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At least 167 real human people actually still collect football cards, according to this ESPN report, which also mentions that some number of those people received autographed Dak Prescott football cards that “may not be authentic.”Read more...

Most runs at Games Done Quick events fall in the one to three-hour range. Last night, Final Fantasy speedrunner “Ajneb174,” or Ben, put on an almost eight-hour speedrun of Final Fantasy VII, an endurance run of memorization, routing and insane game knowledge.Read more...

Officials suspended a club friendly in Austria between German team Werder Bremen and Dutch side Ajax after 20-year-old Abdelhak Nouri collapsed on the pitch midway through the second half.Read more...

After a protracted courtship that featured rival Chelsea tabling their own unsuccessful bid, Manchester United and Everton have reportedly agreed to a £75 million transfer fee that will send Romelu Lukaku to Old Trafford. As part of the transfer, beloved Man Utd. striker Wayne Rooney will go to Everton.Read more...

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Back in early May, the Orioles capped a six-game win streak with a 12-inning, 5-4 win over the Nationals that brought their record on the season to 22-10, good for first place in the AL East. They dropped a tight one to the Nats the following night, and the final game of the series, set for May 11, was the first of a…Read more...

The Palm Beach Gardens Police Department has reviewed surveillance video of the fatal June 9 accident in which Venus Williams was found to be at fault, and released a statement indicating that their initial findings were incorrect. From the statement:Read more...

Lonzo Ball’s much-anticipated professional basketball debut left Lakers chief Magic Johnson shaking his head, as the UCLA product went 2-15 while tripping over his feet and looking incredibly slow in a 96-93 overtime loss to the Clippers. Time for some lowlights!Read more...

After two nasty losses and more than a year out of the spotlight, Ronda Rousey has likely retired from UFC. Once upon a time, this would have been a death knell for women’s MMA in the UFC, but now the UFC’s got an amazing crop of talent ready to get on with the show. Unfortunately, the organization isn’t doing much to…Read more...

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In the wake of Fox Sports’ recent decision to lay off most of its writers and editors, and this week’s firing of Jamie Horowitz amid a sexual harassment investigation, there remain a whole lot of unknowns. We know that the grand plan in getting rid of writers was to “pivot to video,” and that even though that was…Read more...

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What is there to know about Fabio Fognini? He is the languid, deviant pirate of tennis. With a skull headband wrapped around his dome, he does a stout little swagger around the court. He does not swing his racket very dramatically, but very dramatic things happen to the ball after it leaves his racket. And when in his…Read more...

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The Celtics backed themselves into a bit of a jam when they decided to sign Gordon Hayward without obtaining the necessary cap room, and the moves they’ve been forced to make have given other teams a chance to benefit from Boston’s trouble. That’s how the Detroit Pistons reportedly traded Marcus Morris for Avery…Read more...

Last week, after former Ravens linebacker Zach Orr announced he hoped to return to the NFL just five months after retiring with a congenital spine condition, ex-Packer Jermichael Finley said that Orr’s story “hits very close to home.”Read more...

Entering a town is a defining moment in any Battlegrounds match. In open fields, you’re safe. You can see for miles, and shots are difficult to track over long distances. Enter a village or town, it’s different. Sixty alive. A car sits vacant in the street. Any other day a gamble, but today, it’s facing east. You…Read more...

The Washington Post has a scoop about famed basketball coach and terrible person Bobby Knight. On July 10, 2015, Knight was curiously invited to give a speech at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), an arm of the Department of Defense that analyzes imagery of the Earth’s surface in order to serve…Read more...

Despite years of chronicling the unique t-shirt culture on the Wildwood Boardwalk in New Jersey, I’ve never really asked anyone on the boards why they buy what they buy when it comes to wonderfully bad t-shirts. Until now.Read more...

The highlight of the 2016-17 Rams’ season was former head coach Jeff Fisher struggling to find his challenge flag in the pockets of his big coat. Now, thanks to Amazon’s All Or Nothing, we can relive the moment with full, on-field audio:

Eight years ago and counting, Samoa Joe was done—or at least it seemed that way.

World No. 34 Karen Khachanov fought his way through two tough matches in Wimbledon’s early rounds (a total of nine sets, three of which were tiebreaks) only to earn himself a third-round date with Rafael Nadal.Read more...

Listen man, I know you don’t usually come to this site looking for information about Girls creator and world’s most obvious Oberlin alum Lena Dunham, but you gotta hear about this shit with the dog she gave up and the shelter that absolutely demolished her online.Read more...

Time waits for no one, as the Rolling Stones once said, and UFC middleweight champion Michael Bisping is currently in the process of proving the now-geriatric rockers right.

One day after Penn State sued former defensive coordinator Bob Shoop for allegedly breaching his contract, Shoop filed a countersuit. According to a counterclaim filed in U.S. Middle District Court in Pennsylvania on Thursday, Shoop left the job due to “intolerable” working conditions.Read more...

