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Juan Martin Del Potro Ends Comeback Year With Broken Finger, Trophy For Argentina
Juan Martin del Potro slogged past Croatia’s Marin Cilic in five sets on Sunday to help Argentina take the Davis Cup. Somehow, he beat the world No. 6 despite breaking a left pinky while trying to catch one of Cilic’s serves in the deciding set. He wasn’t the only one to suffer from an errant Cilic ...
The Packers Are Bad
There’s a difference between playing bad football and being a bad football team, but a few things can provide the benefit of the doubt: name recognition, recent success, and a quarterback with the ability to win games singlehandedly. But the Green Bay Packers have been playing such terrible football...
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Michigan State Holds On Against FGCU After Incredible Clock Operator Blunder [Update]
Michigan State claimed its second win of the year after the 13th-ranked Spartans beat Florida Gulf Coast thanks in part to a clock blunder on the game’s final play that officials decided to let stand....
Cool Charts Show You Just How Good The NBA Has Gotten
By pulling team statistics from Basketball Reference and graphing them by category, stats guy Ed Küpfer has offered us a pleasantly concise picture of the NBA’s evolution over the last 36 years:...
New York Islanders Decline To Say If Jack Capuano Lives In Garth Snow's Basement
The disappointing Islanders have lost six of their last seven and currently hold an underwhelming 5-8-3 record. Head coach Jack Capuano is on the hot seat, and depending on who you believe, the heat around his job status might be rising through the vents and warming up team president Garth Snow’s ho...
LeBron's Business Partner Angry At Phil Jackson For Saying LeBron Has A "Posse"
During an interview with ESPN in which Knicks president Phil Jackson criticized LeBron James’s alleged attitude of entitlement during his tenure with the Heat, Jackson at one point referred to James’s group of friends as a “posse.” Maverick Carter, James’s friend and business partner, did not like t...
Flopping-Ass Marcus Smart Conned His Way Out Of A Humiliating Posterization
Perhaps Marcus Smart’s most distinctive basketball skill is his gift for flopping. The Celtics point guard is liable to careen wildly in anticipation of any contact, and he pulled off my favorite flop in NBA history. “I was just trying to make winning plays for my team,” Smart said of the below flop...
What It's Like To Wake Up And Find Yourself Working For Donald Trump
Career civil and foreign service employees in the U.S. government woke up last week to the prospect of having to work for Donald Trump. What are all these (publicly discreet) professionals actually thinking right now? We have a small glimpse....
Donald Trump Names His Most Racist-Friendly Advisor To Be Chief White House Strategist<em></em><em></em>
For anyone who voted for Donald Trump hoping that, once safely in office, he would begin a move towards respectability and away from the white-supremacist leanings that won him the highest office in the land: I’m sorry, dear reader, but you have been played. ...
Baylor Confirms Art Briles Knew About Alleged Gang Rape And Chose Not To Report It
Former Baylor head football coach Art Briles and former athletic director Ian McCaw knew about an alleged group sexual assault and chose not to report it, according to a statement issued yesterday by the university. This confirmation also indicates that the assistant coaches who spoke out last week ...
Kadeem Allen Goes Coast-To-Coast To Beat Michigan State<em></em>
Arizona’s Kadeem Allen went coast-to-coast to score the winning basket that knocked off 12th-ranked Michigan State and give Arizona a win in the season-opener. Spartans, what are you doing?...
The Hot Fucking Stove Is Now Happening
Welcome to our first Hot Stove in Trump’s America, where, unlike the rest of Trump’s America, the men getting rich will actually deserve it....
President Obama Notes That The Warriors Blew A 3-1 Lead In The Finals
In these, the precious final days before the title of Leader of the Free World is officially handed over to an unhinged megalomaniacal trash TV star, it is important to treasure the relatively good times we have today. To help us at least temporarily forget about this lost world we find ourselves in...
Report: NCAA To Skip Penn State-Level Sanctions Against Baylor
Baylor’s interim president, football coaches, fans, board of regents, and current players and students all have an opinion on who should be blamed for the school’s inability to report and address sexual assault. In surprising news, the NCAA does not seem to have an opinion....
Baby Iguana Vs. Sea Snakes Is The Wildest Sports Highlight Of The Day
Last night, BBC rolled out the first part of its six-episode series, Planet Earth II; host David Attenborough and the showrunners wasted no time showing us that nature is sports and being born as anything but a human is scary as hell. Also, snakes are still the devil (even with the 10-year interim b...
They Finally Took Away Donald Trump's Twitter Account
With just two days left in our collective national hell, the Trump campaign is in its final push to do... something. After all, Trump doesn’t have any pollsters since the campaign refused to pay them. And he barely has the support of his own favorite daughter. Now, though, Trump’s lost perhaps the o...
The Canucks And Maple Leafs Fought A Lot Last Night
The Vancouver Canucks and Toronto Maple Leafs spent most of the third period hitting, grabbing, shoving, and fighting each other Saturday. The anger eventually boiled over into a line brawl....
Police Kick Out Fan For Photographing Pro-Art Briles Shirts At Baylor Tailgate
Five months after Baylor head football coach was fired for his role in the university’s sexual assault scandal, fans are selling #CAB t-shirts outside today’s game against Texas Christian to show their support for Coach Art Briles. A TCU fan who attempted to take a picture of the shirts was reported...
Baylor's Sexual Assault Scandal: Still No Report, Still Few Answers
Baylor’s board of regents is sharing details of the university’s sexual assault scandal with select media outlets after months of staying publicly silent. A group of regents spoke anonymously with the Wall Street Journal last week, and two days ago an interview with four regents—Ron Murff, James Gra...
Baylor Players Deny Report Their Black Uniforms Are In Protest Of Art Briles's Firing
Individual Baylor football players have stood up for ex-Bears head coach Art Briles in the months since he was fired for his role in the school’s sexual assault scandal; now, according to ESPN’s Brett McMurphy, the entire team will join the ill-fated movement....