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<i>Winning Time</i> is the latest casualty of David Zaslav’s sports media bloodbath at WBDOn Monday, the guillotine hovering over HBO’s Winning Time finally dropped when the series joined a growing collection of shows canceled by the network. Declining ratings and criticism from its stars, who insisted that Adam McKay’s Lakers series based on Jeff Pearlman’s biographical account, turned ...

Michael Phelps's Next Shark Race Better Involve Seal Blood And An Actual Shark<em></em>Have you heard the news? Michael Phelps raced a Great White shark to kick off Discovery Channel’s annual “Shark Week” in style. Phelps vs. Shark: Great Gold vs. Great White aired Sunday night after months of anticipation, and it settled the question that I guess someone maybe thought of at some poin...

All My Pokémon Are Boring Trash IdiotsThis weekend, I walked around Central Park—a hub for Pokémon Go enthusiasts, apparently—for about three hours trying to catch some good pocket monsters. All I got was a flock of Pidgeys. I hate them....

Some Poor Bastard Bought 10,000 Lance Armstrong DVDs, And They're Now Worthless

We're a few years away from Lance Armstrong being sued to destitution, and signing bike locks with "I'm sorry I injected EPO," à la Pete Rose. But there was a time when Armstrong was a conquering hero, and everything he touched turned to gold. Hell, even last summer, before he copped to rampant PED ...