Tiger Woods Has A New Famous Athlete Girlfriend

March 18, 2013, 11:00 am

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And she, uh, looks awfully familiar!

Tiger Woods, the world's #2 golfer and one of the best of all time, has gone public with his first relationship since the revelation of his approximately 973 mistresses back in late 2010 broke up his marriage.

Source: facebook.com

Woods' new girlfriend is Lindsey Vonn, a gold-medalist Olympic skiier and great athlete in her own right — she just won her sixth World Cup downhill skiing title despite missing the last month of the season due to injury.

Source: facebook.com

I guess it wasn't a well-kept secret but yes, I am dating Tiger Woods. Our relationship evolved from a friendship into something more over these past few months and it has made me very happy. I don't plan on addressing this further as I would like to keep that part of my life between us, my family and close friends. Thank you for understanding and your continued support! xo LV

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19 Historical Instances Of Real March Madness

March 18, 2013, 12:04 pm

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March is nicknamed for an annual college basketball frenzy, but guess what: buzzer-beaters aren't the only crazy ish that goes down in the third month of the year.

March 1, 1260: Hulagu Khan (grandson of Genghis) and his Mongol army conquer Aleppo and Damascus using typical Mongol punishments, like rolling people up in rugs and having horses stampede over them.

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March 1, 1692: Sarah Goode, Sarah Osborne and Tituba are the first three women arrested for witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts.

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March 3, 1913: Onlookers attack a women's suffrage parade in Washington D.C. as police remain indifferent.

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March 5, 1770: British Army soldiers kill five civilian men and injure six others in the Boston Massacre.

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23 People Who Think The Steubenville Rape Victim Is To Blame

March 18, 2013, 12:40 pm

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When two Ohio high school football players were found guilty of rape, many decided to say that it wasn't really their fault…

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Here Are Major League Baseball's Home Run Leaders In Each Pope's Term

March 18, 2013, 1:01 pm

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Pius XI was good for power hitting.

The Baltimore Sun presents us with this list, compiled by baseball historian Bill Arnold, of the MLB's home-run leaders by papal reign.

Pius IX (1846-1876) reigned for 30 years. Charley Jones hit six home runs during that time. Baseball was different 150 years ago!

Roger Connor hit 138 homers during the papacy of Leo XIII (1878-1903). He also grew at least one completely rad mustache, and appeared in a chewing tobacco advertisement. Bet the pope didn't do that.

Frank Schulte went yard 73 times under Pius X (1903-1914). Pius doesn't look too impressed. Schulte doesn't know how to smile.

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The Surprising Success Of Mid-Major No. 1 Seeds

March 18, 2013, 1:10 pm

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History is on Gonzaga's side.

For only the 10th time since the NCAA tournament field expanded to 64 teams in 1985, a non-"Big Six" conference school occupies a prized No. 1 seed. Since the bracket was revealed on Sunday night, analysts have questioned the Gonzaga Bulldogs' body of work, citing a weak strength of schedule and few quality wins. But it turns out they may have history on their side. Of the nine previous No. 1 seeds from non-"Big Six" conferences, only one HASN'T made at least the Elite Eight.

1987: UNLV Runnin' Rebels - Mountain West Conference

How far did they go? UNLV made it to the '87 Final Four, where they lost to eventual champion Indiana 97-93.
Who led them there? The Runnin' Rebels' best player was Armon "The Hammer" Gilliam, who averaged 23.2 ppg and went on to become the No. 2 overall pick in the 1987 draft.

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1988: Temple Owls - Atlantic 10 Conference

How far did they go? Temple made it to the Elite Eight where they lost to the Duke Blue Devils 63-53.
Who led them there? The Owls' star was freshman phenom Mark Macon, who led the team with 20.6 ppg.

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1990: UNLV Runnin' Rebels - Mountain West Conference

How far did they go? UNLV won the 1990 National Championship over the Duke Blue Devils in dominating fashion, 103-73.
Who led them there? Rebels headliners included junior college transfer Larry Johnson, who averaged a team-high 20.6 ppg and 11.4 rpg, as well as Greg Anthony (11.2 ppg, 7.4 apg) and Stacy Augmon (14.2 ppg, 6.9 rpg).

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This 3-Year-Old Softball Whiz Couldn't Miss If He Tried

March 18, 2013, 2:09 pm

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A 13-for-13 day in the cage? Someone call the Dodgers.

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Here's a three-year-old boy, location unknown, absolutely killing every softball thrown his way during a one-minute batting cage session. The balls are obviously not coming from any sort of machine, but most likely a parent or relative standing perhaps 10 feet away off camera. Nonetheless, this child is three years old and his contact percentage is likely better than 99.9 percent of those who've ever stepped inside a batting cage and felt their dignity sucked away with the first yellow pockmarked ball that whooshed by. This child is even looking at the camera in between some swings, knowing full well that he's putting on a show for a faceless crowd who may never know his name or what becomes of him in 10, 15, 20 years' time. Maybe he'll get a scholarship and play minor-league ball. Maybe he'll become a doctor and this is his final foray into sports. We may never ultimately connect this dot to that endpoint, whatever its destination, but this kid knows — oh, he knows — that he just did something better than you.

