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Why Hockey Players Should Always Wear Visors

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Protect your faces, dummies!

This is Marc Staal. He plays for the New York Rangers. Notice he does not wear a visor on his helmet.

This is Marc Staal. He plays for the New York Rangers. Notice he does not wear a visor on his helmet.

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For comparison, here's Staal's teammate Rick Nash. Notice he does have a visor on his helmet.

For comparison, here's Staal's teammate Rick Nash. Notice he does have a visor on his helmet.

Image by Ray Stubblebine / Reuters

Players wear visors to protect their eyes. After this incident last night, Staal probably wishes he had been wearing one.

Players wear visors to protect their eyes. After this incident last night, Staal probably wishes he had been wearing one.

Warning. The next two shots more graphic.


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A GIF Tribute To The Late Paul Bearer

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'90s wrestling icon Paul Bearer passed away Tuesday at age 58.

Paul Bearer hoisting his beloved urn:

Paul Bearer hoisting his beloved urn:

Source: you-know-something-mean-gene

The WWE announced on its site that William Moody, best known as "Paul Bearer", passed away Tuesday night. Paul Bearer was The Undertaker's manager, his gimmick being a play on Moody's actual experience as mortician. He first debuted with the WWE in 1990, and worked on and off for the WWE until just recently.

His over the top makeup and "ooooh yes" catchphrase made him a fan favorite, even as a heel. Unquestionably, Paul Bearer was the most popular manager in wrestling history. Details about the cause of death have not yet been released, though he suffered poor health for a number of years. He was 58.

Taking his urn to the ring:

Taking his urn to the ring:

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Urn talk:

Urn talk:


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Remember That Time Ichiro Met Michael Jordan In 1995?

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Watch the 22-year-old future Hall of Famer adorably geek out meeting his idol.

In 1995, a 22-year-old, scrawny, star-struck Ichiro Suzuki met Michael Jordan at the peak of his career. At the time Ichiro was a complete unknown to Americans. In Japan, he was a budding star. Watch him bug out.

Here's Ichiro looking absolutely adorable in front of MJ's locker.

Here's Ichiro looking absolutely adorable in front of MJ's locker.

Yes, that is a Tom and Jerry turtleneck sweater!

Here he is shaking hands with his idol.

Here he is shaking hands with his idol.

Commence freak out in...


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Someone Stole Kobe Bryant's Towel

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This is the work of a brave soul.

Last night was rough for Kobe Bryant. Not only did his Lakers get killed by the Thunder and Russell Westbrook's 37 points...

Last night was rough for Kobe Bryant. Not only did his Lakers get killed by the Thunder and Russell Westbrook's 37 points...

Image by Bill Waugh / Reuters

Not only did he hurt his elbow and walk off the floor while grimacing...

Not only did he hurt his elbow and walk off the floor while grimacing...

Image by Bill Waugh / Reuters

HE ALSO HAD HIS TOWEL STOLEN!

HE ALSO HAD HIS TOWEL STOLEN!

Sure he still had another towel, but Kobe's post-loss hatred requires multiple towels to clean up. Everyone knows that.


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LeBron James' Kids Have Awesome Kid 'N Play Haircuts

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LeBron James Jr. and Bryce Maximus James are the coolest.

LeBron shared this photo of his kids' awesome haircuts on Instagram last night.

LeBron shared this photo of his kids' awesome haircuts on Instagram last night.

Source: instagram.com

The only proper reaction to this photo:

The only proper reaction to this photo:

LeBron, you are the coolest dad.

LeBron, you are the coolest dad.

Image by Michael Perez / AP

New Owner Of NBA Washout's Home Describes Basement Shooting Range, Jar Of Urine, Abandoned El Camino

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Ex-Sonic Robert Swift's foreclosed on million-dollar home is a garbage-strewn disaster. Its new owner tells BuzzFeed about the scene she found when they arrived to clean it out.

