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“In a situation like that, where both teams have to agree to the same thing—we’re kind of at different points in the season, so there were slightly different modes of thinking at the time.” Chelsea Janes of the Washington Post has a cool look at what goes on behind the scenes to manage a September r...

Report: Former Cowboys Running Back Joseph Randle Arrested On Suspicion Of Rape

Former Cowboys running back Joseph Randle was arrested early Friday in Wichita, Kansas on suspicion of rape, according to a report from The Wichita Eagle:...

SafeSport Bans Taekwondo's Steven Lopez, But Will It Last? 

The U.S. Center for SafeSport has banned three-time Olympic taekwondo medalist Steven Lopez, declaring him permanently ineligible earlier this week for “sexual misconduct involving a minor.” According to a copy of the notice of the director’s decision and other SafeSport records, which Deadspin revi...

Police Say Celtics' Jabari Bird Assaulted, Choked, And Kidnapped Someone In "Domestic Incident"

Celtics guard Jabari Bird was arrested in Boston Friday night following a “domestic incident” in which he is accused of assaulting, choking, and kidnapping an unnamed victim....

When The Nellie Kush Hits

Steve Nash brought 78-year-old Don Nelson on stage with him Friday night during his Hall of Fame induction speech, and, friends, Nellie looks FUCKING AWESOME now:...

Flamethrowing White Sox Phenom Michael Kopech Needs Tommy John Surgery

After making four starts this year, White Sox rookie Michael Kopech will most likely not return to the mound until 2020. The team announced this afternoon that Kopech has a torn ulnar collateral ligament, and while he will reportedly seek a second opinion from Dr. James Andrews and consider his reco...

Mike Hogewood Was The ACC

Growing up in North Carolina, there isn’t a whole bunch that precedes college basketball. God (yes, of course). Family (well, depends on the family). But always in that top-three, above friends, work, and health, sits ACC basketball....

Goodbye, Boris Diaw

The fact that Boris Diaw was still out there somewhere in this large world playing basketball in public, even if I wasn’t around to look at it, lit a happy little flame in my brain. If I was in a good mood at any given time, it could be attributed in some barely measurable way to that fact. Yesterda...

Some Common Goalkeeping Mistakes Aren't Actually Mistakes

It’s not really surprising that an eccentric position played by only one-tenth of a sport’s population and operating under a completely different rule set is relatively overlooked and misunderstood. That’s not always a major problem. After all, a goalkeeper’s job boils down to “Keep the ball out of ...

Anatomy Of A Plaid: Inside A Blogger's Closet

Shirts: My friends, they are a fact of life. I long ago realized that, with the exception of some jobs for which I am not remotely qualified, having a job would mean wearing a shirt of some kind, quite possibly to an office. At least partially as a result, I went on to freelance for the better part...

God Bless The Capitals' Party Dummies For Partying Harder Than Any Team Is Allowed To Ever Again

After 44 years without a championship, the Washington Capitals nabbed the franchise’s first Stanley Cup in June. And then they partied about it. They partied, you guys....

Show Us Your Fantasy Football Team

There is no greater frustration than being psyched for your championship-worthy fantasy team to take the field—and not have any players in the Thursday night kickoff game. So let’s get through these last couple of days together. Show us your team!...

NHL Players Are Annoyed At Noted Shit-Talker Jalen Ramsey For Talking Shit

With the NBA season still over a month away from starting, NHL players needed a new source from which to draw their insecurity....

Larry Nassar Loses Another Request For Resentencing

Disgraced former Michigan State and USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar lost today on another one of his requests for a new sentencing hearing, this one in Eaton County, Mich. Like in the case filed against him in Ingham County, multiple women in Eaton said Nassar sexually abused them under the guise...

Josh Donaldson's Agent Says Jon Heyman Is Full Of Crap

You may not have even noticed that the Toronto Blue Jays traded former franchise cornerstone and 2015 MVP Josh Donaldson to the Cleveland Indians this week, because the whole thing barely registered. Donaldson, who was only healthy enough to play 36 games for the Jays this season, was sent away for ...

NY State Senate Candidate Julia Salazar Was Once Involved In Bizarre Legal Dispute With Keith Hernandez And His Ex-Wife

Five years ago, as Tablet and the Daily Mail reported today, current New York state Senate candidate Julia Salazar sued Kai Hernandez, the ex-wife of former Mets star and baseball announcer Keith Hernandez, for defamation after she said Salazar stole from her, tried to break into her bank account, a...

Gary Sánchez Really Couldn't Catch The Ball Last Night

The mighty Oakland Athletics pantsed the sickly New York Yankees last night at the Coliseum, taking two games from a pretty entertaining three-game preview of the most likely AL Wild Card game matchup. Oakland shot out to a four-run lead in the first inning, though Yanks catcher Gary Sánchez was as ...

Let's All Be Really Wrong About The 2018 NFL Season

For all the things that there are to love about the NFL—idiotic and wholly unaccountable leadership, a profoundly malfunctioning moral compass, the new rules that no one even knows how to enforce, the whole Nathan Peterman Thing—the purest pleasure it offers is the chance to be wrong as hell about ...

Report: Detroit Tigers Announcers Had A "Physical Altercation" After Game [Update]

Play-by-play man Mario Impemba and color commentator Rod Allen have been calling Tigers games on Fox Sports Detroit together for over a decade—and they make a great on-screen duo, for what it’s worth. But apparently, putting two men together in a small box and forcing them to talk for several hours ...

Trevor Story Hit The Ball A Quarter-Mile

The NL West is good as hell right now. The Rockies won 5-3 and swept the Giants and are now 1.5 games up on the Dodgers and two on the D-Backs. But you’re not here for that divisional intrigue, are you? That’s not what you were promised, and that’s not why you clicked. You, my like-minded friend, ar...