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Did cyberbullying cause emerging women’s tennis star Rebecca Marino to quit the sport?
Feb 25, 2013, 2:28 PM EST
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The news came as quite a shocker, except perhaps to those who knew her best. Rebecca Marino, the 22-year-old Canadian tennis star who had reached No. 38 in the WTA singles rankings and was a two-time Tennis Canada Female Player of the Year, announced last week that she was quitting the game? Marino has been…
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Third grader shocks the world with halfcourt, game-winning buzzer beater (video)
Feb 25, 2013, 1:27 PM EST
From spectacular fail (see previous post) to improbable victory, we take you to a third-grade basketball game where a kid turns defeat into victory with a one-handed, half-court heave at the buzzer. They will sing the praises of Mason Kunkel for about a week at his school, and forever on the internet after this shot.…
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Skyfall: 11-year-old’s ski jump fail is mighty entertaining (video)
Feb 25, 2013, 12:05 PM EST
We can laugh at this because he wasn’t injured, and laugh at this we will. It’s not often that life imitates cartoons, but that’s what happened when a rambunctious 11-year-old skier tried to jump a small mound and crashed, disappearing down a hill leaving only his skis behind. Such an awesome fail. …
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Fauja Singh, the oldest runner ever to complete a full marathon, finished his final race on Sunday, and now will hang up his competitive running shoes for good. From now on, Singh, who will soon be 102 years old, will run just for fun, “to inspire the masses.” Singh ran in the 10k division of…
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Welcome back baseball with this bench-clearing brawl at Sacramento State (video)
Feb 25, 2013, 10:08 AM EST
It was UC Riverside at Sacramento State on Friday, the first of a four-game series, and the teams wasted no time getting into the swing of the season. UC Riverside’s Eddie Young gets caught in a run down, and as he’s being tagged out when tagged out by Sacramento State’s second baseman Andrew Ayers, Young…
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Did James Franco mean to insult Danica Patrick at Daytona 500? Twitter decides (video)
Feb 25, 2013, 9:00 AM EST
He co-hosted the Oscars in 2011 to not-great acclaim, so James Franco thought he’d take a less stressful late February gig this year. In town to promote his new movie Oz, the Great and Powerful, Franco had grand marshal duties at the Daytona 500, where he was tasked to begin the race with the iconic…
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Floyd Mayweather’s birthday cake had an image of himself in a $1,000 bill (photo)
Feb 24, 2013, 2:21 PM EST
Today is boxer Floyd “Money” Mayweather’s 36th birthday and last night, Floyd’s celebratory birthday bash included a very unique birthday cake that featured an image of the prize fighter front and center. Recently, Floyd and Showtime inked a record deal to exclusively promote his fights and the company sent over the cake to celebrate their…
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Pregnant Dallas Cowboys fan loses bet, forced to name first child after Robert Griffin the 3rd
Feb 24, 2013, 12:31 PM EST
In this day and age, it’s not strange for sports fans to name their children after their favorite athlete or sports team but one Dallas Cowboys fan by the name of Marissa Pena had to name her unborn child in honor of Washington Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin the 3rd after losing a bet to her…
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California cheerleading coach accused of forcing cheerleaders to fight each other
Feb 24, 2013, 10:31 AM EST
You know the first rule about cheerleader fight club? Well, I don’t either but a rather bizarre story from Southern California put one cheerleading coach in hot water after it was alleged that the coach told two of her cheerleaders to fight each other. A Palisades Charter High School junior by the name of Cimone…
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Spanish journalist Tiziano Crudeli has epic freakouts during AC Milan/Barcelona UEFA Champions League match (video)
Feb 24, 2013, 8:30 AM EST
There might not be a more passionate fan of the AC Milan soccer club than Spanish journalist Tiziano Crudeli and if you needed evidence of that, you just need to check out the below video. Crudeli was making a scheduled appearance on DS 7 Gold television during the first leg of Milan’s round of 16…
