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Georgetown Fan Skillfully Trolls Syracuse Fan
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7 Reasons Why Chipper Jones Is Staying Retired
Earlier today it was reported that the Yankees were trying to sign retired third baseman Chipper Jones. Chipper decided to stay retired instead. Here's why.
The man has got a lot of hunting to do!
Source: foxsportssouth.com
He's hunting with his friends.
Source: @RealCJ10
He's hunting with his Playboy model girlfriend.
Source: @RealCJ10
Source: @RealCJ10
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Terrifying Death Weasel Runs On The Field, Is Tackled By Soccer Player
The rise of the marten.
At a game this weekend in Switzerland, a marten invaded the field. Thankfully Zurich soccer player Loris Benito was there to stand up to the death weasel.
Source: Marcel Bieri / Keystone via AP
Look at him sacrificing his body for the cause.
Source: Marcel Bieri / Keystone via AP
The little guy BIT HIM. GET OUT OF HERE DEATH WEASEL.
Source: Marcel Bieri / Keystone via AP
Watch a video of the marten's big moment.
Source: guardian.co.uk
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10 NCAA Coaches Who Look EXACTLY Like Their Mascot
Only their mothers can tell them apart.
John Thompson III (Georgetown) ---> Jack
Coach K (Duke) ---> Blue Devil
Fran Dunphy (Temple) ---> Hooter
Trent Johnson (TCU) ---> Super Frog
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The Head Coach Of The Miami Heat Is Dating A Former Heat Dancer
Well, this is a fun office romance.
This is Miami Heat coach Erik Spoelstra.
Image by Al Diaz/Miami Herald/MCT
Look how boyishly charming he is!
Image by Andrew Innerarity / Reuters
Seriously, despite looking like your student body president, he's actually 42.
Image by Phelan M. Ebenhack / AP
But despite being an attractive, young, NBA championship winning coach in Miami, his most public relationship up until this point has been with LeBron James.
Image by Mike Segar / Reuters
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Is Dennis Rodman Going To The Vatican?
An investigation.
Well this is what he told TMZ, before getting on a plane and flying to Rome.
Image by Handout/Abc / Reuters
He added that his people are in talks with the Vatican to get him a meeting with the next big guy the Catholic Church wheels out.
Let's check in with live reaction at the Vatican:
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Hockey Goalie Or "Real World" Cast Member?
Can you tell the difference between reality TV bros and professional athletes?
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Golfer Falls Down 18-Foot Sinkhole While Playing
WHAT IS HAPPENING?!
Last week a sinkhole in Florida consumed a man who was just sitting in his house. His remains were never recovered.
Source: Dirk Shadd/Tampa Bay Times/MCT
This week a golfer in Illinois was minding his own business when A SINKHOLE GOT HIM TOO.
My husband, Mark Mihal, co-founder of golfmanna, went out to play a familiar course in Waterloo, Ill., with his regular Friday foursome. He was having a great round and lots of laughs with his buddies. They were in the fairway on No. 14; Mark had already hit his second shot when he went to check out the distance for his playing partner, Mike Peters, who was getting ready to hit. Mike had his back to Mark and when he turned to say something to him, Mark was gone.
Mike could hear Mark moaning and ran in the direction where he had been standing just a few seconds earlier. It was immediately clear what had happened; the ground had caved in and Mark had fallen into the earth – 18 feet underground.
"I felt the ground start to collapse and it happened so fast that I couldn't do anything," Mark said later. "I reached for the ground as I was going down and it gave way, too. It seemed like I was falling for a long time. The real scary part was I didn't know when I would hit bottom and what I would land on."
Mark is fine. He hurt his shoulder and may require surgery, but he was recovered from the sinkhole and should make a full recovery. You can read Lori's full report here.
Source: golfmanna.com
Thankfully these incidents are over, and we can now stop thinking about the Earth opening up to eat us...
Source: @ByronTau
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35 Ways To Know You're A True Duke Fan
Duke fans are the world's most hated sports creature. But are you one of them?
You look at J.J. Redick, and he fills you with feelings of inexplicable pride and admiration, but you completely understand why everybody hates him.
Image by Jamie Squire / Getty Images
Like... look at this dude. I love him, but — just look.
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lol
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But you love Lee Melchionni, too. You know who Lee Melchionni is, and you know he's the prototypical Duke player, and you love him.
Image by Streeter Lecka / Getty Images
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The 20 Most Common NCAA Division I Mascots
While some colleges encourage creativity, twenty mascots make up over one third of all NCAA schools.
Cardinals (3*)
SCHOOLS: Ball State, Lamar, Louisville.
