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Report: Beth Mowins To Call NFL Game For ESPN
ESPN’s Beth Mowins is slated to become the first woman in 30 years to handle play-by-play duties during a regular-season NFL broadcast, according to Sports Illustrated’s Richard Deitsch....
Max Scherzer Tossed An Immaculate Inning After Being Hit With A 100 MPH Liner
Max Scherzer took a hard liner off his leg in the top of the fourth inning in yesterday’s game against the Phillies. Per Statcast, it was a 100 mph shot. He immediately fell to the ground, and took about four minutes to recover and test his pitches. ...
Wizards Get A Championship Fight Song Ahead Of Game 7<em></em>
Over the weekend, Nils Lofgren posted a snippet of “Wizards Fever,” a rough remake of his classic “Bullets Fever,” the greatest sports theme song our nation’s capital has ever known....
Ryan Kesler Is Making Ryan Johansen So Mad
The Western Conference Finals were always going to be decided up top. Nashville, without a ton of scoring from its depth forwards, relies heavily on its top line centered by Ryan Johansen, and they’ve been ultra-hot in these playoffs. Anaheim’s shutdown line, anchored by Ryan Kesler, can certainly f...
The Spurs Went Up By 25, And Then The Warriors Knocked Them Down
For the first half of Sunday’s Game 1, the Spurs shut down the Warriors more effectively than anyone has this year. Golden State didn’t manage more field goals than turnovers until nearly halfway through the second quarter. They didn’t make a single three-pointer until shortly after that. They were ...
Golden State Goes On 18-0 Run After Knocking Kawhi Leonard Out Of Game
The Spurs jumped out to a huge lead early in today’s Game 1 of the Western Conference Finals against the Warriors, giving Golden State their biggest losing margin of the playoffs so far as early as the second quarter. By the third, the Spurs led by 25 points. And then Zaza Pachulia came down on Kawh...
Everything Terrible And Exhilarating About Cycling Was On Display At The Giro d'Italia Today
This afternoon, the Giro d’Italia truly started....
Gregg Popovich Offers Yet Another Eloquent Criticism Of Donald Trump
A few hours before Game 1 of the Western Conference Finals, San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich shared some characteristically witty thoughts on subjects ranging from the play of Patty Mills (“the more good things I say about him, the more we’re going to have to pay him”) to whether he watched Sa...
Aroldis Chapman Goes To Disabled List With Inflamed Rotator Cuff, Expected To Be Out A Month
The Yankees will be without closer Aroldis Chapman for about a month, sending him to the 10-day disabled list today with rotator cuff inflammation. ...
Ah, Yes, Let's Relitigate The Slide Rule Some More
Joe Maddon and Jon Lester have come out hard against MLB’s slide rule after it cost them a run in the fifth inning of yesterday’s loss against the Cardinals....
NBA: Game 6 Clock Error Cost Celtics One Second On Final Possession
The NBA has acknowledged a clock error in the closing seconds of Friday’s playoff game that would have given the Celtics an extra second on their final possession....
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Aric Almirola Removed From Car On Stretcher After Devastating Wreck [Updates]
Emergency personnel worked for 15 minutes to extract Aric Almirola from his car after the driver was caught up in a wreck initially involving Joey Logano and Danica Patrick during tonight’s race at Kansas Speedway....
Bobby Ryan Overtime Goal Earns Ottawa Game 1 Win
Bobby Ryan’s goal five minutes into overtime put Ottawa up 1-0 in their Eastern Conference final series against Pittsburgh after the Senators claimed a 2-1 win over the Penguins....
Delightful Squirrel Delays Baseball Game For Four Minutes With Innocent Romp
Today’s Minnesota-Cleveland game was delayed for 4 minutes and 28 seconds by that most fearsome of ordinary rodents: the squirrel. Just one squirrel. A single squirrel, scampering around the field, somehow proving too much for a team of dozen grown men. As Cleveland radio broadcaster Tom Hamilton ri...
Nationals, Bryce Harper Avoid Arbitration With Record $21 Million Deal For 2018
The Nationals have avoided arbitration with superstar Bryce Harper for next year, agreeing to terms of $21.625 million for the 2018 season—the right fielder’s last year guaranteed in Washington before he hits free agency....
Matt Harvey's Return Was Not Pretty
It’s been a week since Matt Harvey failed to show up for a game, triggering a three-day suspension and a whirlwind of rumors. There’s been plenty of talk in that time on what Harvey was really doing the night before his no-show, whether it’s a sign of a more serious problem, and how competently the ...
Chris Iannetta Hospitalized After Taking Fastball To The Face
Diamondbacks catcher Chris Iannetta had a scare Friday night when he took a 93-mph fastball directly to the face, laying him out and giving him a terrifyingly bloodied nose:...
How Better To Celebrate A Game 7 Than By Slapping Stephen A. Smith On The Ass?
The Washington Wizards forced a Game 7 against the Boston Celtics last night with a dazzling, heart-stopping three-pointer by John Wall. The Celtics, dressed for a funeral, were sent away mourning on their own. How best to celebrate? Giving a nice hearty ass-slap to Stephen A. Smith!...
John Wall Kills Celtics With Perfectly Placed Dagger
Down two, five seconds left, season in the balance, the charred end of a night when his team hit 20 percent of its three-point attempts, a postseason in which home teams facing elimination were 0-10, the best defender on the East’s top seed staring him in the face, ladies and gentlemen, I give you J...
Gymnasts Testify About How Larry Nassar Abused Them
Rachael Denhollander—the first woman to publicly say she was sexually abused by Larry Nassar, the former physician for the U.S. women’s gymnastics team—testified today at a preliminary hearing in a Michigan court. ...