Next month, when you’re eating your corn dogs and rooting for your favorite country in the Olympics, remember what kind of preparation and struggle these athletes had to go through. Some have been training all their lives, waking up...

Quick question: has a fawning SI cover ever been so undeserved? In an interview with Fox, Favre has alluded that he might go down to Packers training camp even though A) he’s retired and B) no one wants him...

Arsenal has a history of being a little bit lighter on the payscale than most EPL teams, but that hasn’t stopped them attracting talent and being one of the league’s top teams. Well, this may be stop that. Club...

N.E.R.D and Neptunes frontman Pharrell Williams is getting sick of the ink on his body. Now that he’s getting into the chi-chi world of fashion, the super producer has decided all the body art commemorating his love of things...

It looks like Shaq won’t be busting through anymore doors to fight crime—legally, at least—and he has his rapping skills to thank for that. Fresh off his not-so-fresh lyrical bitchslap of Kobe Bryant, Shaq has been asked to give...

Oh Jerry Manuel. In less than a month into your reign as Mets manager, you’ve already threatened to go “gangsta” and shiv one of your best players, and now, you’re comparing your fans to fertilizer. Cow shit. Now, a...

Refs seem to be getting a bad shake lately. If they’re not under investigation for something, they’re getting increasingly yelled at for crappy officiating. Well, Rannord A. Jones has one-upped Congress, the NBA, fans and everyone who’s been on...

Wow, it looks like all the hooligan fascists hanging out in front of soccer stadiums aren’t all wannabe jerk-offs. Milivoj Asner, a 95-year-old former police chief for the Nazi-controlled Croatian government back in W-W-II and current Austrian resident, was...

For all of Danica Patrick’s “look at me, I’m hot” propaganda, we’re sure she’d rather be sitting behind the wheel of a car rather than cavorting on Maxim shoots. But hey, we can’t hate on someone trying to pay...

Tim Donaghy, remember him? He was the NBA official that was busted for betting on the games he officiated. Well, by strict coincidence his sentencing is coming up at the same time as the NBA Finals and he filed...

Here’s Manny Ramirez from yesterday’s Red Sox-Orioles tilt A) catching the fly ball over his head, B) climbing the left field wall to C) high-five a fan in the stands before D) picking off the Orioles runner at first....

Out of all the people that Alex Rodriguez could at least hope wouldn’t criticize him publicly, you’d hope that his wife Cynthia would be on the top of the list. Apparently it’s time to make a new list because...

Oh, Paul Pierce. We guess you can take the boy out of LA, but you can’t take the LA out of the boy. Fresh off his gang-sign toss against Al Horford Saturday, and subsequent $25K fine, a Boston “street...

Oh man, pity poor Ozzie Guillen. When the White Sox manager’s not getting called racist or lambasting a kid for not eating lima beans (from Peru… ha!), he’s getting into it with umpires—specifically Phil Cuzzi. It seems that Ozzie...

Wow, has an inanimate object ever received the chilly reception across continents the Olympic Torch has gotten this year? Attacked in Europe and protested in North America, the symbol for the Olympic games may now suffer the greatest ignominy...

There are precious few qualities you look for in a friend. Things like loyalty and knowing when to shut the hell up. Unfortunately for Alex Rodriguez, he picked a doozy of a BFF in Mike Borzello. Borzello, who was...

Meet 89-year old Furman Bisher. Furman’s a baseball writer for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and he has a problem with Major League Baseball’s insistence on opening their season over in Japan. But it has nothing to do with starting the...

If you hear a giant sucking noise emanating from the Northwest United States sometime between June and August, don’t be alarmed. It’s just the NBA tearing the Sonics from Seattle’s bosom and dropping it in the heartland—Oklahoma City, to...

Omar Beltre is having a rough go of things, lately. The Dominican pitching prospect in the Texas Rangers’ farm system is being repeatedly turned down for U.S. visas because of a scam he was part of back home. In...

Now this is what we were talking about. During a soccer match in Colombia between America de Cali and Deportivo de Cali, a riot broke out in the stands leaving 80 people wounded, including 18 stabbed fans....

Apparently Vatosaurus has brought Hispanics and blacks together in America like we’ve never seen before. Want proof? How about reports that Michael Vick, who has spent the first three of his 23 months in jail hanging out in general...

Hey y’all. Alex Ferreyra here. Hate mail is few and far between at the Machochip headquarters lately. That’s why when we got this email via our tip line, we were ecstatic. It seems a reader named Jesse found my...

Oscar De La Hoya has let it be known that after the next year, in which he’ll fight three times, his boxing career will be over. This will be after he takes on Contender figher Steve Forbes (who, much...

Birmingham defender Martin Taylor won’t be making any Christmas card lists anytime soon. After his take down of Eduardo Da Silva that could end the Brazilian-born, Croatian national’s career, Taylor has been vilified all over the European continent. It...

