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Enes Kanter On Turkey Seeking Four-Year Prison Sentence For Him: "That's It?"
The Turkish government is seeking a four-year prison sentence for New York Knicks center Enes Kanter for insulting president Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Twitter last year, according to an ESPN report on information from a state-run news agency in Turkey....
Rescuers Save Driver After Truck Crashes Into Evan Turner's Swimming Pool<em></em>
The driver of a semi truck carrying a dumpster filled with dirt had to be taken to an Oregon hospital with “serious” but non-life threatening injuries after he crashed into the swimming pool of Portland Trail Blazers guard Evan Turner this morning. A team of at least eight rescuers worked to save th...
Rays Trade Away Face Of The Franchise For Bad Reasons
Various baseball insiders are reporting that the stove is hot this morning. Rays third baseman Evan Longoria has been shipped to the Giants in exchange for Denard Span and some other stuff:...
Up 31 Points, Lane Kiffin Went For Two To Spite Akron Athletics Official
The storied history of the Boca Raton Bowl had never seen a blowout like this. It wasn’t quite the 1902 Rose Bowl, but it was a romp: Florida Atlantic beat Akron, 50-3 in the fourth edition of the Boca Bowl....
Bert Emanuel, Who Started All The Trouble, Can Fix The NFL's Catch Rule
Nearly 18 years after Bert Emanuel’s name became synonymous with the NFL’s inability to define what constitutes a catch, the NFL still can’t define what constitutes a catch....
Swole Tim Lincecum Might Be Eyeing A Comeback
Multiple Cy Young winner Tim Lincecum, who seemingly dropped off the face of the Earth since he last pitched in 2016, has reappeared on baseball fans’ radar looking far beefier than he ever did on a pitcher’s mound. Adam Ottavino of the Colorado Rockies posted a picture on Instagram of what TMZ is c...
Could Santa Claus Defeat Godzilla?<em></em>
I got more Star Wars takes before we get into your letters. Don’t worry, I’m not gonna spoil anything, but I watched The Force Awakens a couple times after seeing the new movie and the difference in dialogue is night and day, man. Everyone in TFA had better lines than they do in The Last Jedi. Take ...
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Thomas Davis Suspended Two Games For Teeing Off At Davante Adams's Head [Update]
As Panthers linebacker Thomas Davis was blocking for Colin Jones following an interception during the team’s win over the Packers on Sunday, he leapt into Davante Adams’s helmet. Adams was defenseless and unsuspecting, and he sustained a concussion. Davis was penalized on the play, and today he was ...
Larry Nance Jr. Obliterates Kevin Durant With A Huge Dunk
Larry Nance Jr., you’re a hero for this one....
Atlanta Hawks Make Woman Puke
In an amazing bit of serendipity during tonight’s Heat-Hawks game, the camera caught a woman profusely puking behind the bench during a timeout late in the fourth quarter....
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Bucs LB Adarius Glanton Carted Off After Gross Leg Break [Graphic]
The Buccaneers have lost player after player to injuries tonight, and the unlucky victim of the worst-looking one was linebacker Adarius Glanton. While blitzing Matt Ryan, Glanton collided with Robert Ayers and appeared to break his left leg falling to the ground....
Report: Jerry Richardson Is No Longer Running The Panthers
Well, this is moving swiftly. The Panthers announced on Friday that they’d opened an investigation into what we’ve since learned are accusations of workplace sexual harassment and racial abuse by team owner Jerry Richardson, and by Sunday the team had announced that Richardson would sell his ownersh...
Clay Matthews Thought He Knew The Panthers' Next Play, But Cam Newton Showed Him
Clay Matthews was close, and Cam Newton even lauded the Packers linebacker’s consumption of tape. But Panthers running back Christian McCaffrey ran a slant instead of a wheel route and scored the team’s first touchdown of the day....
Jerry Jones Wishes There Were More People Like Jerry Richardson In The NFL
Cowboys owner Jerry Jones was asked to comment on the reports of sexual misconduct and racism that led to Panthers owner Jerry Richardson putting his team up for sale yesterday. Jones made it clear that the whole situation has made him very sad, not for the women that Richardson is said to have sexu...
Jerry Richardson Will Sell The Panthers
Just two days after the Panthers announced he was under investigation for workplace misconduct, and on the same day of a Sports Illustrated report that described a pattern of sexual harassment and casual racism, Panthers owner Jerry Richardson announced that he will look to sell his team this offsea...
Antonio Brown Helped Off The Field With Apparent Left Leg Injury [UPDATES]
Pittsburgh Steelers standout wide receiver Antonio Brown suffered a left leg injury during the first half of his team’s game against the Patriots. As Brown went to make a catch in the end zone, he got hit by two defenders and didn’t seem to land comfortably....
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Antoine Griezmann Goes Full Blackface For "80s Party" [Update]
Antoine Griezmann is one of the best soccer players in the world, starring for Atlético Madrid and consistently drawing interest from all the world’s juggernaut clubs. But wow, he really fucked up when deciding on a costume for an “80s party.”...
40-Year-Old Manu Ginobili Is Still Out Here Winning NBA Games
Ancient old man Manu Ginobili no longer has it in him to dominate long stretches of NBA basketball games. It turns out that’s fine—Ginobili is still a useful rotation player for the Spurs, even as a 40-year-old, even as his body looks less and less like that of an NBA player and more and more like s...
Report: Panthers Owner Jerry Richardson Both Sexually Harassed And Was Racist With Employees<em></em>
Sports Illustrated just dropped a lengthy report on the workplace conduct that has Panthers owner Jerry Richardson under investigation by the NFL. There’s a lot of shitty behavior detailed, and all of it is disgusting in ways both sexist and racist. SI says that at least four former Panthers employe...
Dodgers Shift Money Around To Set Up Massive Future Splurge
The hot stove may have taken a while to preheat, but it is now, um, cooking! New York Post baseball guy Joel Sherman is reporting that the Dodgers have acquired Matt Kemp from the Atlanta Braves, in exchange for Adrián González, Scott Kazmir, Brandon McCarthy, Charlie Culberson, and cash. ...