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Is There Any Chance this $99 Million ATM Receipt Belongs to an Athlete?

Posted June 30, 2011, 5:59 pm by (51 Comments)

You know what that’s more than? The total amount of dollars everyone who comments on this post will make in their lives. Combined.

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Badminton Photos Make Badminton Look Intense

Posted March 9, 2011, 3:02 pm by (13 Comments)

The All England Badminton Open Championships are going on Birmingham right now. I stumbled across the corresponding Getty photo gallery yesterday. From there I looked through old pictures of badminton competitions. It’s not that I have any problem with sports like badminton, its just that some of these sports/games/contests are inherently funny and leave the [...]

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Aaron Rogers Got in a Fight and Vince Lombardi Got Arrested the Night the Packers Won the Super Bowl

Posted February 7, 2011, 4:20 pm by (29 Comments)

Aaron Rogers & Vince Lombardi: On the same night the Packers won the Super Bowl, a man named Aaron Rogers was involved in a fight in Iowa and a man named Vince Lombardi was arrested in Maine. Rogers got into a fight with a woman and her two brothers allegedly roughed him up. Lombardi was [...]

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Meet Miss Arkansas, a Yodeling Ventriloquist

Posted January 16, 2011, 1:30 pm by (4 Comments)

The yodeling ventriloquist you see here is Miss Arkansas Alyse Eady, who sang “I Wanna Be a Cowboy Sweetheart” along with two dummies last night. While this clip has nothing to do with sports — although I’ve long felt that Joe Buck looks like a ventriloquist’s dummy — the performance was as impressive as it [...]

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Pop-a-Shot Legend is a Busboy

Posted January 6, 2011, 4:25 pm by (35 Comments)

Are you a fan of Pop-a-Shot? This video’s from last summer, but Chris Ballard just wrote this fantastic piece for SI on the “sport”: “For TV producers, Reyes is the American dream: writ small, an immigrant and common man who comes on in a busboy’s apron and quietly humbles NBA stars. Of course it also [...]

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Homeless Man in Ohio Has a Voice for Radio [UPDATE]

Posted January 4, 2011, 5:54 pm by (26 Comments)

This homeless man in Ohio has an amazing voice for radio. You need to watch this video, immediately. And then, if you’re in the radio or voiceover industry, offer him some work. And no, this post has nothing to do with sports, but if you’re a new visitor, you know we do that from time-to-time. [...]

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