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Mercer Guard Jibri Bryan Shot And Killed In Convenience Store Parking Lot
Mercer University guard Jibri Bryan was shot in the head and killed in a convenience store parking lot Tuesday afternoon, according to police. Bryan, who was 23, was shot while sitting in his car. The Telegraph (Macon) has the details:...
Oh Crap, It's Time To Draft Your Fantasy Puppy Bowl Team
What a time to be alive. You can now draft your three-dog side for this Sunday’s Puppy Bowl. Choose from all the competitors listed here, and I’m going to kick your ass because my team is the best....
Do People Use Siri To Sext? It’s A Special Super Bowl Funbag!
I got good news, and I got bad news. The bad news is that this week’s Funbag is a special podcast edition, featuring me and Marchman addressing all of your most pressing questions. We had to do it this way because I’m in San Francisco covering the Super Bowl for GQ. (Don’t worry, there will still be...
Reports: Browns Will Cut Johnny Manziel In March
Welp, that will about do it for the Johnny Manziel era in Cleveland. The Browns released a cryptic statement about Manziel this afternoon, and now there are reports that he will be officially cut next month....
Kevin Love Finally Got In The Picture, And The Cavs Are Clicking
With last night’s victory against the Indiana Pacers, the Cleveland Cavaliers are 5-1 since David Blatt was fired and Tyronn Lue was named head coach. After the game, Kevin Love punctuated his team’s string of successes with this Instagram post:...
Report: Former Cowboys RB Joseph Randle Gambled On Sports
Running back Joseph Randle, who the Cowboys cut in November, bet on sporting events during the season, according to The Dallas Morning News. Randle was arrested Monday on an outstanding speeding charge, and in the wake of his fourth arrest in a year-and-a-half, the Morning News has an exhaustive rep...
DeMarcus Cousins Had Kings Remove Lunar New Year Giveaway T-Shirts
Lunar New Year is next Monday, and the Sacramento Kings are celebrating the holiday during tonight’s game against the Milwaukee Bucks with player introductions in Mandarin and a pregame celebration. Originally, their celebration was also supposed to include these Year of the Monkey shirts given away...
Byron Scott Is Still Saying Baffling Things About D'Angelo Russell
Halfway through the season, Lakers coach Byron Scott is still giving asinine quotes to the media and ham-fistedly messing with the development of his number two draft pick, D’Angelo Russell....
NBC And CBS To Split Thursday Night NFL Broadcasts Next Season
Here’s some good news for people who hate Jim Nantz and Phil Simms but love watching Thursday Night Football: You only have to deal with them for five games next year....
College Bro Lines Up The Perfect Selfie During VCU-Davidson Game
Thanks to this dude who attended Friday night’s VCU-Davidson game, we are reminded that it’s always funny to watch someone take a selfie:...
What Should We Call Draymond Green's Perfect Triple-Doubles?
The triple-double has always been more of a fun box-score artifact than a meaningful statistic, but Draymond Green has been gilding lilies that deserve special recognition....
Orioles Prospect Ramon Ramirez Dies After Motorcycle Accident In The Dominican Republic
Baltimore Orioles prospect Ramon Ramirez died yesterday near his hometown of La Romana, Dominican Republic after a motorcycle accident. He was 23 years old. ...
Middle Schooler Wins League Championship On Insane, Three-Quarter-Court Buzzer-Beater
St. John of the Cross was a 16th century doctor of mystic theology who was chiefly famous for living a life of poverty, and, according to newadvent.org, being “saved from certain death by the intervention of the Blessed Virgin” twice....
Let's All Watch Another Buzzer-Beater
We have no context for this, but it appears to be from Saturday’s Indiana high school JV game between Cascade and Speedway. Good buzzer-beater! ...
Isaiah Cousins Hits Late Jumper To Push Oklahoma Past LSU
Sooners superstar Buddy Hield scored 32, but it was teammate Isaiah Cousins who proved to be the Oklahoma hero as his jumper with four seconds left capped a 14-point comeback in Baton Rouge and downed the Tigers in the spotlight matchup of two of college basketball’s top players....
Lil' Texas A&M Fan Lets George Niang Have It
Texas A&M beat Iowa State this afternoon after ending the game on a 16-4 run. Cyclones star George Niang fouled out with 15 points, but was apparently too slow getting off the court for this lil’ fan....
UMass Forward Antwan Space Also Hits Long-Range Buzzer-Beater
We earlier showed you Roosevelt Jones’s three-quarter-court buzzer-beater, and here’s another one today by a player better known for dunks than threes. Here’s senior UMass forward Antwan Space drawing his own team even with Fordham at the half; unfortunately for the Minutemen, they eventually fell 7...
Report: High School Baseball Coaches Racially Abused Players, Ignored A Fight Club
According to a report from the Dallas Morning News, two baseball coaches at Plano East Senior High School ran a pretty horrifying shop. Details from an investigation conducted by Plano ISD officials were released to the Morning News and wooboy, they’re bad. Not only did two coaches allegedly raciall...
Butler Forward Roosevelt Jones Drills Three-Quarter-Court Buzzer-Beater
Coming into today’s game at Marquette, Butler big man Roosevelt Jones had attempted 1,150 field goals. Three of those shots came from behind the three-point line, and zero went in. So be shocked that Jones’s attempt from three-quarter-court at the end of the half not only found the basket, but allow...