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Donald Trump Continues To Go After Outspoken Black Athletes
This morning, we can be fairly sure, Donald Trump was watching the teevee and saw a Fox & Friends report about how star Golden State Warriors point guard Steph Curry wants to not go to the White House if the team is invited there to celebrate their recent championship. He punched a message into Twit...
Valorie Kondos-Field<em></em> Let Her Gymnasts Feel Her Malignant Breast Tumor
Valorie Kondos-Field never planned on becoming a gymnastics coach. She was trained in ballet and went onto perform with the Capital City Ballet in her hometown of Sacramento, Calif.—not exactly the professional and athletic background you’d expect from a woman who has led the UCLA’s women’s gymnasti...
Draymond Green On Kevin Durant's Twitter Behavior: "I Laughed In His Face"
Last summer, Draymond Green accidentally posted a photo of his penis to his Snapchat story. This summer, Kevin Durant was busted while seemingly attempting to use a burner account to argue with a Twitter troll, trashing his former coach and teammates in the process. ...
Let's Remember Some Guys
On Wednesday, our old pal Jack Dickey tweeted out a list of random ballplayers that he had written down as a child:...
Simone Biles Will Resume Full-Time Training In November
Earlier this week, USA Gymnastics announced its team for the upcoming world championships in Montreal. The four-person squad—made up of current national champion Ragan Smith, 2016 Olympic alternate Ashton Locklear, Morgan Hurd, and Jade Carey—is the first U.S. world championship gymnastics team with...
Kato Kaelin Has Had It Up To Here With Brewers Reliever Jeremy Jeffress
Today is Jeremy Jeffress’s birthday. So far, it’s sucked. The Brewers are just one game back in the NL wild card race, and in tonight’s crucial game against the division-leading Cubs, he was handed a one-run lead to protect for the ninth inning. He blew it—failing to cover first base quickly enough ...
NCAA Comes After Texas A&M Cross Country Runner For Promoting His Own Water Bottle Company
The NCAA is threatening the eligibility of 17-year-old Texas A&M freshman Ryan Trahan, a cross country runner with a YouTube channel that promotes the line of water bottles that he developed with a friend in high school. ...
Reds, Padres, Mariners, Rockies Announce Plans To Expand Protective Netting
The Reds, Padres and Mariners announced today that they would be expanding protective netting at their ballparks, while the Rockies said that they were in talks to set official plans to do so. The announcements came one day after a young girl was struck by a line drive at Yankee Stadium and hospital...
Nebraska Promptly Fires AD After Huskers Lose To Northern Illinois
This afternoon, Nebraska announced the abrupt firing of athletic director Shawn Eichorst, five days after the Cornhuskers lost a home game against Northern Illinois. When Chancellor Ronnie Green announced the news, he cited a lack of results, the timing of which sure makes it seem like it’s directly...
Ricky Rubio Is Grim And Gritty Now
Hey, have you seen Ricky Rubio lately? He looks a lot different than he does in the picture above, which was taken in March of 2017 and in which Rubio still looks a lot like the precocious teen he was when he entered the NBA in 2011. Say goodbye to that Ricky Rubio, because our man is hard now:...
Why Are Video Games So Goddamn Hard To Make?<em></em>
I am the kind of ungrateful video game consumer who will instantly write off a game if it has just a single, microscopic bug within it. “Whoa hey, the picture just skipped a frame! What kinda of fat slovenly losers designed this piece of shit?!” Of course, the reality is that making a video game, ev...
Andrelton Simmons Drops The Ball, Still Catches It
Though Andrelton Simmons usually plays perfect defense, the shortstop had a little trouble with a Jay Bruce pop fly Wednesday against Cleveland. But he’s Andrelton Simmons, and it’s impossible for him to fuck up a play that easy....
Tim Lincecum has all but disappeared, Mercury News reporter Dan Brown writes. The San Francisco Giants want to honor him at the ballpark, but haven’t been able to get in touch with him. If you know where to find The Freak, email [email protected]....
Baseball Is The Horniest Sport
Football has hulking men in tights and shoulder pads, running headlong into walls of opposing meat to protect a beloved (quarterback). MMA features the sweaty and nearly nude, engaged in what is often best described as aggressive hugging. Soccer is the game of the beautiful ones, filled with passion...
Come Bask In The Glow Of Rocky Gale's Delight At His First Major-League Home Run
Rocky Gale is 29 years old. He has been in San Diego’s minor-league system since 2010, and he has spent almost all of that time in Triple-A. Other than a very brief showing as a September call-up in 2015—eleven games, only one of which he got to play more than three innings, with ten plate appearanc...
Bill James's Twitter Polls Are Melting My Brain
Sabermetrics godfather and occasional Joe Paterno apologist Bill James has spent the past many years as something of a paradox. You can be confident that he’s smart at something, but a great deal of what he says and does flies in the face of that knowledge....
Superman Metaphors Are Jerry Jones's Kryptonite
The Arkansas Razorbacks are remaking their football team’s alternate uniforms in the style of the Dallas Cowboys, in honor of alum and Cowboys owner Jerry Jones making the Pro Football Hall of Fame. They shared a clip today of Jones getting a little emotional while reflecting on his time playing foo...
NASL Sues U.S. Soccer For Booting League Out Of Second Division<em></em>
On the heels of US Soccer revoking the North American Soccer League’s Division 2 status for 2018, the NASL has fired a shot back, filing a lawsuit against the US Soccer Federation alleging that the USSF is violating antitrust laws through the division structure of its leagues....
What Is <i>Mother! </i>About?
Here’s a question: Should you go see Mother!, the new, polarizing, bearshit-insane film written and directed by Darren Aronofsky and starring Jennifer Lawrence and Javier Bardem that everyone is talking about though apparently no one saw and the few who did see it had no idea what in God’s name was ...