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Basketball Teen Zion Williamson Continues To Be Master Of The Dunk
You may remember 16-year-old Zion Williamson from this incredible dunk or this one. Here’s another one from this weekend, which happened during a pregame routine but is legitimately cool on its own merits: ...
Derrick Rose Has Another Season-Ending Knee Injury
The Knicks’ sad season got even sadder today, as the team announced that Derrick Rose would be out for the rest of the year with a torn left meniscus....
MLB Opening Day Hashtags, Ranked
Opening Day begins in less than one hour, and we have been blessed with 30 team marketing slogans and emojis to celebrate. Ranked:...
Yadier Molina Will Technically Now Be The Highest-Paid Catcher In Baseball
After weeks of negotiations, the Cardinals have reportedly reached a deal for a three-year extension with Yadier Molina. The team will officially announce the contract this afternoon, but early reports have pegged the total sum at $60 million, which would make the 34-year-old baseball’s highest-paid...
Jordan Bell: "This Is Going To Hurt Forever"
Any March Madness game decided in the final seconds is going to bring reactions of equal strength but opposite emotion, with one on the losing side that’s often hard to watch. Last week, it was De’Aaron Fox of Kentucky, and last night, it was Jordan Bell of Oregon....
Christian Bethancourt Has Officially Made The Padres' Roster As A Two-Way Playing Experiment
Ten months after Christian Bethancourt notched two outs in a blowout for his first big-league pitching appearance, the San Diego Padres catcher is officially getting his chance to make it as a two-way player. After spending his offseason focusing on his pitching, he was included on the roster announ...
Apparel Company Picks Stupid Fight With Law Firm Over Dumb Grayson Allen Tripping T-Shirt
Smack Apparel—the brilliant minds behind this t-shirt and others of its ilk—has decided to say some very dumb stuff to defend an equally dumb shirt about Grayson Allen’s tripping tendencies. ...
Here's The Only Member Of The Vegas Golden Knights Playing Soccer Alone In An Empty Arena
The Vegas Golden Knights will participate in an expansion draft in June in order to begin their first-ever NHL season this October. But they didn’t wait until the draft to begin acquiring players—three weeks ago, they signed 21-year-old Reid Duke on an entry-level deal out of the Western Hockey Leag...
Tracy McGrady, Rebecca Lobo Selected To Basketball Hall Of Fame
The 2017 class of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame will include two-time scoring champion Tracy McGrady and UConn star Rebecca Lobo. ...
Draymond Green Tries To Explain Foul Of James Harden: "He Pinched Me, So I Punched His Wrist"
And now for another entry in the Draymond Green book of natural acts, after a third-quarter squabble with James Harden last night: ...
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Mississippi State OT Buzzer-Beater Downs UConn, Ends 111-Game Winning Streak [UPDATE]
UConn is out of the NCAA tournament and its 111-game winning streak is over after Morgan William hit a buzzer-beater at the end of overtime to send Mississippi State to the women’s championship game by the score of 66-64....
Judge Tells All "Potential Witnesses" In Larry Nassar Case To Shut Up
One day after several women testified before Congress about how disgraced former gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar sexually abused them, the judge overseeing one of the related criminal cases issued an order restricting what can be said. On Wednesday, Ingham County Circuit Court Judge Rosemarie Aquilin...
The Pittsburgh Pirates Will Be Frustratingly Competent
This is part of an occasional series comprising MLB season previews....
Coastal Carolina Suspended Their Entire Cheerleading Squad And Won't Say Why
Last night, Coastal Carolina’s athletic department announced that the school’s cheerleading team had been indefinitely suspended pending a conduct investigation. Myrtle Beach news station WMBF noticed that the cheerleading team had been scrubbed from the CCU athletics website, with their section now...
José Quintana Still On White Sox
Ace pitcher José Quintana, still a member of the Chicago White Sox, is scheduled to pitch Monday’s home opener against the Detroit Tigers. ...
There Was No Escaping Ted Williams
This piece, originally published as “The World’s Richest Problem Child” in Newsweek, is featured in The John Lardner Reader: A Press Box Legend’s Classic Sportswriting, and appears here with permission from the author’s estate....
Do You Really Want To Know Anything About The Marlins?
Last year was a fun one for the Miami Marlins, until it really, really wasn’t. José Fernández’s death may not actually cast a pall over the Marlins’ entire 2017 season, but it certainly feels that way now. It will definitely feel that way whenever I have to watch Dan Straily pitch....
Stars Player Hospitalized After High Stick To The Face
Dallas Stars forward Curtis McKenzie left a trail of blood on the ice after the Bruins’ Kevan Miller high-sticked him in the third period of Thursday’s 2-0 Boston win....
The Baltimore Orioles Will Just Keep Swinging
This is part of an occasional series comprising MLB season previews....
Nobody Trusts The Process More Than America's Most Prominent Young Socialists<em></em>
In April of last year, Philadelphia right-wing talk radio host and Daily News columnist Dom Giordano cooked up a hot take comparing now former Philadelphia 76ers general manager Sam Hinkie to Bernie Sanders. It ended with an almost Breitbartian non sequitur: “Hinkie robbed area basketball fans of th...