At the end of the first quarter of tonight's game against the Los Angeles Lakers, Rudy Gay of the Memphis Grizzlies launched a shot from past half court in an attempt to beat the buzzer. Gay successfully got the shot off in time. So much time that there was still a full seven seconds left on the clock.

This is what happens when you lay people off and replace them with a team of monkeys with typewriters. The day after the New Orleans Saints beat the Minnesota Vikings in the NFC Championship, this was the front page of the San Francisco Chronicle's sports section. Saints 31, Packers 28. That's quite the impressive scoring line from a team that was ice fishing or…

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Attack someone on the baseball field once and people might be able to pass it off as a fluke. Do it again, and everyone will peg you as a crazy bastard that should never be allowed near baseball (or other human beings) again. Jose Offerman, who once charged the mound with a bat after getting hit by a pitch, showed some stellar anger management over the weekend when he calmly escalated…

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Come for the soccer, stay for the preschool-level gymnastics! The Africa Cup of Nations is underway, and based on this video of the Mozambique goalie flipping face first over the ball rather than securing it, it appears to be the only major soccer tournament to take place using a ball filled with lead. Somehow the goalkeeper managed to…

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I'll admit, when I first heard that Tennessee fans were rioting and causing mayhem after Lane Kiffin announced he was leaving for USC, I figured the reports of the size of the crowd were exaggerated. But unless the video above is from the 2010 Knoxville Night-time Marathon, there were a ton of people who turned out…

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