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Report: Marshawn Lynch Plans To Retire

Marshawn Lynch has teased his possible retirement for a few seasons now. After last year, he was reportedly considering retiring, but then he changed his mind and signed a two-year deal. Now, he’s apparently told people he’s retiring, per Adam Schefter....

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Kevin Durant Sinks Deep Three To Beat The Magic

Neither the Thunder nor Magic played much defense Wednesday night, but Serge Ibaka came up big when necessary, blocking a late layup attempt from Victor Oladipo when the game was tied. Oklahoma City then wisely put the ball into Kevin Durant’s hands, and he drilled the game-winner....

Iowa Senator Introduces Just The Whiniest Bill About The Stanford Band

The notoriously “edgy” Stanford marching band performed a skit full of dumb hick stereotypes during halftime of Stanford’s 45-16 thwacking of Iowa in the Rose Bowl. Despite the fact that the skit wasn’t particularly good, funny, or unexpected, everybody lost their goddamn minds. Iowa fans got mad, R...

An oral history of the final drive of last year’s Super Bowl. I still can’t fully grasp that that happened....

Isaiah Cousins Hits Late Jumper To Push Oklahoma Past LSU

Sooners superstar Buddy Hield scored 32, but it was teammate Isaiah Cousins who proved to be the Oklahoma hero as his jumper with four seconds left capped a 14-point comeback in Baton Rouge and downed the Tigers in the spotlight matchup of two of college basketball’s top players....

Steph Curry Guaranteed A Victory, And Russell Westbrook Doesn't Seem Too Happy About It

Next Saturday, the Oklahoma City Thunder will play the Golden State Warriors for the first time this season. You may think this game is just a blip on the sports calendar, a solid NBA matchup meant to offer some small amusement to those of us looking for ways to pass the time until the Super Bowl. T...

Russell Wilson Googled "How To Describe A Beautiful Woman" To Find Something Nice To Say About Ciara

Yesterday was Woman Crush Wednesday on Twitter, so Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson decided to offer an encomium to the light and love of his life, Ciara:...

Kevin Durant And Russell Westbrook Make It All So Simple

On Monday, a day after a disappointing loss to the Brooklyn Nets, Thunder forward Kevin Durant had something to say about his team’s offensive philosophy, which is routinely critiqued for being too stagnant and isolation-heavy....

Seahawks Fans Are Fighting A Petition War

Fans of the Seattle Seahawks have gained a reputation as not dealing well with losing, which is weird, because they had all of recorded human history up until about 2003 to get good at it. They’ve also gained a reputation as the NFL fanbase most likely to start a pointless petition when things don’t...

Adrian Wojnarowski's The Vertical To Launch Friday, Will Feature Weekly JJ Redick Podcast

Yahoo writer Adrian Wojnarowski went on Katie Nolan’s Garbage Time podcast today and gave the fullest details yet about his new website, which is set to be launched Friday. The most interesting tidbit is probably that current Clippers guard JJ Redick will host his own weekly podcast on the site....

Ducks' Shawn Horcoff Suspended 20 Games For Using PEDs [Update]

The NHL announced today that Anaheim Ducks center Shawn Horcoff will be suspended for 20 games without pay for violating the league’s performance enhancing substances policy....

Niagara Falls Residents Terrorized By University Of Iowa Fight Song 

The University of Iowa fight song has some rousing horns, gets the alumni on their feet and chanting, and is a perfectly acceptable—even good—fight song. But how much would you like it if you were forced to listen to it 500 times in a row, every single night, for the past six months?...

Cops: Seahawks FB Derrick Coleman Said He Smoked Spice Before Crash 

On Oct. 14, Seattle Seahawks fullback Derrick Coleman smoked spice, but about an hour later “thought he was fine to drive,” according to Bellevue, Wash., police. That’s when Coleman was going 60 miles per hour in a 35 zone before crashing his truck into another vehicle right in front of him, then ke...

Stoke Defender Might Want To Retire After What Riyad Mahrez Did To Him

Like, Philipp Wollscheid at least should probably change his name after this. The elastico itself was disgusting, but that Riyad Mahrez flicked it through the poor defender’s legs, and that Wollscheid just stood their frozen, eyes cast downward looking like a child inspecting the damage after he’d j...

Suns, Hawks Combine For Some "Interesting" "Basketball"

The Suns beat the Hawks yesterday, but only after the two teams decided to take a break from basketball to just kind of run around like a bunch of puppies in the snow....

Oklahoma Is On Fire

Here’s the kind of team Oklahoma is: This afternoon, their leader Buddy Hield was struggling with foul trouble and putting forth an uncharacteristically loose performance against Baylor. The Bears were beginning to turn the corner on the Sooners, and had just tied it up at 41 with 17 minutes left. R...

Three NHL Games, Two NBA Games Postponed By East Coast Blizzard

How are you planning on spending this snowbound evening? Hopefully you weren’t planning on watching the Wizards, Sixers (you definitely weren’t), or the Islanders play tonight. The NHL has postponed today’s Islanders—Flyers game as well as tomorrow’s Capitals—Penguins game. The Capitals game yesterd...

The Washington Capitals Shouldn't Play Tonight [Update]

The snow in Washington D.C. is expected to start falling around noon. A blizzard warning formally goes into effect at 3 p.m. The region could get two feet or more. The storm “has life and death implications,” Mayor Muriel Bowser said. “People should hunker down, shelter in place and stay off the roa...

The Seahawks Warned The Cardinals About Carolina's Turf

The Seahawks could not have possibly had a worse start to their divisional-round loss to the Panthers last week, throwing two picks and allowing two defensive touchdowns and falling behind 21-0 in the first 15 minutes. And, at least to some extent, Pete Carroll blamed the grass....