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Holy Smokes, The Rockets Just Traded For Chris Paul

Adrian Wojnarowski has blessed this slow Wednesday morning with a Woj bomb: Chris Paul is being traded to the Houston Rockets. What?!...

Miguel Montero Thinks His Pitchers Should Stop Allowing So Many Steals [Update]

Cubs catcher Miguel Montero has yet to throw out a base stealer this season, as runners are a perfect 31-for-31 with him behind the plate. Montero caught six innings against the Nationals last night, and they ran wild on him, stealing seven bases in just four innings. Four of those steals belonged t...

FIFA: Computer-Destroying Russian Bid Committee Did Nothing Corrupt

Today brought the release of the 430-page report on World Cup corruption that FIFA fought to keep secret for nearly three years. One section of that report details the FIFA Ethics Committee’s investigation into potential corruption by the Russian bid committee that secured the 2018 World Cup. The re...

James Harrison Enjoys Game Of Hooverball

We’ve got a fresh batch of videos featuring James Harrison doing wild shit in order to stay beefy, and these clips feature him hurling a medicine ball over a volleyball net with his pals....

Russell Westbrook's MVP Acceptance Speech Was Worth The Wait

This year, the NBA decided to give out all of its regular-season awards at once, and to have them presented at an interminable awards show that aired last night, more than two months after the end of the regular season. This was all mostly annoying and unnecessary, but Russell Westbrook’s MVP accept...

Ahman Green Arrested On Child Abuse Charges

Former Packers running back Ahman Green was arrested yesterday in Ledgeview, Wisc., on one count of physical abuse of a child and one count of disorderly conduct....

Report: The Giants Miss Hating Angel Pagan

Fox Sports’ Ken Rosenthal published a report today about team chemistry issues that the San Francisco Giants are suffering through this season. The conclusion of the piece is that the Giants’ clubhouse culture is in rough shape because Mark Melancon annoys the rest of the bullpen and everyone else o...

NFL's Novelty Skins License Plate Has One Very Big Problem

The Washington Post’s Dan Steinberg draws our attention to a section of the NFL’s official online store, in which fans can buy novelty license plates in order to express pride in their home state and their team. The Skins’ version of the plate is above, and as you can see, that’s, uh, Washington sta...

Victor Oladipo Has To Fight This Child

You’ve encountered enough blog posts with video clips of NBA players goofing around at a basketball camp to know how this is supposed to go. A small child sizes up Victor Oladipo just beyond the three-point line, and you start to get ready for the child to have his shot swatted into the next court o...

Is That Really All The Bulls Could Get For Jimmy Butler?

The Minnesota Timberwolves managed to snag Jimmy Butler from the Chicago Bulls last night, and the price they paid for him leaves me wondering how the hell no other teams snapped him up first....

The MMQB: Colin Kaepernick Needs To Explain Why He Deserves A Job

The Colin Kaepernick situation really isn’t that complicated. Either you believe he is better than a number of current NFL backup quarterbacks and therefore deserves a job, or you don’t. Either you believe that his outspoken political beliefs have earned him a league-wide blackballing, or you believ...

Donald Trump Drives Golf Cart On The Green, Like A True Shithead

America’s big golfing boy is golfing again, and he’s also proving that his total disdain for physical activity of any kind has turned him into the type of person who drives a golf cart on the green....

Phil Jackson's Favorite Stooge Tries To Sell A Kristaps Porzingis Trade

Knicks fans reached a new level of panic last night when Phil Jackson, currently inhabited by an ancient Sumerian god hell-bent on destroying basketball in New York City, gave an interview in which he assured everyone that, yes, he is seriously considering trading Kristaps Porzingis, a 21-year-old, ...

Field Mic Catches Mexico Coach Calling Someone A "Motherfucker"

Mexico beat New Zealand 2-1 in a Confederations Cup match today, but the game wasn’t stress-free for El Tri. Mexico went into halftime down 1-0, and their manager, Juan Carlos Osorio, got into a heated exchange with the New Zealand sideline less than a half hour into the match....

Minor League GM Apologizes For Razzing Tim Tebow

Tim Tebow, who used to be a bad NFL player and is now a bad minor-league baseball player with the Columbia Fireflies, took some ribbing from the Charleston RiverDogs this past weekend. Now the RiverDogs are very sorry about it....

Baseball Dog Shirks His Duties, Remains A Good Dog

The Frisco RoughRiders, the Double A affiliate of the Texas Rangers, have a team dog named Brooks. The team recently tried to teach Brooks to be a bat dog, and things didn’t go so well:...

Politics Watch: How About A Chuckle?

Everything about politics and the world in general is pretty bad right now. Walk up to me and say the word “politics” and I’ll say to you, “No sir! No ma’am! I’d rather not!”...

Danny Ainge Claims He Never Wanted Markelle Fultz In The First Place

After the pre-draft trade between the Celtics and Sixers was made official yesterday, Celtics GM Danny Ainge held a conference call with reporters to explain his reasoning....

Yankees Prospect Gleyber Torres To Have Tommy John Surgery

The Yankees are very good, and are on track to get even better given the amount of developing young talent currently stocking the major-league roster and farm system. One of these young talents is 20-year-old shortstop Gleyber Torres, who will now undergo season-ending Tommy John surgery....

New Yorkers! If you’re a fan of great sportswriting, be sure to go to tonight’s Varsity Letters reading series, hosted by Gelf Magazine. Sports Illustrated executive editors Jon Wertheim and Steve Cannella will be there to celebrate the late, great Frank Deford. Richard Sandomir will also be there t...