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Kevin Durant Says It Was "Childish" And "Idiotic" To Rip Former Coach And Teammates
Yesterday, Kevin Durant, a tall, expensive shoe who gets revenge on the haters by boasting about how you join them if you can’t beat them, got caught talking shit about his former Thunder coach and teammates on Twitter. It was mean of Durant to slag his old team by claiming he could have never won a...

Kevin Durant Trashes Former Coach, Teammates On Twitter
Thanks to the eagle eye of Twitter user @harrisonmc15, we get to enjoy these since-deleted tweets from Golden State Warriors star Kevin Durant:...

Tennis Player Tennys Sandgren Melts Down During Ump Dispute
Tennys Sandgren, the Pizzagater with a cute name, let loose on an ump during Thursday’s 6-3, 2-6, 6-2 loss to Cameron Norrie at the Cary Challenger, after what appeared to be a baseless accusation of illegal coaching. (Players are not allowed to get feedback from coaches mid-match.)...

How A Small-Time Training Group And An Army Program Changed American Distance Running
Warmed up and stripped down, 15 blade-thin runners milled on the track, game-faced, gathering themselves. A few words between them, Swahili and English—“20 seconds ... 10 …”—and the amorphous group coalesced into a single-file line, shuffling. Scott Simmons had not finished saying, “Go!” when the fi...

Sergio Garcia Fights Bush, Loses
During his round at the British Open today, Sergio Garcia whacked his club into some bushes after hitting a shot he was not happy with on the fourth hole. He should not have done that, because he ended up hurting his shoulder. ...

Dante Fowler Jr. Allegedly Punched A Guy, Stomped On His Glasses, Threw His Booze In A Lake
Jaguars defensive end Dante Fowler Jr. was arrested Tuesday night in his hometown of St. Petersburg (Fla.) after, well, let’s let the statement St. Petersburg police just emailed me explain it:...

Kansas State Lineman Scott Frantz Comes Out As Gay
Kansas State starting left guard Scott Frantz became just the second current openly gay FBS football player Thursday morning, after coming out to ESPN’s Holly Rowe in a recent interview....

NBCSN Airs Cyclist Pulling Out Dick, Taking A Piss While Riding In Tour De France (NSFW)
Professional cyclists often have to confront the reality of needing to pee or crap during a race, and so it’s not uncommon for a rider to whip it out and whiz all over the road while on his bike. It is far less common for a rider to be caught doing that on live TV....

DeMar DeRozan Throws Ball At Referee During Pro-Am Game
Raptors star DeMar DeRozan lost his cool at the end of a Drew League pro-am game, chucking the ball at the referee before leaving the court. ...

David Price Continues His War On The Boston Media
David Price has been extra salty with reporters this year. Right off the bat, he declared that he wouldn’t be speaking to the media except on days when he starts, and then he got into a strange shouting match with CSNNE’s Evan Drellich after a game last month. Lately, it’s been more of the same....

Daniil Medvedev Melts Down At Wimbledon, Tosses Money At Umpire's Chair
Daniil Medvedev’s first-ever Wimbledon burned hot, brief, and stupid. The 21-year-old Russian upset No. 5 seed Stan Wawrinka in the first round, and today he exited in a remarkable meltdown. ...

Former NFL Lineman Ryan O'Callaghan Comes Out As Gay<em></em>
Ryan O’Callaghan played 51 games for the Chiefs and Patriots over the course of his five-year NFL career, which ended in 2011. In an interview with Outsports this morning, he came out as gay, discussed how hard it was to transition out of a playing career, and opened up about how he planned to commi...

Tennis Player Loses Match After Being Penalized For Calling Himself A "Stupid Person"
Brydan Klein, the Australian-born British tennis player who was banned from the sport for six months in 2009 for racially abusing an opponent, was assessed an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty during his ATP Nottingham Challenger match on Thursday for calling himself a “stupid person” after he dumped ...

Kevin Durant Made No Sense While Denying A Report About Him And Draymond Green
One day before Game 4 of the NBA Finals, ESPN’s Zach Lowe published an article about how the Golden State Warriors moved on from blowing a 3-1 lead in last year’s Finals. The piece specifically focused on Draymond Green’s Game 5 suspension and how the Warriors chose to stand behind Green rather than...

Lack Of Testosterone Limits Leads To Debate Over Transgender High School Athlete
Fifteen-year-old Cromwell High School freshman Andraya Yearwood won the girls’ 100-meter and 200-meter races at the Connecticut Class M track meet. In middle school, Yearwood competed as a boy. The transgender athlete intends to pursue hormonal treatment and sex reassignment surgery, but was able to...

French Rugby Player Flattens Referee, Turns His Fury Towards Opponents
Benjamin Casty, the brother of French rugby star Remi, was officiating a French junior cup match between Toulouse and Saint-Esteve last weekend when he sent off an overly fired up Saint-Esteve player. Our man was not ready to leave the field, but he was prepared to pop Casty with a vicious right cro...

Reds Prospect Posts Video Of Himself Snorting What Appears To Be Cocaine
Cincinnati Reds pitching prospect Ian Kahaloa was drafted in the fifth round of the 2015 amateur draft, and has been playing rookie ball ever since. He won’t be playing much this year, though, as he’s currently serving a 50-game drug suspension that was handed down on Tuesday. Last month, a Twitter ...

Auburn Softball Player Isn't Here For Florida Coach's Bullshit
Auburn’s softball team beat Florida 1-0 yesterday, and after the game Tigers shortstop Haley Fagan got into it with Florida head coach Tim Walton....

Drew Doughty Didn't Appreciate Matthew Tkachuk Elbowing Him In The Face
Late in the first period of yesterday’s game between the Flames and Kings, Calgary rookie forward Matthew Tkachuk threw what appeared to be a deliberate elbow into the face of Kings defenseman Drew Doughty....

The First Openly Trans Professional Hockey Player Is Retiring
Harrison Browne came out publicly as transgender in an ESPN interview just before the second season of the NWHL opened in October. Born Hailey Browne, the 23-year-old had been out to his friends, family, and college coaches since sophomore year at the University of Maine, but the interview made him ...