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Huge Brawl Breaks Out During Australia-Philippines Basketball Game
A massive fight erupted during an Australia-Philippines basketball game today. When the dust settled, 13 players were ejected from the FIBA World Cup qualifier—four from Australia and nine from Philippines....
The Mets Would Be Better Off If They Embraced Being A Small-Market Team
The Mets lost to the Marlins on Saturday afternoon by the score of 5-2 in front of one of those weird rustling Miami baseball crowds. Distant conversations and hoots rang out like whalesong from the prevailing underwater murmur, and the Mets did little to disrupt the ambient soundscape, hitting mayb...
Let Us Witness Now The Glorious End Of LeBron
Bill Walsh had accomplished everything he ever needed to accomplish. It was 1992 and Walsh was a year away from being enshrined in Canton as the greatest football mind of his generation, borne out by three Super Bowls, six division titles, and a template for winning offensive football that would las...
LeBron James Trusts The Lakers
The biggest surprise from yesterday’s NBA news is not that LeBron James chose to sign with the Los Angeles Lakers, a destination that’s been on his radar for at least a year, but that he committed to them for a full three years, plus a player option for a fourth....
Dan Gilbert Wrote LeBron James A Goodbye Letter, And It's Not Insane This Time
A lot has changed in the eight(!) years since LeBron James left the Cavaliers for the first time. The huge production of the The Decision was replaced with a grammatically suspect tweet. Cleveland has a championship. And Cavs owner Dan Gilbert, it seems, has grown out of Comic Sans....
LeBronWatch Is Over, Because LeBron James Has Signed With The Lakers
LeBronWatch has ended: LeBron James will sign a four-year, $154 million deal with the Los Angeles Lakers. Klutch Sports Group, which sounds like a Macedonian gag news site but is actually the agency founded by LeBron’s pal and agent Rich Paul, broke the news. The announcement has a blatant disregar...
Noggin Bonked By Errant First Pitch
An unfortunate fellow was bonked in the head by an errant first pitch before Sunday’s Braves-Cardinals game. This is especially delightful because first of all he works for the dreaded St. Louis Cardinals and therefore deserves this abuse, but also this same lad was famously scratched up by the vile...
LeBronWatch: LeBron's Agent Meets With Sixers, Also LeBron Chooses His Next Destination, You Do The Math
The LeBron James sweepstakes are progressing at a terrifying pace. LeBron is zipping around the globe like Carmen Sandiego, raising and dashing hopes in various cities by the hour. It’s madness!...
Seattle Mariners Celebrate Bleak, Dystopian Future With Ghastly "Turn Ahead The Clock" Night Uniforms
Saturday night the Mariners celebrated the 20th anniversary of “Turn Ahead The Clock” night in a home game against the Kansas City Royals. The original “Turn Ahead The Clock” night was most memorable for Ken Griffey Jr. wearing his hat backwards, but it was also a grim glimpse into a dismal future ...
Rockets Retain Chris Paul, Get Worse
Chris Paul has reportedly agreed to a four-year maximum contract worth $160 million to stay in Houston and continue fine-tuning the absolutely hateful brand of basketball he and James Harden pioneered last season. But they will have to do it without their most accomplished and important three-and-D ...
Cursed Sentence: DeAndre Jordan Has Reached A Verbal Agreement To Sign With The Dallas Mavericks
Uh oh. DeAndre Jordan has reached “a verbal agreement” to sign with the Dallas Mavericks in free agency. That is a cursed sentence. We have entered “fool me twice” territory, here....
Paul George Farts On Potential Lakers Superteam, Returns To Oklahoma City Thunder
Paul George took exactly zero meetings and wasted no time whatsoever before agreeing to a four-year max contract worth $137 million to stay with the Oklahoma City Thunder Sunday morning. This went down in a fun way: Russell Westbrook left a family vacation in Hawaii to fly back to Oklahoma City and ...
Magi Came From The East Upon Seeing Jesus’s Star; Tim Tebow Is An Eastern League All-Star
Binghamton Rumble Ponies outfielder Tim Tebow, a 30-year-old man who has admirably persisted in his dream of playing professional sports for a living, has earned himself a small token of success by being named to the Eastern League All-Star Game. Tebow has only batted .261 all season, but heated up ...
The NFL Concussion Settlement Keeps Failing People It's Supposed To Help
On Thursday, the federal judge overseeing the NFL concussion settlement denied an appeal filed by the family of a deceased former player with CTE. Under the terms of the settlement, that CTE diagnosis could have been worth as much as $4 million. The reason for the denial? The player’s family missed ...
Let's Remember Some Guys: 1981 Fleer Session Volume III
What brings us back? What makes us Remember, whether it’s Guys or any of the other things that are out there to remember? Is it the fundamental human urge to open what is closed, or to return to places in which we have felt happy or safe in the past, or to create “snackable” video content to put ont...
Report: Fired Tigers Pitching Coach Called Black Clubhouse Attendant A "Monkey"
Wednesday, the Detroit Tigers announced that pitching coach Chris Bosio had been let go for making “insensitive” comments toward a team employee. The next day, Bosio spoke to USA Today claimed that the whole thing had been a misunderstanding. According to a new report from The Athletic, Bosio’s expl...
LeBronWatch: LeBron Hunkers Down In "Decision Cave" In The Caribbean
LeBron James deposited the Cavaliers (and probably the Rockets) in the trash can this morning and will become an unrestricted free agent, so expect LeBronWatch comes to a frenzied, frothy climax over the next few days. Leave it to the very frothiest, ESPN’s Brian Windhorst, to report that LeBron Ja...
LeBronWatch: Not Philly, No, Never Philly
Welcome back to LeBronWatch, the one and only Watch of LeBron James. LeBron’s going to be a free agent, and he’s going to the Lakers with Kevin Durant, and to the Knicks with Paul George, and also back to the Cavs with Kawhi Leonard, but one thing’s for sure, he’s definitely narrowed it down to L.A...
James Dolan Lays Groundwork For Sale Of Knicks And Rangers; MSG Stock Surges
It’s been a trying week, so let me treat you to something nice. Watch the stock price for The Madison Square Garden Company do a little jig over the last two days:...
The American Who Briefly Got Ireland To Love Basketball Is Looking For A Storybook Ending
On Thursday, the national basketball team of Ireland beat Andorra, 63-56, to stay alive in FIBA’s European Championship for Small Countries, held all week in Serravalle, San Marino....