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Dan Girardi Flattens Matt Calvert With Shoulder-To-Shoulder Check
For a brief moment in yesterday’s Blue Jackets-Lightning third period, veteran Tampa defenseman Dan Girardi brought back a lost art. As Columbus’s Matt Calvert focused on bringing the puck into the offensive zone, Girardi laid him out in the middle of the ice, delivering a clean shoulder check with ...
Hurdles: They Can Go Wrong
Minkah Fitzpatrick is now out of tonight’s LSU-Alabama game, but not before targeting Russell Gage’s dick and balls as the Tigers receiver tried to hurdle the All-American:...
Atlético Madrid Kicked Themselves In The Dick Again<em></em>
When the Champions League groups were announced, there was no doubt that Group C was going to be a tough one to advance from. With Chelsea, Roma and Atlético Madrid all battling it out for two slots, we knew that one very good team wasn’t going to be in the knockout stage. But what we didn’t expect ...
Leverage
Let it be known that if you’re going to commit a penalty that wipes off a turnover in the red zone, go all the way. ...
Nikita Kucherov Won't Stop Scoring<em></em>
With a game-tying warp-speed slapper that went off the post and in, Tampa Bay’s Nikita Kucherov continued his incredible year-opening streak. Through his first seven games this season, Kucherov has scored in every one. He’s the sixth player in the modern era to do this, and in the last 30 years, onl...
Japanese Playoff Baseball Game Turns Into A Mud Bowl
In the first round of the Nippon Professional Baseball playoffs in Japan, the Hanshin Tigers and Yokohama DeNA Baystars battled through absolutely absurd conditions to play an entire baseball game in the mud. The result was unlike any baseball game I’ve ever seen. To watch the highlights with the fu...
J.T. Brown Says He Got Death Threats For Raising Fist During Anthem
Tampa Bay Lightning winger J.T. Brown revealed in a statement on Twitter that he has received death threats after he raised his fist while standing for the national anthem before a game on Saturday....
That'll About Do It For Nick Folk In Tampa
Let’s phrase it as a riddle, to laugh to keep from crying. What wears red pajamas, has missed five of his last six field goals, and isn’t going to have a job this time next week? This guy:...
Enjoy Tom Brady Getting Picked Off
Do you know when the last time Tom Brady got picked off in the regular season was? It was 264 passes ago. Here, then, is an update from his opening drive of tonight’s Patriots-Buccaneers game:...
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Alabama Basketball Admin Who Previously Worked In NCAA Enforcement Resigns After FBI Sting
The fallout from the FBI’s NCAA sting has claimed another job: that of Alabama director of basketball operations Kobie Baker, who came to the school from a position with the NCAA as its assistant director of enforcement for basketball development. Yep....
Bucs Clarify They Won't Let Internet Tough Guys Come Talk Shit With Gerald McCoy
If you heard Gerald McCoy’s call to come to the Buccaneers’ headquarters and talk your shit to his face yesterday, I have bad news for you: The Bucs won’t let you, because answering McCoy’s call to come “hold court” with him does not (for some reason) constitute “official business.”...
Chris Archer Says Teammates' Feedback Prevents Him From Protesting
Oakland A’s catcher Bruce Maxwell became the first MLB player to kneel for the national anthem over the weekend. Maxwell, whose father served in the Army, explained that his demonstration had nothing to do with disrespecting the military:...
Father And Son Alabama Fans Arrested After Brawling At FSU Game
During this weekend’s Alabama-Florida State game, a pair of rowdy Alabama fans got into a nasty-looking fight in the stands of the Falcons stadium. Officers responded to reports of a fight in the 120/121 section of the stadium at around 11 p.m. local time. According to an incident report obtained by...
Bucs-Dolphins Game Postponed Due To Hurricane Irma
The NFL has postponed this Sunday’s game between the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Miami Dolphins because Hurricane Irma is expected to make landfall in Florida sometime this weekend....
Dolphins-Bucs Game May Have To Be Moved To Avoid Category 5 Hurricane Irma
Hurricane Irma was upgraded this morning to a category 5 storm, the most intense on the Saffir-Simpson Scale, meaning it has maximum sustained winds greater than 157 mph. There is, as always, a lot of uncertainty in its long-term forecast—but as of now, many models have it headed right for South Flo...
Well, Here Are The Yankees And Red Sox Bickering Over The Integrity Of Bunting
The Yankees beat the Red Sox, 6-2, tonight. The game included a first-inning bunt by Boston second baseman Eduardo Nuñez, which greatly displeased Yankees starter C.C. Sabathia, and now we have another riveting chapter in the storied rivalry between these two franchises....
Here's Adeiny Hechavarría Looking Smooth As Hell<em></em>
Rays shortstop Adeiny Hechavarría has nothing to offer but his defense—a career OPS of .627—but that defense can be really, really pretty. It definitely was in the first inning of tonight’s game against the Royals, as Hechavarría lept up to snare a Melky Cabrera liner before a quick toss to second t...
Longtime Villanova Coach Rollie Massimino Dead At 82<em></em>
Rollie Massimino, the longtime Villanova basketball coach who led the Wildcats to an improbable national championship in 1985, has died. He was 82....
My Five Favorite Moments From The Yankees-Tigers Brawl
Yesterday saw the weirdest and most interesting game of the season, a 10-6 Tigers win over the Yankees that saw eight ejections, four batters hit by pitches, three bench clearings, and a whole bunch of legitimate punches....