He's three years old, and he knows.

H/T Lily Jolly.

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A LeBron James Dunk Killed A Human Last Night

March 19, 2013, 9:05 am

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Metaphorically. LeBron James' dunks have not been classified as deadly weapons… Yet.

Last night during the Miami Heat's epic comeback against the Boston Celtics, Boston's Jason Terry had about as embarrassing a play as you can have.

Image by Michael Dwyer / AP

First he had the ball stolen from him.

Then he tried (and failed) to make a steal.

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Nike's School-By-School March Madness Ads Are Super-Cool

March 19, 2013, 9:16 am

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Hype images to use as wallpaper, Facebook covers, and other computer whatnot.

Nike's always good for some kickass advertising, and their slate of team-specific sloganeering posters for March Madness is no exception. Here are 15 of the best.

The Oakland Zoo is the name of the Pittsburgh Panthers' cheering section, and the only Panthers in Los Angeles in March — where Pitt's bracket will take them if they keep winning — should be the team and its fans.

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This Is What Happens When You Practice Your Free Throws

March 19, 2013, 10:59 am

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This is a college basketball coach's wife.

Who do you think is the best free-throw shooter in NCAA history?

It's not JJ Redick...

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It's not Steve Nash...

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It's this guy.

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The Brooklyn Nets Are Shutting Down The Best Official Twitter Account In The Game

March 19, 2013, 11:21 am

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RIP @Nets_PR. You were too beautiful for this world.

Official sports team Twitter accounts are almost always boring.

See? Look how dumb they can be.

But in the wilderness of bad official accounts was a shining beacon of wit and hilarity: The Brooklyn Nets PR account.

The account was the perfect mix of actual stats and hilariously sarcastic ones.

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9 Legendary Teams That Wouldn't Be Legendary If All Playoffs Were Like March Madness

March 19, 2013, 1:13 pm

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Single-elimination changes the game up.

Aside from NCAA basketball, the only major American sport that utilizes an all-or-nothing single-elimination playoff is the NFL — in which higher-ranked teams gain advantages, like byes and home games, that don't exist in the NCAA tourney. What would happen if other sports determined their champions in the style of March Madness? For one, the following historically great championship teams — which lost the first games of playoff series against opponents they eventually vanquished — would have gone home single-elimination losers.

The 1996 New York Yankees

In the first championship season of the Joe Torre–Derek Jeter Era, the Yanks lost the opener of both the AL Division Series (6-0 to the Texas Rangers) and the World Series (12-1 to the Atlanta Braves). Would a single-elimination playoff "choke" have prompted George Steinbrenner to fire Torre, demoralize a young and promising team, and prevent the most recent Yankees dynasty from ever happening? And, if so, is this the best argument for implementing a single-elimination playoff system in baseball?

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The 1990-1991 Chicago Bulls

Another dynasty whose takeoff would've been aborted. Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen began their first NBA Finals with a 93-91 loss to the Los Angeles Lakers in Magic Johnson's last Finals appearance. Magic's AIDS-triggered retirement happened the next year, so in this scenario he would have had ended his last full season with a ring. (Though the Lakers conversely wouldn't have won the 1985 and 1988 Finals in a single-elimination world. And they lost the first game of the conference finals in their 1980 title year as well. The difference between series and single-elimination tournaments is pretty big.)

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The 1993-1994 New York Rangers

En route to Mark Messier's crowning achievement, leading New York City's beloved yet frustrating hockey team to their first Stanley Cup in over 50 years, the Rangers lost the opening game of both the Conference Finals (4-3 to the New Jersey Devils) and the Stanley Cup Finals (3-2 to the Vancouver Canucks). Single-elimination would have left Rangers fans still longing to drink from the Cup after what would now be a 70-year draught — Cubs territory.

Image by Mike Powell /Allsport

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Creepy Ronald McDonald Ruins Amazing Motivational Speech

March 19, 2013, 1:22 pm

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MAKE IT STOP.

With sports, you're never far from a great inspirational speech. Coach D'Amato, for example:

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Norman Dale wants to talk about tradition, and you will listen to him.

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Mickey? You know he loves you, always will, but you have to GET UP.

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This time, it's ... Ronald McDonald? He recited the locker room speech from Miracle to the Allen Americans of the Central Hockey League earlier this month.

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Half Of Major Leaguers Own Guns; Only Five Percent Know A Gay Player

March 19, 2013, 2:18 pm

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Per an ESPN magazine survey. It's the demographic the Republicans have been looking for!

Luke Scott of the Tampa Bay Rays is a highly outspoken gun-rights advocate.

