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Tiny Baseball Fella Demonstrates Advanced, Noggin-Based Fielding Technique
Yes, sure, the simplest way to catch and field a baseball is to stick a glove in its path and squeeze at the moment of impact. But that method is decidedly less fun than the one put on display by this little tyke that Rays pitcher Shane McClanahan met at spring training:...
Cowboys' David Irving Says On Instagram He's Quitting The NFL, Preaches "Plants Over Pills"
After the NFL suspended David Irving for a third time, the Cowboys defensive tackle went on Instagram Thursday night to announce that he was officially fed up....
Charley Casserly Probably Wishes He'd Kept His Mouth Shut
Draft hype season is one of the most painful stretches on the NFL calendar, but at least it’s not hard to see why there are so many manufactured angles and storylines stretched far behind their capacity to support interest. As good as Nick Bosa may be, a lineman (or any non–skill position player) go...
Of Course The Founder Of Orchids Of Asia Watched The Super Bowl With Donald Trump
From the Miami Herald comes yet another very convincing piece of evidence that we are all existing in the dumbest possible timeline. Li Yang, the 45-year-old woman who founded the massage parlor where Patriots owner Robert Kraft is alleged to have solicited prostitution, watched this year’s Super B...
Antonio Brown Is Still A Steeler Because He Didn't Want To Be A Bill
If you’re just waking up: Antonio Brown is not a member of the Buffalo Bills. Wild, I know....
“Financial success has come uncoupled from baseball success. Five franchises have payrolls that are not even halfway to the $206 million luxury tax limit—minor-league teams charging major-league prices, and collecting major-league revenues.” Go and read Tommy Craggs on baseball’s busted economics, y...
Jay Glazer Has An Idea For Making NFL Officiating Infinitely Dumber
Crappy NFL officiating marred the end of last season and sent the entire New Orleans metropolitan region into a massive collective freakout that may or may not continue to this very day. The current sorry state of refereeing is the culmination of years of NFL football becoming progressively harder t...
Case Keenum Banished To Life As A Washington Quarterback
The precipitous fall of Case Keenum’s career arc continued on Thursday, with Ian Rapoport reporting that the 31-year-old is being shipped off to Washington, along with a seventh-round pick, in exchange for a sixth-round pick. Keenum’s departure means that the Joe Flacco era in Denver can officially ...
Report: The Lakers Are Giving Up
This has been an awfully shocking season for LeBron James and his Lakers, and it’s only getting worse, as L.A. currently sits 6.5 games out of the playoffs, having lost eight of their last ten. Still, this team hadn’t fully packed it in yet, or at least “sources” told Shams Charania on Wednesday tha...
Andrew Wiggins Update: Ah, Hm, Well, The Thing Is
First, the good news! Fifth-year forward Andrew Wiggins, the former first overall pick in the draft, has more points (1,038 so far) than shot attempts (966) on the season. That was not the case the last time we visited our pal Andrew, back at the end of November, when he was on track to join the sma...
The Pistons Are Really Trying To Make Me Fall For This Again
Remember when the Detroit Pistons waived Josh Smith in December of 2014, suddenly rattled off seven straight wins, and went 12-3 over the next 15 games? Then they finished the season in 12th place in the East....
The Royal Shrovetide Football Game Is A Very Dumb, Very English, And Very Good Sport
For centuries, the citizens of Ashbourne, England have annually contested the Royal Shrovetide Football match, a sprawling, chaotic wrestling match masquerading as a soccer game. The thicket of ruddy blokes you see up top there are members of two teams: the Down’ards and the Up’ards, thus named for ...
Does Bryce Harper Know Something We Don't?
A good way to tell that Major League Baseball’s free agent marketplace is not working the way that it’s supposed to work is the insistence of various establishment baseball media types that it is in fact working just fine. “Free agency is alive and well,” the former MLB GM Jim Bowden tweeted after B...
Jacque Jones Found Liable In Revenge Porn Lawsuit
Former MLB outfielder and former Washington Nationals assistant hitting coach Jacque Jones was found liable last month in a San Diego civil court for distributing a private intimate photo without consent. The verdict stemmed from a lawsuit filed two years ago in which a woman going by Jane Doe said ...
Gordon Hayward Almost Gave The Game Away, Then Hit The Game-Winner
With 7.6 seconds left and a 109-106 lead against the Kings Wednesday night, Gordon Hayward committed a cardinal sin of NBA defense: he fouled a three-point shooter. The contact was soft, but Buddy Hield got himself to the line for three shots and tied the game up, leaving the Celtics without any tim...
Jaguars Junction Has Determined Exactly Who The Jaguars Should Take In NFL Draft 2019
Google defines NFL Draft 2019 as “Apr 25- Apr 27,” and already people are “mocking” who the Jacksonville Jaguars will select, in the NFL Draft. The following “fan-alysis,” combining history, metrics, and knowledge, reveals the fact that there is only one smart choice. ...
Coy Signals About NFL Trade Rumors Don't Serve Anyone
If you are an NFL fan who has spent any amount of time looking at Twitter over the last few days, you have surely been exposed to some amount of chatter about vague rumors concerning something that the Cleveland Browns are about to do. There was probably an emoji involved. Things really heated up, t...
This Is Maybe The Most Depressing Play Of LeBron's Entire Career
The Lakers lost again Wednesday night, their fourth loss in a row, and eighth in ten games. Since January 1 they’re a crummy 9–19, and they’re now five games under .500 with 17 left to play, and 6.5 back of the Western Conference eighth seed. They’re dead....
Kyler Murray And His Height Are This Year's Target For The Anonymous NFL Scouts
As Heisman Trophy winner Kyler Murray has moved on up from A’s draftee to intriguing NFL draft possibility to likely first-rounder all the way to potential first overall selection, the noise around him has grown louder and dumber. At this time of year, the cabal of anonymous NFL scouts loves nothing...