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Florida Panthers Fire Coach Gerard Gallant, Make Him Catch A Taxi
Twenty-two games into a disappointing season, the Florida Panthers fired head coach Gerard Gallant last night, and while the decision is questionable enough, the way it went down is awkward as hell. For one, the team didn’t officially announce the move until about an hour ago, leaving it to media to...

Grey Cup Kneel-Down Gets Very Profane
Calgary executed an incredible comeback to force overtime with Ottawa in the Grey Cup, and as the Redblacks took a knee to end regulation, things got very f-bomby on the line of scrimmage. (Let’s get this camera angle on NFL broadcasts, eh?)...

Jaguars Junction: Week 12
A child’s first smile. A mother’s kiss. A new love’s glance. All of these people will eventually die. Life’s sweetest moments are inherently fleeting, their memories best preserved before the deleterious assaults of passing time. ...

Pitt Beats Syracuse 76-61 Not In Basketball
Pittsburgh defeated Syracuse on Saturday by a score of 76-61, the highest-scoring FBS regulation game in history. ...

Harbaugh Spikes Headset, Breaks It, Earns Penalty
Ohio State narrowed Michigan’s lead thanks in part to an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty earned by Jim Harbaugh as the Wolverines head coach melted down on the sideline, eventually breaking his headset....

Bob Bradley Becomes First American Manager To Win Premier League Game
With a 5-4 Swansea City victory over Crystal Palace, Bob Bradley became the first American manager to win a game in the Premier League....

Rockets Set NBA Record For Three-Point Attempts, Get Close To Franchise Record For Largest Blown Lead
While setting an NBA record for the most three-point shots attempted in one game, the Houston Rockets flirted with a franchise record for the biggest collapse....

This Is Poetry
Never has a public execution been so beautiful as Zach LaVine’s efforts early in the Timberwolves’ bout against Phoenix tonight....

Michigan-Ohio State <i>Tecmo Super Bowl</i> Simulation Is Live!
It’s time for a CPU vs CPU simulation of The Game. Will Michigan win? Can Urban Meyer lead the Buckeyes to a huge victory? Find out, LIVE:...

NCSU & UNC Launch Bench-Clearing Brawl
North Carolina State and North Carolina brawled in the second quarter today after a play eventually ruled an incompletion after video replay....

This Zach LaVine Dunk Is Some Extremely Good Shit
Zach LaVine and his teammates were having some fun after practice today, and that led to this dunk making it onto Andrew Wiggins’s Snapchat account:...

Whoever Hacked Marcell Dareus Did A Good Job
Early this morning, the above post appeared on the Instagram feed of Bills defensive tackle Marcell Dareus. Next to a perhaps unflattering photo of himself, Dareus appears to torch the NFL, the Bills, Rex Ryan, the team’s owner, its fans, and its fans’ kids before quitting altogether so he can smoke...

IPFW Shocks Third-Ranked Indiana; Fan Drinks Bleach
The Mastodons of Fort Wayne sent Indiana back to Bloomington with its first loss of the season after an overtime shocker that resulted in one IPFW student... drinking bleach?...

MLS Playoff Game Delayed Over Turf Painting Error
The Montreal Impact are hosting their Canadian brethren Toronto FC tonight for the first leg of the Eastern Conference Championship, but the scheduled 8:00 p.m. EST kickoff has been delayed after the grounds crew at Montreal’s stadium had to repaint the 18-yard box lines. Players had already complet...

Barack Obama Got Some Decent Jokes Off At Michael Jordan's Expense
Michael Jordan, the famous denim icon, received the Presidential Medal Of Freedom from President Obama this afternoon at the White House, along with Vin Scully and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. While introducing the inductees, Obama ribbed MJ and called him “the guy from Space Jam.” I hope Kevin Durant is so...

Some U.S. Soldiers Share Extremely Blunt Thoughts On Commander-In-Chief Donald Trump
Government employees have shared serious concerns about working under Donald Trump. None of them are more concerned than the active duty members of the U.S. military who wrote to us. ...

Josh Jackson Dunks Hard, Destroys Fan's Concept Of Reality
Kansas predictably dismantled UAB last night, downing the Blazers 83-63 in the first round of an early-season tournament behind freshman star Josh Jackson’s first dominant performance of the young season. Jackson finished with 22 points, seven rebounds, and two souls: his, and UAB’s Tosin Mehinti....

If You Want To Know What Potential Trump Cabinet Member Kris Kobach Plans To Do It's All Written On This Piece Of Paper
Yesterday, Donald Trump held more meetings with all sorts of people hoping to ingratiate themselves with the president-elect. Among them was Kris Kobach, the deeply anti-immigrant secretary of state of Kansas who was thought to be Trump’s pick for attorney general, but now may be in the running for ...

Blake Bortles Bortled Again
Upon witnessing Blake Bortles throw an interception off his own player’s shoe last week against the Texans, you may have thought: “Well, here’s something I’ll never see again in my life.” If so, may I say: Friend, you underestimated Blake Bortles....