*Incarnate Word will be joining Division I in July.
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Rams (4)
SCHOOLS: Colorado State, Fordham, Rhode Island, VCU
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Raiders (4)
SCHOOLS: Colgate, Middle Tennessee State [Blue], Texas Tech [Red], Wright State
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Owls (4)
SCHOOLS: Rice, Temple, Florida Atlantic, Kennesaw State
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Baseball Player Misses Game Because He Ate Clam Chowder Which He's Allergic To
And yes. He knew he was allergic to clam chowder.
This is Jhonny Peralta. Shortstop of the Detroit Tigers.
Image by Al Messerschmidt / Getty Images
He didn't play in yesterday's spring training game. Why?
Source: @beckjason
Surely, that must be a mistaken report. Nobody is that dumb. I mean if you're alergic to clam chowder and the only soup in the clubhouse even sorta looks like clam chowder you have to avoid it, right?
Nevermind.
Source: @beckjason
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Professional Boxer Tracks Down Twitter Troll In Real Life
This man is a hero.
This is Curtis Woodhouse. Former professional soccer player. Current professional boxer.
Image by Dean Mouhtaropoulos / Getty Images
Last weekend Woodhouse lost a match to Shayne "The Pain" Singleton, which is totally understandable, because his nickname is "The Pain." Now if he was Shayne "My Little Pony" Singleton, that would be embarrassing.
But that didn't stop someone named "@Jimmyob88" on Twitter from laying into Woodhouse. Here's a sampling.
Source: joe.ie
Woodhouse couldn't take the anonymous Twitter hate, so he took matters into his own hands after getting a tip about Jimmy's location.
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This Is Not A Nice Way To Treat Your Twin Brother
Brook Lopez is already the better basketball-playing Lopez, and he had to rub it in by jamming all over twin bro Robin.
On the left is Robin Lopez, of the New Orleans Hornets. On the right is Brook Lopez, of the Brooklyn Nets. In case you can't tell, they are twins.
Image by Mary Altaffer / AP
Both guys played on the same Stanford team and were drafted in the first round of the 2008 draft — Brook went 10th, and Robin went 15th. But since then, Brook has been by far the better player; just look at the comparison of their stats this year, keeping in mind that this is by far the best season Robin's had so far.
Plus, Brook's Nets will be a playoff team this year. Robin's Hornets will not. But Brook had to rub it in Tuesday night, when the Nets hosted the Hornets in Brooklyn.
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Mitch Seavey Becomes Oldest Iditarod Champ
“This is for all of the gentlemen of a certain age,” he said after crossing the finish line in Nome, Alaska. Seavey wins $50,400 and a new 2013 Dodge Ram pickup truck for winning the 1,000-mile race in nine days, 7 hours and 39 minutes.
Mitch Seavey became the oldest Iditarod champion, a two-time winner, when he drove his dog team under the burled arch in Nome on Tuesday. Here he sits with his two lead dogs, Tanner (left) and Taurus.
Image by The Anchorage Daily News, Bill Roth / AP
NOME, Alaska (AP) -- A 53-year-old former champion has won the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race to become the oldest winner of Alaska's grueling test of endurance.
Mitch Seavey and 10 dogs crossed the Nome finish line to cheering crowds at 10:39 p.m. Alaska time Tuesday night.
Source: hosted.ap.org
Musher Mitch Seavey arrives at the Unalakleet, Alaska, checkpoint Sunday.
Image by Bill Roth / AP
Mitch Seavey won the Wells Fargo Gold Coast Award, $2,500 worth of gold nuggets, for being the first musher to reach the Unalakleet.
Image by Bill Roth / AP
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Watch The Insane Goal That Led To A Historic Win For America
Wow. U-S-A. U-S-A.
This is Djimi Traore (on the left). He plays for the Seattle Sounders of the MLS.
Image by Ted S. Warren / AP
The Sounders are in the CONCACAF Champions League, where they've been taking on Mexico's Tigres.
Image by Anthony Bolante / Reuters
An American team has never knocked out a Mexican team in the Champions League. And last night as the Sounders trailed 1-0, it looked like that pattern would continue.
Image by Anthony Bolante / Reuters
But then the Sounders tied the game at 1. And rather than stop there, we got to see one of the craziest goals in American soccer history put them ahead for good.
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Even In A Cruel League, The Ravens Are Some Cold-Blooded Dudes
The Super Bowl champs ditch one of their best players, and for what? For a little bit of money.
