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Anthony Davis Explains The Difference Between His Team And Good Teams

The New Orleans Pelicans started the season 0-8 despite having one of the very best basketball players in the world, Anthony Davis, on the roster. They improved a bit with the return of point guard Jrue Holiday, but they lost to a dreadful Mavericks team on Sunday and are now 6-12 on the season. Dav...

Bryant Basketball Player Dribbles Out The Clock After Forgetting His Team Is Losing

Somewhere in this chaotic scramble to end the Brown-Bryant game tonight, Bryant freshman Ikenna Ndugba lost his handle on the score of the game. With 12 seconds left, Nisre Zouzoua nailed a fadeaway three to give Bryant a one-point lead. Brown drove down the floor with urgency and Tavon Blackmon sli...

Big Ten Fines Michigan For Jim Harbaugh's Postgame Rant Against Officials

Jim Harbaugh and the Michigan Wolverines have been steaming mad ever since they lost The Game to Ohio State by three points last Saturday. The matchup was incredibly close throughout, and it hinged on a replay review on the penultimate play of the game which went Ohio State’s way and extended their ...

Liberty Hires Ex-Baylor Athletic Director Ian McCaw 

Liberty University announced Monday that Baylor’s former athletic director Ian McCaw has been hired as the school’s new AD. McCaw will assume the spot left open by Jeff Barber’s Nov. 17 resignation. McCaw is the first of the major three ex-Baylor officials publicly disgraced for their role in the sc...

Report: Latin American Players To Make A Stand At MLB's Collective Bargaining Session

Major League Baseball’s current collective bargaining agreement expires this Thursday, Dec. 1. With the deadline looming, Ken Rosenthal reported last week that a lockout could be imminent if the league and players association fail to reach an agreement before then. One of the issues on the line is a...

Dabo Swinney Denies Allegations That His Players Used Racial Slurs

According to South Carolina players, rivalry week allegedly took an ugly, racist turn on Saturday; Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney believes otherwise....

Dwight Howard Confronts Shit-Talking Fan

Dwight Howard hears it from fans every time he returns to Los Angeles to play against the Lakers, and last night was no different:...

Government Officials Are Living It Up For Free At Publicly Funded Vikings Stadium

The five-person Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority was created to control and operate the Vikings’ new stadium on behalf of taxpayers, who coughed up half a billion dollars to build it. But it turns out that the MSFA members, along with other public officials, are being well taken care of by the ...

The Minnesota Timberwolves Are In A Weird Place Right Now

As an increasingly hopeless Wizards fan, I feel qualified to say this to everyone who’d hoped the early season would look more promising for the young Minnesota Timberwolves: this is just sorta what happens when a team is rich in talent but poor in, you know, really knowing how to play good NBA bask...

LeBron James Blocks Layup With His Presence

I’m putting the full highlight reel from LeBron James’s 26-10-13 beatdown of the Sixers in this post, because maybe it’s been awhile since you’ve taken a few minutes to really enjoy a set of vintage LeBron James highlights. If you want to see a few bulldozing drives to the rim, some adept and punish...

Grey Cup Kneel-Down Gets Very Profane

Calgary executed an incredible comeback to force overtime with Ottawa in the Grey Cup, and as the Redblacks took a knee to end regulation, things got very f-bomby on the line of scrimmage. (Let’s get this camera angle on NFL broadcasts, eh?)...

Football And Officials Go Flying In Wild Grey Cup Play

Ottawa is stomping Calgary in tonight’s Canadian Super Bowl, which is one of the most entertaining football events of the year but which gets next to no promotion or notice by ESPN, the CFL’s U.S. broadcast partner. That’s a shame, because more people could be watching great things like this. Or—dep...

Jaguars Junction: Week 12

A child’s first smile. A mother’s kiss. A new love’s glance. All of these people will eventually die. Life’s sweetest moments are inherently fleeting, their memories best preserved before the deleterious assaults of passing time. ...

Fuck Whoever Made This Sign

The bar for college football fans is really low, and yet, this joke about the water crisis in Flint, Mich., wiggles under it....

Indiana's Zander Diamont On Quitting Football: "I Need My Brain"

Indiana backup quarterback Zander Diamont didn’t specify how many concussions he’s had due to football, but he ballparked it at “a lot.” The junior has decided to step away from the sport after the Hoosiers’ bowl game. Diamont’s reasons were simple and sound. From the Indianapolis Star:...

Brian Kelly Closes Out Notre Dame's Dogshit Season By Losing, Yelling, And Talking About Accountability

Notre Dame finished its 2016 football season on an anemic note Saturday by losing to USC, 45-27. With a regular-season record of 4-8, the Fighting Irish are eligible for the Absolute Jackshit Bowl. Meanwhile, head coach Brian Kelly is reportedly sniffing around for any open coaching gigs, not becaus...

Is It In You? Not Anytime Soon

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Notre Dame's Jerry Tillery Kicks Head Of Player Who Just Suffered Brain Injury [Update]

USC-Notre Dame has long been a dirty rivalry, so here’s Notre Dame defensive lineman Jerry Tillery kicking USC’s Aca’Cedric Ware in the head just after Ware took a brain-scrambling helmet-to-helmet blow from Nicco Fertitta—one that got Fertitta ejected from the game....

I Mean, You Shouldn't Fuck With Jabrill Peppers When He's Happy

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