Senior fullback Marc Panu has spent four years as a walk-on at Vanderbilt. For his teammates going to practice meant a free college education, for Marc it just meant doing something he loved. This week all that effort paid off.
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College Football Walk-On Is Surprised With A Full Scholarship At Team Meeting
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10 Olympic Athletes Who We Don't Want To Wait 4 Years To See Again
2016 is too far away.
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McKayla Maroney — Gymnastics
If McKayla Maroney doesn't get a reality show, then I will have lost all faith in the institution that is American Reality TV, and wouldn't that be a shame. Maroney is talented, funny, charismatic, and is the owner of one of the all-time greatest bitch faces in history. I want to see what her high school is like: Is she the queen bee? Is she a dork? I don't know, and it's reality TV's job to tell me.
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Ryan Lochte — Swimming
Is Ryan Lochte the biggest douchebag in Olympic history? Probably not; there have been a lot of people in Olympics. Stephon Marbury, for example. But regardless, Lochte is a douche, and I want to see him and his douche travels. He should host a No Reservations style show. Ryan Lochte "Jeah-ing" his way through Pakistan? Who wouldn't watch that?
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Usain Bolt — Track
Would anyone be opposed to track and field becoming the fifth major sport (after football, basketball, baseball, and soccer)? I want to see Usain Bolt race every weekend. No? Can't do that? Can we have Usain race things? I want to see him race a train. Maybe an antelope. More Usain please.
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Mo Farah — Track
Mo Farah captured the hearts of Great Britain with his two gold medals and his "M" pose when he celebrated his wins, making him the rarest of things: a distance runner who is as badass about winning as a sprinter. Can't we follow his training regiment for 2016? He has an adorable daughter named Rihanna. She's precocious!
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Synchronized Swimming Faces + Music = Terror
Never sleeping again.
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Evolution Of Women’s Uneven Bars 1950s – 2010
This supercut shows us how the sport has evolved in the last 60 years.
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The Statue Of David Beckham
On Thursday, H&M will unveil new ads for the soccer star's line of underwear including 11-foot statues that will appear outside selected stores around the country. Check out a preview of the print ad and statues.
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The statues first appeared in the UK as part of the initial launch of the line. But now, they will be making their way into the U.S.
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According to Glamour, the statues will appear in the following locations:
New York City:
South Street Seaport
FlatIron, 5th Avenue & 23rd Street
Fifth Avenue between 58th Street & 59th Street
H&M Store at Lexington Avenue & 59th Street
H&M Store at Fifth Avenue & 51st Street
H&M Store at Fifth Avenue & 42nd Street
Los Angeles:
Hollywood and Highland
H&M Store at the Beverly Center
San Francisco:
Union Square
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The statues will coincide with the release of new ads (previewed above).
"I'm very happy that so far people seem to like it and the first season was incredibly successful. The challenge is to keep it going and establish a brand that will last many years. That is my ambition," David told the Associated Press.
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Painful Video Of Chad "Ochocinco" Johnson Getting Cut
HBO has been following around the Dolphins for this season of the reality show Hard Knocks , which means when Ochocinco got cut this week, cameras were there for the meeting. But if you're tempted to feel bad for him, remember he was just arrested for allegedly headbutting his wife.
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Every Olympic Google Doodle
Google let the Olympics take over their popular “doodles” for the duration of the summer games. Here is every one of their artistic takes on the events in London. Some are even playable!
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Day 1: Opening Ceremony
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Day 2: Archery
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Day 3: Diving
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Day 4: Fencing
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Next NBA 2K Game Will Feature The Original Dream Team
Now we'll finally get to see if the 2012 Olympic team could take their '92 counterparts. At least in a video game.
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2K Sports announced today that NBA 2K13 would feature the Dream Team, including Charles Barkley who had been absent from last year's "NBA's Greatest" mode due to issues negotiating over Sir Charles' likeness rights. So how do you solve a problem like convincing the Round Mound Of Rebound to be in your game? Enter Jay-Z.
That's right, his Hovaness himself is the "Executive Producer" of NBA 2K13. (Of course when 2K Sports talks about Jay's title they don't put it in quotation marks.) Apparently this is how the whole situation went down according to 2K Sports vice president of marketing Jason Argent by way of Owen Good at Kotaku.
In our meetings with Jay-Z, he absolutely needed USA Basketball, both 1992 and 2012, in this game." Argent said. However, "If we're putting these teams in, Charles has to be in the game. Our executive producer, Jay-Z, put in a call to Charles himself, and helped us forge an agreement to use him in the game."
