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Kansas Beats Kansas State At The Buzzer Despite Blatant Traveling Violation
With Kansas and Kansas State tied up at 88 with 5.6 seconds left, the Jayhawks gave the ball to Svi Mykhailiuk. Mykhailiuk took it end-to-end and scored a buzzer-beating layup, preserving Kansas’ NCAA-high 50-game home win streak....

Isaiah Thomas Is Having A Moment
Jazz center Rudy Gobert has the longest wingspan in NBA history at 7-foot-8.5, and the tree-shaped Frenchman is currently leading the NBA in both blocks and defensive rating. Tonight, he chased 5-foot-9 Celtics point guard Isaiah Thomas into the lane, creating a scenario that seems as likely to end ...

Here Is An Extremely Good Dunk And An Even Better Reaction
This is Derek Harper, a 5-foot-11 guard for Clark Atlanta who can warp through defenders and dunk them into oblivion. Watch him touch the sky last night....
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Minnesota Fires Coach Tracy Claeys [Updated]
The Golden Gophers have fired football coach Tracy Claeys, according to several reports out of Minnesota. None of the reports offer anything official about why he was fired, but the move does follow a bowl game win—and the program getting criticism for when the players threatened to boycott the game...

Curt Schilling Digs Hole Deeper
Curt Schilling, who is not in the Baseball Hall of Fame but would be a first-ballot pick for the Meme Curator Hall of Fame, talked to TMZ Sports about how he probably won’t be elected this year and continued to hurt his chances for the future....

Jung Ho Kang's Off-Field Issues Likely To Cost Him A WBC Roster Spot
Major League Baseball has yet to issue a ruling on the potential suspension of Pirates’ third baseman Jung Ho Kang following a series of incidents including a sexual assault allegations and a DUI. But it seems increasingly likely that his off-field issues will cost him playing time at least in the W...

Louisville Women Trick Duke Into Defending Wrong Basket
No. 13 Duke edged No. 8 Louisville 58-55, but the Cardinals ran the cleverest play of the night. To start the second half, Louisville fooled the Blue Devils into defending the backcourt, leading to the easiest layup Briahanna Jackson’s ever had....

Brent Musburger Praises Joe Mixon, Then Gets Angry At People Who Were Mad He Praised Joe Mixon
Early in tonight’s Sugar Bowl, Brent Musburger called Joe Mixon “one of the best” and said he hoped the Oklahoma running back, suspended a year for breaking four bones in a woman’s face, made it to the NFL. That upset a lot of people; Musburger then unwisely responded to the reaction....

Red Wings Force Centennial Classic Overtime With Buzzer-Beater Goal
The hockey buzzer-beater is a rare event, but the Red Wings pulled it off as Anthony Mantha poked in Detroit’s second goal of the final two minutes—and the seventh of the third period—to force overtime at today’s outdoor Centennial Classic at Toronto’s “Exhibition Stadium.”...

Watch Shohei Otani Learn How Hard It Is To Get A Hit Off Shohei Otani
It could be a while before we see Japanese two-way superstar Shohei Otani in MLB. The new collective bargaining agreement has strict caps on international free agent spending for players under 25, which should be a deterrent for the 22-year-old Otani—though his current team, the Nippon Ham Fighters,...

What Horrible Things Did We Do To Our Penises Last Year?<em></em>
OK, so you’ve already learned about all the things we shoved inside ourselves last year. But what about our dangly bits? Rest assured, we punished them....

Duke Flails, Falters, Gets Killed By Virginia Tech
Duke’s last two non-conference games of the year should have been cupcakes. But the Blue Devils were all over the place and struggled against both Tennessee State and Elon, trailing in the second half in both games before getting their shit together and taking the two victories....

Devils' John Moore Taken Off Ice On Stretcher After Hard Hit
New Jersey Devils defenseman John Moore had to be stretchered off the ice after a hard hit into the boards from the Capitals’ Tom Wilson during Saturday’s game. A replay showed Moore’s head bouncing off the glass before he collapsed on the ice, where he lay for several minutes. Several of his teamma...

Horse Initiates Impromptu Protest Against Cultural Appropriation
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Prosecutor Says No Charges For Gopher Football Players, Again, After Minnesota Wins Its Bowl Game
The Hennepin County (Minn.) District Attorney’s Office announced today, for a second time, that it had reviewed the evidence against the group of Golden Gophers football players accused of raping a fellow student and decided there was not enough to bring a criminal case. But before going into what p...

Video Shows Former 49er Ray McDonald Threatening Ex-Fiancée And Child
In a video released Tuesday by her attorney, Kendra Scott can be heard asking former San Francisco 49ers defensive end Ray McDonald why he’s doing this and telling him to get away from her while she holds their infant son. Near the end, she screams “STOP, STOP!” at the top of her lungs as he chases ...

UConn's Women's Basketball Still Hasn't Lost A Game Since 2014
We need a word that multiplies the impact of the word “juggernaut” to describe the UConn women’s basketball team. Last night, the Huskies won their 87th consecutive game with a 87-81 win over fourth-ranked Maryland. That puts the team only four wins away from breaking their previous win streak recor...
