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St. Joe's Survives As Game-Tying Cincinnati Dunk Waved Off
Referees waved off Octavius Ellis’s would-be buzzer-beating dunk for Cincinnati after video replay showed the Bearcats senior still had the ball as the horn sounded....
Northern Iowa Advances On Half-Court Buzzer-Beater
Paul Jesperson’s half-court desperation heave found the bucket and delivered the Northern Iowa Panthers to the NCAA tournament’s second round, erasing a game-tying basket with two seconds remaining by Texas’s Isaiah Taylor and eliminating the Longhorns....
Here's Borussia Mönchengladbach With A Great Piece Of Own-Goal Incompetence
On one hand, this comically ridiculous own goal does a disservice to the impressive work Schalke’s Leroy Sané put into creating it. On the other, the three deft little flicks Gladbach’s defenders ping back and forth between each other would be impressive—Arsenal-esque, even—if only they weren’t send...
Iowa Beats Temple With Overtime Buzzer-Beater
Adam Woodbury’s tip in as time expired in overtime delivered the Iowa Hawkeyes to a 72-70 win over Temple in a 7-10 first round matchup. Iowa overcame a lousy 34.8% shooting percentage on the day to down the Owls....
Providence Knocks Off USC With Last-Second Layup
Rodney Bullock’s layup with one second remaining proved the difference as Providence beat USC 70-69 for the Friars’ first win in the NCAA tournament since reaching the regional finals in 1997....
ESPN Broadcasters: ESPN's Reporting Is Bad
On Tuesday, ESPN’s Ramona Shelburne dropped a big piece on New York Knicks team president Phil Jackson’s handling of the season. It mainly focused on Jackson’s relationships with Knicks coaches—first Derek Fisher and now Kurt Rambis. The Knicks have looked even worse under Jackson’s longtime friend ...
Third Successive Court Smacks NCAA Down, Allows Todd McNair's Lawsuit To Proceed
The California Supreme Court ruled against the NCAA, declining to review the 2nd District Court of Appeal’s December decision allowing former USC football assistant coach Todd McNair’s lawsuit against the NCAA to proceed. McNair is likely to win at least a part of his lawsuit, which in its course wi...
Drake Trash-Talks Bulls Player From Courtside Seat
Drake’s presence at Raptors game continues to bring us moments to laugh at. During a tense moment in last night’s game against the Bulls, Drake found himself standing right behind Justin Holiday, who was set to inbound the ball with the Bulls up 106-103 and under 30 seconds to play. So Drake got to ...
Your Regular Reminder That The NFL Is Weird And Backwards
Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Martavis Bryant has been hit with a one year suspension for missing multiple drug tests. Bryant had previously tested positive for marijuana, which earned him a four-game suspension in 2015, and is reportedly set to check into rehab. Bryant’s agent told USA Today th...
Runaway Bull Makes For Very Intimidating Pitch Invader
This rambunctious bovine wanted to join some Australian youths in their soccer game after escaping his nearby paddock. Unfortunately, the kids were very rude and refused to pass him the ball, so he had to retreat back to the forest. ...
Every Quarter Of This Insane Ohio High School Basketball Final Ended On A Buzzer-Beater
Garfield Heights took down St. Ignatius last night in some hot Cleveland Regional Final action to head to the state semifinals. The Bulldogs beat the Wildcats (this was one of probably like 3,000 Bulldogs-Wildcats meetings this weekend) 70-69 in two overtimes, and every single quarter ended with som...
Report: Former Mississippi State QB And NFL Draft Prospect Dak Prescott Arrested For DUI
Dak Prescott and his Mississippi State teammates held their pro day late last week down in Starkville. The former Bulldogs quarterback was projected to be one of the first five or so QBs off the board in next month’s NFL Draft, but according to a report from the Jackson Clarion-Ledger, Prescott was ...
Cal State-Bakersfield Wins First NCAA Tourney Bid With Last-Second Stunner
Dedrick Basile’s last-second three-pointer gave the Cal State-Bakersfield Roadrunners a 57-54 win over NMSU and punched that school’s first ticket to the NCAA tournament since joining Division I nine years ago....
Report: Steelers' Martavis Bryant Facing Year-Long Suspension For Violating NFL Substance Abuse Policy (UPDATE)
Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Martavis Bryant missed the first four games of last season for violating the NFL’s substance abuse policy, and now he might miss the entire 2016-2017 season for a similar violation, per a report from Dejan Kovacevic which was later corroborated by others....
High School Basketball Player Hits A Buzzer-Beater From Goddamn Neptune
Prepare for the fourth of the approximately one million buzzer-beaters that will happen this weekend....
High School Basketball Team Holds The Ball Through Overtime, Wins On A Buzzer-Beater
‘Tis the season for buzzer-beaters. Yesterday, there was that insane three-quarter-court dagger from UConn’s Jalen Adams to force a fourth overtime, Buddy Hield’s half-courter coming just a hair too late, and Utah sending it to overtime against Cal after Lorenzo Bonam ran through their entire defens...
Buddy Hield Buzzer-Beater Heroics Overturned On Video Replay
West Virginia defeated Oklahoma in tonight’s Big 12 semifinal after player of the year candidate Buddy Hield’s half-court buzzer-beater attempt was judged on video review to have failed to beat the buzzer....
UConn Forces Fourth Overtime With Three-Quarter-Court Buzzer-Beater
When Cincinnati’s Kevin Johnson hit a three-pointer with two seconds remaining in the third overtime of the Bearcats’ American quarterfinal against UConn, it looked like the Huskies were toast. But Jalen Adams drilled a shot off the inbounds pass that came with less than a second remaining to force ...
The Beat Generation Starter Kit
The Beats were the Nirvana of their generation: individualistic, drug-addled, and, unfortunately, sometimes held responsible for the Nickelbacks created in their wake. Beats begat beatniks, those beret-wearing, saxophone-loving hipsters who morphed into gross ’60s hippies. And now this loose collect...