I love that the narrative 2K is running with is that it took Jay-Z saying, "Hey guys, you know how everyone is talking about whether or not the 2012 team could beat the '92 team? That should be in the game," for the development team to think of that. As though every basketball fan in the world wouldn't think that's a great idea. That said, I would pay an obscene amount of money to listen into Jay-Z's phone call with Charles. Did Chuck ask about Beyoncé? Did Kanye come up? Did they talk Brooklyn Nets strategy? This is what I want to know.
Unfortunately there will be one member of the Dream Team absent. 2K could not come to terms with Scottie Pippen over his likeness, despite his having been in past editions of the game.
But don't worry, Christian Laettner is still there.
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The Most Painful Play Of The Baseball Season In Rubbable GIFs
Last night umpire Greg Gibson proved that being a Major League Umpire is a dangerous job.
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This is Los Angeles Angels Of Anaheim (worst team name ever) first baseman Kendrys Morales.
Last night, he was up with one man on in the bottom of the 5th inning against the Cleveland Indians.
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This is Torii Hunter. He was on first base when Morales came up.
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Morales hit a Roberto ("Don't Call Me Fausto Carmona anymore") Hernandez pitch into right field.
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And as the play began, Greg Gibson took off his mask (as is protocol to allow umpire's a better view of the field). He would come to regret this.
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Watch Ryan Lochte On The Set Of "90210"
I'm gonna go out on a limb and say he probably won't have a future in acting. Check out this on-set interview and see what I mean.
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The US Women's Gymnastics Team Are Stephen Colbert's New Interns
McKayla's still not impressed.
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THE GIFS:
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Soccer Fans Helping Out Their Team
This team hadn't scored in 5 games, so the fans decided to get together and offer some guidance.
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What Sporting Accomplishments Are Rarer Than Pitching A Perfect Game?
There are a few, but not many.
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Perfect games are special. From a merely athletic standpoint, a pitcher retiring 27 batters in a row seems almost impossible — that's 27 successful rounds with guys who usually get a hit one out of five times, at worst, and one out of three times, at best. And from an historical perspective, their sacredness has been proven: there have only been 23 perfect games thrown in over 130 years of baseball, and 14 since 1970. The most recent, of course, was Wednesday's Felix Hernandez perfecto against the Tampa Bay Rays — the first in the Seattle Mariners' history.
Perfect games are one of sports' statistical Holy Grails, but there are others. Here are some single-game athletic accomplishments in baseball, basketball, and football that have happened even fewer times in the last 42 years.
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Hit Four Home Runs
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Dad Runs Triathlon While Carrying Daughter Suffering From Cerebral Palsy
This photo must be made of a million chopped onions and a metric ton of ragweed, because my eyes are flooding. This is super dad Rick van Beek and his daughter, Maddy, who cannot walk or talk due to cerebral palsy. Rick has run over 70 races with Maddy because one of the few things he knows she enjoys is the outdoors. Here they are this past week running a triathlon in Michigan.
"She is my heart and I am her legs, though someday she might not physically be able to be there with me, she will always be in my heart, quietly cheering me on." — Rick van Beek
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Shaun White Is Ready To Finally Win Multiple Medals At A Single Olympics
The outspoken snowboarder (slash-skateboarder) is pumped to have more than just one thing to do at the winter games. And news-flash, he's even better at his new event.
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Two-time Olympic Gold Medalist and snowboarder extraordinaire Shaun White joined Whitney Jefferson and me for an interview for BuzzFeed Radio on Sirius XM. During our chat, we talked about the lame-ness of Olympic race walking, Shaun's transition from spokesperson for extreme sports brands to a brand owner himself, and in this clip about how he'll finally be able to win multiple medals at a single Olympics.
Shaun White On His New Olympic Event And The Silliness Of The Name "Dong Dong."
The new event, "Slope Style" Snowboarding, features a series of jumps in a single run down a mountain. White said, "I've actually got more medals in that event than the other one. I just don't do it, because it's not at the Olympics." So if you're a slope style snowboarder, you better watch your back, because White is pumped to finally get to show off his full range of skills in Sochi, Russia at the 2014 games.
Make sure to tune in tomorrow to hear the rest of the interview.
BuzzFeed Radio: Tuesdays at 6pm on SiriusXM Stars Too Channel 104.
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Heartbreaking Photos From Diana Nyad's Failed 103-Mile Swim
Nyad, 62, was pulled from her Cuba-to-Florida journey early Tuesday morning. She had endured 60 hours of rough waters, jellyfish stings and threats of shark attacks.
This is endurance swimmer Diana Nyad, not long after she was pulled from the waters between Florida and Cuba Tuesday morning.
