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USA Wrestling Will Require Media To Submit To Vague Background Checks And Training Program
With sexual abuse scandals plaguing USA Gymnastics, USA Swimming, and USA Taekwondo, the national governing body for wrestling is putting bizarre new policies in place that will subject those who cover the sport to harsher protocols....
The Weather At The Boston Marathon Overwhelmed The World's Best Distance Runners
The men’s and women’s races at Monday’s Boston Marathon were won by two of the unlikeliest people. Desi Linden was the first American woman to win Boston since the race became fully professional in 1986; the men’s race was won by Yuki Kawauchi, who isn’t really a professional. (He has a full-time go...
Gregg Popovich's Praise Of LaMarcus Aldridge Felt Rather Pointed
The Spurs are down 0-2 to the Warriors in their first-round playoff series, and Kawhi Leonard is not with the team. The reasons for that are still somehow impossibly murky—Leonard has been dealing with an injured quad muscle all year; he may or may not have been healthy enough to play for some time ...
MLB Prospect Sues Lending Firm For "Unconscionable" And "Exploitative" Behavior
Big League Advance Fund is a company owned by former MLB pitcher Michael Schwimer. The company, of which Browns President Paul DePodesta is a board member, is apparently in the business of seeking out up-and-coming baseball prospects and paying them a chunk of money up front in exchange for a massiv...
Please Enjoy 84 Seconds Of The <i>American Ninja Warrior</i> Broadcast Team Losing Their Shit
The old institutions slouch and rot and tip towards collapse; the culture turns inward, agoraphobic and sleepless and helplessly in thrall to rancid idle fantasies of violence or narcotic visions of capitulation and release; the people in charge loot and lie and then go blank and soft before the ima...
The Boston Marathon Had Two Shocking Winners<em></em>
You will read, and in fact are reading right now, that Desi Linden and Yuki Kawauchi’s times (2:39:54 and 2:15:58) were the slowest winning times in the Boston Marathon in 40 and 42 years, respectively. You should pay this no mind—given the brutal rain and headwinds in which the race was run, and gi...
Elgin Baylor Is Finally Ready To Tell People He Was Great
Elgin Baylor’s gotta be the most underappreciated superstar of all time, in basketball or any major sport. The guy was NCAA Final Four MVP and NBA Rookie of the Year. He was First-Team All-NBA 10 times and an NBA All-Star 11 times. Baylor led his team, the Minneapolis/Los Angeles Lakers, in the trif...
Here Are The Champions League Semifinal Matchups
After a thrilling Champions League quarterfinal round that saw the threat of multiple enormous comebacks and one completed one, we now know who will play whom in the semifinal round for the right to compete for the European Cup in Kiev. The draw looks incredibly enticing....
Report: Seahawks Cancelled Colin Kaepernick Visit Over Kneeling Concerns
According to ESPN insider Adam Schefter, the Seattle Seahawks were all ready to give free-agent quarterback Colin Kaepernick a chance to audition for a job, but pulled the plug at the last minute because Kaepernick wouldn’t promise to stop protesting police brutality and racial discrimination....
Red Sox, Yankees Put On A Brawl
Just a few hours after baseball’s last benches-clearing brawl, here’s another solid one for you. The Red Sox and Yankees got into a tussle in the seventh inning tonight, after Boston’s Joe Kelly hit Tyler Austin in retaliation for a spikes-up slide earlier in the game. Austin slammed his bat down, K...
Lawsuit: MLB Advanced Media Accused Of Contract Breach, Patent Infringement In Developing Statcast Tech
The parent company of Sportvision, the group that created the pitch-tracking system Pitchf/x, is suing MLB Advanced Media over the use of their technology in the development of Statcast. The suit—filed in district court in New York last week—accuses MLBAM of breach of contract, patent infringement, ...
Lawsuit: Isaac Haas Knowingly Infected Woman With Chlamydia, Got "Off The Books" Medical Treatment From Purdue
A lawsuit filed on Tuesday in Indiana accuses Purdue basketball player Isaac Haas of knowingly infecting at least one woman with chlamydia. In addition to Haas, who finished up his senior season in March, the suit also names Purdue University, whose doctors allegedly did not document Haas’s medical ...
The Rockies And Padres Had Themselves A Scuffle
The Padres and Rockies are playing a game in Colorado today, and things really went to hell in the third inning after Padres starter Luis Perdomo threw a fastball behind Nolan Arenado, sparking a benches-clearing fracas....
Invisible Men, Surprise Guests, And Monsters: A WrestleMania 34 Weekend Travelogue
I have done The WrestleMania Weekend Thing once before, back in 2013, but I slept in my own bed that time. The weekend has only gotten crazier since then, and this year the confluence of a jam-packed slate of events and a return engagement in New Orleans finally wore me down. So I went to New Orlean...
Chivas And New York Red Bulls Fans Get Into A Big Ole Brawl
The New York Red Bulls hosted Chivas Tuesday in some hot and heavy CONCACAF Champions League action, and it wound up being a shitty night for their fans. Not only did NYRB draw 0-0 and lose the two-leg series on aggregate, a bunch of fans also got into a big brawl with Chivas supporters. There were ...
Kansas And NC State Are Now Caught Up In The FBI's College Basketball Investigation
A new indictment announced today in the FBI’s college basketball bribery investigation adds both Kansas and North Carolina State to the mix of involved schools that already included programs like Louisville, Miami, and Arizona....
Madison Brengle Sues WTA For "Physical Injury, Emotional Trauma" Caused By Intravenous Doping Tests
American tennis player Madison Brengle filed a lawsuit against the WTA and ITF yesterday in Florida’s Manatee County Court, in which she claims the organizations ignored her medical condition that causes her to suffer “physical and emotional consequences” from regular doping tests that draw blood u...
Marlins Claim British Virgin Islands Citizenship In Attempt To Avoid Miami Court
If I asked you which MLB franchise is claiming foreign citizenship in a Caribbean tax haven, and is doing so in order to get out of a lawsuit, you’d have answered the Marlins before I finished asking the question, wouldn’t you?...
Report: Mitch Kupchak Will Take Over Charlotte Hornets Basketball Operations
The Charlotte Hornets fired general manager Rich Cho back in February, when they could no longer pretend like they’d done anything right since coming back to Charlotte, other than developing Kemba Walker and having a cool-ass court. Buzz Peterson, the team’s assistant GM and a college roommate of ow...
Bubba Watson Sends Eagle Putt Directly Into The Bunker
Owing to the insane three-day brilliance of leader Patrick Reed, Bubba Watson’s perfectly respectable six-under headed into Sunday at the Masters put him nowhere close to contending for the lead in the final round. An early eagle certainly wouldn’t have hurt the cause! I bring that up because Watson...