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Grant Hill Watching His Life Flash Before His Eyes, In Extreme Slow Motion
Grant Hill learned today he’d be the newest member of the Basketball Hall of Fame. But whatever pride he might have felt at that honor dissipated, for a moment, as he saw Michigan’s Moe Wagner hurtling through the air toward him....

John Sterling Is Very Happy That His Goofy Call Blighted Giancarlo Stanton's Dinger
John Sterling’s call for Giancarlo Stanton’s first dinger as a Yankee was goofy and dumb. The call—Giancarlo, non si può stoparlo—was in Italian, which is random as hell, considering that Stanton is not Italian, and neither is Sterling, and we do not live in Italy, and Sterling was not broadcasting ...

Russell Westbrook Wants You To Answer For His Three-Point Crimes<em></em>
Russell Westbrook’s remarkable final shot in the Thunder’s 103-99 loss to the Spurs last night was a doozy. His four three-point attempts from that game are best appreciated in sequence. Together they chart a descent into Westbrook’s wonderful, dark heart....

Kevin Durant To Referee: "Call The Fucking Foul You Bitch-Ass Motherfucker"
Kevin Durant was ejected just before halftime during last night’s game against the Bucks. It was his fifth ejection of the season, and based on audio captured by the TNT broadcast, he prooooobably deserved it....

What The Hell Is John Sterling's Home Run Call For Giancarlo Stanton?
A few days ago, the New York Times talked to Yankees broadcaster John Sterling about the home run call that he’d decided to use for Giancarlo Stanton this season: ...

From The Grave, Dead Fabulist Pat Conroy Gives New Life To Whopper About Getting His Ass Kicked By His Dad<em></em>
Pat Conroy was full of shit....

The Guy Who Made That Hideous Ronaldo Bust Made A Better One
Emanuel Santos, the sculptor of the creepy Cristiano Ronaldo bust that blessed the airport in Madeira, Portugal, has tried again. In a documentary directed by Kelly Naqui and published by Bleacher Report, Santos describes what it was like to be mocked by the entire world (he said it was hard, both h...

Ben Simmons Used An Air-Tight Argument To Try And Get Karl-Anthony Towns To Stay Up And Play Video Games With Him<em></em>
During a PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds streaming session last night, Sixers rookie Ben Simmons tried to convince Karl-Anthony Towns, who was logging off, to play a round with him. ...

Madison Bumgarner's Pitching Hand Is Broken After Getting Smacked With A Line Drive
In a spring training game this afternoon, Royals second baseman Whit Merrifield smacked a line drive right back at Giants ace Madison Bumgarner and nailed him in his left palm. Bumgarner left the game immediately....

It Only Takes One Person To Raise The Volume In A Restaurant
Don’t let it be you....

Dipshit Florida Legislators’ Plan To Move To Atlantic Standard Time Will Wreak Havoc On Sports In The Sunshine State<em></em>
Florida’s heavily GOP legislature last month pushed through a bill that would move most of the state out of a daylight saving time-observing Eastern time zone and into year-round Atlantic Standard Time; Sen. Marco Rubio last week announced the plans to confirm the change in an act of Congress. This ...

Eric Reid Relents, Says He'll No Longer Protest During The Anthem If An NFL Team Signs Him
Former 49er Eric Reid, a five-year NFL vet who has yet to be signed this offseason despite ranking as one of the top available safeties, told reporters during his brother’s pro day workout at Stanford today that he’ll stop protesting during the national anthem if he’s signed by an NFL team. Via NBC ...

Why The Giants Traded JPP
Twelve months after signing him to a contract with a max length of four years and a max value of $62 million, the Giants are shipping defensive end Jason Pierre-Paul to the Buccaneers. The Schefter Machine has the terms:...

Pretty Much All The Good NBA Players Are Hurt
Giannis Antetokounmpo limped out of Wednesday’s Bucks-Clippers game in the second quarter with a sprained ankle, and did not return. By my count, this brings the number of important NBA players presently either out with injuries or hobbling through them to 9,731,006....

Report: Kawhi Leonard's Teammates Are Fed Up With Him, But He Still Doesn't Want To Come Back
Kawhi Leonard’s mysterious quad injury has kept him out of all but nine games this year. Spurs doctors cleared him to come back over a month ago, and the fact that he’s only sort of part of the team right now as they’re in the thick of a nasty playoff race is creating some legitimate friction within...

Nobody Knows If Kawhi Leonard Will Play This Season, But Manu Ginobili Isn't Optimistic
After a real rough stretch, the San Antonio Spurs have stabilized and look to be safely headed towards the playoffs after four straight wins, three of which came against fellow Western Conference contenders. That’s reassuring, although the team as presently constituted doesn’t seem like much of a th...

Sean Miller Says He's Not Yet Desperate Enough To Go To Pitt
March has not been kind to Sean Miller. The Arizona men’s college basketball coach—who may or may not have been caught on an FBI wiretap arranging to pay DeAndre Ayton $100K—has no recruits coming to Tucson next year, and his squad vacated their bowels against 13-seed Buffalo in the first round of t...

Ronald Acuña's Stupid Demotion And The Things We Don't Even Notice Anymore
Let’s do the first things first: barring catastrophic injury or equally catastrophic organizational cynicism, Ronald Acuña will be playing left field for the Atlanta Braves sometime fairly soon. This is because Ronald Acuña, who is the consensus top positional prospect in the minors, looks for all t...

Former Hawks Employee Sues Team For Discriminating Against White People
Margo Kline, formerly a community development coordinator for the Atlanta Hawks, has filed a lawsuit against the team in which she claims she was discriminated against because of her race and gender....