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Anthony Barr Just Couldn't Bring Himself To Join The Jets
That free-agent deal that Vikings linebacker Anthony Barr reportedly agreed to last night with the Jets? On second thought ......

Football Genius Charley Casserly: The Cowboys Threw It To Dez Bryant Too Much Last Season
Here we have our favorite NFL Network goober Charley Casserly opining that Cowboys receiver Cole Beasley didn’t see enough of the ball last year because the team relied on fellow WR Dez Bryant too much. Dez Bryant did not play for the Cowboys last year....

Zinedine Zidane's Return To Real Madrid Will Be Much Harder This Time
Just days after Real Madrid won their third straight Champions League title last May, Zinedine Zidane, the architect of each of those triumphs, shocked the world by resigning from the manager position. The former Juventus and Real Madrid legend had been installed as the head coach in 2016, after inf...

<i>The Atlantic</i>: Let's Get Fascist So We Don't Have To Elect Fascists<em></em>
We must repel the barbarian horde, according to The Atlantic. ...

Ja Morant And Murray State Are Headed To The NCAA Tournament
The Murray State Racers became the first team to punch their ticket to the national tournament on Saturday thanks to the do-it-all efforts of Ja Morant—a player who, unlike in January, you might have heard of by now. The eighth-leading scorer in the nation dropped 36 points, grabbed seven boards and...

Antonio Brown On The Raiders Is Going To Be Fun
And so our long Antonio Brown nightmare is over and, because this is Antonio Brown we are speaking of, potentially just rebooting in a new place....

Postgame Dispute Results In One Golfer Headbutting Another Golfer Into A Window
Anyone who plays a sport at any level usually has the fire of a competitive spirit constantly burning inside of them. Sometimes it can be used as motivation to propel you to victory, other times it can manifest itself into a type of anger that causes you to headbutt another person through a window. ...

Adrian Dantley Returned To The Site Of A Legendary Prep Hoops Debacle, This Time As A Kids' Rec League Ref
Adrian Dantley just refereed my son Eddie’s rec league game. An NBA all-timer and maybe the best little big man in the history of the game, working a weeknight seventh-grade playoff at D.C.’s Jelleff Recreation Center....

Antonio Brown Is Still A Steeler Because He Didn't Want To Be A Bill
If you’re just waking up: Antonio Brown is not a member of the Buffalo Bills. Wild, I know....

VAR Is Making A Mess Of The Champions League
However we got here, we’re certainly here now. When the Champions League announced that it would introduce VAR—Video Assistant Referee, essentially soccer’s answer to the instant replay challenge—midway through this current campaign, the system brought years of baggage with it. Its deployment at las...

Report: The Lakers May Have Leaked The Trade Offer Details That Nuked Their Own Team Chemistry
The whole Anthony Davis trade deadline saga was twisted up and poisoned by posturing and strategic leaking and all the passive-aggressive indirect communication that could be crammed into a day, each day, for a solid two weeks. But Brian Windhorst’s delicious scoop—that the Pelicans conducted trade ...

Turns Out Karl-Anthony Towns Is Still Pretty Good
It’s wild to remember that this time last season the Timberwolves were cruising to 47 wins in a deeper Western Conference, headed for their first playoff appearance in 14 years. With Jimmy Butler reunited with head coach Tom Thibodeau, and Karl-Anthony Towns ascending, and Andrew Wiggins uhh making ...

LeBron's A PR Guy Now
If The Oprah Winfrey Show was television’s premier destination for celebrities, often in the aftermath of something qualifying as a public relations scandal, seeking to buff their public images by applying (while pretending to strip off) a few new layers of polish in collaboration with the willing ...

LeBron's A PR Guy Now
If The Oprah Winfrey Show was television’s premier destination for celebrities, often in the aftermath of something qualifying as a public relations scandal, seeking to buff their public images by applying (while pretending to strip off) a few new layers of polish in collaboration with the willing ...

Dwyane Wade Sought Out A Rookie Who Idolized Him Growing Up To Swap Jerseys
The Dwyane Wade retirement tour has turned the end of every Miami Heat game this season into a guessing game of sorts: who will the outgoing No. 3 give his jersey to in the post-game? Sure, some are obvious: Of course he was going to trade with LeBron James in their last meeting back in December, or...

Six Questions And Five-ish Answers On Larry Baer And The Giants
The San Francisco Giants put forth a statement Monday morning which declared that the team’s CEO, Larry Baer, is voluntarily taking “personal time away” from his job CEO-ing the baseball team as a result of being caught on video pulling his wife Pam off a chair in a public venue over a dispute over ...

The Lakers Are So Toxic Right Now That Carmelo Anthony Would Rather Stay Home
In January, after the Rockets finally accepted that they couldn’t get any money for Carmelo Anthony at the consignment store and just left him on the curb instead, it seemed likely that he’d head to Los Angeles to link up with his chum LeBron James. The Lakers looked on track for the playoffs, and t...

The Lakers Are So Toxic Right Now That Carmelo Anthony Would Rather Stay Home
In January, after the Rockets finally accepted that they couldn’t get any money for Carmelo Anthony at the consignment store and just left him on the curb instead, it seemed likely that he’d head to Los Angeles to link up with his chum LeBron James. The Lakers looked on track for the playoffs, and t...

Trae Young Ejected For The Crime Of Staring At Kris Dunn's Back For Too Long
Less than 48 hours removed from a game that lasted through four periods of overtime, the Atlanta Hawks are playing the Chicago Bulls again, this time in the Windy City. Just as he did on Friday, Trae Young was still putting up points with ease on the Bulls—though admittedly not quite at the same rat...

Trae Young Ejected For The Crime Of Staring At Kris Dunn's Back For Too Long
Less than 48 hours removed from a game that lasted through four periods of overtime, the Atlanta Hawks are playing the Chicago Bulls again, this time in the Windy City. Just as he did on Friday, Trae Young was still putting up points with ease on the Bulls—though admittedly not quite at the same rat...