Hurricane Gustav has come and gone, but it's devastating effects aren't completely in the past. Well, maybe it's devastation has passed, but the New Orleans Saints are still adapting to life with a banged up practice facility...

But you already knew that, right? After all, haven't we ALL spent the past seven months waiting for the NFL to get rolling again? Well, it's only fitting that the Giants would get the ball rolling again this year, and that...

Did anyone actually expect a relatively unknown or overlooked player like Brian Roberts to draw the first official use of instant replay to decide whether a homer was fair or foul? No! Of COURSE A-Rod would hit a skyward ball...

You know those black-screen fade-ins that ESPN and major networks due for sports events and SportsCenter-like programs? Well, during one such ESPN moment earlier this month, LeBron James was waiting in the wings to be...

Last weekend, a CFL receiver for the Toronto Argonauts tried to do his best Chad Johnson Ocho Cinco impression by hiding a Spiderman mask behind the end zone, where he could pull it out and don it in front of cameras. Well,...

You'd think that NFL players really knew the ropes about fantasy football, but you'd be wrong. Instead, it turns out they have absolutely no idea how it works, to the point that Colt McCoy would use a first round pick on...

Leave it to a football player who delivers punishing hits to be terrified of something so abject as heights. OK, it's a completely justifiable phobia, but it might not have been Terrence Newman's brightest idea to invite...

Forget Iraq and Afghanistan. They're hopeless. South American soccer hooligans? They, on the other hand, are perfectly receptive to democratic considerations in their field charging, as they showed in this clip by charging...

When Rob Stone was assigned to cover Rutgers' college football game on Labor Day for the inimitable Erin Andrews, some New Jersey fans were so upset that they called for a federal investigation. Well, Stone responded the only...

Alicia Sacramone has become quite the internet sensation for all the wrong reasons, what with failing off the beam and on the floor exercise costing the Americans a shot at a gold medal and all. Still, her ever optimistic...

Say what you will about skateboarders, but they sure are persistent. Take this young budding shredder, for example, who tries a good half a dozen times to grind a ramp before finally finishing when ... no, not when he pulls...

At some point in between his birth and the time he got barbed wire tattooed around his sizable biceps, Bears All-Pro linebacker Brian Urlacher was allegedly a nerd. We say allegedly because we don't want him to get mad, hunt...

Everyone wants to make a big entrance into the stadium for the first college football game of the year, and we can hardly begrudge the University of Cincinnati Bearcat for that. However, we can find him truly ridiculous for...

There are great plays at the plate, and then there are some that absolutely defy explanation. This clip, from a AAA minor legue game between the Durham Bulls (Tampa Bay affiliate) and Charlotte Knights definitely falls into...

And also Rambo 3! Really! In fact, not only does Big Papi flex a pretty good sense of humor in this clip, he shows that he has the movie knowledge to know that there was an original Howard Hughes version of Scarface before...