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Steve Munatones, Nyad's official observer, was part of the team that made the call to her pull her out. "The dangers were so great that we couldn't risk anyone's life, including her own," he said.
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Some Idiot Paid $1500 For A Sketch Of A Football Stadium Done By The NFL's Newest Star
Andrew Luck did major in architecture at Stanford, but I have a feeling he was more focused on the whole going to the NFL thing.
So apparently someone believes that a doodle and autograph from Andrew Luck is worth $1,500. Of course Andrew Luck hasn't taken a single pro snap that counted. And the track record for QBs picked first overall isn't stellar (how would you like a Tim Couch doodle of Cleveland Browns Stadium?). But according to ESPN's Darren Rovell someone chose to ignore all that and shell out a bunch of money on eBay for what may in a few years be an expensive piece of toilet paper.
I mean what's the best case scenario here? Let's say for a second Andrew Luck is the next Tom Brady. Would you even pay $1500 for this if Tom Brady drew it?
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If you would, you're an asshole who has too much money.
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What It's Like To Be A Closeted Gay Athlete
Stephen Bickford was a star soccer player in high school, and played at the University of North Carolina and for the U.S. U-18 Men's Soccer team. Today he published a long testimonial about hiding his sexual orientation for years.
If you're a young gay athlete in 2012, you have very few role models to look up to. There isn't a single openly gay player in any of the five major American sports — football, basketball, baseball, hockey, and soccer — and, though the leagues have begun to express opposition to discrimination based on sexual orientation, huge amounts of work remain to be done.
However, a few ex-professionals and college players have come out after they finished playing, and another has joined their ranks: Stephen Bickford, a former U.S. U-18 National Team member, Adidas High School Player of the Year, and University of North Carolina starter.
Bickford wrote a long piece for the blog Gay4Soccer about his experiences as a top-level athlete in the closet. The whole thing is worth reading, but here's a highlight:
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For anyone who can't understand how or why an athlete would hide his sexual orientation for his entire career, here it is. When sport is the thing you care about most in the world, and the thing you devote all of your time and energy toward, anything that could compromise your success is viewed as a crutch, even if it's something as essential to your identity as your sexual orientation.
In Bickford's case, the deception caught up with him, and a spate of depression and injuries eventually drove him out of soccer. His story is disturbing and inspiring, and as good of evidence as any that homophobia needs to be rooted out of sports as soon and as aggressively as possible.
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The 11 Types Of Fantasy Football Players
As America's most popular sort gets ready to kick off, America's most popular play-pretend sport is gearing up itself. Every league has these types. Which are you?
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The Beane
The Beane is named for Oakland A's GM Billy (though that picture is of the much more attractive Brad Pitt, who played him in the movie Moneyball, based on the Michael Lewis book. Yeah, dude's a star.). This player wheels and deals. You'll get multiple versions of the same trade offer every week. If you're not paying attention to the waiver wire, you're going to lose out to the Beane every single time. Crafty and smart and just arrogant enough to drive you crazy, the Beane is one of the most frequent fantasy champions. Not to be trifled with.
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The Push-Over
Every league has one, and everyone falls over each other trying to screw him out of his best players before everyone else does. Get him drunk and tell him how the Texans are really worried about Arian Foster's torn Labrum Made-upus. He'll be trading you Foster for a high school football coordinator in no time. If your league's commissioner is the Push-Over, you're in trouble. Without a leader who has the courage of his convictions, your league will devolve into message board squabbles and epic email chains where epithets are hurled like Tim Tebow passes, which is to say recklessly and with a holy fervor.
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The Dictator
Every good fantasy commissioner is the Dictator. He knows what he wants the league to look like, and your job is to facilitate that vision. Want PPR (Points Per Reception)? Too fucking bad. Disagree with a trade? None of your fucking business. The only danger is when the Dictator commish takes his or her power too far. A few years ago my league featured a calamitous deal where the commish picked up Vincent Jackson (he had held out that year, leaving him on the waiver wire a few weeks into the season) and immediately traded him for Adrian Peterson with a player who wasn't paying attention. I had to take a Silkwood shower after the ensuing email disaster.
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The "Who?"
The "Who?" prides him or herself on using the later rounds to take players you've never heard of. Did a guy just make the team because he wowed on the practice squad? The "Who?" is going to take that guy and tell you how great he was at Yale and that if he had gone anywhere else he'd have been a first round pick. 98% of the time, The "Who?" drops half of his players before the first game. Sleepers are only fun until you have to actually put together a lineup.
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If You Hate Yankee Fans, You'll Want To See This Video
Oof. Painful, but hilarious.
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Relive the glorious moment!
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The Yankees React:
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Boone Logan Was Upset
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