After days of frenzied speculation, Lebron "King" James announced last night that he is joining Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh in Miami, officially becoming the most-hated man on the Internet for the next few months.

Yes, YouTube is already inundated with videos of crazed Cavalier fans screaming, crying and sulking over the loss of their beloved h...

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The Reuters copywriter responsible for this double entendre-laden headline must really, really enjoy his job – that is, if he still has it.

At first glance, one may assume that this headline precedes a news story about the gay pride march that took place two weeks ago. However, they’d quickly realize that it’s actually about a recent race betw...

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You know, remaining scoreless at the end of a game is pretty embarrassing. But, there is something far, far more humiliating: living with the knowledge that one of your own players scored a goal for the opposing team by kicking the ball off his teammate’s face.

As unbelievable as that sounds, it happened just a week and half ago during a game ...

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Last week, we reported that the Fourth of July would be cancelled if Takeru Kobayashi didn’t compete in this year’s Nathan’s Famous International Hot Dog Eating Contest.

Well, our worst fears came true, and the 32-year-old Japanese competitive eater didn’t participate in the event. But, for some reason, the holiday still went off without a hit...

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Ah, competitive eating, the only sport where gluttony and overindulgence are signs of a professional athlete in training.

For the uninitiated, the most popular event in the sport takes place on the Fourth of July: the Nathans Hot Dog Eating contest. It’s the World Cup of competitive eating as the yearly tradition typically boils down to the sa...

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Tiger Woods’s wife just won the lottery! And by lottery, I mean the “I want half, Tiger” sweepstakes.

According to The Sun, Tiger Woods will be forced to pay his soon-to-be ex-wife, Elin Nordegren, roughly $750 million in the largest celebrity divorce settlement of all-time.

Seven-hundred and fifty million dollars: Any attempt to wrap one’s ...

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This was the scene in Berlin during the Germany-England World Cup match on June 27th: five-hundred thousand fans cheering, jeering and, undoubtedly, shouting profane things in unison.

To put things into perspective: that’s more people than the entire population of Iceland and fifty other countries.

Fortunately for everyone involved, Germany t...

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Soccer—or football, if you’re not American—is arguably the most popular sport on the planet. Yet, ‘til this very day, it remains stuck in the Stone Age, thanks, in large part, to FIFA’s aversion to technology.

The instant replay is not a novel concept by any stretch of the imagination, but for years, sports leagues around the globe have been s...

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Arjen Robben Dancing His Way Across the Field

Over the weekend, the United States suffered a crushing defeat at the hands of Ghana, effectively ending their bid for the World Cup and killing any remaining interest in the sport for many Americans. However, for the rest of us, the show goes on with eight teams still battling for World Cup suprem...

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Daily Tailgate has a new campaign they are running throughout October that is pretty awesome. Pick the top 15 BCS teams in order as determined by the final Selection Sunday poll in early December and you win $100,000 on them. Not sure what the odds are, but still, this is insane.

Take a flyer and give it a shot - why the hell not?