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Rick Pitino And Tom Jurich Made Ungodly Amounts Of Money While Louisville Athletics Suffered
In August, Louisville athletic director Tom Jurich announced an apparel partnership with Adidas that would net the athletic department $160 million over 10 years when it starts on July 1, 2018. It’s no secret that Louisville athletics isn’t in great shape right now, thanks in part to a disastrous st...
Eduardo Nuñez Carried Off Field After Going Down Running To First Base
Red Sox DH Eduardo Nuñez had to be carried off the field by manager John Farrell and a trainer after apparently injuring his leg while beginning to run out a grounder on the first pitch of today’s ALDS Game 1 against the Astros....
Report: MLB Investigating Diamondbacks Assistant For Electronic Interference
According to a report from the New York Post, Major League Baseball officials are looking into whether Diamondbacks assistant coach Ariel Prieto used an internet-enabled watch for espionage purposes during last night’s Wild Card win over the Colorado Rockies. Prieto can be seen above wearing some so...
NFL Assures Fans There's No Tolerance For Racial Slurs At Redskins Games
Last night, Washington receiver Terrelle Pryor explained that he flipped a fan the bird following Monday night’s game against Kansas City after said fan called him a “nigger.” Like his middle fingers did on Monday, Pryor’s explanation drew a rash of media coverage, which sparked a response from the ...
Joe Lacob, Big Dummy, Reportedly Wanted To Lowball Steph Curry
Trophy-humping Warriors owner Joe Lacob has previously tried to take credit for his team’s success in hilariously tone-deaf ways. There was the time he bragged to The New York Times Magazine about how the Warriors’ 73-win season was as much the result of his venture capitalist approach to basketball...
The Bulls Suck!
Yes, I know, it’s only the preseason, and the NBA has to shut up for at least another 10 days, if not all the days between now and Christmas. But schadenfreude never sleeps! And holy shit, man, the Chicago Bulls are gonna suck so amazingly hard this season....
Sixers Fans Booed The Shit Out Of Kris Humphries<em></em>
Kris Humphries, Kim Kardashian’s pretend husband for 72 days and a 13-year NBA veteran, is now on the Philadelphia 76ers. The team played its first preseason game in Philly last night, and Humphries got his first action with the squad....
Archie Bradley Had The Wildest Night
One can not savor the highest highs without attendant lows, something Diamondbacks reliever Archie Bradley learned last night in the biggest game of his career....
I, Too, Appreciate 69 This Time Of Year
It hasn’t gone below 90 in months, after all....
This Cuban Gymnast Might Be The Next Men's World Champion
MONTREAL, Canada—Tonight a new men’s gymnastics world champion will be crowned for the first time since 2009. With six-time defending world champion Kohei Uchimura forced to withdraw from the competition with an ankle injury, the men’s field—like the Simone Biles-less women’s field—is wide open. The...
Diamondbacks Top Rockies In Up-And-Down Wild Card Game
The Diamondbacks got out to an early 6-0 lead, watched it disappear, and proceeded to trade scoring opportunities with the Rockies through the final few innings of a wacky game that ended with Fernando Rodney making it through a shaky ninth to give Arizona an 11-8 victory in the NL wild card game. ...
Post-Simone Biles, The U.S. Women Are Doing Alright
MONTREAL, Canada—Four years of Simone Biles-led dominance basically guaranteed gold medals to the U.S. women’s gymnastics team every time they arrived at a world championships. With the Olympic champion on hiatus from full-time training and competition, what the Americans are left with is gold medal...
Lynx Hold Off Sparks To Claim Fourth WNBA Title Since 2011
A little less than a year ago, the Minnesota Lynx endured a gut-wrenching, one-point WNBA Finals Game 5 loss on their home court to the Los Angeles Sparks. In the same situation this year, they got revenge. The Lynx took down the Sparks tonight for their fourth title in seven years, in a Game 5 that...
Terrelle Pryor Says Heckler Called Him The N-Word<em></em>
After TMZ Sports posted a video in which Washington Redskins wide receiver Terrelle Pryor gave the middle finger to a heckler on Monday night, Pryor has responded and explained his actions. In an Instagram story today, Pryor wrote that a heckler called him the n-word “several times,” to the extent t...
Here Are The Most Interesting Guys Of The NL Playoffs
You may have checked out of baseball once your team’s season turned into a trash heap, but that’s okay! You’ve come back just in time for the best month of the year, as all the highest-stakes games with top-quality talent begin. Here’s a guide to the NL players you need to pay attention to as the po...
Every NHL Team Is Bad: A Season Preview
The NHL season starts tonight. Some teams have no realistic chance at a Stanley Cup. Yet all the teams are bad, in their own special ways. ...
How Smart Coaches Are Overcoming The NFL's Offensive Issues
When the NFL season got off to an ugly-ass start, the diagnoses came quickly and confidently: a lack of good quarterbacks, fewer quality offensive linemen emerging from the college ranks, reductions in offseason practice time and padded practices, defenses that are catching up. None of these root ca...
Last Night's Game Was Good But Way Too Long
Did you stay awake for the entirety of last night’s Twins-Yankees game? Are you still feeling the pain this morning? Last night’s game was good, and featured great plays, great action, and a stunning performance by the Yankees bullpen. It was also way too fucking long, and was a good reminder that O...
David Robertson Exhibits Five Stages Of Grief After Watching Gary Sanchez Get Hit In The Dick And Balls
In the top of the sixth inning tonight, Yankees catcher Gary Sanchez was struck in the junk by a foul tip. Here is pitcher David Robertson’s reaction, as captured by Elsa of Getty Images:...
Media Brand Apologizes For Advertising
Earlier today, a sports-media brand unveiled a series of advertisements mocking a local sports team on the shuttle trains between Grand Central and Times Square in New York City. Internet users spread the brand’s messaging, seemingly aimed at positioning the brand as edgy and in your face for saying...