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Are The Celtics Still Good?

An item of conventional basketball wisdom is this: Generally speaking, if you can get a certain useful skillset in one player, that is better than getting it divided among, say, two or three players. That is why, when blockbuster trades go down, the default analysis favors the team that shipped out ...

At Least Jaylen Brown Is Up To The Task

The Celtics’ season was proceeding as planned for a total of six minute before Gordon Hayward obliterated his ankle Tuesday night, forcing the team to reorient itself without a player who figured to have an enormous role in the team’s offense. With Hayward’s ankle now shredded like carnitas, Boston’...

Muhammad Ali's Desperate Twilight

Excerpted from Ali: A Life, By Jonathan Eig....

Report: Bobby Portis Suspended Eight Games For Breaking Nikola Mirotic's Face

Nikola Mirotic was hospitalized yesterday with a fractured jaw and a concussion after a confrontation with Bulls teammate Bobby Portis. Today the Bulls announced that Portis would be suspended for eight games....

Gordon Hayward Breaks Ankle Six Minutes Into First Celtics Game [Update]

Gordon Hayward suffered one of the most gruesome injuries in NBA memory midway through the first quarter of tonight’s tip-off game against the Cavaliers when his ankle snapped just minutes into his tenure with the Celtics....

Even TNT Isn't Quite Ready To See Kyrie Irving In The Other Team's Uniform

Federal Court Judge Re-Lifts Ezekiel Elliott's Suspension, Again

Okay so remember how Ezekiel Elliott initially got suspended by the NFL for six games, then appealed the suspension, then played during Week 1, then had his suspension blocked by a federal judge because of some wonkiness with the NFL investigation, then watched as the NFL appealed his injunction, an...

Report: Nikola Mirotić Went To Hospital After Teammate Bobby Portis Punched Him In Face

The NBA season hasn’t even started yet, and the Chicago Bulls are already falling apart. The Vertical’s Shams Charania reports that Bulls forward Bobby Portis put his teammate Nikola Mirotić in the hospital after a fight at practice....

Triple H's Nutritionist Makes, Walks Back Candid Steroid Comments

That bodybuilder Dave Palumbo was a nutritionist for Paul “Triple H” Levesque—the wrestler-turned-WWE exec who only performs occasionally now—has never been a secret. They talk about their work together all the time, whether it’s Palumbo interviewing Triple H and his wife Stephanie McMahon, the two ...

Olympic Champion Gymnast Tatiana Gutsu Accuses Fellow Gold Medalist Of Raping Her When She Was 15 [Update]

Early this morning, Tatiana Gutsu, the 1992 Olympic all-around champion in women’s gymnastics, took to Facebook to add her voice to the growing #MeToo campaign, where women share their stories of sexual harassment and sexual assault. Gutsu accused fellow 1992 Olympic gold medalist Vitaly Scherbo of ...

Boxer Tries To Smooch Her Opponent During Faceoff

Boxers Mikaela Lauren and Cecilia Braekhus were performing the obligatory staredown at a press event Monday when Lauren went in for a kiss. It’s surprising that more boxing faceoffs don’t end like this. They get so close to each other!...

Long Island Man Bowls Just The 34th 900 Series On Record

Bowler Joe Novara, 26, of East Patchogue, N.Y., threw three perfect games for a perfect 900 series, the 34th such series to be certified (and the 33rd person to bowl one)....

Skimboarder Gets Super Rad

A disclosure: The last time I went skimboarding, I ended up face down in the Sacramento River with a mouthful of mud and so am not what anyone would call an “expert.” However, even a blockhead like me could tell you that this expert bro catches the hell out of this wave....

A Little Luck Gives Bobby Rainey The Year's First Kickoff Return TD

At first, the Ravens’ Bobby Rainey looked down before the 25 on just another ho-hum kickoff return. But Rainey got up after he was tripped by his own man, and without any whistles blown, he was able to accelerate past all the confused Chicago tacklers for a 96-yard score....

Stink In Sports

Good news for the crowd that wants to stick to sports....

A Mike Gundy Follow-Up

He's A Man! He's 50!

Jerry Jones Mad At The System He Helped Create

Cowboys owner and NFL shadow commissioner Jerry Jones isn’t happy that a federal appeals court vacated Ezekiel Elliott’s injunction, thus clearing the way for the running back’s six-game suspension. Jones’s mood is to be expected, but—surprise!—he also isn’t happy about the extrajudicial process tha...

Trump Voters Say They Choose Trump Over The NFL

Vox journalist Dylan Scott, you will get no argument here: that chart, showing the reported opinions of Trump voters on the NFL, is indeed pretty nuts! The data, compiled by an online survey company called Morning Consult and laid out at the New York Times’s Upshot blog, tells the story of how the o...

Appeals Court Vacates Ezekiel Elliott's Injunction, Clears Path To Suspension [Updated]

The United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the NFL today in the ongoing Ezekiel Elliott case, writing that Elliott’s lawsuit contesting his six-game suspension was “premature.”...