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The Cubs' New Team Celebration Is Lame As Hell
After a sluggish start to the summer, the Cubs are now riding a six-game winning streak that has them just one game back of first place in the NL Central. Cool! To celebrate, they’ve adopted a distinctly dorky performance to mark getting on base. Less cool!...

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...

Here Is A Braces Horror Story Worse Than The One Keith Hernandez Used To Traumatize A Young Girl Tonight
Mets broadcaster Keith Hernandez took it upon himself tonight to horrify a poor girl with the story of the time his braces were smashed into his lips during a game of pick-up basketball, which required several painful hours of recovery work by the school nurse:...
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Kris Bryant Leaves Game After Hurting His Hand On A Slide [Update]
Cubs third baseman Kris Bryant left today’s game against the Braves almost as soon as it started. Bryant slapped a first-inning double off R.A. Dickey, then tried to take third on a passed ball, although he was picked off by Tyler Flowers to end the inning. While sliding into third, his left hand go...

The Skins Really Couldn't Have Played This Kirk Cousins Situation Any Worse
The first thing you notice, once you look a little more closely into the Skins’ attempt to gain the high ground on Kirk Cousins, is that in the video meant to smear the quarterback as unreasonable, team president Bruce Allen repeatedly calls him “Kurt.”...

Bruce Allen Explains Why He Didn't Sign "Kurt" Cousins
Kirk Cousins did not get a new contract before the NFL’s franchise tag deadline passed this afternoon, which means he’ll play the 2017-18 season on a one-year deal before becoming a free agent next summer. Washington president Bruce Allen detailed the team’s effort to lock up their QB, claiming that...

Stephen Vogt Leaves Game After Frightening Home-Plate Collision With Chad Kuhl
Brewers catcher Stephen Vogt was pulled from tonight’s game against the Pirates after a rough collision at the plate with Pittsburgh pitcher Chad Kuhl....

Report: LeBron James Is Not Happy
USA Today’s Jeff Zillgitt has an unsurprising report about how LeBron James, who will be a free agent next summer, is currently feeling about how the Cleveland Cavaliers’ offseason has unfolded. He’s apparently not very happy about it....

Fenway Gives And Fenway Takes
The Yankees and Red Sox split a day-night doubleheader on Sunday, trading shutouts for just the third time in the history of the clubs. They also taught us a valuable lesson about home runs: Sometimes it’s not how hard you hit them, but where. Especially in a weirdo ballpark like Fenway....

Mayweather Vs. McGregor Isn’t Even Pretending To Be Sports Anymore
It came nearly a half hour into his press conference, but Mayweather Promotions CEO Leonard Ellerbe eventually landed on the perfect metaphor. He was asked why anyone should believe Conor McGregor has a chance to beat Floyd Mayweather Jr....

Watch Skip Bayless Debate Himself, If You Dare
Second Take host Skip Bayless is perhaps the most unshakeable sports yeller out there, and he’s certainly the clear debate champion among FS1's band of squawking misfits. The future of FS1 is fewer Ken Rosenthal gems and more cantankerous opinion-havers yelling at each other for some reason, and Bay...

How Frank Rich Became The Butcher Of Broadway
This story original appeared in the June, 1990 issue of GQ and appears here with the author’s permission....

Peyton Manning Mocks Kevin Durant And Russell Westbrook For Your Enjoyment
At tonight’s sports awards show, host Peyton Manning took a soft jab at Kevin Durant’s front-running, then followed up with an appeal to KD’s former teammate Russell Westbrook. Each NBA star sold the gag with some pretty solid deadpan glares....

Miko Grimes Says She Tweeted Dumb Shit On Purpose To Get The Dolphins To Cut Her Husband
Buccaneers cornerback Brent Grimes is a talented player, but around these parts he’s more notable for his wife Miko’s ability to talk him up, and occasionally veer away from blunt honesty into bizarre territory. Now she claims that some of it was part of a plan....

Astros' Alex Bregman Deletes Account After Sending DMs To Critic
Houston Astros third baseman Alex Bregman is currently batting .256 in the majors and .000 in online fan interactions. Last weekend, Bregman was apparently searching his name on Twitter, where he seemed to have found the tweets of @AllenH83. Allen was not wholly enamored by Bregman; his tame opinion...

The Youth Olympic Games Is Crowdsourcing For Breaking Competitors<em></em>
In 2018, the Youth Olympic Games will feature a breaking competition. And selection for this new competition, at least the early round, will be done through social media....

How Up-And-Coming Runner Hannah Fields Found Her Groove
Carolyn Helker’s daughter, Hannah, is quite competitive. She gets that from her father, Eddy. When Hannah was young, her dad coached her soccer team and challenged the kids to juggle a soccer ball 100 times. Knob-kneed and determined, Hannah did it. Then he sweetened the deal, saying he’d pay anyone...

A Trip To The Only Outdoor Public Pool In Brussels, Which Is In A Dumpster
Last year, residents of Philadelphia’s Kensington section created a dumpster pool for their block party. Though the stunt was incredibly cool, the city deemed it incredibly dangerous and forbade the 2400 block of Cedar Street from getting any more block party permits....

