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Sidney Crosby Has Mumps
Sidney Crosby's mumpy-looking face on Friday did not lie. The Penguins' captain officially has the mumps. Crosby, who sat out Friday's and Saturday's games, will miss Monday's game against the Lightning. His status will continue to be monitored....

Hannibal Buress's Postgame Question Puts Everything In Perspective
Hannibal Buress's question after Friday night's Cavs-Pelicans game is better than any "Talk about ..." prompt from actual reporters. David Blatt's answer is also solid....

Penguins Broadcaster Apologizes For Insensitive "I Can't Breathe" Joke
Pittsburgh sports radio personality Stan Savran decide to reference the "I Can't Breathe" shirts in memory of Eric Garner while talking about the Penguins' struggles against the Blue Jackets last night. That was a bad idea....

Auburn Football Player Shot And Killed
Auburn redshirt freshman Jakell Mitchell was shot and killed at the Tiger Lodge complex near the university Sunday morning. He was 18....

MLB Facing Lawsuit From Highest-Ranking Hispanic Woman In Management
Sylvia Lind, the director of baseball initiatives in the Office of the Commissioner, is suing Major League Baseball for what she claims to be two decades of discriminatory practices. Lind is the highest-ranking Hispanic woman in MLB's front office. The lawsuit names as defendants the league, commiss...
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Sidney Crosby's Face Is Messed Up And Sort Of Mumpy Looking [Update]
The Post-Gazette's Seth Rorabaugh noticed that Sidney Crosby looked a little different after today's morning skate:...

College QB Forced To Sue T-Shirt Company To Retain Eligibility
Just when you think the NCAA bylaws couldn't possibly become more ridiculously hypocritical, a story like this comes along....

J.T. Barrett Involved In Alleged Domestic Disturbance With Girlfriend
Police responded to a domestic disturbance Tuesday morning involving J.T. Barrett and his girlfriend, Alexandria Barrett-Clark, at the Ohio State quarterback's Columbus apartment...

More Proof That Anheuser-Busch Hates You, Me, And Nature's Finest Fruit
Apples are the best fruit, because in addition to being delicious, they are also versatile. Apples can be juiced, pied, carameled, candied, fermented, distilled, cidered, crisped, jacked, brown bettied!, eaten plain without a fuss like you're some kind of goddamn health monster determined to live ...


How Is Madison Bumgarner Even A Real Person?
If you were to judge Sports Illustrated's big Sportsman of the Year feature on Madison Bumgarner simply by the magazine's cover and Tom Verducci's lede—"In one of Earth's great hardwood forests, that wind swoops and soars through white pines, maples, oaks, chestnuts and poplars..."—you might roll ...

Buccaneers Will Stop Using Unpaid Homeless People To Sell Beer
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers will no longer employ unpaid, destitute indentured servants as concessions stand workers, according to a statement issued by the team's concessions partner Aramark....

Alabama, Oregon, FSU, And Ohio State Make College Football Playoff
Your college football playoff selections are here, and Alabama, Oregon, Florida State, and Ohio State will face off to decide this season's national champion....

Panthers' Video Joking About Buffalo Snowstorm Angers Sabres Owner
The Florida Panthers showed a video before Saturday night's game against the Sabres, contrasting Buffalo's awful, cold weather with Florida's ideal conditions. The gag used photos from Buffalo's deadly November snowstorm, and Sabres owner Terry Pegula, who was in attendance, did not appreciate the j...

I Can't Breathe
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Giannis Antetokounmpo Can Cover A Lot Of Ground With Just Two Steps
Last night Giannis Antetokounmpo pulled off the move that is quickly becoming his signature, gathering his dribble behind the three-point line, taking two steps, and laying the ball in. That is at least 22 feet covered in just two steps, with Antetokounmpo using his incredibly long limbs to make p...

Buster Olney Is Fed Up With Hall Of Fame Voting
In his (paywalled) column today, ESPN's Buster Olney declares that he will not cast a ballot for the Baseball Hall of Fame this year, nor any year going forward until the voting process's glaring flaws are fixed....

Kemba Walker Crosses Over, Nikola Mirotic Falls The Fuck Down
Poor Nikola Mirotic. He has no business checking Kemba Walker. Probably he learned his lesson after sucker-ass Kirk Hinrich left him hanging because he could not get over a Marvin Williams screen and Kemba crossed him out of his socks, but this is immaterial, because Nikola Mirotic is now a cluster ...

Monta Ellis's Game-Winning Buzzer-Beater Was Bananas
I think it's time to admit that there probably isn't another player in the NBA who is better at hitting reckless, off-balance buzzer-beaters than Monta Ellis. Almost two years after hitting a game-winner so absurd that Ellis himself had to flee from it, the Mavericks shooting guard once again did hi...

Robert Kekaula Apologizes For Calling Fresno "The Armpit Of America"
Hawai'i football broadcaster Robert Kekaula got a dig in on Fresno at the end of Saturday's game against Fresno State, signing off by calling the California city "the armpit of America." Tuesday, Kekaula apologized for his accurate description....