Last week, Western Oregon softball player Sara Tucholsky hit her first career home run ... after four years. Then, in a dramatic and painful twist, she tore a knee ligament while rounding first base. But instead of calling...

Leave it to a French mascot to flex his significant muscle - or perhaps hive-generated power? - when a streaker slips away from security guards. Seriously, after seeing this horse-flip stop, we were struck with two things...

Everyone can all take notes from this Little League catcher, Lexington, Kentucky's Adam Bender, who is missing a leg yet still plays without a wheelchair because, well, he doesn't want to. After some cajoling he agreed to use...

If you could only decide after the fact how much weight a lifter could reasonably control, these competitions would be so much safer. Since you can't, occasional accidents will occur. Still, none can ever be as gruesome as...

If you look really closely at the final seconds of this clip, you'll notice legendary corner outfielder Ken Griffey Jr. sending a no-so-subtle throat-slash gesture in the direction of Reds announcer and resident tool Jeff...

In real life he's spending some of his considerable fortune to try and find a cure for AIDS. In South Park? All Magic Johnson had to do was inject concentrated cash into his body. Leave it to Trey Parker and Matt Stone to...

When the race finished, it looked like Michael Phelps finished the 100-meter butterfly in second place, not first as the medals finally showed. Well, now there's some video footage that seems to indicate that notion, despite...

If Michael Phelps somehow goes on to get the eight gold medals that Mark Spitz never could, he owes a big, big part of the huge endorsement money he'll receive from Nike, Visa and everyone else to Jason Lezak. That's because...

This commercial never even made it to real primetime television, so it's hard to tell whether it would have had a good shelf life or not. It did, however, leave us with a strong desire to own Nike's new Hyperdunk basketball...

Jake Brown was one huge trick away from a gold medal at the X-Games, so he went for broke. The Australian skater launched off a first ramp, pulled off the first 720 - that's two full rotations in mid-air - then seemed to be...

If that headline doesn't make you cringe, well, you might want to check your pulse. After all, Roker and Lauer are borderline awkward on set, let alone while wearing yoga pants and sweating profusely. Well, that's exactly...

Rick Sutcliffe was once a great pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds. Now he's a lackluster pundit for ESPN. Unfortunately, Sutcliffe also has cancer, for which he'll undergo surgery this week. Yet that didn't have Sutcliffe down...

Jose Canseco doesn't fear the consequences of rash actions -- after all, he ostracized himself from the game that made him millions by exposing dozens of stars as steroid users -- but his decision to box a former NFL return...

How do you know that an athlete is a smooth talker? When he takes the interviewing reins and practically picks up a fellow celebrity. Well, Houston women who are easily wooed will be happy to learn that Demps is due to stick...

You can't sneak much by the watchful eye of Stephen Colbert and his crack staf of researchers. Case in point: When the CBC -- that's the Canadian Broadcasting Company -- started preliminary discussions about shelving its long-...