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Robert Swift was drafted 12th overall by the Seattle Supersonics in 2004 out of high school, but only played in a total of 97 games over four injury-filled seasons in the league. Now Swift is making headlines for a much darker reason: When his home in Washington State was foreclosed upon, Swift left behind an absolute mess.

BuzzFeed spoke with Jessica Ko-Dalzell, one of the house's owners. She described the scene that she and her husband found, and have been dealing with, since Swift moved out and they began to try to reclaim the house, which they bought last year at auction.

We purchased the home at auction, but right now I wouldn't call it a home — it's more just a house. My husband and I got married in September, and this is our first purchased home together. Since we got it at auction, we obviously couldn't see the inside, but we figured it couldn't be that bad — it was built in 2000 and originally sold for more than a million. We figured it was in good upkeep, just with some trash around.

First off, the lawn guy said he didn't think they ever raked the leaves, and all the grass under them is dead. When we first stepped into the house, the stench was just awful; I'm 5 feet 4 inches, and there were piles of garbage as tall as me in the garage. And this is a big garage, probably five cars, and it seemed like they just opened the door of the house and threw the kitchen garbage in here. They've never had garbage service. We've cleared out four Dumpsters of stuff so far, and there's still a bit more.

It was rancid: Flies and maggots everywhere. This is our third day, following two 10-hour days of five or six people working, not including the lawn guys, and we're still clearing stuff out.

The inside was pretty nasty too. The master bedroom was the worst-smelling room — I don't know if he slept there or not, but it was disgusting. We found a five-gallon jug of piss sitting in the corner of the room. The bathroom was disgusting, the toilets were disgusting. One of the sinks had a towel over it and it was like straight out of a horror movie: When we took away the towel, flies flew out, and the sink was filled with maggots. It turned out that someone had vomited into the sink and didn't want to clean it up, so they just covered it in a towel.

The back deck was covered in dog crap — it looked like an elephant had had diarrhea. Robert apparently had two great danes, and they just let them crap, then shoveled it into a pile on the wooden deck. But because it rains so much here, it eventually just turned liquidy and spread to cover the entire deck.

Every surface of the house needs to be touched and cleaned and scrubbed down. I'm not sure whether we'll keep the appliances or not, which are really nice appliances, stainless steel, but they'd been using the stove as a grill — they just threw a wire rack on top of it and started grilling food. The dishwasher was being held closed with duct tape. There was no heat, and it smells like they sat in the house and just smoked — you can smell it in the walls. We have to change all the toilets, which are all disgusting. And they had kid stuff in there, which is so sad to me; I would've never let a child live in that situation. My husband is saying he never wants to eat off those countertops.

Robert really liked his guns and his firearms. We found so many bullets, bullet casings, slugs — like, at least 100–200 loose bullets, boxes three-quarters full of bullets. I think they were using one of their rooms in the basement as a shooting range. They were just shooting bullets into the foundation of their house, and we'll probably have to see if we can get the support beams switched out, because some of them are pretty frayed. There was also a mannequin torso or something that they were shooting at that had holes in it. The furnace runs on gas, and it's right near where they were shooting, and I'm sure there are gas lines in the ceiling for the stove; I'm sure they got ricochets once in a while. That was the weirdest thing to me. He left a ton of BB guns and stuff — I'm guessing he took most of the real guns.

There were also cars left here. He left an El Camino that had no engine, and there were two cars left in the cul-de-sac. When we arrived, the sheriff came up and asked if it was our car, and he ran the plates — the tow guy absolutely loved us, because it turned out that a big black Nissan Titan, which must have been Robert's truck, was on the repossession list, so he got an extra 500 bucks for that. The sheriff and the other residents have been really nice to us — I think they're probably excited that a new owner might take a little better care of it.

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"Game Of Thrones" Meets "Sports Illustrated"

27 Things Found In A Former Pro Athlete's Foreclosed House

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NBA draft bust Robert Swift's foreclosed home was recently bought. This is what was found inside.

Trash.

Trash.

Like a lot of trash.

Like a lot of trash.

Trash and guns.

Trash and guns.

Guns and trash.

Guns and trash.


