Iconic author, essayist, playwright, commentator, intellectual celebrity and hard drinker Gore Vidal is dead at age 86.

Four pairs of women’s badminton players from China, South Korea and Indonesia are charged with “not using one’s best efforts to win a match.”

An alleged Kiwi kingpin was in court because his mother-in-law died when a buttload of condom-wrapped coke burst in her belly.

Is Shaun White doing some sick backside 180s with Bar Refaeli?

Gamblers stiffed by the collapse of Full Tilt Poker may receive reimbursement as part of PokerStars’ $731 million fraud settlement.

The women’s team won their first team Olympic gold since 1996.

Snoop Dogg had a spiritual awakening in Jamaica and renamed himself Snoop Lion. They must have reeeeaally good weed.

Learn some awesome and weird stuff about the new American Olympic hero, Missy Franklin.

He’s the only man to win skeet gold in back-to-back Olympics.

Missy Franklin, who attends high school in Aurora, Colorado, has won gold at the London Olympics.

The wide world of sports at the Olympics is a lot weirder than you think. Horses? Guns? Trampolines?

The Olympic athletes are having a blast in London. Pranking, photo-bombing, and taking pictures with other athletes while uploading it all to their social media networks. They’re j…

Famed singer Tony Martin, known for iconic sappy ballads of the 1950s, has died at 98.

Swiss soccer player Michel Morganella has been expelled from the Olympics over a racist tweet about South Koreans.

Michael Phelps lost to fellow American Ryan Lochte. Will Usain Bolt lose to fellow Jamaican Yohan Blake?