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Critters Demonstrate Perfect Blocking Technique

As Valdosta State offensive line coach Jeremy Darveau points out, these beefy little creatures have a lot to teach aspiring offensive linemen:...

Jaylen Brown Gets Shorthanded Celtics Victory Over Jazz With Sweet Game-Winning Three

The Celtics were short-staffed against the Jazz tonight—no Kyrie, no Al Horford, no Marcus Morris, no Marcus Smart, and as always, no Gordon Hayward—but Jaylen Brown did enough to make sure that it wasn’t a problem. Ultimately leading the team in scoring with 21 points, he delivered the game-winning...

Salvador Perez Sprains MCL Carrying Suitcase Up Steps

Royals catcher Salvador Perez will miss at least the first month of the season after spraining his medial collateral ligament while carrying a suitcase up the steps of his home....

Lame Foul Call Denies Killer LeBron Slam

In a cruel showcase of remarkable self control, LeBron James pulled back from what would have been a pulse-pounding hardcore dunk early in his game tonight against the Hornets, working the crowd into an edge-of-their-seats heat without ever allowing them release. All because of a dumb foul....

Markelle Fultz Smacked Heads With Joel Embiid And Sent Him To The Locker Room [Update]

Sixers rookie Markelle Fultz is currently trying to transition from being an injured dude with a busted shot to an actual real-life basketball player, but it’s been a bumpy road, and it hit another hitch in the Philly game tonight....

Let's Remember Some Guys: 1992 Baseball Guys

Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying Of Lot 49 is not as long or as dense or as otherwise inaccessible as the novels that make up the fat part of his canon. It’s the one you read if you didn’t quite feel like committing to V or Gravity’s Rainbow, and it’s the one a savvy professor would assign in a college l...

Deep Space Nine Innings: A Star Trek Spinoff's Unlikely Baseball Obsession

Star Trek, the original television show, is built on Gene Roddenberry’s insanely optimistic view of the future. Someday, he and his show believed, human beings would would learn to split the atom and solve the problem of need; our better natures would take over and we would fly around the galaxy spr...

The Raptors' Bench Is Good Enough To Kill Playoff Dreams

The Denver Nuggets came into last night’s game against the Raptors in desperate need of a win to keep their ever-shrinking playoff hopes alive. Beating the best team in the Eastern Conference on the second night of a back-to-back isn’t the easiest proposition, but these sorts of games do present a p...

Flood Of Shit Ends Spring Training For Dodgers

Dodger Stadium is full of shit. It was last night, at least....

Kings Close Arena Again Due To Protests Over Fatal Police Shooting Of Stephon Clark

Only a few thousand fans were able to make it in the arena for the Kings’ loss to the Mavericks on Tuesday night before the building’s entrances were shut down as a “public safety measure” due to the presence of protestors, who were demonstrating in response to the fatal police shooting of Sacrament...

Vlad Guerrero (Junior) Hits A Walk-Off Homer In Montreal

You could tell me that this walk-off dong is from now-Hall of Famer Vlad Guerrero’s big-league career, and my only question would probably be, “When did he play for the Blue Jays?”...

Witness Says Albert Belle Was Actually Trying To Piss Behind His Car Door<em></em>

Albert Belle was arrested for two counts each of indecent exposure and DUI at a soccer game in Arizona Sunday, but a man who was there says the former baseball player was taking a piss behind the door of his car, only he pulled his pants all the way down....

Chris Mack Leaves Top-Five Team To Coach At Mid-Tier ACC Program

Mookie Betts On Fly Ball While Chatting With ESPN: “I Ain’t Getting This One, Boys”

Mookie Betts chatted with the ESPN announcing crew during the top half of the third inning in a spring training game today. Hey, it’s an exhibition game....

Jim Mora: "I Would Take Sam Darnold If I Were The Browns"

Former UCLA head coach Jim Mora thinks the Cleveland Browns should select Sam Darnold, from crosstown rival USC, with the first pick in the draft.* Mora said this on live television even though Josh Rosen, whom he coached at UCLA, is also right there at the top of most draft boards....

Now Markelle Fultz Can Begin

He wasn’t a revelation. For that matter in many ways he was pretty clunky. A handful of times last night, in his first game action since October—since some mysterious combination of shoulder injury and Steve Blass disease took away his ability to perform basketball’s most fundamental act—Markelle Fu...

Markelle Fultz Shooting Form Update: Never Mind, Shot Not Ready For Actual Game

After months of working on his completely broken shooting form—making it smoother, longer, better—Markelle Fultz was declared ready for game action and came off the bench tonight for the first time since October. Here’s how his six minutes of play in the first half went: ...

Pirates Prospect Pulls Off Gutsy Steal Of Home

There’s just one more day of regular spring training left, but there are still cool highlights to be had. Case in point: this sweet steal of home by Pittsburgh Pirates prospect Lolo Sanchez today, off a righty pitcher throwing from the stretch. The 18-year-old is among the organization’s top prospec...

Markelle Fultz Shooting Form Update: Shot Ready For An Actual Game

Over the past month, Sixers first overall pick Markelle Fultz has improved his busted-ass shooting form, not only making his shot smoother but also longer. The culmination of all that hard work came today, when the team announced Fultz will play in tonight’s game against the Nuggets. Head coach Bret...

<i>New York Times</i> Vows Column Includes Charming Anecdote About Groom Being Assaulted By FSU Fans

True love! It comes for all of us, if we’re lucky, and if we’re wise enough to recognize it when it does. Usually it’s identifiable only in hindsight. Go ask any happily married couple, and they’ll eagerly and wistfully tell you about the moment when they realized their partner was The One. Oh, that...