ESPN The Magazine's baseball preview arrives this week, and one of its features is an "MLB Confidential" survey of 110 anonymous players. Two of the questions had a political slant:

— Asked "do you know of any gay players?" only 5% (six players) said yes. "Yes, but that's as far as I want to go, even if this is anonymous," said one National Leaguer.

— 46% said they own a firearm — and these 51 players have a total of 258 guns. "Let me ask you something," says one pitcher. "If you were rich and famous and your salary was in the newspaper every week, would you worry about your wife and kids? That's why I have guns."

In other news, we found a guy to replace Bud Selig as MLB commissioner when he retires in two years.

It's Ted Nugent. Because of the guns and the barely-repressed homosexuality.

Image by David Livingston / Getty Images

The issue goes on stands Friday — check it out for further interesting factoids (the Blue Jays are the players' World Series pick; they collectively estimate that only 10% of their peers are taking PEDs) as well as some comical cattiness about Ryan Braun. ("'Nobody likes Braun,' says an AL slugger." Sluggers be hatin'!)

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Check Out Pau Gasol's Terrible Potential Logos

March 19, 2013, 2:53 pm

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These have to be a joke.

Earlier today, Pau Gasol tweeted this.

Along with this picture of the "work" that's been done on his logo.

Let's break down some of the options.

The "PG Hybrid"

Here the letters "P" and "G" are fused together to create a superletter. A letter that only has one meaning. "Whiny, over-the-hill, Spanish big man." And the only sound that letter makes? A slight whimper. (Also it looks like someone was a fan of the since-abandoned LeBron James logo.)

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Watch A Puck Impossibly Shatter On The Goal Post

March 19, 2013, 2:59 pm

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Another example of hockey getting no respect.

Hit a home run while knocking the cover of a baseball...

And people treat it like a sign from god.

Break a backboard with a thunderous dunk...

And people consider it legendary.

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Kentucky Fan Blames "Liberal Socialism" For UK Missing The Tournament

March 19, 2013, 3:07 pm

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Reasonable!

SEC sports radio is the greatest, and here's our latest case study: a call between "Chester" and Kentucky Sports Radio's Matt Jones. "It is a joke that we're not in this tournament, Matt," Chester tells the host. "And let me just tell you why." And then he fires an ICBM. An ICBM of TRUTH.

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I mean, yes. YES. This is so great. The idea that the NCAA Selection Committee is influenced by liberal socialism is so mystical and bizarre that it can't not be correct. We just weren't thinking about it that way! Chester is thinking about it that way. The RIGHT way.

Unsurprisingly, the hosts responded with hysterical laughter.

Jones: "You're blaming me? What did I do?"

Co-host: "It's your fault, you liberal socialist!"

Jones: "Chester, Chester, Chester, you know nobody loves you more than I do."

Chester said yeah, and he apologized, and then Jones followed up by asking him if he honestly thought it was Obama's fault that Kentucky missed the tournament.

Chester: "No, no, no no no, I'm sorry, it's not your fault. But what I'm saying is that mindset is creeping its way into everything, that we gotta make everybody on level playing fields. Let me tell you, them conferences ain't on a level playing field. And so it's a joke that we're not in it — I'll just say that, that being said, I'm not mad at you or nobody else, that's just the reality."

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The Worst Actor In The World

March 20, 2013, 9:31 am

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One of the NBA's best players showed last night that he should probably stick to basketball.

You can't accuse Chris Paul of not doing all he could to try and prevent last night's shocking Clippers loss to Sacramento. Unfortunately, that effort involved this: one of the most egregious flops of all time.

Let's zoom in a bit to confirm. Yeah — that is Chris Paul pushing off of DeMarcus Cousins' enormous chest and acting like he's been shot. Cousins is mystified.

Like, Paul has a reputation for flopping, but this is something else. The league may have to fine him twice for this: once for the flop, and once for the ridiculous look on his face.

Actually, twice for the look on his face. He looks like he just got bit by a gun-wielding alligator.

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Here's A Heisman Winning Quarterback With A Moody Cat

March 20, 2013, 9:49 am

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Johnny Football? More like Johnny Footb-AWWWWW!

H/T Joe Kinsey at Busted Coverage.

J.J. Watt Took His Photobombing Skills To Afghanistan

March 20, 2013, 10:45 am

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Maybe we should come up with a different word than “photobomb” in this case.

A group of NFL athletes went to Afghanistan on a USO tour to visit the troops. Among them were Von Miller and JJ Watt.

Image by Jared Wickerham&Neilson Barnard / Getty Images

The players did their part to entertain the troops. Taking photos with them...

Trying to lean how to fire weapons.

But by far the best thing they brought with them was JJ Watt's photo bombing ability.

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Obama's Final Four Picks

March 20, 2013, 8:25 am

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POTUS adds some swing states to his March Madness bracket.

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