Flat stages are usually not the most exciting Tour de France stages, but they have been completely bonkers this year. There was Peter Sagan maybe pushing Mark Cavendish into the barriers and eliminating both riders from contention. Today, Marcel Kittel was awarded his third stage of the Tour, but it’s not clear…Read more...

Justin Wong is one of the greatest fighting game players of all time, and he proved that yet again by using a brand new character for the entirety of a Street Fighter V tournament in Canada this past weekend.Read more...

Starting in August, the U.S. Open will test out in qualifying rounds a number of new rules and innovations designed to speed up matches and limit time between points. The most dramatic and noticeable of these rules will be a shot clock visible to all fans, as well as the ability for players to speak to coaches in the…Read more...

Dog racing apparently has a bit of a coke problem. Two months ago, five dogs racing out of St. Petersburg, Fla., tested positive for cocaine, and it seems that the problem is not just limited to the Tampa Bay area.

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The New York Times is laying off some of its copy editors in an effort to reshape the staff for the online age. Editor Dean Baquet is answering reader questions about this online. Dean... I think you missed a question, here?Read more...

Welcome to the YouTube video. It was created by Michigan head football coach Jim Harbaugh. The description reads: “The first video of many taking a behind the scenes look at the faith, family and football of the Harbaugh’s [sic].”Read more...

Oklahoma City Thunder guard Andre Roberson just signed a three-year, $30 million deal to stay in OKC, but the influx of cash hasn’t left him feeling very generous.

In a gesture where magnanimity is solidly outpointed by hollowness—unless the purpose is to drum up drama for a rematch—the WBO has announced it will re-score last weekend’s controversial fight, which saw Jeff Horn upset Manny Pacquiao, but that it cannot and will not reverse the decision.

The Phillies lost to the Pirates last night, dropping them to an MLB-worst 28-56. In the second inning, the Pirates’ Jose Osuna threw out consecutive base runners trying to stretch singles into doubles. It wasn’t all Phillies blunders: The Phils’ Andrew Knapp scored from first on a botched pickoff throw by catcher…Read more...

Even (or perhaps, especially) in the age of laptops and tablets, many people prefer the tactile experience of jotting down notes with an actual pen and paper, and the most tactile experience of all comes from the Ghost Paper Notebook.

Randy Arozarena of the Double-A Springfield Cardinals hit what looked like a pretty ordinary infield pop-up in the seventh inning of tonight’s game against the Midland RockHounds. With not one, not two, not three, but four fielders circling the ball, it seemed about as close to an automatic out as you can get. But…Read more...

Baylor is in the process of settling a lawsuit filed by a former student who claimed in her suit that the university and its Board of Regents “had created a hunting ground for sexual predators to freely prey upon innocent, unsuspecting female students, with no concern of reprisal or consequences.”Read more...

The Knicks have moved to reacquire restricted free agent Tim Hardaway Jr., signing an offer sheet with the guard for a four-year deal worth $71 million. The move was first reported by Adrian Wojnarowski and Ian Begley of ESPN.Read more...

The Nationals and Braves were scheduled to begin play in D.C. tonight at 7:05 p.m. ET. It was not raining. But there was rain in the forecast, so they went ahead and called a rain delay anyway—just in case, right? They didn’t need to put a tarp on the field, since, you know, it wasn’t actually raining, but there was…Read more...

A wailing fire alarm. A car slamming into the front window of a diner, brakes screeching as customers scream. A baseball bat that has slipped from the hitter’s fingers and is flung into the crowd.Read more...

Billionaire Richard Chaifetz has left Derek Jeter’s group bid for the Miami Marlins, reportedly due to frustration with the fact that Jeter was asking for control of the group while “not investing much money,” per the New York Post.Read more...

ESPN’s Tim MacMahon is reporting that the Dallas Mavericks are about to finish up a two-year, $10 million contract (with a team option for the second year) that will continue to keep 39-year-old Dirk Nowitzki, the greatest player in franchise history, on the only NBA team he’s ever played for. It’s a move that won’t…Read more...

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Roger Federer is not going to leave a stack of soulless husks in his wake at Wimbledon the way Rafael Nadal did at the French Open. Nadal left Paris with a body count; Federer was sure to be a little different in London. He has always revealed more flashes of mushy mortality—netting backhands, double-faulting at fatal…Read more...

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Next week, the International Olympic Committee will gather for a vote on a recommendation to award the 2024 and 2028 Summer Olympic Games to Paris and Los Angeles. It might not be official until the IOC formally votes on host cities in Lima in September, but at this point it’s become clear that Los Angeles will get to…Read more...

Twenty-one-year-old Austrian Sebastian Ofner—who reportedly only started playing tennis seriously after he graduated secondary school two years ago; who was ranked No. 217 in the world; who had never played above a Challenger-level tournament before Wimbledon; who has earned only $46,193 in his career; and who made it…Read more...

I think figure skating has this stereotype as a sport for little girls—that we are these pretty porcelain dolls ...