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The Marlins Lost Because They Pitched To Bryce Harper On Accident
The Marlins lost 3-2 to the Nationals last night after surrendering a 2-1 lead in the sixth when Bryce Harper banged an RBI double off the right-field wall. Getting beat by a player as good as Harper isn’t anything to be ashamed of, except when he was never supposed to be given the chance in the fir...
Startup Basketball League Talks Big, Gets Big Investment From Fans, Fails To Start On Time<em></em>
For the first few months of 2017, sports fans were offered a unique opportunity: the chance to own a piece of the Gotham Ballers, a New York-based pro basketball team in the 16-team Champions Basketball League that was set to start its first season in July. The team’s roster is made up of recently r...
Report: Zach Randolph Arrested For Possession And Intent To Sell
According to CBS 2 in Los Angeles, Sacramento Kings power forward Zach Randolph was arrested on felony charges of drug possession and intent to sell in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles last night....
The Rams And Chargers Did Some Fightin'
The Rams and Chargers held a joint practice on Wednesday, and over the course of a two-hour scrimmage, three separate fights broke out....
Lane Kiffin Owned By Autograph Seekers
Florida Atlantic head football coach Lane Kiffin, the most frequently dunked-on coach in recent college football history, has willingly shared two more stories about times in which he was savagely owned....
Todd Bowles Is Fed Up With Sheldon Richardson Talking About Brandon Marshall
We aren’t even one week into the preseason, and Jets head coach Todd Bowles is already snapping during interviews....
The Browns Really Want You To Buy This Whole Brock Osweiler Thing
Please remember that the only reason Brock Osweiler is currently on the Browns’ roster is because the Texans were so desperate to be rid of him that they gave Cleveland a second-round pick for absorbing Osweiler’s $16 million salary this season. Also remember that Browns GM Sashi Brown was most exci...
Many People Are Doubting Jay Cutler's Commitment To Football<em></em>
The Dolphins held a press conference today to officially introduce new quarterback Jay Cutler, who ended his brief retirement to sign a one-year, $10 million deal to play in Miami. Cutler certainly plugs a hole at quarterback for the Dolphins, but there remain concerns about his commitment to the ga...
Don Baylor Dead At 68
An easy way to measure an athlete’s influence on his or her sport is to consider what they meant to different groups of fans. Don Baylor, who died of cancer today at age 68, was many things to many people....
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Naked Idiot On The Field Is Very Pleased With Himself [NSFW]
The biggest thing to happen at the IAAF World Championships this weekend was Usain Bolt taking bronze in the final 100-meter race of his career. The second biggest thing to happen was a jolly streaker running the track and having a grand ol’ time. Watch him break right through a security guard’s arm...
Large Child Hits Very Large Dinger, Right On Cue
The Little League World Series is happening again, which means it’s time to watch pre-teens do amazing baseball things while thinking, “Hmmmm, are we sure that kid is only 12?”...
Ice Up The Bears, It's Too Fucking Hot For Bears
It’s summer time and that means it’s the worst time to be a polar bear in the zoo. Heatwaves around the world are making life hard for captive polar bears, and zookeepers are struggling to keep the big beasts cool....
Doc Rivers No Longer Allowed To Fuck Up The Clippers' Roster
There has always been a massive gulf in talent between Doc Rivers The Coach and Doc Rivers The General Manager. Coach Rivers has a career .579 winning percentage and hasn’t missed the playoffs since 2007; GM Rivers is best known for repeatedly wasting his team’s limited cap space on mediocre-to-usel...
JaVale McGee Provides Pick-Up Game Highlights And Statistics
During the summer, NBA players often post short, low-quality clips of themselves getting shots up or lifting weights in order to prove that there truly are no days off and that ball is indeed life. These dispatches are mostly self-serving, but you can’t help but appreciate the effort JaVale McGee ha...
Frank Clark Injures Teammate With "Flying Punch"
Seahawks defensive end Frank Clark was kicked off the practice field yesterday after injuring left tackle Germain Ifedi in a fight. There isn’t any video footage of the fight, but according to writers who were on the scene, Clark hit Ifedi with a fairly devastating punch....
Richard Sherman Runs Through The List Of NFL QBs Who Are Worse Than Colin Kaepernick
In an interview with USA Today’s Jarrett Bell, Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman shared his thoughts on Ravens’ owner Steve Bisciotti wringing his hands over the idea of signing Colin Kaepernick....
The Life And Death Of A Cartel Horseman
From around 2008 to 2012, Miguel Treviño Morales, a leader of the infamous Los Zetas cartel, spent and made millions of dollars buying, breeding, and racing American quarter horses, with help from his law-abiding American brother and a wealthy young Austin rancher. This excerpt from Bones: Brothers,...
LaVar Ball Throws Hissy Fit, Gets Female Referee Replaced Mid-Game
The LaVar Ball circus continued yesterday, this time with some not-so-thinly-veiled misogyny taking a spot in the center ring....
John Gibbons To Power-Mad Umpire: "Were You Out All Fucking Night?"
The Blue Jays ran into one hell of an Ump Show during their game against the Oakland A’s yesterday. Over the course of a few pitches, home plate umpire Will Little managed to eject manager John Gibbons, pitcher Marcus Stroman, and catcher Russell Martin....
Report: The Cavs Can't Get A Hold Of Kyrie Irving
Kyrie Irving wants out of Cleveland, for whatever reason, and he’s apparently doing everything in his power to hasten the exit process. According to The Athletic’s Jason Lloyd (subscribe here), the Cavs’ front office has been unable to get in touch with Irving since news of his trade demand broke....