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The Most Intense Hockey Fight You'll Ever See

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Quench your blood thirst! OR Punches in bunches!

Come at me bro!

Come at me bro!

No, you first!

No, you first!

Alright hosers, stop being polite, eh.

Alright hosers, stop being polite, eh.

*The dance begins*

*The dance begins*


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Basketball Is Dangerous

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Just ask Tiago Splitter's crotch.

The Bulls played the Spurs on Wednesday night. They were playing basketball, which you don't typically think as violence, but... then this sort of thing happens.

The Bulls played the Spurs on Wednesday night. They were playing basketball, which you don't typically think as violence, but... then this sort of thing happens.

AHHHHHH!!!! Basketball is scary. Wear cups! Oh, Tiago Splitter. Poor Tiago Splitter.

AHHHHHH!!!! Basketball is scary. Wear cups!  Oh, Tiago Splitter. Poor Tiago Splitter.

Splitter would get up and continue to play in the game, which he finished with a double-double. And for that, we must salute him.

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The 35 Ways You Know You're A Michigan Wolverine

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Bleeding maize and blue.

This is your house — that you share with 114,804 of your closest friends.

This is your house — that you share with 114,804 of your closest friends.

Image by Molly Riley / Reuters

This is your "little brother."

This is your "little brother."

Image by Paul Battaglia / AP

This man elicits a rage deep inside of you that you didn't know existed.

This man elicits a rage deep inside of you that you didn't know existed.

Image by Gene J. Puskar, File / AP

So does this guy (and his sweater vest).

So does this guy (and his sweater vest).

Image by Jamie Sabau / Getty Images


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Mind-Melting Frisbee Tricks Will Melt Minds

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These guys spent a lot of time on the quad at college.

The "Crazy Legs McGee"

The "Crazy Legs McGee"

The "FIFA"

The "FIFA"

The "Do A Barrel Roll!"

The "Do A Barrel Roll!"

The "Holy $#*% ARE YOU F%*ING KIDDING ME?!"

The "Holy $#*% ARE YOU F%*ING KIDDING ME?!"


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An NBA Team Is Playing Something Called The "Manwich" Defense

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And we have exclusive insider diagrams.

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The Celtics did something impressive last night in their win over the Indiana Pacers: they came from behind by holding the Pacers scoreless over the last four minutes and 36 seconds of the game. How'd they do it? Well, coach Doc Rivers had an interesting explanation:

We were laughing because, I think someone called it a manwich, a man zone, I mean, we were half zone, half man. It was almost silly, it really was. But it was really good.

BuzzFeed Sports has uncovered exclusive, revealing photos of the manwich zone in action, starting with this basic manwich deployed with just under four minutes remaining.

BuzzFeed Sports has uncovered exclusive, revealing photos of the manwich zone in action, starting with this basic manwich deployed with just under four minutes remaining.


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Why Exercise When You Can Buy This Snuggie?

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Now's your chance to totally fool people into thinking you're a college athlete. So long as those people are dumb.

We all know Snuggies, right? Yeah, Snuggies are great.

We all know Snuggies, right? Yeah, Snuggies are great.

Or maybe you're more of a Slanket person? Totally fine.

Or maybe you're more of a Slanket person? Totally fine.

Via: stupidevilbastard.com

Now, there's a body-shaped blanket that'll transform you into your favorite college football player! From this ...

Now, there's a body-shaped blanket that'll transform you into your favorite college football player! From this ...

Source: Shutterstock

... to this!

... to this!


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Head-Mounted Referee Cam Makes Rugby Seem Even Crazier

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New tech gives viewers an up-close view at the world's most dangerous team sport.

Here's rugby referee Chris Pollock, after being outfitted with the world's first sanctioned in-match rugby cam.

Here's rugby referee Chris Pollock, after being outfitted with the world's first sanctioned in-match rugby cam.

The ear-strapped gizmo means Australian TV viewers can see match footage that was never possible.

The ear-strapped gizmo means Australian TV viewers can see match footage that was never possible.

