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Check Out Some Candid 2010 Pre-Draft Assessments By Oakland Raiders Scouts

Solid evidence has surfaced online that the Oakland Raiders have staffers who evaluate talent, and moreover, that they sometimes know what they’re talking about. A post up on Imgur this weekend purports (credibly, it seems) to have the Raiders’ pre-draft evaluations from 2010. It’s not a huge galler...

UAB Running Back Greg Bryant, Shot On A Florida Interstate, Is In Critical Condition [UPDATE]

Greg Bryant, a 21-year-old running back at UAB, remains in critical condition after someone shot him early this morning in Palm Beach County, Florida. The graduate of American Heritage High School in nearby Delray Beach and a passenger, Maurice Grover, were found at 4:45 a.m. Saturday in the southbo...

Giancarlo Stanton Murdered A Baseball

The only thing more shocking than how far Giancarlo Stanton hit this baseball is that it somehow didn’t explode immediately upon contact with the bat. The MLB Statcast-measured numbers: 475 feet, 112.8 mph exit velocity, and 5.5 seconds of hangtime:...

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Taxpayers Cover $34 Million Arena Renovation, Hockey Team Leaves Two Years Later

What is the absolute worst, most jarring way to learn your team is leaving town? Nope, not that. Nope, that’s pretty bad, but this is worse:...

The Atlanta Hawks Are Being Whiny Babies

One of the best things about basketball is that it is not baseball. I enjoy both sports equally, but basketball has always had an edge in the not-employing-humorless-dickwads department, which means you rarely ever see NBA players or coaches talking about “class” or “playing the right way.” The Atla...

Hating-Ass West Ham Owner Thinks Leicester's Title Was All Luck

If this were any other year, West Ham would be one of the biggest stories in the Premier League. Here’s a club playing some of the prettiest soccer in the league, paced by hidden diamond Dimitri Payet, and has performed so well so consistently that they are still pressing for a Champions League spot...

Column Calls For Return Of Racist Braves Mascot, Is Promptly Deleted

Bill Shanks’ column in the Macon Telegraph on why the Atlanta Braves should bring back their old mascot Chief Noc-A-Homa—a caricature of an Native American chief with a name that appears to be a baseball pun mashed together with what someone thought sounded like an “Indian name”—begins thusly:...

NBA Says Refs Missed Five Calls On Final Thunder-Spurs Possession

You already knew that the final play of last night’s Spurs-Thunder playoff game was insane, and the refs already admitted they missed calling a foul when Dion Waiters pushed Manu Ginobili with the ball. But the NBA has finally weighed in, and determined that the referees missed five separate calls o...

Refs Admit Missed Foul In Thunder-Spurs (But What About The Other Six?)

If you haven’t yet watched the final play of last night’s 98-97 Thunder win, watch it and then collect the scattered pieces of your brainpan and then come back here to see the officials admit they might have missed a call somewhere in there....

I Want To Marry This Tony Parker Pass

Before the final sequence of last night’s game between the Thunder and Spurs had everyone staring at their television and muttering, “What the hell just happened?” Spurs point guard Tony Parker made a play that turned me into a gross cartoon wolf....

All Hell Broke Loose On That Final Play Of Thunder-Spurs

I’m just gonna cut straight to the chase: The Oklahoma City Thunder escaped San Antonio with a 98-97 win tonight to even the series up at 1-1, thanks to, uh, whatever the hell it was that happened on this final sequence....

The San Francisco Chronicle has an entertaining little story, wherein a bunch of old Warriors players recall the days when the team was a disaster. Good anecdote about a player getting clowned by his family for playing for them. [Chronicle]...

Former Olympic Wrestling Champion Vyacheslav Oliynyk Fights A Bunch Of Cops

Ukranian wrestler Vyacheslav Oliynyk won a gold medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Last Wednesday, he celebrated his 50th birthday by fighting cops in Kiev. ...

Bundesliga Broadcast Features Someone Bellowing Lionel Richie Song Off-Camera

Today’s Bayern Munich-Borussia Mönchengladbach broadcast on FS2 had a bonus soundtrack: “HELLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!?”...

Weird Purple Guy Tries To Start Shit With Dwyane Wade; Heat Beat Hornets

So here’s this weirdo wearing purple and a tiny green backpack who somehow scored court-side seats for tonight’s Heat-Hornets Game 6. He tried riding Dwyane Wade hard in the final minutes, only to see the veteran Miami guard hit two marvelous clutch shots. That, somehow, didn’t shut Purple Guy up. T...

Ray Lewis's Son Arrested, Charged With Criminal Sexual Conduct [Updated]

Ray Lewis III, the son of former Baltimore Raven turned ESPN personality Ray Lewis, has been charged with third-degree criminal sexual conduct, according to Conway, S.C., police. A warrant for his arrest was obtained Monday, and Lewis turned himself in today. Jail records show that Lewis was booked ...

A.J. Pierzynski Did Everything Wrong On This Pitch

A.J. Pierzynski definitely moved his body in a way that was indicative of effort after Jhoulys Chacin’s pitch went by him. But none of it worked....

Some Questions We Have About "Clothing-Optional" Pop-Up Restaurants

The Bunyadi, a “clothing-optional” pop-up restaurant coming to London this June, is not just a titillating concept a la Sex And The City’s Club BED or S&M-themed bar....

High School Basketball Star Says He Didn't Know He Was 29 Years Old

Last week it was revealed that Jonathan Nicola, a 6-foot-9 junior tearing it up for Catholic Central High School in Windsor, Ontario, was not indeed a 17-year-old kid dunking on a bunch of fellow teens, but instead a 29-year-old man dunking on a bunch of unsuspecting teens. Nicola told authorities i...