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Former Olympic gymnast McKayla Maroney said she was molested by team physician Larry Nassar during her very first visit with him, and “hundreds” of times thereafter. Maroney discussed Nassar’s alleged pattern of abuse during an interview that aired Wednesday on the Today show. She said Nassar first molested her during an appointment when she was […]
As the Cleveland Browns stormed to their first win since 2016, one fan’s act of courage seemed to usher in a new era for the city’s long-suffering football team. In the midst of the Browns’ 21–17 victory over the New York Jets on Thursday night, a possum was spotted wandering the stands at FirstEnergy Stadium. […]
A “psychic” octopus that correctly predicted the results of all three of Japan’s soccer World Cup group stage games has been killed and sent to market, just as the knockout stages of the tournament get underway, according to Japanese media. Rabiot, a giant Pacific octopus caught in Obira, Hokkaido, correctly “predicted” that Japan would win […]
Sorry about your bracket. After a series of major upsets in this year’s NCAA men’s basketball tournament, not a single March Madness bracket remains un-busted. The final dagger in the heart of the hopeful was the 16th-seeded University of Maryland-Baltimore County’s (UMBC) shocking win over The University of Virginia on Friday. The NCAA announced Sunday […]
Not even a squirrelly interruption could throw off Olympic snowboarder Daniela Ulbing of Austria. While putting down a preliminary run in the 2018 Winter Olympics ladies’ snowboard parallel giant slalom on Saturday, 19-year-old Ulbing was faced mid-turn with an unusual extra challenge in the competition: a rogue squirrel who decided to skitter across the race […]
As Justify raced out to an early lead at Saturday’s Belmont Stakes, and held it for the whole mile-and-a-half, the chestnut colt’s trainer, Bob Baffert, stood stoically in the stands next to his wife Jill, arms folded. Baffert, his snow white mane the most recognizable head of hair in this sport, tends to ooze sexagenarian […]
When Matthew Wilkas, the boyfriend of American slopestyle skier Gus Kenworthy, saw on Twitter a sceenshot of he and Kenworthy sharing a kiss before Kenworthy’s qualifying run on Sunday at the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in South Korea, he didn’t think the moment was a very big deal. “That was like a peck,” Wilkas tells […]
It’s hard for adults to stand on the sidelines while tiny children attempt to play their favorite sports. For a perfect example of this, check out this video of an adult turning a child into a goalkeeper, whether they wanted to be one or not. The video shows a determined soccer dad turned very enthusiastic […]
The opening ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympics saw competitors, coaches and commentators from all over the world come together to kick off the Winter Games in PyeongChang, South Korea. But there was one face notably missing from the crowd: longtime Olympics host Bob Costas. As the face of NBC Sports, Costas acted as the […]
The tennis world may be reeling over five-time U.S. Open champion Roger Federer’s unexpected loss to John Millman, ranked far below Federer at number 55, but fans at Arthur Ashe stadium know the real upset took place before the match—someone was spotted dipping chicken fingers into soda. ESPN reportedly broadcast the abhorrent behavior during the […]