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Former Refugee Luol Deng Speaks On Trump's Muslim Ban: "That Light Is Turned Off"
Lakers forward Luol Deng was born in what is now South Sudan, and had to flee the country during the Second Sudanese Civil War. He and his family became refugees in Egypt, where they waited for five years before being allowed to emigrate to the United Kingdom. After last night’s game against the Nug...
Jon Gruden Has Had It With These Geniuses Who Are Ruining Football
The New York Times ran a story this morning on USA Football’s annual conference down in Orlando where officials met and discussed, among many other issues, the precipitous decline of youth participation numbers. They’re trying to correct the course of a sport that’s seen the amount of boys ages 6 to...
Reports: Goldman Sachs Also Pulling Out Of Raiders Stadium Deal
When billionaire Hutt Sheldon Adelson pulled out of the Oakland Raiders’ proposed Las Vegas stadium deal yesterday, all eyes turned toward investment firm Goldman Sachs. That’s because the Raiders had previously assured the Stadium Authority board that Goldman would provide investment with or witho...
Big Boy Jim Harbaugh Makes A Big-Boy Splash
Jim Harbaugh is a man who derives a great deal of pleasure from the various odd combinations that make up his life: steak and milk, the words of both Sir Spongebob and Sir Andrew Barton, Italy and Michigan, football and baseball, etc. The Wolverines coach added another to the list Tuesday, combining...
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LeBron Will Find His Extra Playmaker In The Toilet
The Cleveland Cavaliers lost again last night, to the shit-ass Dallas Mavericks, dropping to 7-8 in January. LeBron’s fed up! With Charles Barkley, for one thing, but also and more importantly, with not having any reliable playmakers on the bench who can take some pressure off of him and Kyrie Irvin...
Lane Kiffin Fires Up FAU Fans By Squinting And Mumbling<em></em>
Florida Atlantic football is looking for fans to support them this upcoming season, but don’t take my word for it. Listen to head coach Lane Kiffin, who definitely had a burlap sack pulled off his head two seconds before the camera started rolling....
Rex Ryan's Obnoxious Bills Truck Is Now An Understated Clemson Truck
We finally have a definitive answer to the question everyone was asking after Rex Ryan was fired by the Buffalo Bills: What will be the fate of Rex’s big-ass Bills truck?...
LeBron James Has Had Enough Of Charles Barkley's Shit
Former NBA player and current TNT studio host Charles Barkley has long kept “saying rude things about LeBron James” in his arsenal of Takes That Will Get Me Attention, right next to “saying the Warriors are actually bad.” This has gone on for years, and last night James finally decided that he’d had...
Did Grayson Allen Try To Trip Another Opponent?
In the second half of Duke’s close win over Notre Dame this evening, Grayson Allen and Temple Gibbs got tangled together when Allen was rolling around a screen and Gibbs ended up on the floor. Nobody was called for a foul on the play, but both parties arguably could have been, as Gibbs flopped away ...
Report: University Rules That Kansas Basketball Player LaGerald Vick Likely Punched Female Student
According to a report from the Kansas City Star, Kansas Jayhawks guard LaGerald Vick was the subject of a university investigation which ruled that Vick likely punched a female student and kicked her in the face back in December 2015 and January 2016. The school’s Office of Institutional Opportunity...
Have You Been A College Football Hostess? We Want To Hear About It
It should be no surprise that part of the latest Title IX lawsuit against Baylor—which asserts that football players committed 52 acts of rape in four years—brought up the college-athletics tradition of hostesses. College football history suggests they started at Alabama with a group dubbed Bryant’s...
Joey Porter And Mike Tomlin Are Bad Sports Parents
Every sports league has obnoxious parents that holler at referees, coaches and players; rarely are those parents coaches of the nearby professional football team. But at Cardinal Wuerl North Catholic High School in Cranberry Township, Penn., the obnoxious parents were Pittsburgh Steelers head coach ...
The Big Ten's Best Are About To Find Out Whether Northwestern Is For Real
Northwestern, a team historically worth little more than a chalk-up victory for Big Ten heavyweights, has proven itself to be worthy of the program’s first NCAA tournament berth, as the Wildcats start the back half of Big Ten play 7-2 against conference opponents, 18-4 overall, and ranked No. 25 i...
Sean Rodriguez's Family Hospitalized After A Deadly Crash With A Stolen Police Car
Atlanta Braves infielder Sean Rodriguez and his family were in a serious car crash involving a stolen police cruiser around 1:45 pm on Saturday in Miami....
San Francisco 49ers Hire John Lynch As General Manager
The 49ers hired former Tampa Bay Buccaneers safety John Lynch as general manager, wrapping up a nearly month-long search for a replacement after firing Trent Baalke. ...
Justin Tucker Nails Field Goal Through Basketball Hoop From 50-Yard Line
Earlier this week, we got to watch Justin Tucker make a 75-yard field goal. Impressive, sure, but not quite as impressive as this....
Villanova Beats Virginia On Tip-In Buzzer-Beater
Donte DiVincenzo’s tip in as time expired gave top-ranked Villanova a 61-59 win over Virginia....
Bill Self Says Carlton Bragg Jr. Suspension "Not Connected" To Rape Investigation
Ahead of its biggest nonconference game of the season, Kansas forward Carlton Bragg Jr. has been suspended for a “violation of team rules,” the Jayhawks announced Thursday night. Per the Kansas City Star, Kansas head coach Bill Self said in a statement that the suspension was unrelated to the curren...
Georgia Tech Upsets No. 14 Notre Dame With Buzzer-Beater
Unranked Georgia Tech took down No. 14 Notre Dame at the buzzer today with a half-court heave from Tadric Jackson to set Josh Okogie up for the game-winning layup....