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...

Soccer riots have a long history of being about stupid shit. Either someone talked smack about another dude’s girlfriend or a group (or six) of rows decide to start throwing fascist salutes all over the place. But occasionally, a...

There was a time in baseball before free agency when players used to actually fear for their livelihoods. There were no guaranteed contracts or multi-million dollar endorsement deals for anyone. This is the time that former relief pitcher, and...

We assume the next game between the Dayton Dragons and the Peoria Chiefs is not going to exactly be as action-packed as yesterday’s was. That’s because when all said and done, these two minor-league teams saw one player suffering...

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...

America, we understand this is a bad time in our country. We’re at war, the middle class is quickly diminishing and Boston teams are winning all the championships. But that is not an excuse for what happened in Oregon...

It’s not a good sign when you collapse right before a round is about to commence. Boxer Oscar Diaz did just that when he went down for the count yesterday during a fight against fellow pugilist Delvin Rodriguez. In...

Pugilists aren’t usually the brightest bulbs in the box, but former UFC champ Rampage Jackson is like a 20-watt about to burn out. He was arrested yesterday after leading police on a Grand Theft Auto type-chase through two cities...

Oh, this is a sad day for Michoacan, Mexico. Hometown boy and ex-NFL kicker Tony Zendejas (he’s the one who’s not Luis or Max), was brought into court yesterday because a woman is accusing him of raping her after...

Panama is kinda pissed at El Salvador right now, and it ain’t because they’re not returning their calls. When the Panamanian soccer team got walloped by the Salvadorians in a World Cup qualifier last month, things got a little...

Certified belligerent and renegade psycho Joey Barton is still in prison and awaiting early release after being sentenced to six months for basically beating the snot out of anyone who looks at him the wrong way. Video released a...

There’s a reason why Jose Guillen has played for most MLB teams and kicked off the Angels squad that won the World Series halfway through the season. He’s a maniac. But he swings a mean bat, so teams will...

After doing battle over the weekend with someone old enough to order from the senior’s menu at IHOP, Manny Ramirez has a new image problem. Before knocking down 64-year-old Jack McCormick because of ticket problems, Ramirez’s eccentricities were laughable...

Junot Diaz is a gamer, and sometimes that pulls more cred around here than winning the Pulitzer Prize (which Diaz did for The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, which is required reading around these parts). But something shook...

During last week’s Madden 09 launch party, past Madden cover boys shed their wheelchairs and braved steps to get up in front of the crowd and share their wildest Madden betting stories. Included on the panel were Daunte Culpepper,...

During our visit the Shea Stadium the other day to see the Mets get shellacked by the Mariners, the one genuinely exciting thing we saw was the confrontation between manager Jerry Manuel and home plate ump Brian Runge. Even...

If Latrell Sprewell taught us anything about player/manager fights, it’s that violence against coaches never ends well. At all. Now, we have Shawn Chacon to add to the list of dumbasses that ended their own careers prematurely. After being...

So Wimbledon has come under fire lately, and it’s not for letting Maria Sharapova dress like a ball-boy. It turns out the hawks that keep pigeons from watching the matches without paying swooping down and interrupting the matches haven’t...

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...

Apparently no one is safe from getting robbed by roving bands of gangs in Brazil. Football’s G.O.A.T. Pele was heading out of Sao Paulo when 10 armed kids from a nearby favela overtook his car and robbed him of...

As interleague play winds down in baseball, the most compelling match-up this weekend has to be the Cubs and the White Sox. This is the first time the two teams have met while in first place; there’s the Cubs...

A lot of people are painting new Mets skipper Jerry Manuel as a “nice guy manager” because he was Ozzie Guillen’s predecessor in Chicago and, well, people liked him. Apparently, anyone compared to Ozzie automatically win brownie points for...

We’re drawn to fans acting like morons, on any occasion, like children are drawn to lead. No. Shiny things. That’s it. So this video will make it’s way onto our site this morning because there’s nothing like celebratory violence...

If there’s a running thread that joins all levels of football—from Pop Warner to the pros—it’s that you’ll eventually encounter some fan violence in the stands. But NFL commissioner Roger Goddell has decided to do something about it. Ban...

What is it about grown men trying to imitate Bart Simpson sliding down the stairs at baseball stadiums? For the second time this year, a man fell to his death, this time in Atlanta, after trying to zip down...

