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The celebration FAIL is possibly the most embarrassing if it’s happening to you, and often the most satisfying if you’re a spectator, because what’s better than watching obnoxious victors get some swift comeupance? Epic Carnival deals out some bubble-bursting pain with their listicle of the 12 Best Celebration Fails, and we’ve got a couple more [...]

We aren’t huge football fans (rugby, now there’s great sport with an irregularly shaped ball!), but if we had to pick a favorite sort of football highlight it would be between the acrobatic catch and the return for a touchdown. After all, what’s the point of having such a huge field if you can’t run [...]

We appreciate that, in the NFL more-so than any other professional sports league, you never know just how short your career might be, so you really have to capitalize as quickly as possible. Like, for instance, making small and silly endorsements deals with local businesses and appearing in their poorly conceived and executed commercials. That’s [...]

You know what the beginning of Fall means (especially on college campuses): football! Seriously, though, the college football that will get us through the next few months is just getting started, and we’re a little overwhelmed with all the statistics and studies that we’re already behind on. Complex contributes another slightly overwhelming set of stats [...]

You can usually chart the quality of any given sports film fairly accurately based on how moving its locker room pep talk is – usually delivered at half-time or between the second and third periods, with the team trailing pretty significantly – and some really bad movies are temporarily elevated by stunning speeches. Ask Men [...]

Asteroid, moving at 12 miles a second, splits the Earth and the moon. Near misses like this are more common than anyone would like to think about.
Speaking of near misses, we almost lost the freedom of speech a few years back.
“Brain drain,” meet brain deportation.
Some of the Slumdog Millionaire child actors have to return [...]

The Pittsburgh Steelers won a football game yesterday.
Michael Phelps admits to holding the smoking bong.
The aliens of Hulu stake claims on viewers’ mushy brains.
In case you missed the other Super Bowl ads.
Obama says most of our troops will be out of Iraq within the year.
Facebook cashes in on user data.
Google to map the ocean floor.
Will Apple make [...]

Onesie here, back for another edition of Listicles’ weekly sports column Sporty Saturdays. I’ll be honest, it’s been tough keeping up with all my writing assignments amid the recent rush of major pro sports events. There were the NHL and NBA All-Star Games, now Super Bowl Sunday is upon us. With all the freelance mascotting [...]

Super Bowl weekend is at hand, and like those scenes in disaster movies where everybody realizes they need to stock their bomb shelters with food, the grocery stores will soon all be looted of appropriate edibles. So check out these 9 Recipes for the 2009 Super Bowl and get yourself to the supermarket before they’re [...]

It seems like most major professional sports teams in the U.S. have undertaken a stadium change in the last ten years. In New York alone we have the new Mets stadium Citi Field, Yankee Stadium, and the Meadowlands’ Jets stadium all under construction. There are also more long term (likely imaginary) plans for a new [...]