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Kendrick Perkins And Kevin Durant Have A Friendly, Obscene Moment Together

Kendrick Perkins, nominally on the Cavs roster, is just there to wear a suit and start shit. He’s a large, rude chaperone who escorts the team from Cleveland to the Bay and back, occasionally stepping up to yell at or near Drake or knock knees with Steph Curry. Last night he fully embraced his role ...

Officials Ruin Steeplechase Competition By Setting A Barrier Six Inches Too High

Wild shit happens in the steeplechase. Emma Coburn won last year’s world championship in part because one of the favorites ran around the first water jump instead of over it; a runner at the 2009 U.S. women’s championship broke her foot after one barrier was accidentally set at the men’s height; in ...

Hue Jackson Tries To Motivate Browns By Inadvertently Making Their Helmets Look Cooler

Anyone paying attention to Browns training camp—so, nobody beyond a group of irascible, underpaid beat writers—may have noticed that the players’ equipment looks a little different. The brown and white stripes that go across the middle of the helmet are missing. In a surprising deviation from everyt...

Andrew Heaney Got Doused In A Glorious Ice Bucket Dump

There are few better birthday gifts a starting pitcher could ask for than the 23rd-in-OPS Kansas City Royals lineup, which is exactly what the Angels’ Andrew Heaney got for his 27th birthday last night. He threw the first shutout of his career, a one-hit gem in a 1-0 win, and was then treated to one...

LeBron James Has Always Had To Carry Useless Weaklings

As we wait out the formality that these lopsided, nightmarish NBA Finals have become, it’s still worth acknowledging just how impressive it is that LeBron James has carried such a messed up, broken Cavs team through the Eastern Conference. With a supporting cast of old three-point specialists, activ...

The Athletes Hit A Slump This Week On <i>The Bachelorette</i>, But Lil Jon Showed Up

Okay, team. This week was a rambunctious one, full of so many twists and turns that none of us could really follow the playbook. As the season goes on, the chaff will be cut and the roster will really start to gel. But in the meantime, as your stern but loving coach, I’m here to make clear what real...

Dual-Sport Athlete Kyler Murray Wants To Gamble On One More Year Of College Football<em></em>

Oklahoma QB Kyler Murray was considered a fringe first-round baseball prospect a month ago, but few people would have guessed that he’d go to the Oakland A’s in the top 10 of Monday’s draft, since Murray is planning to play football for the Sooners in the fall. The Athletics clearly decided that th...

A Double Amputee Coming Off A Cocaine Suspension Is Suddenly One Of The Best Sprinters In America

Blake Leeper is a double amputee, self-described alcoholic, and coming off a two-year suspension for testing positive for cocaine that ended last year. He also may be one of the best 400-meter runners in the United States—and by extension, the world—after dominating the field with a PR of 44.42 seco...

The Golden Knights Have Lost Their Mojo

There is no secret to what is happening to the Golden Knights, now down 3-1 in the Stanley Cup final after playing nigh-unbeatable throughout the playoffs. The zamboni has transformed back into a pumpkin, and not just a regular pumpkin, but a gross smelly rotted one. ...

Kendrick Perkins Somehow Becomes The Central Part Of An NBA Finals Controversy

At the end of the third quarter of Game 2, Steph Curry missed a three and sauntered back towards his bench in front of the Cavaliers. Most of the Cavs let him walk freely, but not Kendrick Perkins, who refused to close his widespread legs and knocked knees with Curry....

UFC Fighter Andrea Lee's Coach And Husband Apologizes For Nazi Tattoos

On Friday afternoon, UFC flyweight Andrea Lee posted a lakeside photograph of herself and her husband Donny Aaron. MMA fans quickly noticed something unexpected in the picture: a swastika tattoo on Aaron’s left forearm....

Sydney Leroux Dwyer Delivers A Loving Slide Tackle To Her Own Son<em></em>

Cassius Dwyer, son of USWNT and Orlando Pride soccer player Sydney Leroux Dwyer, learned a valuable lesson from his mom at Sunday’s match: Okay, the lesson is unclear, but maybe it was the experience of getting tackled that was beneficial. This top-tier sports baby was delicately but absolutely wrec...

Peter Crouch Is Available For International Duty 

The Serena Williams/Maria Sharapova Beef Will Have More Time To Marinate 

Serena Williams withdrew from her fourth-round French Open match today against Maria Sharapova with a right pectoral injury that she said prevents her from serving. The decision was announced just before the match between the two rivals was slated to begin. ...

Here's Four Minutes Of Footage From Game 1 Of LeBron James Not Murdering J.R. Smith

Yes, Game 2 already happened, and it went just about as everyone expected after the Cavaliers blew their chance last week. It’s still worth going back to look to Game 1 and the exact moment this Finals series ended....

What Are You Supposed To Do About Steph Curry?

Steph Curry makes you want to ragequit. Throw up your hands; throw the controller across the room; swear, loudly, to an empty apartment. It’s a videogame term, but he’s a videogame talent: hitting low-percentage (for anyone else) shots at a rate that should be beyond human capabilities, and when the...

Mychal Kendricks, On Potentially Joining The Browns: [String Of Expletives]

This is probably just what happens when it is suggested publicly that a self-respecting football player would play for the Cleveland Browns if he had any other choice:...

Action Hero Bradley Zimmer Lays Out For Tremendous Diving Grab

Ryan LaMarre of the Twins smashed a ball deep to left center in the second inning of today’s Indians-Twins game, where it very much had the look of a standup RBI double. That was before Indians centerfielder Bradley Zimmer came soaring in for the acrobatic highlight grab:...

Gnarly Rougned Odor Takeout Slide Sparks Benches-Clearing Hullabaloo

Benches cleared for a bustling group therapy session after Rougned Odor tried and failed to break up a game-ending double play Friday night by sliding in wide and with his spikes up on the relay from Andrelton Simmons:...

NBA L2M Report: The Refs Made A Big Dumb Mess Of The End Of Game 1

It would be hard to overstate just how badly the Cavs were screwed by the universe at the end of Game 1 Thursday night. A rare reversed judgment call, an unexpected missed free throw, an uncalled lane violation, an apparent uncalled loose-ball foul, and an all-time blunder by one of their own, all i...