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Enthused Announcer Nearly Passes Out From Excitement Calling D-II Buzzer-Beater
Have you ever counted your chickens? Before they hatched??? Repent....
Report: MLB To Experiment With Starting Extra Innings With A Runner On Second
Baseball is a wonderful sport where opposing teams club small white orbs to death and run around in their pajamas, and the only problem with it is that games are interminable. As you may recall, the seventh inning of Game 5 of the 2016 NLDS took approximately an hour and the entire game lasted close...
Nikola Jokic's Two Huge Brothers Go Everywhere He Goes
Nuggets center Nikola Jokic is, at just 21 years old, getting very close to becoming a legitimate NBA superstar. This is owed to his unique game, which is cotton candy to NBA fans who prefer their big men to play with a point guard’s touch and vision. Jokic averaged 23.4 points, 10.7 rebounds, and 4...
Big 12 Punishes Baylor By Temporarily Withholding Some TV Money
The Big 12's board of directors unanimously voted to withhold from Baylor a quarter of the conference’s annual revenue distribution payment—the money Power Five conferences make from their various TV and advertising deals. The fine is temporary, however, as according to the statement, Baylor will ge...
Michael Jordan Dunked On The Warriors' Trophy-Humping Owner
Warriors owner Joe Lacob is precisely the kind of Silicon Valley-bred dipshit who deserves to have his ego deflated whenever possible. Thankfully, NBA legend and pettiest human on earth Michael Jordan is here to do just that. ...
High School Sophomore LaMelo Ball Scored 92 Points In A Game
High school basketball player LaMelo Ball, last seen calling his shot from half court, scored 92 points tonight. Ball is the youngest brother of UCLA star Lonzo, and he’s currently a high school sophomore at Chino Hills HS (Ca). Chino Hills had a 60-game winning streak going until they lost on Sunda...
Dirk Turned Back The Clock, But It Didn't Even Matter
The Mavericks have been quite feisty over the past few weeks, quickly climbing out of the Western Conference toilet and into the group of bad teams contending for the eight seed. Tonight, they played the Blazers, a fellow mediocre contender to get waxed by the Warriors in the playoffs, and lost in o...
Austrian TV's Super Bowl Highlight Reel Is Much Better Than Anything Fox Produced
Super Bowl LI was an incredible game that featured a historic comeback and two of the greatest catches in Super Bowl history. But you might not get a sense of how bonkers the Patriots’ unholy comeback was from watching the limp highlight reel that FOX played at the end of the game. If you want the g...
Baylor Fires Strength Coach After Arrest On Prostitution Charge
Baylor has fired strength coach Brandon Washington after he was arrested as part of a prostitution sting last week. The sting was first reported late yesterday by the Waco Tribune-Herald, and Baylor announced the assistant football coach’s firing the same day. ...
The Roman Economy Was A Powerhouse
We remember the Roman Empire for a great many things. Gladiators are always popular, and the army runs a close second, but the most striking thing about Rome is the monumental landscape of buildings it left behind. The Colosseum, the Circus Maximus, ornate palaces and villas, aqueducts that reach to...
Hometown Kid Jesé Introduces Himself To Las Palmas Fans With An Awful Miss
In the 67th minute of Monday’s Granada-Las Palmas La Liga match, PSG loanee Jesé stepped onto the pitch for the first time with his new club Las Palmas. That moment was the culmination of Jesé’s life journey so far, one that started in the city of Las Palmas, went through Madrid, took a short detour...
What Would It Look Like, Hypothetically, If A Public Figure Were Suffering The Symptoms Of Dementia?
Ronald Reagan was 69 years old at his inauguration as president in 1981, the oldest anyone had ever been on taking the office—a record that Donald Trump recently beat when he was inaugurated at age 70. Beset by concerns about his advanced age from the beginning, Reagan was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s...
The Wizards Are For Real
Take heart, D.C. fans. Sometimes the best basketball player alive is just gonna throw in a one-legged 25-foot turnaround fallaway jumper high off the glass to tie the game with 0.3 seconds left in regulation in your building. It happens! Or anyway, it happened....
Andrew McCutchen Makes The Inevitable Move To Right Field Like A Champ
Andrew McCutchen will start another year in Pirates uniform, it turns out—but it won’t be in center field....
Bruins Fire Claude Julien And Will Probably Regret It
The oldest trick in the book...the Tuesday morning news dump? The Bruins announced the firing of head coach Claude Julien shortly after sunrise, and while the move isn’t exactly unexpected (whether it’s wise is an entirely different question), the timing is suspect. Boston hasn’t played a game since...
One-Armed Eighth Grader Keeps Dunking<em></em>
Iowan eighth grader Trashaun Willis is half as old as me and has half as many arms and he can dunk. He picked off a pass last week and jammed it but, as he told MaxPreps, this wasn’t even his first dunk of the year....
Report: High School Basketball Coach Appears To Have Six Players Living In His Cramped Apartment
Six New Jersey high school basketball players, all from Puerto Rico or Nigeria, appear to have been living with their coach, have complained about going hungry, and are the subjects of a Division of Child Protection and Permanency investigation, according to an NJ.com investigative report....
North Carolina Won't Host A March Madness Game Until 2022 If HB2 Is Not Repealed
According to a letter sent by the N.C. Sports Association to legislators in the North Carolina General Assembly, the NCAA will take its business elsewhere for the next six years if the state’s lawmakers do not repeal House Bill 2 by the end of the month....
Apropos Of Nothing, Here's Chris Sale In A Red Sox Outfit
Courtesy of the Boston Globe’s Pete Abraham, on Twitter:...