We had no idea Russians mixed anything with their vodka. We always imagined them swigging from the bottle, or if you prefer a more civilized approach, pouring shot after endless shot and sipping the crystal clear liquor until the...

Whas Happened In Sports Last Night Women’s Marathon Swimming: Russia’s Larisa Ilchenko took the first gold medal in marathon swimming, an event that makes its poor competitors swim 10 kilometers, or 6.2 miles in American. She’s cute, so we’re...

It looks like all Russian billionaires aren’t leaving their motherland to blow their sports wad elsewhere. Some are actually spending money building their own country’s sports infrastructure. Sure, we could point to the national team’s amazing run in the...

Russia’s defense was paltry at best and non-existent at worst. Unlike the Germans and Turks providing us with exciting soccer (even though we missed half of it due to a blackout), the Russians denied us an encore of their...

Andrei Arshavin made himself quite a bit of cash during this past Euro 2008. Sure his Russian squad got bounced yesterday by the Spaniards, but his amazing showing during the tournament had everyone all but writing his ticket to...

Whas Happened In Sports Last Night Euro 2008: Goals from Xavi (50), Daniel Guiza (73) and David Silva (82) put the game far, far away from the Russians who had multiple breaks in attack, but few chances to score....

Not that the Russian national soccer team needs help securing the ladies (especially the soon to be very wealthy at Chelsea Andrei Arshavin), but wealthy socialite Pyotr Listerman has made an offer to Arshavin. For every goal a team...

Russia had no intentions of being sent home this weekend. Yet, after a magnificent second half goal, the Russians found themselves in extra time against a Dutch team that performed extremely well during group stages. Good thing the knockout...

People always talk about the way Brazil incorporates samba into their style of play through fluidity, creativity and energy. If you wait for the aerial shot of this goal, you’ll see that Russia plays in a manner similar to...

Euro 2008: We underestimated the Russians against the Swedes during last night’s game. Russia came out creating space against a Swedish team that could only sit back and defend because most of their players were ailing with either serious...

So Russian fans decided to cast some voodoo spells on the English national team to help them win. Um, bruja, I think it worked. Russian fans resorted to bizarre measures for success, hiring a voodoo priestess to curse three...