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Clumsy Stretcher Bearers Repeatedly Drop Injured Soccer Player (Video) If Leonardo Koutris was faking an injury, a pair of stretcher-bearers ensured he’d feel real pain by the time they carried him to the sideline. Koutris and the stretcher-bearers were involved in a hilarious moment worthy of its place in worldwide blooper reels Sunday during a Greek second division soccer game between host AEL Larissa and Ergotelis. They first pushed Koutris forcibly…

NEW YORK/TORONTO – The 17th annual Hockey Fights Cancer™ campaign, a joint initiative between the National Hockey League (NHL) and National Hockey League Players’ Association (NHLPA), invites fans to join the fight, Oct. 19 – Nov. 13, 2015. Since its inception in 1998, through the charitable initiative, more than $15 million has been donated, and it has been dedicated to supporting national and local organizations involved in cancer care and…

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Baseball is such a wonderfully unique game. It doesn’t require some extraordinary physical prowess or stature as much as it requires hard work. People of all shapes and sizes have been some of the greatest in our game. If you saw a professional baseball player sitting in a coffee shop, you may not be able to single him out of the crowd — not usually the case with a football…

Fans cheered as players lined up on opposing computer keyboards ready to wage virtual war, while in the background coaches prowled around in the manner of soccer’s Jose Mourinho. Over the road, fans huddled outside the Wembley Hilton hotel for autographs of their favourite players. E-sports is a generic term for events ranging from virtual warfare games to computer-simulated soccer matches, often played for big prize money….

Michigan Wolverines punter Blake O’Neill made one of the most infamous plays you will ever witness on Saturday against Michigan State. O’Neil needed to just punt the ball away and seal a huge win for Michigan. Instead, he fumbled, and the rest is history. Terrible, horrible, no good, very bad history. But O’Neill is in good (in a relative sense) company. Just a day later, the Indianapolis Colts tried one…

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Reuters/Alexandra BeierFinger-pulling championships are a serious sport in some parts of Germany. Baseball may be America’s pastime, but citizens of other countries are entertaining themselves in altogether different ways.  Cultural tradition has informed a whole range of strangely fascinating sports around the world — balancing on bamboos, for example, or wrestling on horses.  While some games are unique to a particular country, others can be found in several nations in…

‘Was it really a life-changing penalty?’, I hear some of you ask. Aren’t I exaggerating the importance of sport just a little? Well, no, actually. The Scottish Number 8, Dave Denton, said afterwards that the result would live with him and his team-mates for the rest of their lives. And so it almost certainly will. “We noticed that he sprinted up the tunnel,” Denton said of referee Craig Joubert. “I…

Maker Faire’s most likely candidate for fame was Loo, a young and photogenic product design engineer with a lifelong obsession with remote control vehicles and an intensive practice regimen. At the races, Loo steered his self-made “Green Meanie” bird to victory, wiping the floor with his opponents and occasionally throwing in a showy flip or turn for the spectators, who’d cheer or gasp at the right intervals. While the audiences…

GoPro is continuing its investment into content production with the hire of Bill McCullough, who previously worked as vice president of creative development and operations for HBO Sports. McCullough is starting Monday as the executive producer for GoPro’s team sports and motor sports channels, which the company distributes across a number of platforms, including YouTube and Facebook — and with 11 Emmy Awards on his shelf, he’s also poised to raise…

Emily Fong, Staff WriterOctober 19, 2015 New York Mets shortstop Ruben Tejada fractured his leg last week during a playoff game against the Los Angeles Dodgers. The second baseman for the Dodgers, Chase Utley, caused the injury by sliding hard into Tejada to break up the play. As Tejada lay on the field, waiting to be carted off the basepath, a chorus of disgruntled pundits and commentators jumped in. While…

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For a list of all the latest deals, check out the transfers page. Real Madrid president Florentino Perez wants to sign Chelsea forward Eden Hazard next summer, before the 24-year-old’s value rises even further. (Fichajes.net via Metro)  Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho wants Sevilla’s 26-year-old winger Yevhen Konoplyanka, according to Shakhtar Donetsk manager Mircea Lucescu. (Sky Sports)  Chelsea forward…

While the public was invited to speak about a company’s desire to move its sports training academy to Cedar Grove, the session abruptly ended after the first comment. Attorney Guido Weber, representing his parents who reside on Anderson Parkway near the proposed location of the Sport Domain Academy, does not believe an open air soccer field is supposed to be erected in the area. According to Weber, the second principle…

0 Shares Print KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Joey Logano finally gave NASCAR the Chase for the Sprint Cup moment it wanted. NASCAR Chairman Brian France has called NASCAR “a contact sport,” and this time, for the first time since France’s brainchild of an elimination-style Chase turned into reality last year, NASCAR had a crash among the leaders that determined the victor. While drivers scuffling on pit road or tackling one…

Last night in the Greek second division, AEL Larissa beat Ergotelis 2-1 on two late goals. Both goals came after this medic here delivered some staggeringly poor medical attention to an injured Leonardo Koutris. Before you even get to the highlight reel headbutt or unceremonious, potato sack-style drop at the end, you have a circus of errors. First, he just sort of tosses him onto the stretcher. Then, he yips…