They can see the scrum from way up close.

They can see the scrum from way up close.

You can see Pollock explain one of his calls to a player four times his size.

You can see Pollock explain one of his calls to a player four times his size.


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Your Official NBA Western Conference Rooting Guide

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We're getting close to the finish of the NBA season, and it's time to choose a horse. A good horse who tries hard and takes high-efficiency shots. An efficient horse.

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The end of the NBA season is upon us, and it's time for you to make a choice. Maybe you've been following one NBA team all year, watching every game, reading all the box scores, and washing your Goran Dragic jersey with a toothbrush because it "just calms you down," but your team isn't going to be competing for a title this spring. Or maybe you haven't watched any sort of basketball, much less the professional version, and your knowledge of the NBA extends no further than Zero Dark Thirty, which goes to show how little you know, because that movie is mostly not about basketball. Either way, you need to figure out which squad you should be pulling for through the remainder of the season and the playoffs, and I'm here to help you figure out which squad that is. There are five teams in the Western Conference more or less certain to make the playoffs, and five more in the West who have the potential. Read on to figure out which of those 10 deserve your love and support and toothbrushing.

Speed Freaks Should Root For: The Houston Rockets

Speed Freaks Should Root For: The Houston Rockets

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Emblematic Player: James Harden

The Houston Rockets play fast. Like, really fast. Like, "Oh, defense? Does that mean it'll take us an extra second to get to the rim? Fuck that" fast. But the Rockets do this well, meaning that, between James "Jim" Harden's all-around lethal offensive game, Jeremy "Jeremy" Lin's dribble penetration, and the three-point-shooting prowess of Chandler Parsons, Houston is the league's most exciting team. Now, there are a number of different ways to be a speed freak: you watch a lot of NASCAR, or you tend to run everywhere instead of walking, or you have a really jacked-up high-falutin Internet connection, or you take meth. For any and all of these types of human, the Rockets are your team.


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Could Anyone Have Predicted The Fall Of Hockey's Can't-Miss Prospect?

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Once the brightest rising star in American hockey, goalie Rick DiPietro is now struggling in the minors. Looking back for warning signs, a writer who knew him way back when still can't believe it never worked out.

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Thirteen years ago, Rick DiPietro was the hottest thing in American hockey. As a freshman, the Winthrop, Massachusetts native fast became the biggest man on Boston University's campus, having arrived by way of the U.S. National Development Team, a prestigious high-school-type program in Ann Arbor, Michigan, that looks to churn out our next great hockey pro much in the way that baseball-crazy Caribbean nations fund specialized academies for elite prospects. He was skilled, photogenic, a rising American star in a sport that could always use a few more. After just one season at BU, one that ended in a heart-breaking loss in the NCAA Tournament, he declared for the NHL Draft and the New York Islanders made him the first goalie ever taken No. 1 overall.

Now, at only 31, DiPietro may have already played his final game in the NHL. Two weeks ago, still smack in the middle of a 15-year, $67 million contract that's dogged him since he put ink to paper, DiPietro was waived by the New York Islanders and eventually sent away to their minor-league affiliate. He told a local TV reporter he felt the Islanders had "ripped my heart out, stabbed it, set it on fire and flushed it down the toilet." He struggled mightily in his first two starts in the minors, allowing 11 goals on 64 shots. It looks like a miserable coda (in all likelihood) to a professional sports career that once held limitless promise.

When I heard about DiPietro's demotion, I couldn't help but feel for him personally. My sophomore year was his freshman season, and as the hockey beat writer for the student paper, I spent more time with the team than almost anyone who wasn't actually on it. I'd call him in his dorm room. He'd chat with me after games. I wrote an extended profile of him, one that focused almost exclusively on the bravado and tenacity that made earned him the conference's Rookie of the Year Award. Some wünderkinds might wash out because they never really like playing that much in the first place, pushed into playing by overzealous parents and coaches because of their natural athleticism and skill. That wasn't Rick.

