South African Soccer Player Accidentally Thanks Both Wife And Girlfriend In Post-Game Talk

The South African Premier League’s Mohammed Anas won Man of the Match for his two goals in yesterday’s Free State-Cape Town game. Good stuff! Except for his acceptance speech, in which he thanked both his wife and girlfriend (before backtracking to assure his wife that, really, he loves her so much!).

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Let's Make Some Crab Dip, The Most Decadent And Delicious Way To Eat Canned Crab

Generally speaking, crab dishes get less reputable the more ingredients they include that are not crab meat. Crab imperial and deviled crab might still show up on the menu at a semi-serious seafood restaurant. Crab puffs make a fine, if indulgent, hors d’oeuvre. I have a crab cookbook in my home, full of adventurous,…

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Verne Lundquist Taking A Basketball Square In The Face, In Extreme Slow Motion

Now that Vin Scully’s retired, Verne Lundquist reigns supreme as the patriarch of sports broadcasting. The CBS legend got a bit more into the game than usual, though, before today’s broadcast of the Notre Dame-WVU game in Buffalo. Ouch!

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Luke Walton: "Don't Touch My Damn Players"

Luke Walton was not happy that a Milwaukee team official appeared to shove Brandon Ingram during last night’s tiff between the Lakers and Bucks. After Nick Young and Greg Monroe got involved in a skirmish that earned both players technicals, a larger scrum broke out and a Bucks employee in a gray suit ran out and…

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Edwin Díaz's Slider Is So, So, So Ridiculous

Edwin Díaz’s ninth inning last night was the sort of performance that seems to stretch the reasonable connotation of striking out the side when correctly described with the technical definition of the term. All three outs came via strikeout, sure; in between those were two runs that nearly squandered Puerto Rico’s…

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Cycling's Doping Rules Don't Help Anyone

Team Sky is struggling. The Murdoch-funded cycling behemoth has won three of the past four Tours de France and will probably win this year’s edition of the race as well. The team has started this season well, with Colombian pipsqueak Sergio Henao winning an all-time Paris Nice by two seconds and do-it-all Polish star…

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Your Favorite Hoodie Is the Flint & Tinder 10-Year – Barely

Your two favorite hoodies share an $89 price tag, and look basically identical, so it shouldn’t be a surprise that this was our closest vote in history. It was back and forth until the very end, but Flint & Tinder’s 10-Year Hoodie edged out the American Giant Classic Full Zip by a mere four votes.

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JPP in the house: Giants re-sign DE Pierre-Paul for 4 years (Yahoo Sports)

This Nov. 27, 2016 photo shows New York Giants defensive end Jason Pierre-Paul reacting after an NFL football game against the Cleveland Browns in Cleveland. A person with knowledge of the details says the New York Giants have told defensive end Pierre-Paul that he will be made a franchise player. (AP Photo/Ron Schwane)

The New York Giants are convinced star defensive end Jason Pierre-Paul is fully healed from a fireworks accident that severely damaged his right hand. ”This is where I wanted to be,” Pierre-Paul told the Giants website Friday. Two summers ago, on July 4, Pierre-Paul’s right hand was severely damaged in a fireworks accident in Florida.


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