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Where Does The IOC's Money Go?
It’s impossible to avoid money at the Olympics. It’s everywhere: sponsorships, advertising, and evidence of broadcasting rights abound. While it’s well known by this point that host cities and countries typically incur high costs to put on the games, they’re not the ones reaping the major financial ...
Hm, This Markelle Fultz Shooting Drill Seems Weird And Bad
The vaguely and increasingly sad saga of Markelle Fultz’s lost shooting stroke has become one of the defining stories of this NBA season. And yet, for all the reporting and blogging around it, all the proffered diagnoses from coaches and GMs and anonymous sources close to Fultz or the Sixers, all th...
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CBC snowboarding analyst Craig McMorris was pretty pleased with Seppe Smits scoring a 69 during today’s slopestyle final. ...
Markelle Fultz Update: Uhhhh
Sixers GM Bryan Colangelo held a brief scrum with reporters today to update everyone on the status of No. 1 overall draft pick Markelle Fultz, who has not seen the court much this year after injuring his shoulder and then developing what appears to be a pretty serious case of the yips. So how is Fu...
Sixers-Thunder Is Suddenly A Great NBA Rivalry
I doubt anyone had Sixers-Thunder pegged to become one of the spicier NBA rivalries headed into this season, but here we are, two games into the beef, with Russell Westbrook and Joel Embiid reaching new levels of petty....
The Very Real Daniel Cormier-Stipe Miocic Heavyweight Superfight Is Going To Rule So Hard
Daniel Cormier and Stipe Miocic both enjoy such dominance over their divisions (light heavyweight and heavyweight, respectively) that there aren’t really that many interesting opponents for either man to fight. Both won their UFC 220 title fights against overhyped power punchers with comical ease, a...
Markelle Fultz Just Needs To Shoot Like This All The Time
My friends, truly I say to you today: Markelle Fultz has discovered the solution and fixed his fucked-up shooting form....
Let's Remember Some Games
Earlier today, a random series of events brought to my mind the rap song from Donkey Kong 64. A great song, and a great game. Maybe you’ve forgotten about Donkey Kong 64 :( But now you remember it. Let’s remember some other video games:...
Ben Simmons Still Can't Shoot, But He's Dominating Anyway
The NBA season is currently in the fatty middle of its schedule, and 45 or so games in, it feels as if there’s not a whole lot left to discover. The Pacers are surprisingly good, I guess, and the Thunder are finally on track. The Magic are just as diarrheal as they’ve been for the past half decade....
Markelle Fultz Shooting Form Update: Shot Bad
Here is the current state of Markelle Fultz’s free-throw stroke (please watch with the sound on):...
Christian Coleman Breaks 20-Year-Old World Record In The 60 Meters
Christian Coleman, probably best known to most American sports fans as the guy who ran a fast 40, just ran 60 meters in 6.37 seconds. That breaks a world record that fellow American Maurice Greene set at 6.39 in February of 1998, a month before Coleman’s second birthday....
Ben Simmons And Kyle Lowry Plan To Meet In Tunnel After Ejections, Deny Any Actual Meeting
Ben Simmons and Kyle Lowry were both ejected with less than 10 seconds to go in today’s Raptors-Sixers game. At least on the court, the “incident” looked like a whole lot of nothing, but a little gesture from Simmons as the two went off made it seem like he and Lowry were going to finish their chat ...
Brett Brown Is As Perplexed By Markelle Fultz's Shot As You Are
The fog surrounding Markelle Fultz and his possibly injured shoulder and definitely broken jumper has started to lift, and the Sixers are now beginning to admit that everyone’s worst fear has come true: Markelle Fultz is healthy, but he still cannot shoot a basketball properly....
Markelle Fultz's Shoulder Is Healed But His Jumper Is Just As Busted As Ever
We’re at the point, now, where practice court videos of a close-to-healthy Markelle Fultz taking unbearably bad-looking jumpers are just sad and infuriating. What the fuck happened? Who did this? Who can I yell at, right now, about what has happened. Anyway, God, look at this:...
The Upstart Sixers Are Having A Bad Time
The Sixers were a trendy pick to make a run at the top half of the Eastern Conference playoff field this season, to such a degree that Sixers fans and Sam Hinkie loyalists were doing preseason touchdown dances about signs of arrival as abstract as the drafting of Markelle Fultz and the extension of ...
Ben Simmons Is Still Not Shooting Jumpers
Playing without Joel Embiid tonight, Ben Simmons had 19 points, 12 rebounds and 10 assists. It was the fourth triple-double of his NBA career....
Markelle Fultz Is Trapped In An Endless Reevaluation Loop
Even when it at first looks like good news, no Markelle Fultz news is ever good news. For example:...
Jahlil Okafor Can Finally Be A Basketball Player
Probably it is true that Jahlil Okafor won’t ever reclaim the promise that made him the third overall pick in the—holy shit, in the 2015 draft, it feels like it was a thousand years ago. Everyone’s been saying and writing it since then, and it’s truer now than ever: The sport as it is played in the ...