We were fans of wresting before “tapping out” meant exposing a vein for the needle to plunge into. That’s why there was no surprise from our office when we learned that enough wrestlers to start a Royal Rumble were...

Ozzie Guillen implied last week that he had basically thrown in the towel after his team was swept by the Boston Red Sox. This week he wants everyone to know that he’s [expletive]-ing the rest of the season because...

If you’re looking for greener pastures, just head down to your local soccer pitch. Recently, Spain has given away citizenship to soccer athletes like strip joint flyers are handed out on the Las Vegas strip. It seems that allegiance...

Recently we’ve succumb to the effects of jadedness because we’re getting tired of our girlfriends asking us why we don’t have ab structure like David Beckham. We’ve been feeling insecure and objectified, leading us to drink like sailors. So...

The translation of ‘loan’ usually means that a team doesn’t expect a player’s services to enhance their title chances. So when Inter Milan and Brazilian national team striker Adriano was linked to a move, it clearly underlined one thing:...

In another example of how there are bigger things in life than sports, 22-year-old Antonio Puerta—who played for Sevilla and the Spanish national team—passed away Saturday night. He collapsed from a cardiac arrest 35 minutes into the game against...

Resorting to cheering for another team is all you have left when your team has the same chances of reaching the playoffs as Pete Rose has a chance of getting into the Hall of Fame. Ozzie Guillen, manager of...

After winning a gold medal at the 2007 World Championships in Osaka, 100-meter sprinter Tyson Gay thanked his coach, Lance Brauman, who’s wrapping up a year-long jail sentence for embezzlement, theft and mail fraud. We guess he’s really on...

It seems that some first-year USC football players have been complaining about their dorm rooms. Machochip doesn’t usually condone freshman hazing in sports. It creates an atmosphere of mistrust, and it’s really hard to train when you’ve been wrapped...

Nowadays, America’s gang problem won’t even let you accessorize properly. New Era—the company that makes most of MLB fitted baseball caps—has been churning out a line that caters to gangs using their color-schemes, and some people are pretty pissed...

A German artist named Frank Boelter has built a boat using Tetrapak—the stuff they make juice boxes out of. This is disheartening to us because we always thought the only average household item you could use to build a...

Andy Rooney has always been a curmudgeon in his columns and 60 Minutes rants, but was he always a racist curmudgeon? (Yes.) In his latest column, about why he doesn’t like baseball, Mr. Friendly has found a new reason...

You know you’re swimming in dirty water if you ever to call someone’s sister a whore and then base a book promotion on named insult. We’re ecstatic karma fanatics, so when Marco Materazzi—the guy who solidified his role as...

The Los Angeles Daily News got a bit of a hard-on after last night’s Dodgers’ victory over the flunking-Phillies. With the Los Angeles Dodgers clinging to post all-star break life support, the win seemed to isnpire an overzealous staff...

Marco Materazzi—the Italian defender who goaded Zinadine Zidane into famously headbutting him during last year’s World Cup—is on a book tour. How is he promoting it? By telling the world what he said that sent Z into a fury...

If you’re planning to attend next year’s Olympic Games in Beijing and, you know, breathe well, the World Health Organization has some news for you. “All of the [Chinese] cities are pretty highly polluted,” said [World Health Organization’s] Dr...

There’s modesty that borders pussy-ville, and then there is the type of modesty that makes grown men soil their underwear. UFC prize-fighter Gabriel Gonzaga exudes the latter and the Brazilian hasn’t even won a title yet. Gonzaga is scheduled...

Deciding it’s his life’s duty to sex as many famous women (Jessica Simpson, Kirsten Dunst, etc.) in real life as we do in our dreams, Maroon 5’s lead singer Adam Levine let it slip that he and Russian tennis...

Chicago Cubs’ firecracker Carlos Zambrano has convinced his team that being a dugout liability means you want to kick ass on the field too. So what has Chicago done? The Cubs have offered Zambrano 90 million over the next...

While ESPN’s Sports Guy has been promising his list of the best sports films since forever, Rotten Tomatoes beat him to it and released a list of the best 53 (like a football roster, get it?). The problem is,...

Only days after declaring he’d be Venezuelan President_4_life, Hugo Chavez decided not to grant visas to a group of Taiwanese little leaguers for the World Junior Baseball Championships in Venezuela. Well, you know what? The WJBC’s have been canceled...

The Tinku Festival in Bolivia is all about the brawl…for reasons of prosperity of course. Since our boss man wants us to extract some Latin American sport, what better than to show some Bolivian vatos and rucas throwin’ down...

Major League records are dropping like Latinos over a border crossing these days, and Placido Polanco decided to reveal his curtsy skills to all of baseball. The veteran second baseman passed the previous record of 144 consecutive games without...

The Los Angeles Times reports that Pretty Boy Oscar De La Hoya has decided to keep plastering his trademark “I’m a pussy” grin on our pay-per-view channels. The notorious MAP (Mexican-American Prince), who had announced he would retire, (but...

If you’re wondering why there were a whole bunch of guys in NFL jerseys hootin’ and hollerin’ outside your local Gamestop this morning, it’s because this year’s version of Madden—inventively called “Madden 08”—came out today....

The new group who recently bought the Sonics are talking about moving the team to Oklahoma City, just because that’s where they live. Huh, It turns out that having lots of money does make you irrational. According to Aubrey...

In the worse case of brown-on-brown crime involving Cubans since Gloria Estafan ditched the Sound Machine, Jose Canseco casually mentioned during a radio show that Alex Rodriguez will soon be under the same steroid cloud that Barry Bonds now...

Matt Murphy, the lucky bastard who captured Bond’s 756th homerun ball after battling vultures has decided to keep his catch—at least for now. Murphy’s logic is puzzling when you consider he’s in possession of a golden egg. It’s the...

It was a year ago, almost to the day, when we met a rising star in major league baseball. No, he wasn’t a 100-mph pitcher or a five-tool outfielder. He wasn’t even technically on the team. Who is this...

It’s about that time of the year to go see old friends (and enemies) at our fantasy football drafts. We’ve been pretty successful (go Team Macho!), so we decided to share our little secret with you that vanishes foes...

Two Cuban fighters from Cuba defected from their country during the Pan-American games. Guillermo Rigondeaux and Erislandy Lara decided it was a great idea to ditch their Cuban teammates and escape to a brand new, poverty-stricken country. The boxers...

We like to cheer for the little guy around here, so we decided to salute Chilean jockey, and future hall of famer, Jose Santos. The aging and crumbling rider has called it quits after twenty-three years of ball-busting saddle...

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