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Did Aroldis Chapman Give A Bad Domestic Violence Answer, Or Was It Translator Error?
Aroldis Chapman held his first press conference with the Chicago media as a member of the Cubs this afternoon, and immediately overshadowed his debut by being dismissive of a question about the domestic violence allegations that saw the MLB suspend him for 30 days. But five hours after the press con...
Washington State Football Players Brawl At House Party<em></em>
Last Friday night, a group of Washington State football players went to a house party near WSU campus in Pullman. According to WSU senior Alex Rodriguez and witnesses interviewed by the Seattle Times, a group of “four of five players” were setting off fireworks in the backyard of the house and throw...
Yoenis Cespedes Drops Routine Catch In Order To Make Spectacular Catch
Baseball can be boring, so I appreciate Yoenis Cespedes going out of his way to make this would-be routine catch into something much more videogenic....
Tiny, Adorable Dogs Attend NFL Training Camp
It’s NFL training camp time, which means it’s time to check in on Eddie Lacy’s middle, and also, apparently to check out some good-as-hell dogs. Washington cornerback Bashaud Breeland supplied the dogs....
Chris Sale Is Fed Up With Robin Ventura
Chris Sale, last seen cutting up White Sox throwbacks with scissors in the clubhouse, broke his silence today, and the pitcher does not appear happy with Robin Ventura. In an interview with MLB.com’s Scott Merkin, Sale laid out the entire timeline of events that led to him defacing the jerseys, talk...
Report: Tom Jackson Is Leaving ESPN
Tom Jackson has been with ESPN since 1987, and programs he has anchored (including NFL Countdown and NFL Primetime) have won seven Emmy Awards over that time. His partner Chris Berman is possibly leaving after this season, but according to a report from Pro Football Talk, Jackson is leaving ESPN and...
Alex Dickerson Hit This Pitch To Goddamn Jupiter
Get a load of this towering dinger that Alex Dickerson sent to the fifth deck up in Toronto tonight. Dickerson’s historic blast (more on this after the dong) went so high that the Fox Sports cameras lost it in the sky....
Report: LeBron James Signs Tyronn Lue To An Extension
According to The Vertical’s Adrian Wojnarowski, LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers have signed Tyronn Lue to a five-year extension to serve as head coach....
Only 12 Of The 31 Olympics Athletes' Village Buildings Have Passed Safety Inspection
Athletes are arriving in Rio de Janeiro for the Olympics, and have been greeted at the Athletes’ Village with gas leaks, power outages, and “a small fire.” The Australian Olympic Committee already declared the Village “uninhabitable”, and according to The Guardian, 19 of the 31 apartment towers (all...
Prince Fielder Will Miss The Rest Of The Season
Rangers DH Prince Fielder, who has been out since July 18 with neck troubles, will undergo surgery and miss the rest of the 2016 MLB season. Rangers GM Jon Daniels confirmed the prognosis to the Dallas Morning News this evening after Levi Weaver reported it earlier. ...
How Chris Froome Dominated The Tour De France
The 2016 Tour de France ended similarly to the last four Tours: the eventual champion grabbed the yellow jersey early and smashed the field for the rest of the race, with the help of their dominant team. The yellow jersey hasn’t changed hands in the last week of the race since 2011, and—save Vincenz...
Wet Roads Had Everyone Falling At The Tour De France
The last summit finish of the 2016 Tour de France came and went, with the general classification race shaken up by a series of crashes more than anything. Chris Froome’s overall lead looked unassailable even before he won yesterday’s time trial, but the rest of the top ten has been a jumbled mess. T...
Oklahoma State Basketball Player Tyrek Coger Dies After Collapsing Following Team Workout
Oklahoma State University announced that 21-year-old basketball player Tyrek Coger died this evening after he collapsed during a team workout. Coger transferred to the Cowboys this month after last playing for Cape Fear Community College in North Carolina....
Carmelo Anthony Expresses Solidarity With WNBA Players Protesting Violence<em></em>
A week after members of the Minnesota Lynx wore shirts condemning the killings of Philando Castile and Alton Sterling and the shootings that left five Dallas police officers dead, the WNBA decided to fine players from the New York Liberty, Phoenix Mercury, and Indiana Fever who have been wearing bla...
Matt Holliday Leaves Game After Taking A Pitch Right In The Nose
During a sixth-inning rally against the San Diego, Matt Holliday caught a 95 MPH fastball from Andrew Cashner right in the nose. He immediately fell to the ground, and Mike Matheny leapt from the dugout. As you can see in the slow motion shot here, his nose looks worryingly elastic when it gets plow...
Basketball Rim No Match For Strong Dunk
We are in a barren wasteland of basketball news right now (a minor feud between Jae Crowder and Marcin Gortat is almost newsworthy at this point). Thankfully, this teen (Isiah Stokes, a highly-regarded recruit) dunked the shit out of a basketball and brought down the whole dang basketball ring at a ...
Jackie Christie Says She Weighs Doug Christie's Balls To See If He's Been Cheating
Doug Christie has been out of the NBA since 2005 (save for a 10-day contract with the Los Angeles Clippers in 2007), but his wife Jackie has been a fixture on VH1's Basketball Wives: LA since its inception in 2011. The couple’s relationship has been a matter of public performance since Christie’s da...
North Carolina State Senator Burns Governor Over All-Star Game Fiasco
Jeff Jackson is a state senator from North Carolina, who is currently roasting his state’s dipshit governor for his hateful House Bill 2 that caused the NBA to up and move the 2017 NBA All-Star Game out of Charlotte. He has plenty of good and righteous points to make, like how much money McCrory cos...
CC Sabathia Felled By Mighty Pitching Mound
While throwing against the Orioles this afternoon, Yankees pitcher CC Sabathia caught his cleat in the dirt and took a little tumble. The fall resulted in a balk and advanced Chris Davis to second base....
Minnesota United Goalkeeper Concedes Maybe The World's Dumbest Own Goal
I am wary of lapsing into superlatives over every old highlight, but with that qualifier out of the way, this might be the dumbest own goal I have ever seen....