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Chris Sale Strikes Out 10, Gets Only Extra-Base Hit For Red Sox, Still Loses
Chris Sale pitched seven shutout innings against the Phillies before giving up just one run in the eighth. He allowed five baserunners over his complete game. He struck out 10. He got the only extra-base hit of the game for the Red Sox (and the first of his career), in the form of an eighth-inning l...
International Surfing, Canoeing Federations In Standoff Over Stand Up Paddleboarding<em></em>
Stand up paddleboarding—is it surfing, or is it canoeing? ...
Indiana Lost Money Playing In Its Bowl Game
The number of postseason college football bowls has steadily ballooned from a sensible number of games featuring only the best teams in the nation to the stultifying monstrosity we have today, where 82 teams (including several with losing records) play each other in increasingly irrelevant games spr...
If You've Ever Wanted To Hear Stephen A. Smith Talk About Fucking, Here You Go
The Big Lead’s Stephen Douglas has done the world a service today by discovering some old clips of Stephen A. Smith talking about sex, relationships, and what an accomplished sex-doer he is....
The McGregor-Mayweather Fight Will Be Dumb As Dogshit
After what feels like years of chest-puffing and across-the-aisle shit talking, Conor McGregor and Floyd Mayweather have finally agreed to fight each other for what will undoubtedly be a huge pile of money. The fight will take place in Las Vegas on August 26. It will be a 12-round bout at 154 pounds...
Floyd Mayweather And Conor McGregor Announce Fight For Aug. 26
After months of jawing, sniping, and preening, retired boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. and MMA fighter Conor McGregor have agreed to a set date for a fight in Las Vegas on Aug. 26....
Jaguars Junction: Off Season Check-In
The national football schedule hasn’t even started and already the Jaguars are in the news. It says here that QB Blake Bortles is “sick and tired of being below average.” ...
Bosnian Soccer Federation Apologizes To Greece For Their Player Getting Punched In The Mouth
Bosnian soccer federation president Elvedin Begic has officially apologized to his Greek counterpart after a June 9 post-match fight that climaxed when an assistant coach punched Greek forward Giannis Gianniotas so hard that he lost a tooth....
Usain Bolt Celebrates Final 100m Victory In Jamaica With Some Extremely Good Dance Moves
Usain Bolt is using a series of tuneup meets in advance of the World Championships in August as a kind of retirement tour, one that made a stop in Kingston last night. This would be Bolt’s last ever meet in Jamaica, and so, you can imagine, it was kind of a big deal. ...
New Jersey Politician Throws Shit Fit After Getting Crying Jordan'd
Cinnaminson (N.J.) mayor Anthony Minniti lost his bid for re-election to the township committee Tuesday when a retired police sergeant defeated him in the Republican primary. When a Facebook user Crying Jordan’d Minniti’s campaign flyer and posted the image to the Cinnaminson Friends & Neighbors pag...
All Hell Breaks Loose At Glory 42 Kickboxing Championship
There’s a reason the referee tells fighters to “protect yourselves at all times.”...
David Price Is Having A Bad Week
Before getting lit up by the Yankees for six runs in five innings Thursday night, David Price spent time arguing with the Boston media, which is a fate worse than death....
There's More Video Of That Rex And Rob Ryan Bar Scuffle
The Nashville restaurant scuffle that resulted in a simple assault complaint against the Ryan brothers has some new evidence....
Steelers K Chris Boswell Kicked Out Of Penguins Game
Steelers kicker Chris Boswell says he was ejected from last night’s Penguins 6-0 Game 6 win in Pittsburgh for getting overly excited during a rare SCF line brawl....
Police in Ft. Lauderdale (Fla.) have given their investigation into Michael Irvin’s alleged sexual assault of a 27-year-old Florida woman to the Broward County (Fla.) state attorney’s office, which will decide whether to press charges. The case has been pending since late March. [Dallas Morning News...
Champion Boxer And UFC Vet Among Those Arrested By FBI In Organized Crime Sting
Georgian boxer Avtandil Khurtsidze was supposed to fight Englishman Billy Joe Saunders next month for the WBO middleweight title, but he can’t make the fight anymore. He just got arrested in connection with an FBI sting on an alleged Russian/Georgian organized crime syndicate. ...
Oklahoma Coach Bob Stoops Retires, Lincoln Riley To Take Over
Oklahoma football head coach Bob Stoops is retiring after 18 years at the helm of the Sooners program. The news was broken Wednesday afternoon by The Oklahoman’s Berry Tramel and later confirmed by WWLS, which spoke directly with Stoops. Stoops reportedly has a meeting scheduled with his team for 2:...
Neighbors Are Hell
When I was a young kid we knew all the names of pretty much everybody in our whole little neighborhood. The kids were a pack; in the summer, when your parents kicked you out of the house after breakfast—everybody did this—you just found the other kids and skulked around until somebody came up with ...
Red Sox Announcer Jerry Remy Says Pitchers Shouldn't Get Translators, Should "Learn Baseball Language"
Boston Red Sox broadcaster Jerry Remy took bizarre exception to Yankees pitcher Masahiro Tanaka being visited by Japanese translator Shingo Horie and pitching coach Larry Rothschild in the fourth inning of Tuesday’s game....
Report: Police Involved After Rob And Rex Ryan Accused Of Assault In Nashville Bar Fracas
The Metro Nashville Police Department has reportedly filed a report on Saturday’s weak bar fight involving failed NFL coaches and boisterous twin brothers Rob and Rex Ryan, after a man accused the pair of simple assault, reports TMZ....