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    • Check out this video of Greek soccer player Egeas Plomariou (yes, THAT Egeas Plomariou) with one of the most painful misses you'll ever see. Not often that a ball hits the post four times going in, is it?

      Here's our question. How does that miss compare to some of the great misses in sports history?

      We start with an agonizing one from Augusta. In 1989, Scott Hoch faced a two-foot putt to win the Masters. What did he do? Well, you can probably guess:

      Hoch would go on to lose in the next playoff hole, but at least he'd have a chance to redeem himself. For Scott Norwood, it was one miss, the most famous in NFL history, and out:

      Also bad (and painful): Matt Holliday's drop of a routine fly ball in Game 2 of the 2009 NLDS that allowed the Dodgers to come back and win the game (and later the series). Here's a horrible song about what happened. Here's another. Hearing those is more painful than watching Holliday take a fly ball to the cup.

      Speaking of painful, just last year, I.K. Kim had a

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      William Moody, the real-life undertaker who became famous by portraying Paul Bearer, a mortician who managed some of pro wrestling's biggest stars, died Tuesday at 58 in a Mobile, Ala., hospital.

      The hospital did not release a cause of death. TMZ.com reported that Moody told friends in the days before his death he was suffering from a blood clot.

      Moody hit the peak of his career when he joined the WWE in 1991, took the name Paul Bearer and became The Undertaker's manager. Bearer's face was painted a pasty white and he would carry an urn with him to ringside.

      He was known for a demonic laugh and the catch phrase, "Oh, yes!" He hosted a show on WWE broadcasts known as "The Funeral Parlor."

      Moody got into the wrestling business in the late 1970s, first competing on smaller shows around the country while serving in the Air Force.

      His first major success, though, came when he was joined Florida Championship Wrestling in 1984 under the name Percival "Percy" Pringle III. He had worked under

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    • Fox Sports prepares channel to take on ESPN

      By Jay Busbee | The Turnstile – Tue, Mar 5, 2013 1:09 PM EST

      News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch is planning to take on ESPN. (Getty Images)For decades, ESPN has absolutely owned the TV sports market, becoming a presence so ubiquitous and so intertwined with TV sports that it's wrestled mainstays like "Monday Night Football" off broadcast channels. It's the World Wide Leader (in its estimation) or the Evil Empire (in the eyes of its competition and former employees), and on television, it's never really had a serious rival. (On the web? Ahem.)

      Now, Fox is looking to change that broadcast dynamic, announcing the debut of Fox Sports 1. The new channel, set to debut in August, will feature a slate of Fox programming that includes baseball, NASCAR, college basketball and football, soccer, and select UFC fights. The channel will also feature studio shows, including one hosted by Regis Philbin.

      Taking down ESPN, or even making a dent, will be extraordinarily difficult for Fox. ESPN's subscriber fees (the price each and every cable subscriber pays, whether or not they watch the channel) are an industry-high $5.15, generating $6

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    • We all love videos, right? Your pals here at Yahoo! Sports are rounding up the best videos of the week for your forwarding pleasure. Got a good one for next week? Hit us up via email and follow us on Twitter at @jaybusbee. And away we go ...

      1. Best buzzer beater this week: The South Dakota playoffs are underway! Do you have tickets yet? Lincoln and Yankton were tied when Lincoln's Nermin Krdzalic stole the ball with seconds left and ...

      2. Heartwarming moment of the week: Mitchell Marcus is a special needs teen at Coronado (Tex.) High School. In the season's final game, he finally got in, and tried to score. And tried, and tried. Finally, Jonathon Montanez, a player on the other team decided to help Mitchell out ... room's going to be a little dusty after you watch this one.

      3. Buck up: During this mountain-biking race in Richmond, Virginia, a deer decides to get in on the action, with painful results.

      4. Miguel Cabrera cleared for launch: Miguel Cabrera sent this Jonathan Papelbon

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    • Click on the cover above for the full image.

      The death of Reeva Steenkamp, girlfriend of Oscar Pistorius, is tragic in its own before-her-time right. But now, media publications are drawing heat for the way they are using Steenkamp's portfolio of modeling photos to tout the story.

      Great Britain's The Sun newspaper has drawn severe rebuke for its Friday front page, which used a photograph of Steenkamp in a bikini, along with some severely purple prose, to report on Pistorius' arrest. Not to be outdone, New York City's tabloids took the exact same approach.

      You can see the top third of the Sun's cover above. For the full version, click on the photo.

      Government officials, columnists and readers attacked The Sun for its editorial judgment, with one writer even calling it "lechery over a corpse." Others noted that The Sun didn't publish photographs of a pregnant Duchess of Cambridge but had no problem showing the victim of a murder in a bikini.

      On the flip side, these are legitimately obtained photographs, and the victim was indeed a

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