This picture is of Formula One ex-teammates Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso during better times. That’s because even after blackfaced fans taunted Hamilton last year in Alonso’s home country of Spain, he doesn’t think Spanish F1 fans are racist...

When Carlos Beltran decided to open his mouth about the Mets winning the NL East this year, the general consensus was that of shock.Not because of what he said, but that he had said it. It was like in...

Ozzie Guillen is what you call real real. That’s why it comes to a shock to most of us to learn the White Sox coach decided to muzzle himself last year when he spoke to reporters. It was a...

The great thing about pro sports is the idea of “next year.” It allows for an amnestic approach to following your team. And that’s okay for the fans… but not so much for the players. Take the Mets’ Carlos...

The Dallas Mavericks were thisclose to getting the Nets’ Jason Kidd yesterday, but someone had to throw a hissy fit because he didn’t want to get traded. That someone is former Laker and current Maverick Devean George. He’s part...

How do we know Charles Barkley’s a degenerate gambler? Because he speaks about losing money in betting line-hypotheticals. Here he tells Jim Rome that he lost $400 K on the Super Bowl because he listened to the “pundits” on...

The Association of Boxing Commissions is kind of worried about what’s going to go down in Leon, Mexico this weekend. This Saturday, Tommy Morrison is going to fight Matt Weishaar in a fight promoted by Top Rank. If you’ve...

As sports fans, we wield the sword of overseer. Every weekend, we trash talk bad calls and belittle referees from the privacy of our homes. Most referees have it coming to them, too. But complaining and badgering a ref...

It looks like soccer fans in Houston are getting tips from their Oakland Raider buds.Two fans were shot as they strolled out of Reliant Stadium after the Mexico-USA match ended with 2-2 tie. Why? It was either because they...

We were scouring the internet for video of Patriots’ coach Bill Belichick running off the field with a second left in the Super Bowl, but all we could find was this one shot off a TV. We wonder if...

Legendary Brazilian striker Romario must be a wonderful boyfriend. Two months after testing positive for banned substances (thanks to his thinning hair), Romario is lashing out at the powers that be for not overturning their suspension. The reason? Because...

Poking bears. Seems like a fun time until you have to stare into their wide open gaping mouth. In the NFL this season, we’ve seen various teams poking the proverbial bear that is the New England Patriots only to...

Fresh off a drubbing of Arsenal in the Carling Cup Semis, players for Tottenham Spurs should be happy and having fun, right? Not for Spurs French defender Pascal Chimbonda. He got real real talking to the British tabloids about...

The Super Bowl is not only a time of high excitement, but of major scrutiny. Any slip up will be remembered in the annals of Super Bowl lore. For this reason, Machochip contributing editor Alex Ferreyra is lending a...

As the old adage goes, breaking up is hard to do. But we feel that if the other party is as annoyingly clingy as Jessica Simpson seems to be, it shouldn’t be that hard. Unfortunately for Tony Romo, she’s...

We like lists because there’s hardly any logic involved and their validity is completely subjective. Yeah, they are totally great. And CO-ED magazine just released a compilation of the top 20 drunkest athletes which included “Big Papi” David Ortiz...

We’re going to showcase some amazing goals from the past from here on out and our inaugural spotlight (which you’ll forever remember because you’re totally in love with us) is Zinedine Zidane’s out-of-this-freaking-world volley in the 2001/2002 Champions League...

No this is not another ad for Armani’s exotic thong wear campaign. David Beckham is on an official UNICEF trip in Sierra Leon. Rumor has it, his good looks can stop poverty from spreading and will, in time, invigorate...

This is just the kind of entertainment we need on a day where we were pelted with sleet on the way to the subway. Really, why don’t all streakers wear capes? If they did, we guarantee more teams would...

It’s been a little more than an month since the Mitchell Report came out. And since the initial uproar, there hasn’t been much from the media about the involved players other than the coverage of Roger Clemens’ attempts to...

One of the bigger rivalries that has blossomed this decade in the Western Conference is the one between the Lakers and Suns. Each game is full of trash talking, intentionally thrown elbows and coaches telling each other to sit...

TMZ has released footage (that doesn’t seem to fucking work) of New England Patriots’ QB Tom Brady strolling along New York City streets with a cast on his right foot. New England fans have most certainly begun to weep...

American skier Scott Macartney provided us with one of the most horrific moments in sport’s disasters this weekend when he took a spill in Kitzbühel, Austria during the World downhill race. Besides sucking face with freezing ice for a...

We’ve already seen the horrors of what athletes who think they can rap can bring about. Now, David Beckham and Snoop Dogg have decided they want to put out a track where Becks lends his shrill voice to the...

We’re in the mood for a celeb gossip. So we’ve decided to stun you on this Thursday afternoon with a full frontal of David Beckham’s package, via Armani, because Victoria Beckham has confirmed our worst nightmares. The procockat…excuse us,...

Not being dads ourselves, we can make the audacious claim that being a team superfan is a lot like raising a child. You watch them both from their creation (or beginning of the season) and experience highs and lows...