The biggest knock on Albert Pujols entering the season was that his injured elbow would cause him to lose some of the pop off his bat. Well, if you ask the Padres’ pitcher Chris Young his catcher Josh Bard,...

When Cuba becomes a bettor’s paradise again, gambling won’t be the only vice that will bring people to the island. Golf is huge there (as are the asses, but that’s another story), so it’s no surprise that Minnesota Twins...

Remember that screwed up story we ran yesterday about Yankees fan Ivonne Hernandez running over and killing a Boston fan with her car? It turns out the raucous didn’t escalate to senselessness because she was taunted and teased. The...

When you’ve reached the pearly gates of baseball fan heaven, do you want to explain why you killed a 29 year old rival fan because you were being teased? No. Because it’s silly. And no one really gets that...

Being a referee is a generally thankless profession. You have to keep the peace amongst athletes who are getting paid a ton more than you are and then usually get yelled at by everyone over a call you made...

We couldn’t so much as enter with an unopened bottle of water at a Los Angeles Dodgers’ game in Vero Beach, Fl last month, but for some reason, soccer fans in Holland (and basically everywhere else in the world)...

When it comes to modesty, athletes are sometimes the least to display it. So it’s no surprise Juventude soccer player Thiago decided it was fine to rush towards opposing Gremio fans this weekend, in their stadium, and raise a...

As if there weren’t enough reasons as to why people shouldn’t run long distances outdoors when they have perfectly good treadmills available indoors, add another: bees. This past weekend, a group of half-marathon runners in Japan were attacked by...

The man you see above giving the opposing player the Felix Pie business is Hamburg’s David Jarolim, and he’s been slapped with a four game suspension by the Bundesliga for the above offense. We don’t think four games is...

The Offside uncovered this crazy scene at a Futsal match between Palmeiras and Corinthians in which “fans” began to hurl chairs and rocks, all the while riot police were wailing their this-is-what-we-use-to-make-up-for-size batons against anyone who even so slightly...

Soccer violence is pissing us off now. It’s bad enough we have opportunistic soccerphobic haters berating the game every chance they get, but now we’re not so sure it’s unwarranted. Argentine Clausura was marred by more violence this weekend...

Graphic Video It turns out Spain’s not just about basketball blogging and hot girl contests—there’s also ass kickings asunder! This video, which was recorded on a cell phone and shown on television in Spain, shows Sevilla fans whooping on...

We’re not entirely aware of who this is, or when it took place, but the week’s latest incidents of soccer violence sent us scouring through videos consisting of crazy ass soccer players and coaches beating the snot out of...

What is your idol’s autograph worth? For Italian tennis player Potito Starace, it’s enough to smooth over a rough patch he hit with his idol, Diego Maradona. It all started when the Argentine decided to give Starace a bit...

Silly us. We thought that this past weekend’s Colombian soccer brawl was caused by the coach bonking the other coach in the nose. While punching his Deportivo Cali rival Daniel Carreno got America coach Diego Umana suspended for 11...

Last week we told you about the future match between “Kiss Man” Yoshihiro Nakao and Mirko ‘Cro Cop’ Filipovic. But now, it looks like Cro Cop is going to have to get his kiss on with another man. It...

We’ve all been there—a ref makes a horrible call and we’re out for murderous blood, even from our fellow fans. Some wouls say the target for our aggression shouldn’t be in the stands with us, but the with the...

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....

Can a Red Bull house divided by itself stand… each other? That’s the question after the two Red Bull franchises—MLS’s New York and Salzburg—met in Austria for an exhibition game against each other. And like every family gathering, it...

Can the sins of the father be taken out on the son? When it has to do with EPL soccer. Tom Hicks, Jr, son of T. H. Sr. who owns the Liverpool Reds (plus the Texas Rangers and Dallas...

We’ve seen some crazy stuff over the years when it comes to athlete’s aggression unleashed on the pitch. Remember Zidane’s nut squash against the Saudi player? Or, better yet, his head-butt against Materazzi in the World Cup? Yet, we...

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...

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...

The closet—hider of skeletons, shoes and secret lovers. We’re sure that’s what Glen Rice’s estranged wife Christina Fernandez collectively had in hers when the former NBA All Star came in to her house and decided he didn’t want to...

We watch a fair amount of tennis besides Federer matches and Serena’s ass going side to side (how does she move so quick with a trunk so full?). That’s why when we found out that a group of Greeks...