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Lacrosse Equipment Manufacturer Dishes Out Strong Anti-Title IX Takes
Sure, sure, we're as done with #brand fails as you are, but this is still pretty weak. There was a lacrosse event going on tonight, and whoever's running the Twitter account for Warrior—"one of the sporting goods industry's premier manufacturer of innovative, high performance, cutting-edge equip...
What If A Baseball Player Were As Dominant As LeBron?
I'd like to pretend that I'm above paying attention to the LeBron James circus, but like everyone else, I spent a lot of today just sitting around waiting on some revelatory Adrian Wojnarowski tweet, so that a question like What if someone was just as dominant as LeBron James, but he played baseball...
Did Mo Williams Warn Miami What It's Like To Get Burned By LeBron?
Tell us how you really feel, Mo?...
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Hold On To Your Butts [Update: You Can Let Go Of Your Butts For Now]
We don't want to get too swept up in the LeBron hype. Actually, that is a lie. We are totally swept up in it and want you to be too. Just look at what's going down near LeBron's home in Bath Township, Ohio, just outside of Akron:...
Just Undo It: The LeBron James Profile That Nike Killed
This profile of LeBron James was reported and written in 2011 for Port, a new London-based men's magazine, under odd circumstances: Nike paid for the writer's travel expenses and a portion of his fee. The story that came out of the trip was not what Nike had expected—a rep was apparently "furious"—...
Cleveland Zoo Owl Betrays Her City, Predicts LeBron Will Stay In Miami
Tawny just did you dirty, Cleveland. You provide a home for her in the Cleveland Zoo, and this is how she repays you....
BrooklyKnight Is Dead And Never Coming Back
BrooklyKnight, one of the more extraneous, inappropriate, and unspellable mascots in all of sports, has been euthanized at his home above a transit hub. It was two years old. It lived too long. It will not be missed....
P.J. Hairston Has A Weird Explanation For Why Josh Gordon Had His Car
This is not a thing that normal people do:...
All The Internet Clues That Point To LeBron Going To Cleveland
Though LeBron James has remained totally silent about his free agency plans, the tea leaves are there, if you're desperate and crazy enough to read them. ...
Don't Do This To Yourself, Cleveland
No. Don't do this. You're going to jinx it....
Other Plan B's For The Cleveland Cavaliers To Consider
By trading Jarrett Jack in order to clear cap space today, the Cavs made it clear they're all-in on trying to get LeBron James. It's also being reported that if they miss out on James, their Plan B involves trying to sign Chandler Parsons or Trevor Ariza. Those are pretty sad plans! Here are some ...
LeBron James Free Agent Watch, As Sketch Comedy
I guess we have the technology to find out what these gentlemen were talking about, but every frame is a painting in the absurd. Just check out that dryish-marker-on-presentation-handouts penmanship going on there; that's top drawer comedy set design. ...
The Cavs Just Cleared Some LeBron-Sized Cap Space
So it appears that the Cavs are really going for it. LeBron's old team just swung a three-team trade that will clear $9.5 million off the Cavaliers' books, leaving them with about $24 million in cap space, and that puts them them well in position to offer LeBron a max contract at $20.7 million....
Bronson Arroyo Was About As Pretty OK, I Guess, As Anyone Ever
Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Bronson Arroyo announced on Monday that he will be undergoing Tommy John surgery to repair the torn ulnar collateral ligament in his right elbow. The news that a 37-year-old pitcher who has never really warranted a descriptor any more generous than "OK" is out for the fo...
"Dear...Hero": Dan Gilbert's Comic Sans Letter, Edited For 2014 LeBron
LeBron James is back on the free-agent market for the first time since he left his hometown Cleveland Cavaliers for the Miami Heat. Doesn't all that summer's bitterness seem so long ago now? Might James want to try playing with a star guard who has two working legs? He might, right? He hasn't said h...
Sigh. Here Is Johnny Manziel Kind Of Doing The Nae Nae.
Well, we really boned ourselves here. Our non-exhaustive list of Johnny Manziel dirt that we will actually pay for included a $325 bounty for a video of Johnny Manziel doing the Nae Nae. (Why $325? Who the fuck knows.) Naturally, a tipster reached out to us with a video of Johnny Manziel doing the N...
The "Average Professional Baseball Player" Who Changed Sportswriting
Jim Brosnan, the pitcher whose book about his 1959 season offered an uncommonly candid look at life within baseball, died last month at the age of 84. In 2007, Brosnan was inducted into the Baseball Reliquary's Shrine of the Eternals. Writer John Schulian gave the following speech on Brosnan's beha...
The Cavs Needed The NBA's Help To Delete Dan Gilbert's Comic Sans Letter
Dan Gilbert's tantrum of an open letter remained on the Cavs' website for one day shy of four years, conveniently being deleted just as the Cavs stepped up their free agency pursuit of LeBron James. A team spokesman explained to SB Nation's Mike Prada just how that went down:...
Reminder: The LeBron Free Agency Circus Is The NBA's Fault
We're watching the rubber band snap on LeBron free agency coverage. We waited all year to see what would happen, and now that it's happening, there's... rather a lot of coverage, isn't there? But remember, whatever hysterics into which teams and Twitter and ESPN have been thrown were created by the ...
Report: Josh Gordon Got His DWI Charge In P.J. Hairston's Car
The Triangle-area athletes-getting-in-trouble scene is tangled, and recently, quite busy. Let's put some pieces together....