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Sixers Fans Simply Decided The Sixers Are Good Now, And It Worked
I remember it well. I was 16, right at the start of my senior year of high school, and my friends and I drove down to Veterans Stadium to watch the Phillies play the Reds. It may actually have been the first time I went to a Phillies game unaccompanied by my elders. ...

Report: Yu Darvish Is Officially For Sale
Rangers ace Yu Darvish is 30 years old, will be a free agent after this season, and is pitching at the high level he always does when healthy for a team that’s lost more than it’s won, all of which has made him a pretty obvious candidate to get moved before this month’s trade deadline. Now, accordin...

Cops Admit That Wasn't Actually Lucky Whitehead They Arrested
The Dallas Cowboys cut third-year wide receiver Lucky Whitehead yesterday after news surfaced that he had missed a July court hearing after being arrested for shoplifting from a Virginia convenience store on June 22. One big problem with that: It wasn’t him that had been arrested....

Hell Yeah, Skateboarding Dog
Attention, attention, we have incoming sports news. This dog has just been elected mayor of San Francisco....

Phil Mushnick Is Being A Crotchety Old Penis Again
It’s the Dead Zone of the summer sports calendar, and I am on the verge of dying from physiological lack of hot sports action. Thankfully, there is man out there who the IRON NUTSACK to throw down the kind of C4-tipped bazooka take that can carry you and I through the purgatory of late July. That ma...

Suddenly, Jose Altuve Is The Best Player In Baseball
It’s not really a shock, given that Astros second baseman Jose Altuve finished last season with 6.7 WAR and has been putting up ridiculous statistics for years now, but the little guy is currently your MVP frontrunner....

Logan Morrison's Daughter Is A Very Good Sports Baby, Would Rather Dance Than Run The Bases
Logan Morrison’s daughter, Ily, isn’t even two years old, but she knows the importance of setting priorities. Specifically—prioritizing dancing to your song over anything else, especially over something dumb like running the bases in anything that is not a baseball game. ...

Defensive Back David Bruton Retires "To Have My Brain Functioning When I Get A Little Older"
After sustaining six concussions over eight years in the NFL, David Bruton announced his retirement to the Denver Post today. ...

Stephen A. Smith's "Sources" Tell Him LeBron James Wants To Beat Kyrie Irving's Ass<em></em>
Stephen A. Smith is back from a brief vacation from his radio show, and, boy, is he back. With a claim from some anonymous sources that LeBron James would be tempted to beat Kyrie Irving’s ass were they in the same room. ...

Wilson Ramos Exits Game, Gets Six Staples In Head After Being Hit By Broken Bat
Catcher Wilson Ramos exited after a scary moment in the fifth inning of tonight’s Orioles-Rays game—a broken bat that struck him right in the head during Ruben Tejada’s backswing. ...

Reports: Cavaliers To Sign Crumbling Remains Of Derrick Rose
The Cavaliers’ sad dramatic mess of an offseason has some new action, with the team reportedly in the process of signing Derrick Rose to a one-year deal. (Reports indicate that he has, in fact, passed the physical.)...
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Cowboys Cut Lucky Whitehead After He Skips Court Appearance [Update]
On June 22, fringe Cowboys receiver Lucky Whitehead was arrested in the parking lot of a Woodbridge, Va. convenience store after a worker reported that he had shoplifted from the store. Police charged him with petty larceny for allegedly making off with less than $200 of merchandise....

WNBA Coach Cheryl Reeve Talks About The Past, Present, And Future Of Women's Basketball
Cheryl Reeve has been around the WNBA for a long time. Throughout her 15-plus years coaching in the league, she’s witnessed the evolution of professional women’s basketball firsthand from its early beginnings to Saturday night’s 130-121 victory of the West, coached by Reeve, over the East in the WNB...

Giannis Antetokounmpo Gently Defends Kevin Durant's OKC Departure
Giannis Antetokounmpo is in the Philippines attending an event for Filipino youth, and yesterday someone in attendance asked him a tough question about team loyalty in the NBA. The Bucks’ star cephalopod has reportedly exclaimed that he wanted to play in Milwaukee for “20 years.” And here is his mos...

Just Two Minutes Of The Cardinals Completely Fucking Up
The St. Louis Cardinals are submitting quite the wet fart of a season. They finished the first half at 43-45 and are currently sitting in fourth in the NL Central with a 47-51 record. This team is a bunch of bums....

Report: Clayton Kershaw Could Be Out Up To Six Weeks With Back Injury
Clayton Kershaw, who went on the 10-day DL yesterday after being pulled from his start against the Braves after two innings with lower-back tightness, could be out of action for more than a month....

The Broward County (Fla.) state attorney’s office won’t bring a charge against Michael Irvin, who was accused of sexually assaulting a 27-year-old Fort Lauderdale woman in March. Police had handed the case to the state attorney’s office in late May. Andy Slater of WINZ radio obtained the memo in whi...

There Is No End In Sight For The Wild And Ridiculous Neymar-To-PSG Saga
When last we updated you on the story of the summer, the great will-they-or-won’t-they of our time, the ever-changing decision by Neymar to either stay at Barcelona or leave for PSG, the rumor that began as an improbability had, almost overnight, appeared to become a near certainty. Since then, thin...

Man With Nazi Tattoos Attends Indians Game
During yesterday’s Blue Jays-Indians game, a man who was at the game tweeted pictures of a shirtless fan who had prominent swastika tattoos on his back....
