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Here Is A Nice Story, I Hope You Will Enjoy It Because Most Everything Else Is Awful
Some Florida State football players visited Montford Middle School in Tallahassee yesterday, but Leah Paske didn’t realize it until later, when a friend sent her this photo of WR Travis Rudolph eating lunch with her son Bo, who has autism....

Rougned Odor Slaps Walk-Off Dinger, Stares Down Edwin Diaz
Rougned Odor spent the Rangers’ game against the Mariners tonight messing with Dae-ho Lee, hitting the ball over the field, and futzing around on the basepath. He capped it off with a walk-off home run, and because he’s Rougned Odor, he capped that off with a stare down and a little tiny baby bat fl...

Manny Machado Hits The Ball So Dang Hard
The Baltimore Orioles are in the hunt for the AL East title and hold a 1.5 game lead over Detroit for the second wild card spot precisely because their offense does one thing better than any other baseball club: They mash so many dingers....
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Donald Trump Might Actually Go to Mexico Tomorrow [Update]
This election has been an objective nightmare, but at long last, we finally have some good news. In a little over 12 hours, Donald Trump could be heading to Mexico. And if Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto has even a sliver of a heart, he’ll let him in. Because god knows we need this....

Bret Bielema's Tiny Dogs Cannot Be Contained
I present to you now: Bret Bielema’s tiny dogs (who appear to be silky terriers). A quick bit of Instagram snooping reveals that they are football fans; Bret Bielema’s Twitter reveals that they care little for home cleanliness. ...

This Is How You Celebrate Catching A Foul Ball
Oh yeah baby, oh yeah! Someone give me a high-five!...

Three Minor Leaguers Arrested After Wild Bar Brawl
On Sunday night, the Pittsburgh Pirates’ AAA affiliate Indianapolis Indians beat the Toledo Mud Hens, the Tigers’ AAA club, 6-2. After the game, several players from both clubs went to The Bronze Boar, a sports bar across the street from the Mud Hens’ stadium. Pirates prospects Gift Ngoepe and Dovyd...

USC Linebacker Suspended Amid Two Separate Sexual Assault Allegations
Osa Masina, USC’s back-up weakside linebacker, has been suspended from this Saturday’s season-opener against Alabama for what the Trojans’s athletic department is deeming “a violation of team rules.” ...

Lawsuit: University Of Arkansas Tried To Wait to Expel Olympic Athlete Until He'd Graduated
A former tennis player at the University of Arkansas Fayetteville filed a lawsuit August 22 alleging the university mishandled a Title IX investigation and subsequent expulsion of a fellow student-athlete and one-time Olympian whom she says sexually assaulted her on campus in 2014. ...

Jamal Crawford Fakes Going Behind The Back
Jamal Crawford has been in the league forever, but he’s still got some new tricks. Playing in the Seattle Pro-Am league final on Sunday, Crawford cleared some space with a nifty move I can’t even name....

Don't Get Mad. Join A Union.
Shit is fucked up and bullshit. Economic inequality is high and wages are low and people are mad. Want to do something about it? Don’t vote for Donald Trump. Join a union....

Adrian Beltre Lovingly Messes With Switch Pitcher Pat Venditte
Ambidextrous relief pitcher Pat Venditte has been in Major League Baseball for about a year. He’s bounced back and forth between the show and the minors, and Venditte made his Mariners debut this evening. After starter Hisashi Iwakuma was chased after three innings, Venditte stepped in and pitched t...

Twitter User Puts Tony Stewart In His Rear-View Mirror<em></em>
Tony Stewart—you know, the one who did this—decided to offer his thoughts on Colin Kaepernick and his decision to sit down during the National Anthem. You will not be surprised by those thoughts....

Remember When <i>GameFan</i> Published This Insane, Racist Review Of <i>NCAA '96</i>?
EA Sports’s College Football USA ‘96—one of the earliest entries in the late, great NCAA Football series—was groundbreaking. Not only was it the first game to include every team from what was then called Division I-A, it was the first to include real bowl games. None of these features were mentioned...

Aspire To Have As Much Conviction As This Little League Catcher
On Sunday, the Little League team from Maine-Endwell, N.Y. beat the team from Seoul, South Korea, 2-1, in the championship game. More importantly, South Korea’s catcher Jungseo Cho set a new gold standard in commitment to pitch framing....

Las Vegas NHL Team Is Going To Choose Some Bland-As-Hell Name
It’s probably time to accept that the name of the Las Vegas expansion NHL team will not be good. It will be boring, which at least is not actively bad, and then, within a few decades (if the team is still there), it will have the power of inertia behind it and you won’t even think about it anymore. ...

The Cardinals Lost Their 61st Game
Jaime García gave up two two-out home runs and the Cardinals lost 7-4 to the A’s on Sunday to finish interleague play a dismal 8-12....

Whatever Your History Teacher Said, The Goths Crushed Rome Because Rome Had It Coming
The fall of the Roman Empire is one of the central events in human history, and chances are good that at some point in your education, you were forced to sit through a godawful lecture or two filled with weird-ass names—seriously, Gundobad? Stilicho?—and dates that you forgot as soon as the test was...

Look At Bryce Harper
Maybe this is weird to say, but I don’t think any player in baseball is as visually captivating as Bryce Harper. The home runs and helmet-ditching sprints from home to second—all produced by that loopy, torquing swing of his—are an easy sell, but there’s also just something about the way Harper look...

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