Welp, this is about as up close and personal as you’ll ever get to a grizzly bear’s mouth without being eaten alive or requiring some pretty major surgery The incredible clip embedded above comes from the GoPro camera of Alaskan naturalist Brad Josephs. While he was leading a wildlife-viewing trip, a mother bear and her [...]

In the social-media age, even the most innocent misstep can have unintended consequences, as one NFL rookie recently found out the hard way Keenan Allen is a talented wide receiver from Cal who was selected in the third round of last month’s NFL draft by the San Diego Chargers. The Chargers and Oakland Raiders share [...]

Nicole Muxo is a senior at Archbishop Coleman F. Carroll High in Miami. She’s also a huge fan of Miami Heat player Dwyane Wade. So last month, she made a minute-and-a-half YouTube video asking Wade to be her prom date. Fat chance, right? Social media prom invites from fans have become a fairly standard trapping [...]

Baby scores goal! Crowd goes wild! This may just be the most adorable play in the history of soccer The aww-inducing moment comes from Chelsea player Paulo Ferreira’s retirement ceremony at the club’s Stamford Bridge stadium this weekend. As Ferreira thanked his teammates on the public address system, it was the toddler son of backup [...]

This isn’t exactly your textbook bit of damage control PR UFC fighter Nate Diaz (above) was suspended by the mixed martial arts body on Thursday night for earlier in the week using a gay slur against another fighter. That’s typically where a manager or someone else would step in and get the athlete to apologize [...]

If there was ever any question that sports are one of Twitter’s hottest, most passion-inducing topics, this week should have put those doubts to rest The microblogging network on Friday announced a deal with the NBA to stream replay highlights directly to users through in-app video posts. The clips will debut during this year’s playoffs [...]

With his New York Knicks locked in a back-and-forth NBA playoff showdown against the Indiana Pacers, struggling offensive specialist and enfant terrible of the social web J.R. Smith has a message for haters Here it is: JR Smith: “I’m not worried about Instagram. I’m worried about the playoffs.” — Tim Bontemps (@TimBontemps) May 17, 2013 [...]

Military family reunion videos are always a hit with Internet-goers happy to add some good feels to what may be an otherwise boring days. This one, however, puts a new — and especially heart-warming — twist on the genre It features 9-year-old Alayna Adams from Dunedin, Fla., who was invited to throw out the first [...]

Hey sports bloggers, time to meet the man — er, boy — you’ll all be working for one day While most kids his age are preoccupied with Grand Theft Auto or first kiss fantasies, 14-year-old Matt Nadel of New Jersey is busy building a miniature baseball blogging empire. He writes for a total of 10 [...]

The viral Internet star known as “Kai the Hitchhiker” was arrested and charged with murder on Thursday afternoon following allegations that he beat a man to death in New Jersey, according the Associated Press Kai — less frequently known by his given name of Caleb McGillvary — was apprehended at a Philadelphia bus terminal and [...]