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Former NFL linebacker Nick Barnett’s custom Ford costs him $500 dollars to fill up at the gas station
Feb 23, 2013, 2:05 PM EST
Since NFL players make the big bucks these days, they can afford to spend of their cash on extravagant automobiles and there might not be a more impressive vehicle then the one owned by former Buffalo Bills/Green Bay Packers linebacker Nick Barnett. Barnett owns a custom camouflage Ford F-650 (which just checking at the sticker…
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Karl Malone gets behind the grill at his own restaurant in Louisiana (picture)
Feb 23, 2013, 12:29 PM EST
Back when he was playing for the Utah Jazz, NBA Hall-Of-Famer Karl Malone has the nickname of “The Mailman” but these days it looks like he should be known as “The Grillman”. In November of 2011, Malone opened a Utah-based grilling franchise restaurant called “TeriYaki Grill” in Ruston, Louisiana and if you think that Karl…
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Russian hockey team has a postgame celebration that mimics a firing squad
Feb 23, 2013, 10:31 AM EST
Just when you thought that you had seen it all in terms of post game celebrations, a professional Russian hockey team that goes by the name of Kazzinc Torpedo Ust-Kamenogorsk shows us their version of “tough love” after a victory. The below video shows a group of Kazzinc players lined up on the other side…
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Peruvian soccer goalie passes out during game, opposing team scores unsportsmanlike goal (video)
Feb 23, 2013, 8:28 AM EST
If you happen to be looking for exhibit A of bad sportsmanship in soccer, you just need to check out this clip from a Peruvian soccer match between Cesar Vallejo and Union Comercio from last weekend. With Union down by the score of 2-1, Union goalie Juan Flores made an initial save against a shot…
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Don’t stop be-sleevin’ … Warriors beat Spurs with funky new sleeved jerseys, and Twitter reacts
Feb 22, 2013, 11:31 PM EST
The Warriors beat the red-hot Spurs in OT on Friday night, but all anyone could talk about was Golden State’s brand new sleeved jerseys. The verdict? Let’s check it out, below …
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Watch Jimmy Kimmel lose at pop-a-shot to a relentless two-year-old (video)
Feb 22, 2013, 5:09 PM EST
The two-year-old trick shooting toddler/infant Titus has set the bar really high for his future self after his recent appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live, where he handily demolished the goofy jokeman in pop-a-shot. Something tells me this kid is really going to like beer pong some day. Wielding a bizarre over-the-head set shot, Titus may…
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Former Seattle SuperSonic loses million-dollar home to foreclosure, refuses to leave (video)
Feb 22, 2013, 4:21 PM EST
Remember Robert Swift? He was the 12th pick in the 2004 NBA Draft, coming right out of high school in Bakersfield and taken ahead of such players as Al Jefferson, Jameer Nelson, Josh Smith and J.R. Smith. But due in large part to a series of injuries, six years later the 7-foot-1 center was playing…
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HS wrestler does that cheerleader one better with a 3/4-court handspring basketball shot (video)
Feb 22, 2013, 2:37 PM EST
On Thursday we showed you video of William Carey University (MS) cheerleader Ashlee Arnau, who unleashed an improbable but successful half-court basketball shot, which she sunk after performing a handspring backflip. But here’s a kid who’s been there and done that, and from three quarters-court, no less. Joe Plante, a senior wrestler from Hadley-Luzerne High…
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When competitive rowing resembles NASCAR, we all win (video)
Feb 22, 2013, 1:17 PM EST
I’m no expert on rowing, but since when does the guy in the back of the boat abandon his oars and run to the front of the boat? You don’t see that in crew. It happened at the Piha Big Wave Classic in New Zealand recently, when the boat from the Orewa Thunder crew collided…
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Luge sleds slide off back of truck, slide down road, disappear, because they’re luge sleds
Feb 22, 2013, 12:40 PM EST
If you’re transporting a bunch of luge sleds and they fall off the back of the truck, and there’s any kind of downward slope to the road, then kiss those luge sleds goodbye because brother, they’re gone. It happened in Easton, Pa., where police are requesting the public’s help (this is true) in finding some…
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