The end of DiPietro's career is not a surprise — the player I'd seen the last 12-plus years rarely matched with the one frozen within the sliver of my brain labeled "2000" — but the drama surrounding his demotion made me ponder the person I once knew (or thought I knew) and how he could have possibly arrived at this point.

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Stillness was not in Rick DiPietro's DNA. That was one fact any Boston University hockey fan learned quickly during the fall of 1999. He skated in, out, through, and around the crease as though he were avoiding a swarm of bees on the ice. DiPietro was a manic hockey player and everyone loved him for this. His trademark move was skating far beyond the crease and sweeping a long, unsuspecting pass down the ice and through the befuddled defense. (He had three assists on goals that season, outscoring several other players on his own team.) The BU fans also loved that he was a winner. He was the starter by Thanksgiving and slowly propelled the school up the poll rankings. By December, they were No. 7. By Valentine's Day, No. 2. Going into the NCAA Tournament, the Terriers were one of the heavies expected to advance the Frozen Four in Providence, a short car ride from BU's campus. All that stood in the team's way in the round of eight was little St. Lawrence University. Defeat them and BU would play rival Boston College for a spot in the national championship.

To this day, it stands as the longest hockey game in NCAA Tournament history. It started a couple of minutes after noon and ended just after 6 p.m. The game went into a fourth overtime, and there was little precedent for what we were witnessing. Whole injuries came and went — players disappeared to the locker room during the second OT and emerged in time to play the fourth. Instead of hopping over the boards after their shifts, the teams simply flopped exhaustedly over the wall and onto the bench. It felt as if a recording of real life were being played at half-speed, a video editor with his hand on the knob. Finally, a player named Robin Carruthers was able to slide a loose puck past DiPietro's pads not four minutes into the fourth OT. From high up in Albany's Pepsi Arena, the puck looked like a coffee bean bouncing on the ice. We were all a bit delirious from fatigue, even us scribes. When the puck crossed the line, I don't remember much cheering from anyone on either side.


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Richard Sherman Attacks Skip Bayless On The Air: "I'm Better At Life Than You"

High School Wrestler With No Arms And No Legs Is Awesome

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He's kicking ass, so what's your excuse?

This is Caleb Smith from Harding High School in St. Paul, Minnesota.

This is Caleb Smith from Harding High School in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Caleb is your average 120-pound high school wrestler, except for one littttttttle thing.

He doesn't have arms or legs.

He doesn't have arms or legs.

And yet he is still out there kicking ass.

And yet he is still out there kicking ass.


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Rob Gronkowski: Tom Brady Always Wears "His Tight Little Shirt"

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“He's always got fashion showing,” said Gronk, before showing his OWN fashion with a little runway modeling.

Gronk on the runway.

Image by David Fox Photography

New England Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski lent his statuesque good looks to a charity fashion show held at Neiman Marcus in Natick, Massachusetts, Thursday night. He might even be better at modeling than Tom Brady — though he won't contest that the quarterback is his most stylish teammate. "He's always got his Ugg boots, his jeans on, his tight little shirt or whatever," Gronk said at the show, which raised money for the Art beCAUSE Breast Cancer Foundation. "He's always fashionable, no matter what day it is." Gronk acknowledged that his supermodel wife Gisele Bundchen gives him an edge: "He's always got fashion showing."

Gronk walked the runway to Jill Sobule's "Supermodel," which you might best know as Cher Horowitz's theme song. The 23-year-old, a viral video favorite thanks to his infamous "Yo Soy Fiesta" declaration, wore a navy Ermenegildo Zegna sport coat, a Robert Graham Gerard Paint-Print Sport Shirt, white Nikes, and Hudson Jeans.

Gronk was surely thankful that he didn't have to do his walk in heels. "High heels get me sometimes," he said. "They look beautiful, yes, but at the same time the girls walk one mile per hour, and they can't move. They're always complaining, so they need to come out with something different."

He added, "They need to invent a shoe or something that gives a good look, but is comfortable enough that you can walk around in, not walking one mile per hour."

Well, there are always Uggs.


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