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Angry Indy-League Manager Takes Third Base, Gives It To A Kid

On Monday, a game between the Chicago Dogs and the Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks of the American Association of Independent Professional Baseball produced an historically great baseball tantrum when RedHawks player Brennan Metzger told an umpire to go live in a trash can. On Tuesday, Dogs manager Butch Ho...

Holy Shit, Jacob DeGrom Got A Win

For the first time since June 18, Mets ace Jacob deGrom started a baseball game and was officially awarded with a win at the end of that baseball game. This is notable mostly because deGrom has been pretty much the best pitcher in the Major Leagues this season....

Jarvis Landry Spends 98 Seconds Cursing Out His Fellow Browns Receivers

The Browns are the subject of this season’s Hard Knocks, and new arrival Jarvis Landry is the early star of the show. On last night’s episode, Landry gave a speech to his fellow Browns receivers that was bursting with obscene declarations against weakness....

Richie Incognito Is Lashing Out At The Vikings [Update]

Offensive lineman and noted racist bully Richie Incognito—who has since the end of the last NFL season retired, un-retired, been released by the Bills, and had a public meltdown at a gym—got very upset on Twitter today because Vikings head coach Mike Zimmer denied that Minnesota was interested in si...

Javy Báez Is Now As Great As He Is Captivating

Only a true turd would try to claim that Cubs infielder Javy Báez has not been the most consistently entertaining player in baseball over the last few seasons. From the moment he arrived in the big leagues he went about turning his every movement on the field into highlight-reel material, but there ...

Barstool Sports' Twitch Channel Shut Down After Employee Threatens To Swat Someone

Barstool Sports, a website enjoyed by young men who get really angry when their friends don’t want to go out drinking with them for a third night in a row, no longer has an official Twitch channel. This is because one of their employees threatened to swat another Twitch streamer....

NASCAR CEO Arrested For DUI, Possession Of Oxycodone

According to a news release from the Sag Harbor Village police department in New York, NASCAR chairman and CEO Brian France was arrested for driving while intoxicated and for being in criminal possession of a controlled substance....

The Browns Have Turned Yet Another First-Round Pick Into A Bag Of Shit

American sports are set up to all but guarantee that a franchise as putrid as the Cleveland Browns cannot remain putrid for eternity. All those losing seasons just add up to higher first-round draft picks, which should eventually add up to winning seasons. It take some real work to waste free ticket...

Vikings Safety Andrew Sendejo Has A Not-So-Subtle Message For The NFL

The NFL rulebook is absolutely riddled with confounding and indecipherable rules, but I can’t remember one eliciting such strong reactions from players as the league’s doomed new helmet rule. Players have essentially been told that they can no longer tackle the same way they’ve been tackling through...

Fancy Dog Tom Brady Is Having A Great Doggy Birthday

It’s Tom Brady’s birthday! There are likely people in his life who are struggling to think of a what sort of birthday present is suitable for a fancy dog entering his 19th NFL season, but those closest to him know that all Brady wants is to feel the warmth of interspecies fellowship:...

These Inventive Keeper Drills Honestly Seem Like A Lot Of Fun

Professional soccer players are probably the only athletes whose practice regimens look somewhat enjoyable. Every time I see footage of a Premier League training session everyone is just kind of jogging around pleasantly or playing keep-away, and I kind of wish I could join in. The same goes for thi...

Only The Papa Can Save Papa John's, Says Papa John<em></em>

It hasn’t yet been a month since Papa John Schnatter was discarded from his own company for the sins of saying the N-word on a conference call, allegedly acting like a creep to employees, and just generally mismanaging the hell out of his pizza business. But the disgraced Papa won’t go quickly or qu...

Oh Piss Off, Ed

New Yorkers! There is another Varsity Letters reading series at Le Poisson Rouge tonight, presented by Gelf Magazine. SI’s Ben Reiter will discuss his new book, Astroball: The New Way to Win It All. He’s joined by Duke University professor Lori Leachman, the daughter of former New York Giants Super ...

Zach Smith's Ex-Wife Says Urban Meyer Knew About Abuse Allegations In 2015

Ohio State wide receivers coach Zach Smith was fired by the university after his history of alleged domestic violence became public. After Smith was fired, head coach Urban Meyer admitted to reporters that he had been aware of Smith’s 2009 domestic violence arrest, but made it clear that he had no i...

Rookie Patriots Lineman Catches Punt, Wins Nights Off

If you ever had any illusions about how easy it would be for you to catch a punt, please watch Patriots rookie lineman Isaiah Wynn, a large man but an athlete nonetheless, struggle to bring one in at the end of a team practice:...

José Aldo May Have Disintegrated Jeremy Stephens's Liver With This Body Shot

The body shot to the liver is basically the boogey man of all combat sports. One perfectly placed punch to the gut can set off a cascade of unimaginable pain that shuts down a fighter’s entire body. There’s really no coming back from it, as José Aldo proved during this weekend’s fight against Jeremy...

Most Embarrassing NFL Team Now Has Most Embarrassing Slogan

It’s never good to be a sports franchise that is so synonymous with failure that the prospect of brighter days ahead seems all but unimaginable. That ship sailed and sunk for the Cleveland Browns a long time ago, but now they seem to be attempting to reach an even more shameful depth. It’s one thing...

The Football World Can't Even See The NFL's Rotten Core 

NFL training camps are booting up this week, and that means it’s time for some of the very best players in the league to indicate that they won’t be attending, and in some cases to threaten that they will be sitting out the entire regular season as well. Holdouts are nothing new in the NFL, but some...

Jameis Winston Says He Has "Grown And Learned" From The Experience Of Grabbing An Uber Driver's Crotch

Buccaneers quarterback Jameis Winston will miss the first three games of the upcoming season after being suspended for groping an Uber driver. As part of the terms of the suspension, Winston apologized to the driver for “the position he put her in.” All this came after Winston initially denied the d...