According to a report from The Guardian, a member of Britain’s Olympic team was robbed at gunpoint early Tuesday morning. The report doesn’t have many details from the incident, such as who it was or where the robbery took place, just that it happened while the victim was “enjoying a night on the town.” However, they…
Swimming, like most racing sports, is relatively simple. Competitors swim back and forth across a pool, for a set distance, using a set stroke. There are more technical skills needed to succeed in the pool than on the track, but hydrodynamic butterfly entry techniques aside, it’s a straightforward sport, and…
This whole story about US swimmers Ryan Lochte, Gunnar Bentz, Jack Conger, and Jimmy Feigen maybe or maybe not getting robbed at gunpoint by men who were maybe posing as Brazilian police officers is fishy and riddled with inconsistencies. Brazilian police cast doubt on Lochte’s story, and earlier today, a Brazilian…
Usain Bolt, last seen showing the 100 meter dash field a clean pair of heels, is even faster across 200 meters. For the spectator, this mostly means that he has more time to show out.
The gymnastics medals at the Rio Olympics are all spoken for. The last event final was yesterday, but athletes took to the floor for the gala today, in which Olympic gymnasts strip, dance, and generally do cool gymnastics moves for the crowd to laugh at. The best one was this human jumprope.
Brazilian Thiago Da Silva left the pole vault finals with a gold medal and an Olympic record. Japanese pole vaulter Hiroki Ogita left with a 21st-place finish and a dick foible seen ‘round the world.
Normally in fighting sports, pre-bout histrionics and chest-puffing look fake, and also not particularly noteworthy. That is not the case when the Diaz brothers are involved.
Synchronized swimming came in fairly low in our rankings of every Olympic medal event. I know as much about it as I do about horse sports, which is to say, not much. It seems like a nice chill activity for the elderly, those who want to dance in the water, or perhaps athletes with joint problems who want a low-impact…
The Philadelphia Phillies traded Chase Utley to the Dodgers almost exactly one year ago. Utley spent 12 seasons in Philly, winning a World Series ring and making the All-Star team six times. He is nearly as synonymous with the Phillies as Jimmy Rollins, and he played his first game in Philly as a visitor this evening.…
There have been more athletic catches this baseball season than Anthony Rizzo’s fifth-inning snag against the Brewers tonight, but none of them have been anywhere near as cool.
British track cyclists have thus far dominated the velodrome at the Rio Olympics. They have 11 medals, while no other country has more than two. The women’s sprint gold medal was one of the few that got away, as Germany’s Kristina Vogel defeated Rebecca James this afternoon to take the win.
Jeffrey Julmis of Haiti must have thought he was in the plain old vanilla 100m race instead of the 110m hurdles this afternoon. While approaching the first hurdle in the race, Julmis offered a meager hop, and ended up tangled up in it on the deck.
Should you flip your bat after drawing a walk? Who knows, probably not. Should you flip your bat up, over, and onto the plate umpire’s head?
If you try to touch Adrian Beltre’s head, he’ll flip out. If you try to douse him in one or more jugs of celebratory post-game beverage, he’ll mount up, grab weapons, and ward you off with them.
In the prelims of the men’s 3m springboard, Ahmad Amsyar Azman tried to do a dive that, presumably, was not meant to end in a belly flop. Despite his best efforts, it ended in a belly flop.
Allyson Felix lost the 400-meter final by just seven agonizing hundredths of a second, after Bahamanian runner Shaunae Miller dove right at the finish line to hold off Felix’s charge from behind. The 30-year-old Felix came into the final stretch well behind Miller, but managed to almost run her down, before Miller…
This afternoon, the Detroit Lions signed tight end Andrew Quarless. Quarless, who played for the Packers for five seasons, will be suspended for the first two games of the 2016 NFL season from a July 2015 altercation where he shot his gun during an altercation outside of a Miami nightclub.
Last night, the freshly-relocated Los Angeles Rams played their first home game in the L.A. Coliseum since 1979, and they commemorated the occasion with a win. In the stands, some of their fans celebrated professional football’s return to L.A. with a fairly vicious brawl.
Mountain biking at the Rio Olympics doesn’t start until this Saturday, but the event is already running into problems. Specifically, the course is on fire.
After Ruth Jebet won the 3000-meter steeplechase yesterday, she stood on the top step above fellow Kenya native Hyvin Jepkemoi, received her gold medal from another Kenyan, Paul Tergat, then turned to watch the Bahraini flag ascend to the top of the flagpole. The 19-year-old Jebet was born in Kenya, but she began…
