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Report: Bucks Trade For Eric Bledsoe, Who Better Not Mess This Up
The word from Woj is that the Phoenix Suns have finally found a suitable trade partner for talented but grumpy point guard Eric Bledsoe, who hasn’t played for the team since tweeting “I don’t wanna be here” on October 22. Bledsoe appears to be headed for Milwaukee:...
Giannis Is Shaq Now
Here’s a fun Giannis Antetokounmpo fact, from ESPN’s weekly NBA player rankings blog:...
Everyone Failed Braxton Beverly<em></em>
On the same day that NCAA president Mark Emmert told a crowd at the Knight Commission that allowing schools to dictate a college athlete’s ability to transfer “never made any sense” to him, the NCAA denied N.C. State guard Braxton Beverly’s appeal to play for the 2017 season. Wolfpack head coach Kev...
Penn State, TCU, and South Florida Drop From The Ranks Of The Undefeated
Three ranked, undefeated teams all suffered their first losses of the season within an hour this afternoon: 2nd-ranked Penn State lost a narrow one to 6th-ranked Ohio State in Columbus; 4th-ranked TCU trailed the whole way at 25th-ranked Iowa State; and 17th-ranked South Florida lost at home to Hous...
Giannis Antetokounmpo Dedicates Best Game Yet To His Late Father
Giannis Antetokounmpo, the 22-year-old Milwaukee star who keeps improving his freakish set of skills, hit a new high last night in a 113-110 win over Portland. Antetokounmpo dropped a career-best 44 points in a dramatic contest, announcing his full transformation from fascinating beanpole of potenti...
The Totally Unexpected True Story Of Yi Jianlian's Magical Mystery Chair
Mention Yi Jianlian, and the first thing that comes to mind is probably that video of him working out against a chair. The baseline drive, the juke, the spin move around the defenseless chair and the ferocious slam. Do you remember it?...
Let It Be The Season Of Giannis
Kevin Durant? Corny in ways we are only beginning to understand. Kawhi Leonard? Boring. LeBron James? A bald dad. James Harden? Beards are out. Russell Westbrook? Okay, he’s still pretty cool, but what I am getting at here is this: we are headed, at this very moment, directly into the Year of Gianni...
Please Enjoy(?) 21 Years Of Joe Buck Hyping Forgotten Fox Shows
Matthew Callan deserves hazard pay for compiling this video of the last 21 seasons of Joe Buck doing postseason promo reads for Fox’s fall lineups. Thrill! to his obvious lack of enthusiasm. Marvel! at the cuts to the stars of the shows, miraculously in good seats at the game. Wonder! at why you can...
N.C. State Freshman Braxton Beverly Ruled Ineligible For Going To School
After Thad Matta abruptly left Ohio State this summer, incoming freshman Braxton Beverly was granted his release by the Buckeyes and he transferred to N.C. State. The four-star point guard recruit (who once scored 70 points in a single high school game) hadn’t played for the Buckeyes or anything, an...
Kirk Herbstreit Smarms On Ohio State Recruit, Who Responds By Calling Him A Sheep
Last weekend, offensive lineman and five-star recruit Jackson Carman visited Ohio State. On Monday, he made the fairly benign comment that he would like to see Dwayne Haskins, Jr. get some playing time. On Tuesday, Kirk Herbstreit chided him for it and doubled down when someone suggested that footba...
Oklahoma QB Baker Mayfield Issues Weak-Ass Apology For Badass Flag Planting
At the end of the Oklahoma Sooners’ 31-16 victory over Ohio State in Columbus, Baker Mayfield taunted the crowd in one of the coolest possible ways: He planted an Oklahoma flag at midfield....
Urban Meyer Hits Tom Herman With The Classic Scoreboard Burn
With one week and one embarrassing loss in the books, it seems about right that college football fans already have to listen to some Texas coaches squirm and blame-shift....
The Greeks Say The NBA Conspired To Keep Giannis Antetokounmpo Out Of Eurobasket
Here’s a new one: Greece’s basketball federation has accused the Milwaukee Bucks and the NBA of executing “an organized and well-staged” conspiracy to prevent Giannis Antetokounmpo from participating in Eurobasket this summer. Antetokounmpo announced on Facebook Saturday that knee pain would force h...
Giannis Antetokounmpo Gently Defends Kevin Durant's OKC Departure
Giannis Antetokounmpo is in the Philippines attending an event for Filipino youth, and yesterday someone in attendance asked him a tough question about team loyalty in the NBA. The Bucks’ star cephalopod has reportedly exclaimed that he wanted to play in Milwaukee for “20 years.” And here is his mos...
Joe Buck Recounts That One Time He Got Stoned As Hell In Cabo
Joe Buck joined Dan Le Batard on the latter’s radio show Monday night to chat about angry fan crank calls, his own personal baseball card, and that one time he vacationed in Mexico and got absolutely baked....
Ohio State Basketball Looks Dangerously Thin, And That's Just Fine
Barring a miracle, Chris Holtmann’s first year as the Ohio State men’s basketball coach is all but guaranteed to be a rough one....
The Bucks' GM Search Was A Big Mess
Congratulations to the Milwaukee Bucks for hiring as GM the candidate who wasn’t even a candidate, and who no one in charge actually wanted....
Old Man Beef Sizzles Between Buck Showalter And Nats GM Mike Rizzo
Thursday night the Nationals faced the Orioles in a makeup of a May 11 date that was postponed and rescheduled after a day of shitty rain. That was a shitty, rainy week in DC—Washington’s next game, a series opener against the Phillies on May 12, was also rained out....