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The Baby Knicks Are Showing Signs Of Becoming A Functional Basketball Team

The New York Knicks toppled the San Antonio Spurs 130-118 on Sunday night to snap an 18-game home losing streak. In and of itself, that’s a pretty shocking development, but even more so when you consider that the Knicks are in full-on tank mode in the race for the thankfully-not-too-injured Zion Wil...

Atlanta Braves, Who Are Supposedly Trying To Cut Back On Tomahawk Chop Chants, Opt To Create Instructional Shirt Instead

Here is an ugly shirt from the official team store of the Atlanta Braves, a team that’s been trying to stop fans from doing the racist “tomahawk chop” chant at games....

Ole Miss Players Kneel During National Anthem In Protest Of Pro-Confederate Rallies Happening Near Campus

Ole Miss players K.J. Buffen, Terence Davis, Luis Rodriguez, Bruce Stevens, Devontae Shuler and Breein Tyree knelt during the playing of the national anthem before their team’s game against Georgia on Saturday. The reason that these athletes—who hadn’t done an on-court anthem demonstration before—ch...

The Cowardly Pelicans Use "Rest" To Yank Anthony Davis Out Of The Lakers Matchup

The Pelicans, the mostly abandoned side project of the New Orleans Saints organization, host the Los Angeles Lakers Saturday evening. Under normal circumstances this would make for a promising matchup—LeBron James versus Anthony Davis! Superstars collide! Under another set of perfectly reasonable ci...

Grant Williams Missed A Game-Tying Shot Because He Used His Right Hand At The Wrong Time

Tennessee forward Grant Williams is an incredible talent whose size and skill allow him to play games with real-life consequences like he’s on rookie mode in 2k. There’s no better example of this than his ability to utilize a spin-move in the post to get a shot past almost any defender. He demonstra...

DeMar DeRozan Was Cruelly Reminded That The Raptors Are Better Off Without Him

It’s not often that such an on-the-nose metaphor for an event that happened outside of a basketball court takes place in such a venue, but that’s exactly what happened in the dying embers of Toronto’s game against San Antonio on Friday night. ...

Don't Throw Away A Friendship With A Billionaire For A Scrub With 2.4 Win Shares 

Khloe Kardashian’s boyfriend, Cleveland Cavaliers center Tristan Thompson, who reportedly cheated on Khloe while she was pregnant with their daughter True, reportedly cheated on her again. This time, it was with a lady named Jordyn Woods, who is the best friend of—and has a makeup line with—Khloe’s ...

Justin Williams Sacrificed His Face To Score The Hurricanes' Opening Goal Against The Panthers

The question of whether an intact face is more valuable to a hockey player than a goal in the regular season has plagued sports philosophers for generations, and now it’ll be a question that Hurricanes elder Justin Williams will be asking himself often, at least in the near future....

Kyrie Irving Can't Possibly Be That Naive About How This Works

The latest in NBA Zapruder analysis is this seemingly benign clip of Kyrie Irving and Kevin Durant talking in a hallway during All-Star Weekend. Knicks fans, the most deluded NBA enthusiasts (insofar as this is a different group of people), and armchair lip readers all claim to see Irving telling hi...

The Steelers Are Happy To Let Ben Roethlisberger Feel As Important As He Thinks He Is

The Steelers gleaned no lessons from the Le’Veon Bell fiasco, huh? Not only are they happy to let their relationship with receiver Antonio Brown wither away, but the front office has made sure to emphasize that quarterback Ben Roethlisberger is the only player above reproach. Take note, upcoming fre...

There's Only One <i>Game Of Thrones</i> Fan Theory That Matters Anymore

The time has come once again for Game of Thrones—the hit HBO show about hiking with your pals and smooching your relatives—to return to TV after a lengthy absence. The forthcoming eighth season will be the show’s last, and though it features only six episodes, it’s already been confirmed that they w...

Bruce Bochy Knew When To Get Out Of The Way<em></em>

Two things that bind together the usually contentious Bay Area sporting landscape occurred Monday while the rest of the nation was on holiday drinkdown, and neither of them had anything to do with the Golden State Warriors. Joe Thornton nearly broke the internet, and Bruce Bochy announced his retire...

Antonio Brown Lists His Demands While Sweating Profusely On An Elliptical 

Antonio Brown continued his public campaign to get himself out of Pittsburgh by posting a lengthy video on his Instagram account yesterday. The video features a sweaty Brown jogging on an elliptical, shouting motivational phrases at himself, having a FaceTime call with a pal, and revealing what he’...

Bill Simmons Is Getting Wild Out Here

If you’ve engaged at all with Bill Simmons’s podcast or Twitter account over the last few weeks, you’ve been made well aware of the fact that he is fed up with all these dang NBA players doing things he doesn’t like. Fresh off his Feb. 13 podcast in which he proclaimed that Kyrie Irving needs to “sh...

Here Is A Necessary NBA All-Star Game Highlight

If you didn’t watch the NBA all-star game, I don’t think you missed much (I can’t say for sure if you missed anything good, because I also did not watch the game. The internet at my apartment has been broken for two weeks!), but there is one cool play from the game that you should see....

Antonio Brown Criticizes Ben Roethlisberger For Having An "Owner Mentality"

Antonio Brown believed, for some reason, that it would be a good idea to hold an open forum on Twitter and said that he’d answer 10 questions under the tag #AskAB. Mine was unfortunately not selected, and while that bums me out, it’s probably because it didn’t have anything to do with his ongoing tr...

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Report: Steelers Owner Art Rooney II Wants To Meet With Antonio Brown In Florida [Update]

Antonio Brown’s antagonistic relationship with the Steelers has continued to sour this offseason. On Tuesday, Brown all but made a public trade demand when he posted a goodbye message to Steelers fans on his Twitter account. But according to NFL.com’s Ian Rapoport, Steelers owner Art Rooney II still...

Report: Embarrassing NBA Franchise Fires Embarrassing GM In Embarrassing Fashion<em></em>

The New Orleans Pelicans have fired general manager Dell Demps, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowki. This is richly hilarious....

Alvin Gentry Turns Frosty As Hell When Asked About Anthony Davis Leaving Arena Mid-Game

The depressing Anthony Davis situation in New Orleans brushed right up against disaster Thursday night, when Davis sustained a shoulder injury at the very end of the first half of an eventual Pelicans win over the Oklahoma City Thunder. A significant Davis injury, sustained while playing meaningless...