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Toughness Meme Goes Off The Rails With LeBron-Yogi Berra Comparison
I don't even know what to do with this. At this point, it's perhaps prudent to think about where we are and how we got here. LeBron James hate/bashing has gone so far that someone created this image comparing Yogi Berra's involvement in the Allied invasion of Normandy and LeBron James cramping up in...

Johnny Manziel Drinking On An Inflatable Swan
There are some things that are inherently believable. Like, when someone tweets "not the greatest of pics, but here's Manziel enjoying some X games after party festivities in Austin at Rio" and it's a dude floating on an inflatable swan chugging a bottle of liquor, you just believe it because, well,...

Everything You Know About Cramps Is Wrong, And Gatorade Is Full Of Shit
It looked bad, LeBron getting Paul Pierced off the court, a Finals opener sliding wetly to an uneventful end, Gatorade trolling down from the ramparts of for-profit pseudo-science....

Actually, LeBron James Was Drinking Gatorade Last Night
Brand fights are the worst of all fights, Gatorade's sustained trolling of LeBron James's cramps due to a supposed lack of proper hydration lacked some pretty key context: James had been drinking Gatorade all night....

LeBron James Leaves Game 1 Due To Cramp, Because He's Human
You won't believe this. LeBron James, a human being, suffered a cramp and had to leave Game 1 of the Finals. He clearly can't win when his team needs him, or something. Stupid involuntary muscle spasms....

Cleveland Politician Proposes Tying Stadium Money To Wins
Last year, voters in Cuyahoga County approved a 20-year extension of a sin tax to pay for upkeep on Cleveland's three pro sports stadiums. Today, one elected official presented a proposal to tie part of that payout to the teams' performance. He calls it, a little obviously, a "win tax."...

ESPN has run the numbers on LeBron's popularity, finding that there are a lot of white haters. James is the favorite player of 9.7 percent of white fans—down from 14.8 percent pre-Decision—while his support from black fans (21 to 23.5 percent) and Hispanic fans (10.7 to 12.4 percent) has grown. [ES...


We've Been Friends Long Enough You'll Understand
Head on over to SB Nation and check out Cee Angi's story on Vin Scully:...

British Comedian Almost Sneaks On Team England's World Cup Plane
Simon Brodkin is a British actor/comedian/prankster who plays, among other characters, a soccer player named Jason Bent. Brodkin, dressed in character as Bent, got amongst team England on a private tarmac at Luton Airport and tried to board the plane the squad was taking to Miami as they begin train...

Kenya Bros Explain Kenyan Running Dominance
Jake and Zane Robertson have been living in Kenya since 2007, just after they graduated high school in New Zealand. The two ex-pats are talented runners and getting better, which has only fed the flame of their East African bro-ness. ...

Charles Bronson, Urban Rambo: The Frantic Nihilism Of <em>Death Wish 3</em>
Netflix Instant doesn't have to feel like a depleted Blockbuster in 1990, where you spend half an hour browsing hopeless straight-to-video thrillers before saying "fuck it" and loading up another Archer. Streaming services can be an absolute treasure trove, particularly if you like action movies, an...

Tim Duncan Gets Kicked In The Nuts, Wants Everyone To Know About It
Whoa, Tim Duncan, did Russell Westbrook really just kick you in the nuts?...

These Animated NBA Playoff Highlights Are Cool As Hell
Richard Swarbick is an artist who's been turning sports highlights into awesome animations for a long time now, and now he's working his magic on cool moments from this year's NBA playoffs. ...

Last Night Belonged To Crazy-Ass Lance Stephenson
Aside from Paul George's second-half explosion and its madcap ending, last night's game between the Heat and Pacers was pretty damn unwatchable. That's what happens when the best player in the universe has to spend most of the game on the bench with the foul trouble and the Pacers decide to do... wh...

The Thunder Are The Thunder Again, And This Is A Brand New Series
I suppose we can go ahead and forget about the first two games of the Western Conference finals, which saw the Serge Ibaka-less Thunder getting swallowed whole by the Spurs while Russell Westbrook and Kevin Durant did their best to fight off the inevitable. We can forget those two games because Ser...

Russ Killing It, Animated
[The Oklahoma City Thunder evened their series with the Spurs last night behind a dominating 40 point, 10 assist and 5 steal night from Russell Westbrook. Artist and Deadspin favorite Chris Edser put together this animation of the fellow Deadspin favorite's other talents.]...


