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Falcons LB Prince Shembo Accused Of Killing Girlfriend's Dog [Update]

Second-year Atlanta Falcons linebacker Prince Shembo has been charged with aggravated cruelty to animals, a felony, according to WSB-TV reporter Tony Thomas. Shembo is accused of kicking and killing his girlfriend’s dog....

Malik Sparkman died last week from kidney cancer. The 18-year-old’s teammates at Coffee (Ga.) High School honored one of his final wishes by carrying his casket through the tunnel and onto the football field....

All Hail Sepp Blatter, FIFA Emperor-For-Life

As expected, courageous leader, tenacious progressive, and upstanding citizen Sepp Blatter has won re-election as president of FIFA. His impeccable credentials gave him the overwhelming victory over Guy Who Is Not Sepp Blatter, with the first vote ending up 133-73 before Blatter’s opponent generousl...

This Is Probably My Favorite Sports GIF

In the course of an intraoffice chat about some social-media stuff you wouldn’t care about, we shared a bunch of our favorite sports GIFs. Turns out there are a lot of very good sports GIFs. But I think the GIF of an unconscious Nuggets mascot being lowered to the court might be my favorite....

Is Ray Rice Being Blackballed?

Speaking with ESPN yesterday, NFLPA executive director DeMaurice Smith pretty heavily suggested that there’s a concerted effort by owners to keep Ray Rice out of the league....

Kirk Goldsberry marshals some numbers to argue that the NBA playoffs have been boring. (They have been.) On the other hand, basketball’s playoff are more of a meritocracy than the crapshoots that other sports’ postseasons can be. Maybe the short series are a feature and not a bug?...

The Time Barry Bonds Was Intentionally Walked With The Bases Loaded

Seventeen years ago today—May 28, 1998—Diamondbacks manager Buck Showalter made the decision to intentionally walk Barry Bonds with the bases loaded. It’s the rarest of baseball strategies, but it didn’t feel nearly as wrong as it might have: Bonds was, after all, the most fearsome hitter of all tim...

Duncan Keith Might Be Superhuman

I was pulling hard for Chicago last night, not because I want them to win this series or because I want Anaheim to lose, but because I wanted to see the Blackhawks play the Ducks one more time. Chicago’s hard-fought 5-2 win, which required holding off yet another attempted Ducks comeback, means we g...

Chart: The Qatar World Cup Death Toll Is Stunning [Update]

The Washington Post has put together a chart illustrating the body counts of workers involved in construction for the last four Olympics and two World Cups, and compared them to the reported death toll for the 2022 Qatar World Cup....

Charlie Pierce on the military-football complex....

MLB Games Are Significantly Shorter This Year

MLB’s new pace-of-game regulations appear to be working: through nearly two months, the average length of a baseball game is 2:53, or nine minutes shorter than it was last season....

Here Are Your MLB All-Star Game Leading Vote-Getters

Yesterday and today, MLB released its first ballot updates for the All-Star Game to be held in Cincinnati. And if things hold, it’s going to be a whole bunch of Missouri:...

The 6 a.m. arrest of FIFA officials at a Zurich hotel was remarkably placid. “Sir,” the concierge said, “I’m just calling you to say that we’re going to need you to come to your door and open it for us or we’re going to have to kick it in.”...

Sepp Blatter Shocked, Shocked To Find That Bribery Is Going On In Here

In a statement released just now, FIFA president Sepp Blatter wants you to know that he’s just as concerned as you are about corruption in his organization. Corruption which comes as a complete surprise to him, and which he totally has nothing to do with....

Rays Manager Calls Umpiring "Terrible" And "Embarrassing"

Rays manager Kevin Cash went off on the umpires and the replay crew after Seattle’s wild 7-6 win yesterday, blasting them for two controversial calls that both went against Tampa....

UEFA Calls For New FIFA Leadership, Possible Boycott

UEFA—the most powerful single confederation, and already no friend to Sepp Blatter—has called for the postponement of Friday’s FIFA presidential election, which was widely assumed to be a walk for Blatter....

The Sharks will reportedly hire Peter DeBoer, which appears to clear the way for Dan Bylsma to the Sabres....