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Bike Lane Battles
Sports Buzz As New York and other large cities prepare to construct (or at least mark off) more bike lanes, a debate is brewing about their efficacy. Lax enforcement and a slew of fatal accidents are leading many cyclists to the conclusion that bike lanes are merely a token effort on the part of urban planners and city officials.
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Eight Belles
Sports Buzz The name of the horse that was euthanized at the Kentucky Derby after breaking two ankles while crossing the finish line in second place. Politicos are drawing parallels between Hillary Clinton’s tragic horse pick and the Presidential race.
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Shark Attack Videos!!!
Sports Buzz Videos of real shark attacks! Are you sick of adorable animals falling asleep or overcoming adversity? Then these vicious shark attack videos are the perfect palate cleanser.
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Arizona State Cheerleaders
Sports Buzz Yet another sad tale of naughty pictures online. Pictures of some of the Arizona State cheerleading squad in their underwear taken almost two years ago have led to the school disbanding the entire team. Between this and Tiffany Sheperd, we may finally be able to forget about Miley Cyrus for a little while.
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Buzz Bissinger Hates Blogs
Sports Buzz Bissinger - author of Friday Night Lights, Pulitzer Prize winner - appeared Bob Costas Live and launched a lengthy tirade at Deadspin editor Will Leitch about the evils of the web. “I think that blogs are dedicated to cruelty, they’re dedicated to journalistic dishonesty,” he told the audience. “It really pisses the sh*t out of me.” Oh, Buzz. But you’ve got such a perfectly web-ready first name! Why you gotsta hate the internet?
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North American Eagle
Sports Buzz Speed Racer fans can channel their racing enthusiasm into something concrete: The team behind the North American Eagle is trying to break the world landspeed record, and they need a driver. It could be you! Just send an email - 400 words about your racing background, and a photo - to landspeedracing@gmail.com, and you could become the face (and driver) of the North American Eagle team’s effort to bring the record back to continent for the first time since 1983.
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Mindy McCready
Sports Buzz Baseball pitching great Roger Clemens had a 10-year affair with country singer Mindy McCready that began when she was 15-years-old. What better way to launch a career than a giant sex scandal? She’s working on a documentary, as well as staging a comeback with a reality show and a new album. It’s been a while since someone wrote a catchy tune about statutory rape.
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Speedo LZR
Sports Buzz Speedo’s new LZR Racer, a seamless, high-tech, water-repellent bodysuit being championed by Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps and others, is causing a firestorm of controversy in the swimming world. Since its introduction in February, athletes wearing it have broken 28 swimming records, leading many to question the ethics of wearing the suit, even referring to it as “technological doping.”
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Sean Avery
Sports Buzz The most despised player in hockey has applied for a position as a Vogue intern. Hardcore sports fans might say that he belongs at Barney’s more than the hockey field, but at least he’s stirring up some drama in the otherwise humdrum world of hockey.
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Danica Patrick
Sports Buzz The first woman to win a major auto race is a hot 26-year-old. Score one for female empowerment! Young girls who want to grow up to become female racecar drivers and/or pose on the cover of FHM magazine now have a proper role model. (Thanks for the tip!)
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22 Innings
Sports Buzz The Rockies finally beat the Padres after a 6-hour, 22 inning game. It was the longest game in 15 years - the record still stands at 33 for a game in 1981.
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Colorado Ski Deaths
Sports Buzz With 17 fatalities on the slopes already this year, Colorado’s ski areas are suddenly under scrutiny. There’s a minor debate going over why there’s been a sudden spike in ski area deaths: Too many snowboarders? New, fast equipment? Too many groomed runs, where people go too fast? Statistical randomness? File this under stuff nobody likes.
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Erin Andrews
Sports Buzz ESPN sideline reporter has quite the YouTube following, including 1 million hits on a video that’s just a slideshow of random photos of her. She’s got that right amount of hotness to be alluring but not intimidating. We bet her hair smells like strawberries.
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Buried Red Sox Jersey
Sports Buzz Construction workers at the new Yankee Stadium in the Bronx unearthed a Red Sox jersey hidden there by a turncoat construction worker. The story about a jersey - hidden in order to curse the team - leaked late last week, and over the weekend a crew jackhammered through the concrete behind home plate to find the jersey of #34, David Oritz. Meanwhile, in real life, the Red Sox beat the Yankees 8-5 on Sunday.
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Slackline Yoga
Sports Buzz A new style of yoga in which traditional poses are performed on a tightrope, often in remote outdoor locations. We can barely do a headstand, much less walk a tight rope, much less do both at the same time. But there is a rare breed of athlete that actually puts this into practice.
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Michael Beasley
Sports Buzz Meet the presumptive No. 1 NBA draft pick this year. Beasley will likely be heading into the draft after playing his freshman year at Kansas State, where he averaged 26.2 points and 12.4 rebounds per game. Beasley and some of the other top players of his high school days will also be featured in this summer’s basketball doc, Gunnin’ For That #1 Spot.
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Ultimate Fighting For Kids
Sports Buzz Kids are learning cage fighting techniques and mixed martial arts. This might change your math if you’ve been trying to figure out how many five-year-olds you could fight at once.
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LeBron And Gisele On Vogue
Sports Buzz The controversy around the recent Vogue cover continues unabated online. Critics see a reductive racial stereotype in the image of LeBron James holding Gisele Bundchen on this month’s cover shot - it’s LeBron as King Kong - and non-critics just go “huh”?
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Wearable Air Bags
Sports Buzz A new innovation in safety makes motorcycle riding slightly less foolhardy. Dianese and other motorcycle gear manufacturers are releasing designs that look almost like life jackets. Readers of Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash will recognize the idea.
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Meat Judging
Sports Buzz Intercollegiate meat judging is a real sport involving hours of meat quality analysis amongst college teams. Fasten your hairnets! There’s a giant meat industry out there, aiming to pluck the nation’s youngest, brightest carcass experts. We assume this is one of those “only in America” things.
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