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England Manager Sam Allardyce Reportedly Caught Telling Businessmen How To Cheat FA Rules
Last year, FIFA outlawed the practice of third-party ownership of players, which is essentially a way for businesses to hold a stake in a soccer player and collect a cut of their transfer fees. It comes with a minefield of conflicts of interests and can help explain why certain elite players get squ...
Dee Gordon Overcome With Emotion After Leading Off Marlins Game With A Dinger
This evening, Dee Gordon opened the Miami Marlins’ first game since José Fernández died in a boating crash with a big leadoff dinger. He was overcome with emotion as he crossed the plate and sobbed into the shoulders of a number of his teammates....
LeBron James On Police Violence: "It's A Scary-Ass Situation"
This afternoon at Cavaliers media day, LeBron James spoke for a good 90 seconds on police violence, framing the issue around the hypothetical of the police pulling his son over....
Sacramento D.A. Asks For Restraining Order Against Guy Who Threw A Pie At Kevin Johnson
“We’d like him to be let out on his own recognizance,” Sean Thompson’s lawyer Claire White said of her client, who is scheduled to be arraigned on felony assault charges on Tuesday for throwing a pie into the face of disgraced soon-to-be former Sacramento mayor Kevin Johnson. “Mr. Thompson doesn’t p...
Asdrubal Cabrera Flips The Everloving Shit Out Of His Bat After Huge Walk-Off Dinger
After getting their walk-off snatched out of the sky last night, the Mets made damn sure this one was headed out of the ballpark. Asdrubal Cabrera did the knocking, and he followed it up with an explosive, two-hand heave of a bat flip....
The Texans Were Tremendously Incompetent
The Patriots entered tonight’s game against the Texans as slight underdogs at home, despite a history of destroying Houston anytime they had a chance, especially at home. The Patriots were starting a rookie quarterback, the Texans came in hot at 2-0, and Gronk looked banged up, but the Patriots are ...
The Guy Who Threw A Pie In Kevin Johnson's Face Explains Why He Did It
Sean Thompson, the dude who reportedly got the stuffing beat out of him for throwing a pie in Kevin Johnson’s face last night, is facing a felony assault charge. Throwing baked goods in the faces of public officials is a time honored way to make your disgust known in as gross and physically harmless...
Greg Schiano Hit A Cyclist With His Car And Sent Him To The Hospital
Greg Schiano, world-historic asshole coach, is working for Ohio State in his first coaching job since getting shitcanned by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers three years ago. Everyone hated him in Tampa, but his tenure with the Buckeyes has been nice and quiet so far. Until this morning, that is, when he ran...
Thanks To Draymond Green, NBA Refs Will Be Cracking Down On Hits To The Dick And Balls
Draymond Green was the loudest, brashest, most dick kicking-est player on the NBA Finals-losing Golden State Warriors, and he has already secured a legacy of sorts for himself: starting next season, NBA referees will be making a point to spot and penalize strikes to the dick and balls, or what the A...
What Do You Get For The Baseball Player Who Has Everything? A Busted Up Phone Box
Let’s go back to 2013. David Ortiz was putting together an all-star season at 37 years old, but on one July night in Baltimore, he was melting down. After arguing with umpire Tim Timmons’ strike zone, Papi got ejected. So he went back into the Red Sox dugout and destroyed the in-dugout phone....
Mariners Catcher Barfs Out Some Thoughts About Protestors, Compares Them To Animals
Steve Clevenger is an oft-injured backup catcher for the Seattle Mariners, who is hitting .221 this season in 68 at-bats. This afternoon, he weighed in on the protests sweeping through Charlotte with all the subtlety of an elephant playing the piano....
This Intentional Walk Toss Missed By A Country Mile
Could you successfully complete an intentional walk without sailing a pitch five solid feet above the flailing glove of your catcher? Probably. Unfortunately, Twins reliever Pat Light could not today, allowing Justin Upton to score and opening the floodgates for a six-run ninth after he failed to ad...
Report: Kevin Johnson Beats Protestor To A "Bloody Pulp" At Farm-To-Table Event<em></em><em></em>
Kevin Johnson, disgraced soon-to-be former mayor of Sacramento, reportedly got violent with a protestor tonight at a farm-to-table event in Sacramento. According to the East Bay Express’ Nick Miller (an extremely reliable source on these sorts of things), the mayor got hit in the face with a pie, th...
Charlotte Protests: A Night In Photos
Protests in Charlotte built to a head tonight as one man was shot and several were injured in clashes between armed riot police and the protestors they were trying to dislodge from downtown Charlotte. Jalopnik’s Justin Westbrook was on the scene for us, and he captured a series of livestreams from t...
Ender Inciarte Robs Yoenis Cespedes' Would-Be Walk-Off, Ends Game
Had Yoenis Cespedes hit this baseball a few inches further, it would have given the Mets a 6-4 victory over the Braves and earned them a crucial advantage on the Cardinals in the wild card race. Instead, Ender Inciarte robbed it and won the game for the Braves....
Here's A Truly Bonkers One-Handed Catch
Look at this catch, man. ...
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Reports: One Shot, Several Injured As Protests In Charlotte Turn Violent [Updating]
Protests have swirled through Charlotte after Keith Scott, a father of seven, was shot and killed by Charlotte PD Tuesday. According to his family, he was armed with nothing more than a book. This evening, protests once again became violent, and reporters from the scene are reporting that someone ha...
Stephen Jackson Righteously Owns Don King On CNN
Evil relic Don King introduced ham demon Donald Trump at a campaign event this morning, and in the process, said “nigger” when he meant to say “Negro.” As a rule, you shouldn’t listen to anything Don King has to say, but it’s always worth laughing at him. ...
Lone Bright Spot For The Browns Injured Too
The Cleveland Browns, an alleged NFL team, are so thoroughly screwed. Part of this is by design. Part of this is because they’ve suffered a horrific stretch of injuries. RG3 (few people’s idea of a savior) hurt his shoulder, his backup hurt his shoulder, and now the team has to start a rookie next w...
Jose Bautista Admires Huge Dinger With A Backwards Home Run Trot
The AL wild card-leading Blue Jays got shut down by King Felix Hernandez this afternoon, managing just pair of hits over seven innings. Fear not. Jose Bautista has a flair for situations like these. With one out in the ninth inning, Bautista sent an Edwin Diaz fastball to the dang moon, then trotted...