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Carmelo Anthony Got Ejected For Whacking Thabo Sefolosha
The Knicks fell to Atlanta in overtime last night, 102-98, and they did most of it without Carmelo Anthony. Anthony was ejected in the second quarter for a forearm to the face of Thabo Sefolosha while the two were tangled up under the basket....
Iowa Refuses To Shake Hands After North Dakota, Down By 11, Tries Buzzer-Beater
With the Hawkeyes up by 11 with three seconds to play, there was no question about who was going to win tonight’s game between Iowa and North Dakota. But North Dakota’s Corey Baldwin stole the ball and Drick Bernstine tried to beat the buzzer with a little jumper anyway*, and Iowa coach Fran McCaffe...
Victor Oladipo Turned Dwight Howard Into Dust With One Of The Best Dunks Of The Season
Russell Westbrook notched his sixth straight triple double tonight against the Hawks, but the best highlight from that game comes courtesy of Victor Oladipo, who climbed Mt. Howard and returned with a scalp....
Maybe Dwight Howard Shouldn't Be Allowed To Run The Fast Break
Dwight Howard had a decent game in a loss to the Suns last night, finishing with 17 points and 14 rebounds in 33 minutes. He also finished with one assist, but as you can see int he clip below, he was very close to finishing with two:...
Kris Humphries Shatters Backboard, Ends Practice Early
The simplest way to get out of something you don’t want to do is to create an excuse centered on yourself: you’re sick, your grandmother died, etc. The most effective way to get out of something you don’t want to do is to ruin that something entirely: why sit on the bleachers with a feigned headache...
Love Is Real: Gucci Mane Got Engaged At The Hawks Game Tonight
Gucci Mane was a distinguished guest of the Hawks tonight, and while the Hawks lost the Bird Derby to the Pelicans, Gucci was the star of the evening. He played a short set during halftime, did a little Mannequin Challenge, and then proposed to his girlfriend Keyshia Ka’oir. The couple was featured ...
Kent Bazemore Laughs As He Sets Up Dwight Howard For An Alley-Oop
Although the Atlanta Hawks were losing in the second quarter today against the New York Knicks, Kent Bazemore still found a chance to be happy. Marshall Plumlee was having a tough time with Dwight Howard during the possession, and Bazemore could only laugh as he passed to Howard for an easy alley-oo...
Iowa Fan Arrested For Public Intoxication Thought She Was At Iowa State Game That Didn't Exist
Unranked Iowa’s upset win over #3 Michigan yesterday was worth celebrating. But some people took it a little too far, and University of Iowa police had to make game-day arrests for the first time since September. (The campus that gave us Vodka Samm has had plenty of game-day citations since Septembe...
Iowa Knocks Off Michigan With Game-Ending Field Goal
On a day that saw second-ranked Clemson and fourth-ranked Washington tally their first losses of the season, Michigan decided to join in the fun by losing to Iowa as Hawkeyes kicker Keith Duncan pounded in a 33-yard field goal as time expired to give his team a 14-13 win. It’s the first time in more...
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The Melbourne Cup Is Decadent And Depraved
You may have read Hunter S. Thompson’s famous article recounting the rampant debauchery at the Kentucky Derby and thought you’d glimpsed the true, beating heart of insane white people shit. But you’d have been mistaken. It’s not until you see these photos of the Melbourne Cup, Australia’s most drunk...
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Hawks Coach Mike Budenholzer Got Taken Out By Langston Galloway
The NBA preseason is too long and isn’t good for much besides cursory evaluations of new players (like Joel Embiid) and injuries. Hawks coach Mike Budenholzer fell victim to a wayward Langston Galoway attempt to save the ball in the second quarter this evening, and he went down hard....
NDSU Continues Win Streak Over FBS Teams With Last-Second Field Goal To Beat Iowa
North Dakota State continued its incredible streak of beating teams from college football’s top division when it downed 13th-ranked Iowa 23-21 thanks to a last-second field goal....
Bask In The Aura Of This Tattooed Iowa Football Fan
This is Cory Brown. He is a fan of Iowa Hawkeyes football, and has Kirk Ferentz’s face tattooed on his calf....
Iowa Player Ejected After Nearly Decapitating Opponent
You could read this post, and watch the full video below, or you could read this essay by our pal Spencer Hall. We recommend you do the latter, instead of watching this video of Iowa’s Josey Jewell turning the brain of Miami’s Matt Merimee into oatmeal....
Iowa Strength Coach Is Making $595,000 This Year
There comes a moment in every fan’s life when they realize that certain power programs’ claims that they can’t afford to pay players don’t stand up. I hope this is someone’s moment!...
Kayla Harrison Is The Best And I'm In Awe Of Her
Four years ago, Kayla Harrison became the first American to win an Olympic gold medal in judo. Yesterday, Harrison became the first woman from any country to win multiple golds at half heavyweight, and her final match only looked difficult because she made the rest of them look so easy....
Iowa Football Player Playing <i>Pokémon Go</i> Mistaken For Bank Robber, Held At Gunpoint By Police
Faith Ekakitie, a rising senior defensive lineman at Iowa, was minding his own business—he had taken a walk to a park to play some Pokémon Go, as one does. That’s when he was confronted by Iowa City police with guns drawn....
Kendra Harrison Breaks 100m Hurdles World Record
The 100 meter hurdles world record of 12.21 seconds stood for 28 years until being smashed yesterday in London by American runner Kendra Harrison—who didn’t learn until about a minute after the race that she’d broken one of track & field’s most impenetrable barriers....