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Dion Waiters Escaped The Matrix
Here’s an unintentionally hilarious tweet that the official Twitter account of NBA referees just sent regarding the cascade of snafus that marred the end of last night’s Thunder-Spurs game:...
Argentina Follows Mexico's Lead, Uses Donald Trump To Troll America
We’re beginning to learn that Donald Trump quotes about the impending ruination of America are great fodder for chopping up and serving back to us in the form of troll bait. A Mexican TV station started the trend last year, and now Argentina’s TyC Sports has followed suit....
<i>Space Jam</i> Was Bad, The LeBron Remake Could Be Worse
Love of Space Jam is the perfect case study in false memory—take a childhood novelty, give yourself a decade of distance, layer on some of the currently rampant ’90s nostalgia, and all of a sudden everyone you know swoons over something that was pretty bad. The sum total of praise Space Jam deserves...
Source: Nashville Sports Guy Was Actually Fired For Profane Facebook Live Rant
On Saturday, we reported that Nashville Fox station sports guy Dan Phillips was fired after station management found his Prince-themed sports report to be “insensitive,” which is how Phillips described it in a Facebook post about the firing. Now, a source at the station tells us that’s not why he wa...
Refs Admit Missed Foul In Thunder-Spurs (But What About The Other Six?)
If you haven’t yet watched the final play of last night’s 98-97 Thunder win, watch it and then collect the scattered pieces of your brainpan and then come back here to see the officials admit they might have missed a call somewhere in there....
All Hell Broke Loose On That Final Play Of Thunder-Spurs
I’m just gonna cut straight to the chase: The Oklahoma City Thunder escaped San Antonio with a 98-97 win tonight to even the series up at 1-1, thanks to, uh, whatever the hell it was that happened on this final sequence....
The Indiana Pacers Would Have To Be Crazy To Let Frank Vogel Go
After the Pacers were eliminated by the Raptors in Game 7 of their first round series last night, Adrian Wojnarowski reported that there have been no extension talks between the team and coach Frank Vogel, whose contract apparently expires shortly:...
George Karl Says The Kings Were As Toxic As They Seemed
This might be counterintuitive, but I wish the Kings had been a little better or a lot worse. They won just few enough games to not matter, and did so boringly, and that’s a shame: This was one of the most dysfunctional seasons in recent memory, and even though everyone knew it, I’m not sure it gets...
This Is The Best Jaguars Fan
The Jaguars’ draft class needs no further analysis. A woman interviewed by a local news station has said all that needs to be said....
Former Olympic Wrestling Champion Vyacheslav Oliynyk Fights A Bunch Of Cops
Ukranian wrestler Vyacheslav Oliynyk won a gold medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Last Wednesday, he celebrated his 50th birthday by fighting cops in Kiev. ...
WWE Pay-Per-View Temporarily Halted After Enzo Amore Suffers Severe Injury [UPDATES]
WWE’s Payback pay-per-view was suspended while medical personnel attended to a motionless Enzo Amore—born Eric Arndt—after the wrestler suffered a serious injury during a tag team match....
USA Loses 4x100 After Botched Baton Exchange
The Jamaican team of Jermaine Hamilton, Julian Foote, Rasheed Dwyer, and Oshane Bailey took first place at the Penn Relays 4x100 after the top U.S. team botched the baton exchange on the anchor leg....
Los Angeles Lakers Hire Luke Walton As Head Coach
The Los Angeles Lakers have hired former Lakers player and current top Golden State Warriors assistant Luke Walton as their next head coach, the team announced tonight....
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Ray Lewis's Son Arrested, Charged With Criminal Sexual Conduct [Updated]
Ray Lewis III, the son of former Baltimore Raven turned ESPN personality Ray Lewis, has been charged with third-degree criminal sexual conduct, according to Conway, S.C., police. A warrant for his arrest was obtained Monday, and Lewis turned himself in today. Jail records show that Lewis was booked ...
Who Hugged Roger Goodell Longest At Last Night's NFL Draft?
Last night’s first round of the NFL draft featured many large men embracing an extremely rich one. As we do every year, we’ve measured each draftee’s hug time and measured it against his fellow rookies. The winner? New Falcons defensive back Keanu Neal, who got intimate with Roger Goodell for more t...
How To Avoid Getting Hacked Like Laremy Tunsil
Laremy Tunsil might have the distinction of being the only celebrity to claim “I was hacked” without lying, as our own website was quick to note. It’s the quickest, laziest, lamest excuse to toss out after, say, a direct message that wasn’t as direct as expected (see wretched Anthony’s Weiner) or a ...
British Cycling Is A Huge Mess Right Now
Britain’s cycling renaissance has been one of the sport’s biggest success stories of the past decade. Since 2008, Mark Cavendish has won 26 stages at the Tour de France, British cyclists have won 16 gold Olympic medals (mostly on the track), and Bradley Wiggins and Chris Froome have won three Tours ...
Get Your NFL Takes From A Small Child
Today’s Take Your Kid To Work Day, so I had the chance to talk about sports with a special guest named Harry. (Harry is not my kid.) We covered the NFL, Johnny Manziel, CTE, and a little bit of the NBA. Harry has many opinions, and he really likes Phil Simms....
Even Companies Trying To Be Diverse Suck At Being Diverse
Think about it like a math problem: When two out of four final candidates for a job are women, there is a 50 percent chance that the candidate hired in the end will be a woman. Makes sense, right? So when one out of the final four candidates for a job is a woman, what do you think the chances are th...