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Ex-Panthers Employee Says Jerry Richardson Groped Her, Wrote Gross Notes About Wanting To Rub Her Feet

An anonymous former Panthers employee wrote a lengthy article for Sports Illustrated today, detailing how Panthers owner Jerry Richardson sexually harassed her and addressing his myriad defenders in the NFL world. Richardson will soon sell the team because of the NFL’s investigation into allegations...

Ronald Acuña, Who Should Have Been Here Weeks Ago, Flashed What He's Capable Of

On Wednesday night, baseball’s top positional prospect, Ronald Acuña Jr., finally made his long-awaited major league debut, after he’d struggled through weeks of service time with the Braves’ Triple-A affiliate. The sole, obvious purpose of this delay was so that the Braves could add an extra year o...

LaMarcus Aldridge Enjoys Playoffs' Shortest Press Conference

The Spurs were quietly bounced from the playoffs last night, thus ending a strange season that was marred by rare internal drama. LaMarcus Aldridge was San Antonio’s lone postseason bright spot, as he averaged 23.6 points, 9.2 rebounds, and 60 percent shooting from three for the series. In last nigh...

NFL Owners Sure Came Off Like Dumbasses When They Met With Players About Protests

On Monday, The New York Times teased us with a maddeningly coy report about Eagles owner Jeff Lurie calling Donald Trump’s presidency “disastrous” during last October’s players-owners meeting about national anthem protests. The Times, which acquired an audio recording of the three-hour meeting, has ...

Of Course Giancarlo Stanton Can Still Bash Gargantuan Dongs

Giancarlo Stanton’s had a rough go of it so far in the Bronx, recording a pair of platinum sombreros and striking out 32 times in 92 plate appearances, enough to turn Yankee Stadium into hostile territory. But during the fifth inning of the Yankees’ 14-1 victory over the Twins Monday, Stanton showe...

Giannis Antetokounmpo Baptized Al Horford And The Photos Were Beautiful<em></em>

Giannis Antetokounmpo laid waste to Al Horford with four minutes to go in Game 4 of Celtics-Bucks Sunday. It was devastating in real time, satisfying in slow-mo, and maybe at its most dramatic when slowed to a halt, thanks to Getty Images photographer Jonathan Daniel....

Giannis Antetokounmpo Can Hit A Game-Winner, Can't Get A Damn Table At Milwaukee Restaurant [Update]

Bucks star and smoothie fiend Giannis Antetokounmpo had 27 points, including the game-winning bucket with five seconds left, in Sunday’s Game 4 104-102 home victory over the Celtics. And yet, this guy can’t find a table in the city he plays for....

Giants' Brandon Belt Works Historic 21-Pitch Plate Appearance, To No Avail

Brandon Belt of the Giants worked an insane 13-minute, 21-pitch plate appearance in the top of the first inning today, against Angels starter Jaime Barria. This strikes me as almost a troll move! Barria faced six batters in the inning, gave up three singles, and loaded the bases—he threw 28 pitches ...

Hoo Boy, Bucks-Celtics Is A Blast

Man, this Bucks-Celtics series is a hell of a lot of fun. Game 1 was a bonkers overtime affair that featured an insane glut of ballsy shot-making in the final minute of regulation. Games 2 and 3 were mostly wipeouts, but Sunday’s Game 4 had another incredible fourth quarter that came right down to t...

Derek Jeter Lashes Out At Questions About Marlins' Tanking; Declares Bryant Gumbel "Mentally Weak"<em></em><em></em>

Here is a section of a transcript of an interview Derek Jeter did with Bryant Gumbel, set to air on HBO Real Sports on Tuesday, courtesy of the Miami Herald....

John Sterling Is Still Wooing His Italian Girlfriend With Giancarlo Stanton Home Run Calls

Giancarlo Stanton socked himself a dinger last night, in the third inning of an 8-5 Yankees loss to the visiting Blue Jays. You want to see the dinger, don’t you. Fine. Here’s the dinger:...

The Pelicans Are Finally Doing It Alvin Gentry's Way

The New Orleans Pelicans have a chance to sweep the Portland Trail Blazers out of the playoffs when the teams meet Saturday evening. It’s fair to say not many saw this coming, although the result will uphold at least one generally held maxim—that the team with the best player on it has the inside tr...

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Soccer Player Tries To Beat His Manager's Ass For Subbing Him Out Of Game

We’ve all seen players stomp off the pitch in barely suppressed anger after their manager has subbed them out of a game. A far less common sight is a player communicating his post-subbing displeasure by walking off the pitch and straight over to the coach and attempting to kick his ass:...

<i>White Men Can't Jump</i> Is A Lot Of Fun Masking What Appears To Be A Pretty Debilitating Gambling Addiction

If there’s a moral to be gleaned from White Men Can’t Jump, it’s that that if someone carrying many hundreds of dollars in cash—without a wallet in sight—challenges you to an expensive bet, it’s probably because they know something you don’t. I realize people relied on paper money more back in the ’...

Gregg Popovich Won't Coach Spurs In Game 3 Following Death Of His Wife

The San Antonio Spurs have announced that head coach Gregg Popovich will not be with the team for tonight’s playoff game against the Warriors. Last night, the team announced that Popovich’s wife, Erin, had died at the age of 67 after battling an illness....

The Wizards Of Aughts: The Post-Millennium Washington Wizards And The Bloggers Who Immortalized Them

The late-model Washington Wizards are broadly competent, secretly mediocre, spotty, and more boring than they are not. They could be nutshelled as an equal and opposite reaction to their counterparts of a decade ago. Those Wiz teams, which weren’t better but sure were stranger, boasted a bigger coll...

The Time Has Come For Carmelo Anthony To Hit Some Damn Shots

For all the handwringing over Russell Westbrook’s stat-chasing and shot selection, and over Paul George’s occasional listlessness, an even bigger problem has spent the season lurking in Oklahoma City. A Melo problem....

Erin Popovich, Wife Of Gregg Popovich, Dies

Erin Popovich, wife of San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich, died today at the age of 67 after battling an illness:...