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Boris Diaw Buzzer-Beater Attempt Beans Gregg Popovich
It's probably a bad idea to hit your coach in the head with a basketball, but somehow that happened tonight as Boris Diaw's poor attempt at a first-half buzzer-beater instead hit coach Gregg Popovich in the head as Pop headed toward the locker room, no doubt disgusted by the Spurs' poor play. Pop di...
Mayor Of London Hacks Down Little Boy In Pick-Up Soccer Match
Boris Johnson, Mayor of London and amateur sportsman, was watching some children play soccer today when he was invited to join in on proceedings. Presumably to teach them a lesson in the true, physical nature of English footy, he took out one kid with this terribly timed challenge:...
Freelancing Sucks
You may have heard by now about Sports on Earth, the joint venture between MLB and USA Today that "laid off" a bunch of writers earlier in the week. Although the term "laid off" is a bit dicey: Technically speaking, the site only had a few full-time employees to begin with. Everyone else who wrote f...
Man Who Helped Kill Women's Pro Soccer Dies While Playing Soccer
Early this morning rumors began to swirl that Dan Borislow, the millionaire entrepreneur whose legal war with Women's Professional Soccer was instrumental in bringing about the league's demise, had died at the age of 52. Bloomberg has since confirmed that Borislow died last night of a heart attack a...
Boris Becker Has A Custom Boris Becker Phone Cover
This is an image from Wimbledon today of Novak Djokovic's coach, Boris Becker, snapping a photo with an iPhone encased in what appears to be a cute picture of Boris Becker and his family. It's basically the photographic equivalent of the following sentence, which appeared in a press release not long...
Rare Video Of Tony Parker And Boris Diaw Training Together As Teens
Here's some very cool, never-before-seen (by me) footage of Tony Parker and Boris Diaw balling together at Paris training center INSEP in 1999, when both were just 17 years old....
Here's A Funny Anecdote About A Young, Absurdly Athletic Boris Diaw
Boris Diaw had a period in his career when he was the butt of fat jokes, but when the Spurs big man was younger, he was in ridiculously good shape....
Does It Make A Difference If NBA Players Miss Their First Shot?
During the playoffs, broadcasters love to pull out fact-like objects based on incredibly small samples. Before Game 6 of the Eastern Conference finals, for example, announcers pointed out that, in the playoffs, Roy Hibbert had shot significantly better after making his first field-goal attempt. The ...
Boris Diaw's Behind-The-Back Pass Was Just Incredible
We've already sung the praises of Boris Diaw and his intoxicating fat-guy game, but after the performance he put on during last night's beat down of the Heat, it's worth heaping a little more praise on the thick Frenchman....
Boris Diaw Kicking Ass Is What The Playoffs Are All About
When Gregg Popovich shoved Matt Bonner into his starting lineup last night, it seemed clear he was making a decision in strategy and trying to shift the tenor of the series. But in perfect Popavellian fashion, Bonner turned out to be more decoy than secret weapon. The real genius of the lineup chang...
Why Are So Many Athletes Posing For Pictures With A Holocaust Denier?
San Antonio Spurs point guard Tony Parker's fascism problem started years ago, but it didn't catch up to him until a week ago, on another continent, in another sport. ...
Danny Tartabull Is Los Angeles's Most Wanted Deadbeat Dad
According to the L.A. County Child Support Services Department, the former ballplayer owes more than a quarter-million dollars in child support payments for his two sons....
Boris Diaw Made A Lego Harlem Shake Video, Because Sure, Why Not
The very first release from Diaw's Babac Films is this, a surprisingly hypnotic take on a dying meme....
Boris Diaw Snotted All Over The Court Last Night
Spurs forward Boris Diaw hails from France. Does that mean he is a refined gentleman, schooled in the continental gentility demanded by the house rules at Pierre Gagnaire? Or is he more like the slovenly Gérard Depardieu? Watch this video from Wednesday night's Bulls-Spurs game, and make your own ...
The NFL Sacrificed Three Weeks Of Games On The Altar Of Bullshit Ideological Purity
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The NFL Lawsuit That Could Be Bigger Than The Bounty Scandal
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London Mayor Boris Johnson Got Stuck On A Zipline
Britain won its first gold medal this morning, in rowing, but that's not close to the most iconic moment of these early games. That would be London Mayor Boris Johnson, dangling from a zipline in Victoria Park, two little flags in hand, asking passersby for a rope or a ladder as they all laugh and...
Mayor Of London Lustily Compares Beach Volleyball Players To "Wet Otters"
Boris Johnson, the current mayor of London, wrote a column for the Telegraph yesterday titled, "Here's 20 jolly good reasons to feel cheerful about the Games." The column is a standard listicle, written with a "rah-rah" attitude and plenty of "London is the best!" sentiment....
Women's Professional Soccer Is Officially Dead
The WPS announced today that the league has officially folded, and there will be no effort to rebuild after an already-cancelled 2012 season. I can give you two reasons for this rough news, and one is Dan Borislow, possibly the worst man in sports....
Minor League Baseball: The Last Bastion Of Acceptable Exploitation In Professional Sports (Not Counting The NCAA)
For every top-flight prospect apprenticing in the minors after receiving a multi-million dollar signing bonus, hundreds of players are drafted every year and get $1,000, tops. Salaries start at $1,100 a month, and the checks only come for half a year. As Lily Rothman says over at Slate, most of thes...