Image by Charlie Riedel, File / AP
Just a month ago, Anquan Boldin caught a touchdown and converted a huge third down in the Super Bowl for the Baltimore Ravens. What did that — plus three touchdowns earlier in the playoffs — earn him? A trade to the 49ers, just after he said he'd prefer to retire as a Raven than play somewhere else. Boldin later qualified that the trade is a "good thing," but it's pretty obvious that the deal, which took place while he was in Africa getting his charity on, was completely the work of the Baltimore Ravens' front office. And, even in the notoriously ruthless NFL, Boldin's situation is unusual: Rarely do Super Bowl–winning teams dispense with one of their main contributors.
The release of veterans, even talented ones, is not rare in a league without guaranteed contracts. This year alone, the Steelers have released James Harrison, a Pro Bowler as recently as 2011, and the Eagles have released Nnamdi Asomugha, who was slated to make $15 million in 2013. But it's still been very rare to see a player of Boldin's caliber either released or traded by a team that has just appeared in the Super Bowl. The reason for this seems pretty obvious: If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Before Boldin, the highest-profile player to be released or traded away by a team that appeared in the Super Bowl was Larry Foote of the Pittsburgh Steelers after the 2008 season, and he was competing for playing time with Lawrence Timmons. (That Super Bowl gleam only lasts one year, though: The Steelers held on to Santonio Holmes for one more season before trading him following his Super Bowl MVP award, and the Patriots did the same with Deion Branch after his MVP performance.) Even David Tyree, perhaps the most famous example of the NFL's what-have-you-done-for-me-lately nature — he never caught another pass after the famous helmet grab that helped the Giants beat the Patriots in 2007 — remained on the Giants' roster on injured reserve during 2008 before being released.
Free agency is a different situation, and Super Bowl teams often let players walk for more money elsewhere after the reputation boost of a Super Bowl win (like Mario Manningham did in moving from the Giants to the Niners last off-season), but actually releasing or trading a player requires a concerted effort by the team to part ways. In the case of Boldin, who was owed $6 million this season, the Ravens decided that, with Torrey Smith evolving into a top receiver and Joe Flacco's continued improvement, he just wasn't worth the price tag. And in case you had any doubt that money was the motivation, look at what they got in return: a single sixth-round pick. The Ravens were going to get rid of Boldin no matter what, and the sixth rounder was better than nothing.
In an off-season that has already been and will continue to be filled with fan favorites receiving their walking players, it's unlikely that there will be any personnel move as cold-blooded as trading Boldin away. In sports, the unsentimental move is usually smart — ask the San Francisco Giants about paying erstwhile World Series hero Aubrey Huff $20 million in the past two years to hit a total of 13 home runs — but the Ravens are out on a limb on this one. Six million dollars isn't a crazy number for a guy like Boldin, who's produced consistently his whole career. If the team, which overachieved in 2012, performs under expectations on offense in 2013, they'll look both heartless and stupid.
UPDATE: Today, the Ravens went another step farther, releasing safety Bernard Pollard, who led the team in tackles last season and forced a major fumble in the AFC Championship Game, when he concussed Stevan Ridley. Pollard started for the Ravens last season and, at 28 years old, is still in the prime of his career; his release saves the Ravens $1 million against the cap.
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Dwight Howard Makes Fun Of A Fan's Mother
What a great guy!
This is Los Angeles Laker and big ol' dick-face Dwight Howard.
Image by Stephen M. Dowell/Orlando Sentinel/MCT
He used to play for the Orlando Magic.
Image by Mark Weber, File / AP
Last night he returned to Orlando for the first time since leaving the city on less than great terms.
So when a fan told Dwight that he no longer liked the center and that his mother didn't like Howard either, Dwight responded in a super classy way.
Source: youtube.com
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Dennis Rodman Is Campaigning For A Black Pope In Rome
Mostly though, he's promoting a gambling website.
This is what he is wearing around Rome today.
Via: @MaryAnnAhernNBC
Conspicuous.
Via: twitpic.com
Rodman brought his umbrella liaison with him.
Via: @_stellaprudente
He's actually there to promote internet gambling company PaddyPower.com.
Via: @paddypower
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Jeff Gordon Scares The Crap Out Of A Chevy Salesman
In a prank sponsored by Pepsi Max, Jeff Gordon takes a car salesman out on the road and shows him a few moves.
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Watch A Legendary Baseball Manager Shake His Butt
Terry Francona ended the curse of the Bambino in Boston. Now he's dancing like this in Cleveland.
It all started with Terry Francona just running a team meeting at Indians spring training. But then he hears something.
And he can't stop himself anymore. He just has to dance.
Look at these moves.
He adds in the arms.
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