Rays fans didn’t exactly go crazy for the World Series rematch with the Phillies at the Trop this week — they didn’t get a crowd that topped 21,000. But one Rays fan got his money’s worth down by the Phils’ bullpen, and ended up getting allegedly smacked around by J.C. Romero.

Romero, if you didn’t know, [...]

Remember, if you will, the halcyon days of 2005. The market was fine, houses were worth more than 17 cents, and gambling online was still easily possible, if still shady. In 2006, the government slapped gambling websites with a cold, dead trout across the face, unleashing the UIGEA (or Unlawful Internet Gaming Enforcement Act) that [...]

As good a movie “Hoosiers” was, it’s made all the better by the fact that it’s based on a true story. But one just as inspiration could be happening before our eyes in Kentucky.

Only two states have a true state championship, matching up all the regional winners. Elliott County High School, with just 42 [...]

Great news, Suns fans: The EAST VALLEY TRIBUNE reports that Shaquille O’Neal has been “fairly diligent” in his off-season training. Which might read like the equivalent of being “mostly dead,” but for Shaq it’s a huge improvement. Yes, he’s still fat, but he’s not nearly as fat as he might be this time of year.

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Remember all that talk that this was the season that Matt Leinart was going to shed his party boy image and get down to the business of being a franchise quarterback? You know, actually having a grasp of the offense as opposed to last season?

Things haven’t been going well this training camp, and yesterday’s 3-12, [...]

Kyle Busch had a bad week: first he had to deal with the distraction of Joe Gibbs Racing getting caught cheating (even though it wasn’t his car). And on Saturday night, he lost more than once at Bristol during the NASCAR Nextel Cup race. As the AP reported, he was passed by rival Carl Edwards [...]

We have a new gold medal favorite in what has become one of the most hotly-contested events in Beijing – the Freestyle Poor Sportsmanship. The Swedish wrestler who threw his medal away, Usain Bolt’s 100 meter “taunting” and the boxer who bit his opponent all put up high marks, but with his high degree of [...]

THE APPLE CORE speculates on Michael Phelps’ rap-centric iPod playlist. So he’s getting doped up before the race by listening to Young Jeezy?

LIQUID GENERATION has a video montage of The Greatest Gymnastics Crashes. And yes, the guy running into the vault horse – the Citizen Kane of gymnastics bloopers – is in there.
TIME proposes using [...]

Remember that cool visual during the Opening Ceremonies on Friday of a helicopter tracking firework footprints going across the Beijing skyline, leading to the stadium? THE TELEGRAPH reported that it was lie, created by CGI and inserted into the broadcast coverage in order to spruce things up a bit. How would that make you feel [...]

Who knew it would take a crazy naked guy on a plane being restrained by members of the New England Revolution for people to realize that the U.S. has a professional soccer league?  DEADSPIN and THE OFFSIDES RULES are just two of the places where you can get all the crazy naked details.

DEJUICED proves that [...]