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This is only Yoan Moncada’s third homer of the season. After posting a batting average of .141 thus far, this hit came somewhat as a surprise. Hopefully, this home run can be a turning point in the offensive play of the seven-year MLB veteran. Video of the home run was posted to Twitter by Starting 9. The Chicago White Sox desperately need more depth players like this to heat up....

The incident took place within just a few seconds of the fight starting on the main card of the night. Chris Weidman threw a right leg kick that Uriah Hall checked, and Weidman’s leg quite visibly snapped and bent in an awkward way as the former middleweight champion fell to the ground. The fight was stopped only 17 seconds into the first round. Watch the video of the leg break injury below [VIEWER’S DISCRETION ADVISED]....

Take a look at his 40-year-old pops throwing down some dunks. The younger Alexander wasn't quite as impressed as the rest of us. "Nah, I could do that. I could do that in my sleep. It's too easy," he said. [via Ball is Life]

A staff member at a children’s hospital, thought to be based in the HealthPark Medical Center, in Fort Myers, Florida, has been treating patients to phenomenal performances while on his break. A colleague, Danielle Herby, posting under @dnherby, was taking a rest when she heard music coming from the foyer. She whipped out her phone and filmed a man, who was later identified as Shawn Foley, sitting at the piano in the middle of the empty foyer, dressed in scrubs, gloves and a face mask....

The midfielder, on loan from Bournemouth, chested down a pass and then hit his shot on the half volley. It appeared the keeper didn’t get a good read on it, as it bounced into the corner for the goal. Who will replace Luis Enrique? The strike saved 10-man Rangers embarrassment as the side had given away a 2-0 advantage in the last 16 minutes of the contest, with St. Johnstone equalizing in the 87th minute....

The Knights, the Triple-A affiliate of the Chicago White Sox, were once a farm team for the Cleveland Indians -- back when Thome was blazing his way through the ranks. Aside from a brief rehab stint in 2007, Friday night was Thome's first return to the club since the 1993 season when he won the International League's MVP award. It was also Thome's first-ever attempt at throwing out a first pitch, as he told reporters in pre-game interview....

Before Rwanda, Lewis Hamilton had visited the Reteti Animal Sanctuary and posted pictures with the animals on social media with the quote: Lewis Hamilton fans react to the Mercedes driver’s trip to Africa Lewis Hamilton fans loved the fact that the Mercedes driver was spending his time going back to his roots and visiting such fantastic places. Here are some of the reactions from F1 fans on Twitter. Hamilton has always been someone who was able to command the attention of the fans with anything that he does and this is certainly no different....

With Barcelona leading 1-0, the club’s superstar winger smashed a drive in from outside the box to give his side a somewhat comfortable 2-0 lead. Jesus sets Man City record

Celebrating his return from retirement, we selected a video that contains all of Tyson’s knockouts in only ten minutes. The video, uploaded to YouTube by the “That’s why MMA!” channel, remembers one of the best pugilists’ greatness. Since his first fights as a teenager, Tyson had recorded knockouts - still under 20 years of age - until his most senior performances, when the heavyweight champion was already close to his forties....

With United up 2-0 over Sunderland in David Moyes’ return to Old Trafford on Monday, the Armenian midfielder added a spectacular insurance goal in the 86th minute. Zlatan Ibrahimovic — who set up Daley Blind’s opener before scoring himself — drifted to the right flank and served in a cross that floated just behind his target. But it mattered not, as Mkhitaryan tucked a sublime back-heel flick past Jordan Pickford....

Last year Gareth Bale ensured Real Madrid were faster out of the blocks than Usain Bolt when they travelled to Legia, the Welshman firing home an unstoppable strike inside the first minute. But was it better than Alexandre Pato’s versus Barcelona? There were just 18 seconds on the clock in 2011 when then-Milan striker Pato picked up in midfield and flicked on the afterburners, searing through Barcelona’s high-press before a cool finish that shocked the Camp Nou....

With the score tied at 85, Razorbacks guard Rashad Madden pulled up for a three with three seconds remaining in overtime. The ball clanked off the rim and right into the outstretched hands of Michael Qualls, who slammed it home with two-tenths of a second remaining. MORE: Postgame incident between fan, Aaron Harrison | Midseason All-Americans (H/T Eye on Basketball) "Crashing the boards in that type of situation is the best time to crash the boards," Qualls told reporters....

The Cape fur seal found its way to the road in Cape Town, South Africa, on December 21, local channel News24 reported. “It seems not even Cape Town’s wildlife is immune to the Christmas spirit!” wrote Cape of Good Hope SPCA, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, in the caption of a YouTube video of the scene. “At a time of year when the shops are packed and companies are vying for our attention with all kinds of gimmicks in order to sell the latest fad, we are quite used to seeing strange things at the malls, but when the Cape of Good Hope SPCA Wildlife Department received a call about a Cape fur seal crossing the busy Jakes Gerwel Drive opposite the Vangate Mall in Athlone this morning, even we had to wonder…”...

The bad news? It was still a Shea Weber slapshot — and there was blood. This all went down in the first period of Nashville’s game against Ottawa. The Predators were on the power play at the time. Thankfully, Ceci left the ice on his own, and now he'll have something to discuss with Patrice Bergeron whenever they run into each other.

While many were expecting a tight match Tuesday, considering the Colorado Rapids’ reputation for being defensively stingy and offensively conservative, the visitors traded early goals with the Sounders before Nicolas Lodeiro’s second-half penalty gave Seattle a 2-1 first-leg win. The Rapids grabbed a key away goal right off the bat, as Kevin Doyle’s shot from the top of the box took a big deflection off Chad Marshall and floated into the back of the net....

The footage begins with the missile being fired before it is shown hitting a Russian tank head on. The Stugna-P is a Ukrainian-made, anti-tank guided missile that was designed in the early 2010s to destroy modern armored vehicles. The Ukrainian military said that the video was filmed near Kherson, which is a Russian-occupied city in the Kherson Oblast region of southern Ukraine, not far from the city of Mykolaiv and the strategically vital port city of Odesa....

After rushing to the net and winning a point during his Shanghai Masters second-round match against Nikoloz Basilashvili, the full-speed Zverev pumped his fist and let out a shout. It was too much to handle for a ball boy sat by the umpire’s chair, who flinched and moved away from the onrushing fourth seed with a face that was the picture of fear. Zverev had no harmful intentions and did not even seem to notice the youngster’s reaction before turning to cheer with his box....

During the Watch Dogs 2 presentation Ubisoft revealed that Watch Dogs 2 DLC will arrive on PS4 30 days earlier than PC and Xbox One. Unfortunately, Ubisoft has yet to provide any specific details about what this downloadable content will offer. However, the season pass for the original Watch Dogs included everything from free in-game vehicles, new outfits and a new playable character (Watch Dogs’ Bad Blood DLC allowed players to control eccentric hacker T-Bone), so there are plenty of possibilities....

In the second period, Larsen was carrying the puck behind the Canucks’ net when Devils forward Taylor Hall went in on a forecheck and caught Larsen upside the head with his right shoulder. Larsen dropped straight to the ice and lay on his back, apparently unconscious, while players scuffled around him and medical staff rushed to his aid in a frightening scene at Prudential Center. MORE: Sports’ most gruesome injuries...

Sale gladly took this L, which resulted in him signing an autograph for the triumphant spectator. MORE: Best players not to win a World Series Sale is the second opposing star pitcher recently to interact with the folks in the outfield seats in Flushing. Max Scherzer briefly played catch with a kid before a Nationals-Mets game.