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Donovan Mitchell Is A Good Reason To Watch Utah Jazz Games

The Jazz hosted (and smoked) the Lakers last night, and you will be forgiven if this matchup didn’t strike you right away as a meeting of two of the most exciting rookie guards in the NBA. After all, the Jazz are good, and the Lakers are very much not good, and Donovan Mitchell, Utah’s prized rookie...

Nationals Hire Cubs Bench Coach Dave Martinez To Replace Dusty Baker

The Washington Nationals have reportedly hired Davey Martinez, a man with no previous managerial experience, to replace Dusty Baker. ...

Report: World Series Baseballs Are Too Slick To Throw A Good Slider

Players and coaches on both teams seem pretty certain something is up with the baseballs being used in the World Series, according to this report from Tom Verducci of Sports Illustrated. The issue isn’t that they might be juiced so much as it is that they’re apparently too slick for pitchers to thro...

Report: Colin Kaepernick Excluded From Player-Owner Meetings

Despite certain NFL players proposing meetings that include him, and an NFL spokesperson indicating last week that he expected an invitation to be extended, Colin Kaepernick is being frozen out of meetings on social justice between the NFLPA and NFL owners, according to a report from Slate....

Bruce Maxwell Arrested For Allegedly Pulling Gun On Food Delivery Driver

Scottsdale, Arizona police arrested Oakland Athletics catcher Bruce Maxwell at his home Saturday night and charged him with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after he allegedly pulled a gun on a food delivery driver. TMZ first reported the arrest late Saturday night....

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Like Butch Jones's Career, Tennessee Hail Mary Pass Falls Just Short

Jarrett Guarantano connected with Jeff George on a 48-yard hail mary on the final play of Tennessee’s game at Kentucky Saturday night. The problem? The Volunteers started the play 51 yards away from the end zone....

Report: Florida Believes It Can Fire Jim McElwain With Cause Over Death Threat Allegations

Edward Aschoff and Mark Schlabach are reporting at ESPN today that University of Florida administrators are working out how to fire head football coach Jim McElwain without paying his $12 million buyout, with sources telling the Worldwide Leader that McElwain’s claims of death threats against his fa...

Penn State, TCU, and South Florida Drop From The Ranks Of The Undefeated

Three ranked, undefeated teams all suffered their first losses of the season within an hour this afternoon: 2nd-ranked Penn State lost a narrow one to 6th-ranked Ohio State in Columbus; 4th-ranked TCU trailed the whole way at 25th-ranked Iowa State; and 17th-ranked South Florida lost at home to Hous...

Dartmouth Football Coach Punches Hole In Window Over Muffed Punt

In the second quarter of this afternoon’s Harvard-Dartmouth tilt in Boston, with Dartmouth ahead 7-0, Harvard was forced to punt from their own 23 yard line. The return was muffed by Dartmouth return man Danny McManus and recovered by Harvard. This is a bad play, but also, you know, not all that esp...

Yuli Gurriel Suspended Five Regular Season Games For Racist Gesture

MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred announced that Yuli Gurriel will be suspended for the first five games of the 2018 regular season for his “slant eyed” gesture in Game 3 of the World Series....

Saquon Barkley Returns Opening Kickoff 97 Yards To Put Penn State Up Early On Ohio State<em></em>

Urban Meyer’s day started badly as he watched his Buckeyes kick off to Heisman favorite Saquon Barkley, then watched the Penn State superstar take that kickoff 97 yards to put the Nittany Lions up 7-0 just a few seconds into the game. It’s the earliest Gusgasm we’ve ever seen....

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Bob McNair Issues New Explanation For "Inmates" Comment

Texans owner Bob McNair, several days into the deep shit of consequences for his now-infamous “inmates run the prison” comment from league meetings, has issued a new statement today, with a new and dubious explanation for how he got into this mess:...

Please Do Not Punch John Wall's Brain Stem Again, Kelly Oubre

The fight last night between Draymond Green and Bradley Beal was mostly two guys hugging each other very hard, first in a standing position, and later while laying on the ground. But that doesn’t mean there were no punches landed! No, indeed, here is a very strong overhand left from young Kelly Oubr...

NAIA Basketball Tournament To Move After Host Freaks Out Over Anthem Protests

It appears another rinky-dink American organization is willing to shoot its dick off in order to protest athletes kneeling during the playing of the national anthem at sporting events. This time it’s College of the Ozarks, host of the last 18 NAIA Divison II men’s basketball tournaments, asking the ...

Nikola Mirotic No Longer Wants To Play With The Guy Who Broke His Face

Despite Bobby Portis’s totally sincere apology and 100 percent earnest attempts at reconciliation, Nikola Mirotic is apparently not ready to move forward as Portis’s teammate following Portis punching a crater into his face: Mirotic has reportedly told the Bulls he’d prefer to be traded if the team ...

Small UFO Obliterated By Oklahoma City's Chartered Plane

Following their loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves Friday night, the Oklahoma City Thunder flew from Minneapolis to Chicago for the second leg of a back-to-back. En route, their team plane seems to have wiped out a very tiny UFO:...

Tulsa TD Taken Off Board After Premature "Celebration" [Update]

And now, for the dumbest thing you will see today:...

FW: FW: The Seahawks Are Getting Kicked Out Of The NFL

Everyone is pretty pumped up, if we’re just going by the expressions on the faces of the Seattle Seahawks players and coaches arrayed about their locker room. Richard Sherman is cheesing like a five-year-old on photo day. If Pete Carroll was grinning any harder, his smile would somehow be larger tha...