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Mystery Solved: Drew Brees Is Not A Rotten Tipper

With training camps firing up, it's time to get all the NFL silly season business out of the way. This will go a long way toward putting to rest one of the dumber stories consuming New Orleans and the larger football world over the last few days—confirmation that Drew Brees did not leave a four perc...

Browns GM: Shitty Players Not As Shitty Now That I'm In Charge

When the Cleveland Browns hired Mike Lombardi to be their general manager back in January, the locals immediately recalled all that disparaging stuff he had said about the team in his previous job as an analyst for the NFL Network....

ESPN Clumsily Promotes Miguel Cabrera As Lefty With Botched Photoshop

Eagle-eyed reader Dan spotted this during last night's SportsCenter, during which the WWL promoted highlights of the Nats-Tigers game with this graphic of Stephen Strasburg and Miguel Cabrera. Notice anything wrong? ESPN magically turned the league's best hitter into a lefty....

Brooklyn Bagels (There's Something In The Water)

Happiness is this:...

Pistons Trade For Brandon Jennings. Sure, Why Not?

Woj's latest scoop is a pretty big one: Brandon Jennings is headed to Detroit in a sign-and-trade that will send Brandon Knight, Khris Middleton, and Slava Kravstov to the Bucks. Jennings and the Pistons are reportedly finalizing a three-year, $24 million deal....

Chris Bosh Gets No Respect In The Russian Nesting Doll Game

According to the Reddit user who spotted these nesting dolls while visiting Russia, Bosh's doll was the smallest one in the set, coming in behind both Ray Allen and Mario Chalmers. That's some cold shit, Russia....

The Man Who Broke Atlantic City

Dig Mark Bowden's 2012 story for the Atlantic:...

Andrelton Simmons Is Good At Baseball Tricks. His Teammates Are Not

Remember that old Nike commercial in which Tiger Woods did that awesome bouncing-ball trick? You know, the one that every kid within 15 miles of a driving range spent the next two years trying to duplicate. Well, a few Atlanta Braves players recently tried to execute a baseball-themed version of the...

Brett Lawrie Eludes Ghost Man At Third, Gets Out At First

OK, fine. Lawrie was actually trying to record some kind of jump-throw out at second base but decided mid-jump that he couldn't make the play. Instead, he gracefully pirouetted, composed himself and fired to first to get The Flash Josh Donaldson....

Racing's Angriest Young Man And The Greatest Hits of 1961

Though it's not easy to navigate I think it's worth your time to cruise on over to the Internet Archives to read the full text of The Best Sports Stories 1961. It includes pieces by Stanley Woodward, W.C. Heinz, Myron Cope, Red Smith, Blackie Sherrod, Dick Schaap, Tex Maule, Dick Young, Roger Kahn, ...

Brewers: We're Sorry Ryan Braun Cheated, Here's A Hot Dog

Last week, Brewers owner Mark Attanasio said the Brewers were "working on a way to give back to the fans for going through this," with "this" being Ryan Braun's newfound pariah status. They announced the plans today. Free tickets? Braun jersey trade-ins? How about: ten bucks!...

Bros Gone Wild: Riot Erupts After U.S. Open Of Surfing

Huntington Beach, Calif., hosted the U.S Open of Surfing this weekend, and shit got way out of hand. Shortly after the conclusion of the competition, downtown Huntington Beach was swarmed by a mass of bros, apparently driven a bit mad by the heat and the ocean air. Portable toilets were tipped, impr...

Soccer Player Celebrates Goal By Putting On A Jacket

This is from Colombia's top league, the Primera A Clausura. By the time Vladimir Marin scored on this beautiful free kick in the 80th minute yesterday, Deportivo Cali already had a two-goal lead on Once Caldas. Marin's goal essentially salted the match away. He celebrated by letting everyone know it...

Behold: The Most Bored Baseball Fan Ever

Here lies the queen of the bored baseball fans....

Brek Shea Scores Winning Goal For USMNT In The Gold Cup Final

The US Men's National Team have been dominating Panama throughout the Gold Cup final match, and in the second half, it felt like US Soccer were going to break through. In the 69th minute, substitute winger Brek Shea tapped in a cross that beat the keeper over the goal line, just 42 seconds after com...

Panama's Gabriel Torres Takes A Cross To The Jewels

Panama forward Gabriel Torres tried to put his body on this first half cross in the Gold Cup final. And he succeeded, just not with the part of his body he might have wanted. (Fox using this sequence as the outro to its halftime montage was cold.) h/t to @KingHarris_ [Fox]...

Football Is Back, Brutal As Ever

Every NFL training camp is now fully open, and so we're already back to the annual tradition of football players getting seriously hurt....

Browns Guard Ryan Miller Carted Off Field, Taken To Hospital [UPDATES]

During training camp today, an unidentified Browns player was taken off the field in an ambulance....

What The Hell Is Zlatan Ibrahimovic Wearing?

Apparently, it's some sort of tracking device. And the shorts are probably just rolled up a bit. Still, this photo is ridiculous:...

Bryant McKinnie fat....