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MLB Wins Barry Bonds Collusion Case
In 2007, Barry Bonds earned $19.3 million, led the league with an OBP of .480, and hit, by his Olympian standards, a meager 28 home runs. The San Francisco Giants did not offer him a contract the next season, which was understandable given the amount of very public shit Bonds and the team has gone t...
A.J. Pierzynski Tried To Frame <i>Another</i> Pitch That Bounced
Braves catcher A.J. Pierzynski is getting good at this—though he hasn’t made it work quite yet. Keep at it!...
A Good Way To Troll Your Fantasy Opponents
Matthew Berry shares a delightful little piece of fantasy-league gamesmanship: a photoshopped fake ESPN.com/Rotowire update on Dez Bryant claiming the WR is out for the season with a torn ACL. (He’s not. Don’t panic.)...
Panthers Bro Wants Desperately Not To Be Left Hanging
“Bro? Bro... Bro! BRO!” ...
Madison Bumgarner Cannot Stop Hitting Home Runs
Last night Madison Bumgarner won his 15th game, good for a tie with Jake Arrieta atop the National League. Perhaps more impressively, he took Jeff Locke deep in the second inning. His two-run dinger made the difference in the Giants 6-4 win, and at 415 feet, was longer than debutante Marlon Byrd’s h...
Dez Bryant To Handwringing Columnist: "You Are A Sucky Writer"
David Moore of the Dallas Morning News played Preseason Concern-Trolling Mad Libs today, filling in enough blanks to wring out a take on Dez Bryant, who’s conveniently been involved in two training camp fights. According to Moore, this latest fight makes Bryant ... a problem? Who knows, because Moor...
It Should Be A Crime To Hold Your Fantasy Draft This Early
Kelvin Benjamin, the Panthers’ obscenely talented sophomore receiver (and quite possibly the Panthers’ only talented receiver), will miss the entire 2015 season with a torn ACL suffered in a freak, non-contact practice injury. This is bad for Carolina, and bad for Carolina’s fans, but who cares abou...
Dez Bryant Really Got The Worst Of That Training Camp Fight
At first glance, yesterday’s training camp fight between the Rams and Cowboys didn’t seem to result in any real damage. Look closer, though, and you’ll see poor Dez Bryant catching a cheap shot right to the face:...
Kelvin Benjamin Carted Off After Practice Injury
Panthers WR Kelvin Benjamin went down with what appeared to be a knee injury in practice today, and this is scary as hell for Carolina: the second-year receiver led the team in targets last year, and the Panthers are desperate to provide Cam Newton with options....
Woman-Beating UFC Fighter Brags About Harassing Woman At The Gym
UFC fighter Anthony “Rumble” Johnson has an extensive history of domestic violence. This pleading no contest to putting his girlfriend in a headlock and dragging her up the stairs in 2010, and the mother of two of his children getting a restraining order after claiming that he knocked out two of her...
Madison Bumgarner Is The Giants' Best Pinch-Hitter
Madison Bumgarner threw an absolute gem Sunday night, flummoxing the Nationals for all nine innings while giving up only three hits and striking out 14. According to game score it was the sixth best starting pitching performance this season, but almost more impressive for the pitcher was his day at ...
11 Tips To Intentionally Ruin A Mock Draft
Mock drafts are a charade within a charade. Fantasy football is fake; mock drafts are fake drafts to prepare for the “real” fake draft, for a fake team. The only purpose of mock drafts is to get a general sense where players are going in each round, and that’s only useful for the first five rounds. ...
Report: Eli Manning Wants To Be NFL's Highest-Paid Player
In football, maybe more than in any other sport, players are hyperaware of their market value and set it by their closest contemporaries. Philip Rivers re-upped with the Chargers this weekend, and no one is poring over his contract numbers more than Eli Manning and the Giants. And according to one r...
How To Run A Fantasy Football League Without Making Everyone Hate You
Because your friends are lazy and untrustworthy, you were somehow the best choice to run this year’s fantasy football league, which means you’ll set up the draft, oversee trades, handle money, and use the internet an hour or two more per week than usual. Congratulations. Now, you just have to tackle...
Bubba Watson Tried To Lawyerball Some Ants
On 5 yesterday, Bubba Watson’s ball came to rest against an anthill. That led to a genial discussion with a rules official over whether Watson was allowed to take a drop. The official classified the anthill as a “loose impediment”; Watson countered that ants, technically, are “burrowing animals.” Bo...
Why Not Let Kobe Play In One Last Olympics?
The USA Basketball apparatus gathered in Vegas this week for their annual confab, and most of the talk centered around which 12 players will be selected for the 2016 Olympics in Rio. Like it’s been for both of the Olympics since the 2004 disaster in Athens, the roster is going to be stacked, and som...
Anthony Rizzo Climbs Onto Tarp To Make Phenomenal Catch
For the second night in a row a wannabe-Spiderman baseball player climbed on top of field equipment in a daring attempt to catch a foul pop-up. Tonight it was Cubs first baseman Anthony Rizzo, and after clambering on top of the field tarp and falling into the stands, he made the catch. ...
Carmelo Anthony To Knicks Fan: "You Are Stuck With Me, Buddy."
Carmelo Anthony has never been one to shy away from mixing it up with his fans and haters on social media, and his latest response to a rude Instagram commenter is that of a man who is feeling pretty fed up....
The Cam Newton Fight Was A Long Time Coming
Cam Newton is a big talker, and when he beats the defense, the defense is going to hear all about it. Same goes for cornerback Josh Norman the other way. According to coach Ron Rivera, the two have been “chirping” at each other since camp started. So what happened yesterday was no surprise....