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ESPN Baseball Broadcast Derailed By Unbearable Argument Over Lineup Optimization

In the third inning of Wednesday night’s Cubs-Cardinals broadcast on ESPN, play-by-play guy Jon Sciambi brought up an interesting stat about the lousy season-long performance of the second-base and center-field positions for the Cubs. This line of thought led fellow commentator Eduardo Pérez to brin...

Rick Porcello Smashes Two TVs After Mildly Unpleasant First Inning, Ought To Maybe Chill

Boston Red Sox starter Rick Porcello has had a rough season. His 5.55 earned run average entering Wednesday night’s start is a career-worst; his WHIP is the highest it’s been in going on four seasons in Boston; his strikeouts per nine innings are the lowest they’ve been since 2015. To make matters w...

Here Are Some Potential Locations For FIFA's New Headquarters

According to a report from the New York Times, soccer federation and bribe repository FIFA is considering moving away from its longtime headquarters in Switzerland and setting up shop elsewhere. The Times speculates that potential host countries could potentially engage in an Amazon-style competitio...

The Giants And Phillies Become Model Of Teamwork And Selflessness While Fighting Wind-Blown Tarp Together

A few East-Coast ballparks have come up against their arch-nemesis this afternoon—falling water—as an onslaught of thunderstorms have conspired to threaten, at least, an ongoing game in the Bronx and an upcoming one in Philadelphia....

The Strikeout Machines In Houston Are Firing At Full Capacity [Update]

Justin Verlander’s still got it. The 36-year-old Houston Astros starter flexed his muscles once again on Tuesday night, striking out 13 Cleveland Indians over seven innings of scoreless two-hit ball as his team picked up its 10th win in the past 12 games. It was the Astros’ fourth straight win with ...

Baseball Players, Listen To Me: Stop Wearing Shirts Under Vest Jerseys

Attention all baseball men! Have you been outside? It is thousands of degrees outside and somehow even more humid. Terrible! It is almost August. And so I say to you: it is time to stop wearing these ridiculous t-shirts under your jerseys....

Which Of The NFL's Five Holdouts Has The Most Leverage?

The NFL’s current collective bargaining agreement has largely made training camp holdouts a thing of the past. By codifying significant daily fines, docking a regular-season game check for each preseason game missed, and placing limitations on the accrual of service time toward free agency, this CB...

The Three-Way Trevor Bauer Trade Looks Pretty Good For Everyone

The Trevor Bauer trade was at least a little overshadowed, because within minutes of the news breaking, one of its major pieces was involved in a big ol’ brawl. Understandable, but it really is a fascinating trade that confounded expectations and may have made the Indians—ostensible sellers here—an ...

Yasiel Puig Involved In Massive Reds Brawl Within Moments Of Being Traded To Indians

Literally as I was hitting publish on a blog about Trevor Bauer being fined for a meltdown, and how it might’ve been his final act as a member of the Cleveland Indians, Bauer was traded by the Cleveland Indians. I did that! Sadly, Bauer was not traded to the New York Mets. Even more sadly, he was tr...

MLB Fines Trevor Bauer Over Ball-Chucking Meltdown [Update]

Trevor Bauer was fined by Major League Baseball Tuesday for his tantrum on the mound Sunday, when Bauer chucked the ball over the wall in center at the end of a brutal outing against the Kansas City Royals. Bauer apologized for the meltdown after the game, but MLB apparently still felt he needed to ...

Dennis Whitton is a sports journalism lifer who was fired for non-performance reasons by cynical investor types—in this case, hedge-fund ghouls—after they bought his publication, the Lowell Sun. He wrote a very good farewell column, and the money people, out of sheer cowardice, deleted it. Media Nat...

Lou Anna Simon Is Finally Leaving Michigan State

Disgraced former Michigan State president Lou Anna Simon will retire from the university at the end of August, according to a report from MSU Today. It’s been a long and ignominious slide for Simon, whose 15-year tenure as president at MSU was marked by a “culture of indifference and institutional p...

Here is a very good blog from Kyle Wagner, former Gizmodo intern, about Jeremy Lin’s free agency, legacy, and place—or lack thereof—in today’s NBA. [New York Daily News]...

Caster Semenya Won't Be Allowed To Defend Her 800-Meter Title At The World Championships

South African runner Caster Semenya won’t be allowed to compete in her primary event, the 800 meters, two months from now at the 2019 World Championships, because a Swiss court has reversed the June ruling that temporarily suspended the IAAF’s discriminatory hormone policy....

If You Have To Take A Pitch To The Face, This Is The Most Pleasant Way To Do It

There’s nothing a hitter wants to see less than a fastball screaming towards his jaw, but such a sight doesn’t always mean disaster is in store. Sometimes the ball just wants to give you a lil’ kiss!...

Brazilian Police Recommend Against Charging Neymar With Rape

Police in Brazil have closed their investigation into the rape allegation against Paris Saint-Germain star Neymar, and recommend that prosecutors not bring charges against him due to a lack of evidence. The prosecutor’s office will have 15 days to “evaluate the case,” according to the AFP....

Marcus Stroman Let The Blue Jays Know Exactly How He Felt About Being Traded To The Mets

Marcus Stroman seems cool with it now. The pitcher, acquired by the Mets on Sunday in a shock trade with Toronto, tweeted out an old photo of himself as a small child wearing a Mets jacket, saying “some things were meant to be.” He comes across as genuinely excited to be a Met, and—not for nothing—n...

Tyreek Hill Says Punching His Three-Year-Old Son In The Chest Was Just Boxing Lessons

Tyreek Hill spoke to assembled media Sunday at Chiefs training camp, his first public comments in several months. The criminal investigation into Crystal Espinal’s allegation that Hill broke his son’s arm is inactive; the NFL’s parallel investigation could not determine whether Hill had violated th...

Diamondbacks Turn Harmless Sacrifice Bunt Into Sequence Of Screeching Embarrassment

For a team that’s stuck on the fence between selling and buying ahead of the trade deadline, a discouraging showing against a bottom-feeder is maybe all the nudge you need to trade everyone away and start over. That’s the sad position the Arizona Diamondbacks face Monday night after the crummy Marli...

Pau Gasol's Arrival To Trail Blazers Made Much Creepier With Heavy Breather On Conference Call

It’s strangely a bit reassuring to know that, no matter where you work, there will always be somebody who doesn’t understand or refuses to honor the basics of conference call etiquette. Whether it’s a distracting echo or the clack clack of keys typing or the slightly more adorable sound of a cat meo...