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Adrian Wojnarowski Hurled Heaviest Bomb Yet at GOP Senator, Now ESPN Has Suspended Him [UPDATED]

Adrian Wojnarowski dropped another Woj Bomb....

Mike Gundy and White America Can Save Their Apologies

Most apologies are fake....

Texas Tech's Eli Howard On His Dangerous Hit: I'm Sorry To My Coach, My Athletic Director, Oh, And Also The Guy I Injured

With just over 10 minutes left in the third quarter of Oklahoma-Texas Tech, Red Raiders defensive lineman Eli Howard V delivered a dangerous low hit to Sooners running back Kennedy Brooks on a return. While the hit would have been considered to be dirty regardless of the context, it was made signifi...

Miami Marlins Sorry For Blaming Tampa Bay Rays For Killing Steve Irwin

A spokesman for the Miami Marlins apologized today for a bit of spicy Twitter banter in which the Marlins’ account blamed the Tampa Bay Rays for Steve Irwin’s death, Miami radio host Andy Slater reported....

Navy Football Drops "Load The Clip" As Team Motto In Wake Of Insensitivity Claims

The Naval Academy announced on Friday that the football team would be changing the team motto for the upcoming season from “Load the Clip” to “Win the Day,” according to a report from Chase Cook of the Capital Gazette. The change was made after reporters raised questions during the motto’s official ...

Taylor Lewan Issues Weird, Tearful Apology After Testing Positive For PEDs

Have you ever had the experience of having to watch someone deliver a long and weepy statement on a topic you truly do not care about? If not, Tennessee Titans left tackle Taylor Lewan is here to provide you with that experience:...

South Korea U18 Squad Apologizes For Pretending To Urinate In Panda Cup Trophy, Enraging Chinese Fans

South Korea’s U18 squad was stripped of an international tournament title on Wednesday because of online backlash over photos of the team celebrating with the competition’s trophy in an “indecent” manner....

Yu Darvish Has Apologized For Fucking Up Three Guys With A Magic Fastball

Everyone Fell For Robert Kraft's "Apology" <em></em>

In a vague and carefully worded statement that sounds like a mea culpa but is decidedly not, New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft today made his first public comments since he was charged last month with two counts of solicitation in connection with a prostitution sting in Florida....

Morgan Rielly Apologizes To Devils' Keith Kinkaid For Scoring Very Savable Goal

It was a tough night for New Jersey Devils goalie Keith Kinkaid. The backup-turned-starter was on the wrong end of a 6-1 shellacking from an Auston Matthews-less Toronto Maple Leafs. ...

ESPN Apologizes To SEC Commissioner For James Carville Spouting Alabama Conspiracy Theories 

ESPN issued an on-air apology to SEC commissioner Greg Sankey for comments that political analyst James Carville made during his appearance on College Gameday about the conference being inherently biased towards No. 1 Alabama....

Casual Cruelty

Cruelty is so often casual, and crueler for it. On Monday, the New York Times reported that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh used his high school yearbook page to drop an inside joke, naming a female student in a way meant to imply that she had been a sexual conquest for him and his football te...

Papa John's (The Pizza) Is Very, Very Sorry About What Papa John (The Guy) Did

Papa John’s is ready for the hurt to end. This wounded nation expected better of Papa “John” Schnatter, and his racist remarks have cut us deep. His crusade against his former company may have sprinkled red pepper flakes on the wound, but the time has come to gather around the kitchen table of forgi...

NBC Apologizes for Calling Japan An "Example" To Koreans

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea — The period of Japanese colonial rule in Korea, from 1910 until 1945, was characterized by executions, forced labor, systematic rape of so-called “comfort women,” and other human rights atrocities. Japan’s whitewashing of this time period in their history books today is a c...

Polite Corey Linsley Apologizes At The Line Of Scrimmage

Packers center and true gentleman Corey Linsley didn’t quite get his blocking instructions right on the first go-round. But he served as an example for all of us when he quickly owned up to his mistake and corrected it. ...

Shitty Male Apologies From This News Cycle, Ranked

Deadspin ranks things—cereals, planets, board games—fairly often. It’s our house style to file these rankings to “Underexplained Lists” and then to live up to that descriptor: there’s no point to explaining the list, because the process is secondary. The list is the point. The stupid list, with all ...

Minor League GM Apologizes For Razzing Tim Tebow

Tim Tebow, who used to be a bad NFL player and is now a bad minor-league baseball player with the Columbia Fireflies, took some ribbing from the Charleston RiverDogs this past weekend. Now the RiverDogs are very sorry about it....

Let Dwight Howard Teach You How To Respond Well To Criticism

Noted doofus and Stickum enthusiast Dwight Howard appeared on Inside the NBA Tuesday night, which had much of our staff preemptively dreading his appearance. What followed was a surprisingly self-aware and measured assessment of his own reputation and motivations. While we shouldn’t overcorrect and ...

Chicago ABC Station Apologizes For Using McDonald's Restaurant Graphic In Story On Laquan McDonald

Chicago ABC station WLS issued an on-air apology last night after using a McDonald’s restaurant over-the-shoulder graphic to illustrate a story on Laquan McDonald, the 17-year-old killed by police in 2014:...

Blake Griffin Apologizes For Punching Clippers Equipment Staffer

Clippers star Blake Griffin spoke to the media today for the first time since he broke his hand punching friend and Clippers’ equipment staffer Matias Testi in the face, and apologized profusely for it....