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Report: Brett Favre Sued For $16 Million After Failed Launch Of Bullcrap Social Media Startup
Brett Favre is being sued for more than $16 million by Callais Capital Management for his role in marketing something called Sqor to eager investors. But what the hell is Sqor? It was a social media company in development, formed around the idea of helping athletes monetize their online selves. Call...
Bucks Guard Sterling Brown Arrested And Tased By Milwaukee Police
Bucks rookie Sterling Brown was subdued with a taser and arrested in the parking lot of a Milwaukee Walgreens early this morning, after cops claim he had parked his car across a pair of handicap spots. News/Talk 1130 first reported the arrest, and apparently cops were writing Brown a ticket when he ...
Guy Who Dreamed Of Playing For Marlins Should Be Careful What He Wishes For<em></em>
Coral Springs native Lewis Brinson is excited to patrol the field in front of the Marlins’ dinger machine for his childhood team. The Marlins acquired the 23-year-old prospect yesterday as part of the return package for trading Christian Yelich to Milwaukee....
Longest Running Women's Pro Soccer Team Folds Weeks Before Preseason Starts
The longest running professional women’s soccer team in the country has reportedly folded after a deal for potential new ownership fell apart. The Boston Breakers, which were founded in 2000 and were part of NWSL predecessor leagues the WUSA and WPS, is the first NWSL team to fold since the league w...
Russell Westbrook Mistakenly Thought He Was Picked Last In The All-Star Draft, So He Went Out And Scored 46 Points
Russell Westbrook went off last night, scoring 46 points and adding six boards and six assists in the Thunder’s 121-112 victory over the Wizards. Westbrook, it seems, was playing angry. And his teammates appear to have been happy not to disabuse him of his motivation....
Steven Adams Offers Bradley Beal Swift Kick To The Dick And Balls
In the third quarter of tonight’s Wizards-Thunder game, Bradley Beal went up for a rebound and came down with a direct kick to the dick and balls from Steven Adams. Said kick did not exactly look like a natural act, especially not in the slo-mo replay below:...
The Blackhawks Are Just Showing Off
The Chicago Blackhawks have been skating the Red Wings out of their shiny new arena since tonight’s opening puck drop. They chased starting goalie Jimmy Howard after less than nine minutes, but they saved their prettiest goal yet for Petr Mrazek. Twenty-year-old native Michigander Alex DeBrincat, hi...
Oh, Hell Yeah, The Brewers Are Going For It
Scarcely an hour after acquiring Christian Yelich in a trade with the Marlins, the Brewers have gotten themselves another outfielder: Lorenzo Cain, signed to a five-year, $80 million deal as reported by ESPN’s Jerry Crasnick and first broken by The Athletic’s Ken Rosenthal....
Christian Yelich Freed From Miami, Joins Surprisingly Fun Brewers Club
The hot stove is warm, baby. A week after Christian Yelich’s agent announced the outfielder’s relationship with the Marlins was “irretrievably broken,” he’s been shipped off to the Brewers in exchange for a solid haul of prospects: outfielders Lewis Brinson and Monte Harrison, second baseman Isan Di...
Draymond Green Was A Dick To ESPN's Brian Windhorst For No Good Reason
During a conversation about Kevin Durant’s battle with the NBA’s officiating staff on yesterday’s NBA Countdown, Brian Windhorst offhandedly mentioned that Draymond Green had previously and publicly said “every referee should be fired.”...
NFL Ref Carl Johnson's Domestic-Violence Accuser Has Now Been Charged
In September, TMZ reported that Carl Johnson, an NFL line judge and the league’s former top ref, was under investigation for domestic violence in Louisiana. Johnson had been the NFL’s VP of officiating from 2010 to 2012, and since then had returned to the field. The investigation was due to a reques...
The Hottest Take: The Cavs Should Trade LeBron
The Cleveland Cavaliers suck. They can’t play defense. They’re accusing each other of faking sick. And while it has become ritual for this team to endure a prolonged stretch of eating shit in the regular season before getting their act together in time to brush the rest of an eternally weak Eastern ...
NFL Gets Sassy While Clearing Panthers Of Any Concussion Protocol Violations
When we last saw Cam Newton, he was once again at the center of an NFL concussion protocol controversy. After taking a blow to his head during his team’s playoff loss to the New Orleans Saints, Newton was slow to get up and eventually went to the ground as he tried to return to the sidelines. From a...
Congratulations To Deadspin For This Blog Post About LeBron James's Instagram
Today, LeBron James congratulated himself for scoring his 30,000th career point, a feat he will likely accomplish tonight as he’s just seven points shy of the mark....
Lean Into The Patriots Conspiracy Theory
I’m not saying the AFC title game was fixed for the Patriots, but holy shit that was some powerful home field advantage. The Jacksonville Jaguars were flagged six times for 98 yards while the Patriots were called once, for a holding penalty on a kickoff, for 10 yards. The last time any team was call...
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Gronk Questionable To Return To AFC Championship After "Head Injury" [Update: He's Out]
Rob Gronkowski left the field in the first half of today’s AFC Championship after absorbing a helmet-to-helmet hit from Jaguars safety Barry Church. Tom Brady’s pass left Gronk in a vulnerable position stretching for the grab, and Church was flagged for unnecessary roughness. Gronk seemed wobbly on ...
Please Do Not Piss In Anyone's Water Bottle, No, Not Even The Opposing Keeper's
A Middlesbrough fan was reportedly arrested after he was caught on video pissing into the water bottle of QPR keeper Alex Smithies during Saturday’s EFL Championship match, and then tossing the bottle back onto the pitch. It should go without saying that you are a deeply weird and antisocial person ...
How The Patriots Could Have Kept Both Jimmy Garoppolo <i>And</i> Tom Brady
However severe the injury to Tom Brady’s throwing hand turns out to be, the mild panic it has generated in the run-up to Sunday’s AFC championship game underscores a reality that is frequently easy to take for granted: Though he may seem like he will play forever, Brady is not indestructible....
Grand Jury Declines To Indict Emmanuel Sanders In Sexual Assault Case
Last week, a grand jury in Harris County, Texas declined to indict Denver Broncos wide receiver Emmanuel Sanders on a charge of sexual assault, according to online court records. Sanders had been accused of sexual assault back in the summer, but the investigation was not public knowledge until Thurs...