
And get them messed up on the street? Are you crazy?
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How do you keep a dying meme alive? By blowing people's minds.
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The NHL hasn't had ties since 2004.
The world's greatest boxing trainer talks goon technique.
Everyone knows that hockey players like to make with the punching. But are they actually good at it? We asked Freddie Roach — Manny Pacquiao's trainer, a five-time boxing trainer of the year, and a Bruins fan — to break down the season's most explosive fight thus far, between Toronto's Colton Orr and Pittsburgh's Deryk Engelland on Jan. 23.
A Massachusetts native, Roach's favorite player was Bobby Orr (no relation to Colton Orr) — "He was everybody in Boston's favorite player," says Roach — but he remembers appreciating the work of tough guy Wayne Cashman. Roach was never much of a hockey fighter himself, though: "I wasn't that good on skates, so I'd have to take my skates off to fight." (And if he had to respond while still on the ice? "I'd just fucking use the stick.")
The bout we looked at has the highest rating of any brawl this season from readers of the indispensable HockeyFights.com, a comprehensive database of on-ice scraps, and lasted for over a minute before the combatants ran out of steam and were separated by linesmen. Herewith, Roach's expert analysis.
1. A fiery start.
Both Engelland and Orr begin the fight with a wild flurry of punches. This might be a bad, energy-wasting idea in boxing, but Roach says it isn't the worst strategy in hockey, where fights last only until the linesmen intervene (which rarely takes too long) and direct the players to the penalty box. "They don't know how much time they have to get their damage done." It's during this exchange that Orr knocks off Engelland's helmet, which Roach says gives him an advantage because it provides him with a larger "striking target." The head is now in play. And, says Roach: "You don't want to be striking a helmet because then you're going to break your hand for sure."
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Weeks after saying a gay teammate wouldn't be welcome in an NFL locker room, the San Francisco cornerback made another step toward amends.
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Starring a kid named Dong Dong.
Self-appointed nicknames need to be stopped!
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This is an official video from an NBA team. And it's amazing.
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Do the robot, Christopher. Do it on television.
This is just the latest edition in a long line of great Chris Bosh photobombs. Boshobombs, you could call them. Or photoBoshes. Either/or.
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French pole vaulter has a real case of the sacre blues.
As proven by Gonzaga's #1 ranking.
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Gonzaga is not the best team in the country. Gonzaga may not even be one of the ten best teams in the country. Gonzaga's record against the AP Top 25 is 1-2, which includes losses to two teams that have since fallen out of the poll, Butler and Illinois.
Yet Gonzaga is now ranked #1 in the AP poll. Despite having beaten only one top-25 team and feasting on what analyst Ken Pomeroy rates as the nation's 94th-hardest schedule, that number-one ranking is not wrong. It's not right, but it's not wrong. No college basketball regular season event is right or wrong. The college regular season is nihilism. The AP poll means nothing, Lebowski.
Think of it this way: the regular season is life, and March Madness is Death. March Madness/Death overwhelms all that comes before it. In human civilization, most systems of morality are predicated on the idea that we should care about what happens during life because it will affect what happens when we die — that we will be rewarded or punished in the afterlife for what we do here. The college basketball equivalent of this belief system is the idea that the regular season is important because good lives (good regular seasons) are rewarded in the afterlife (the Tournament) with high seeds.
But a high seed is far from a ticket to heaven. A single-elimination, six-round tournament is a preposterously random way to determine a champion. All that faith, all those good deeds, all those impressive victories over teams with top-50 RPI, can go right out the window in the blink of a 5'11" walk-on's lucky three-pointer, while some goofballs who didn't even have a winning record in their own conference — the basketball equivalent of a life spent lying and cheating and coveting neighbors' goods — go skipping away with the title.
One becomes disillusioned. One realizes that the Selection Committee cannot be both all-knowing, all-good, and all-powerful.
But this is simply the cost of having a playoff system that generates excitement through randomness. The significance of any given sport's regular season exists in an inverse relationship with the uncertainty of the playoffs. On one hand, you have college basketball; on the other, you have international soccer leagues, where the regular season is basically everything because there are no playoffs at all — the sporting equivalent of secular humanism. In soccer, it is possible to create meaning out of merely a life well-lived/a season well-played. (This explains why soccer is the most popular sport in France.)
But this is America, a land of extreme ethical divergence, of Puritanism and Las Vegas. Where good behavior is either rewarded in the afterlife with home-field advantage and bye weeks, or everything comes down to single-elimination coin flips. College basketball, needless to say, settles on the gambler's side of that dichotomy. And if there is no God, Gonzaga at number one is permitted.
Jay Bilas calls college basketball games for a living. But he's also living proof that one human can have truly undeniable swag.
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That sound you hear is Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition editors planning next year's cover.
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That is Ania on the left. A 22-year-old Russian fan of Kate Upton who recreated her cover pose and tweeted it at the famed model. Upton retweeted the shot, which started an onslaught of attention that culminated today in a Q&A on Sports Illustrated's new Swimsuit blog.
SD: Did you get a lot of feedback? Did any guys try to ask you on a date?
Ania: My twitter bio says "Mail order bride in training" and people took that quite seriously, even though it's a total joke. I'm getting a lot of marriage proposals.
SD: Did you get more Twitter followers?
Ania: Before the retweet I had 78. I'm currently at 2600, so yes.
Read more of the interview over at Sports Illustrated Swim Daily.
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DeMarcus Cousins has perfected the way you do this game wrong.
