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Maester Qyburn's Big Anti-Dragon Crossbow Looks Stupid

Game of Thrones—HBO’s hit show about camping and horny sailors—has made it very clear that the trio of dragons possessed by Daenerys Targaryen are Westeros’s ultimate weapons of destruction. She’s torched one proud city with them already, and the only reason King’s Landing didn’t go up in flames on...

My Bizarre Quest To Become A Jew And Play Pro Soccer In Israel<em></em>

In September of 2015, soon after the move to Hønefoss, I had spoken with Aaron about future options. I told him I wanted to get back to the United States. He thought that returning to MLS would be an option. Enough teams still knew me and I should be able to at least get a minimum salary offer to be...

<i>Game Of Thrones</i> Is Finally Starting To Converge

One of the major selling points of this season of Game of Thrones, one brought to the fore more in the kinetic “Stormborn” than the place-setting “Dragonstone,” is that the show’s far-flung narratives are finally coming back together, revolving around the three power bases of Team Dany, Team Cersei,...

The Broward County (Fla.) state attorney’s office won’t bring a charge against Michael Irvin, who was accused of sexually assaulting a 27-year-old Fort Lauderdale woman in March. Police had handed the case to the state attorney’s office in late May. Andy Slater of WINZ radio obtained the memo in whi...

Here's Why David Price Blew Up At Dennis Eckersley<em></em> 

It’s been a contentious couple of months for Red Sox starter David Price, who only made his season debut on Memorial Day and has seemingly spent as much time shouting at Boston media members as actually pitching. Last month he got into it with CSNNE’s Evan Drellich over an entirely inoffensive tweet...

Mark Trumbo Made Just The Saddest Damn Baseball Play You Will See Today

Here is Orioles outfielder Mark Trumbo tracking a José Altuve fly ball to the warning track in right field in today’s Orioles-Astros tilt:...

Indiana's Haul From The Paul George Trade Is Looking Worse And Worse

This morning ESPN dropped a long and richly detailed account of the circumstances that surrounded and led to Kyrie Irving’s surprise trade request, first reported Friday afternoon, in which he told Cavs owner Dan Gilbert that he no longer wants to play in Cleveland. It seems Irving’s dissatisfaction...

Ezekiel Elliott Docs Reveal Mysterious NFL Relationship With Prosecutors' Group<em></em><em></em>

The NFL spin machine is fast at work doing its best to make it look like the investigation into the domestic violence allegations against Dallas Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott has been long and arduous and absolutely had to take more than a year. Even though the criminal investigation ended in...

<i>Real Sports </i>Talks To Crazed Chechen Warlord Ramzan Kadyrov About MMA And War

HBO’s Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel sent correspondent David Scott to Grozny, Chechnya to tell the story of Ramzan Kadyrov, the Chechen warlord running his private fiefdom with an iron fist thanks in part to the strategic use of MMA and soccer. Kadyrov is the most powerful man in his small corner o...

Watch Mikhail Prokhorov Do Insane Billionaire Gymnastics In His Technicolor Forest Dojo

Remember when Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov showed up at a team practice and gave his players an unbelievably awkward demonstration of his wall-dribbling drills? As it turns out, those drills were not simply the invention of one man’s wealth-addled mind, but part of a martial art known as Tescao, whi...

Costa Rica Grateful For Panama's Huge Boner

The opening game of tonight’s Gold Cup action between Costa Rica and Panama seemed to be on a slow ride toward extra time*, but a Costa Rica free kick into the box led to a 77th minute own goal when the ball glanced of the top of Anibal Godoy’s head....

Dallas Police Abruptly Suspend Investigation Into Bar Incident Involving Ezekiel Elliott

Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott was reportedly involved in an incident on Sunday night at a Dallas bar that left a man hospitalized with a broken nose. A 30-year-old man was taken to the hospital after someone allegedly punched him out. TMZ obtained video from just after the incident, which sho...

Red Sox Mercifully End Pablo Sandoval's Sad, Horrendous Time In Boston<em></em>

Since signing a five-year, $95 million contract with the Boston Red Sox in 2015, Pablo Sandoval has been an unqualified disaster. Sandoval played just 161 games in two and a half seasons with the Red Sox, hitting .237/.286/.360/with 14 home runs. When he wasn’t hurt or playing poorly, he struggled t...

A Field Guide To Boston Sports Radio Chowderheads

Every day, it seems, a different Boston sports radio dipshit is delivering a take from a time when segregation was acceptable, getting attention for being five seconds away from challenging a listener to a parking lot fight for Tom Brady’s honor. Although you may not pay attention to these awful stu...

Go Ahead And Enjoy Christian Pulisic Tearing Shit Up In A Meaningless Game

I’m not going to tell you that Christian Pulisic’s performance in today’s Borussia Dortmund-AC Milan friendly—in which he conjured two assists, won a penalty, and eeled his way past famously big and bad Serie A defenders more times than you could count—means that the Wonderteen is primed to take the...

Cowboys Receiver's Missing Dog Returned By Rapper Boogotti Kasino

Yesterday, Cowboys wide receiver Lucky Whitehead alerted the world to the fact that his adorable dog, Blitz, had been stolen from his home and was being held for ransom. Blitz was safely returned last night, but not before falling into the hands of a local rapper named Boogotti Kasino, who vehementl...

Cowboys Receiver Says His Dog Is Being Held For Ransom

Here’s a fucked-up story to ruin your Monday afternoon: Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Lucky Whitehead claims that his dog, a very cute pit bull pup named Blitz, has been stolen from his home and is currently being held for ransom....

Showtime™ Presents: Misogyny, Racism, And Homophobia<em></em>

You don’t have to pick a side between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Conor McGregor. Floyd’s an unapologetic abuser of women and the Internal Revenue Service, while Conor is a racist dipshit. Last week’s circus of publicity stunts rightfully damaged both parties’ reputations, but another one, curiously, h...

Report: Ezekiel Elliott Involved In Incident At A Bar That Left A Man Hospitalized

Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott was involved in an incident at a Dallas bar last night that left a 30-year-old man hospitalized with non-life threatening injuries, per a report from ESPN. Mike Fisher of 105.3 The Fan first reported on the incident....

SB Nation Cowboys Blog Deletes Bad Post About Ezekiel Elliott [Update]

Yesterday morning, SB Nation’s Cowboys blog, Blogging The Boys, published an article about the NFL’s ongoing investigation into domestic violence allegations against Dallas running back Ezekiel Elliott. The post was a reaction to reports that the league may be getting ready to hand Elliott a one- or...