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Yadier Molina Will Technically Now Be The Highest-Paid Catcher In Baseball
After weeks of negotiations, the Cardinals have reportedly reached a deal for a three-year extension with Yadier Molina. The team will officially announce the contract this afternoon, but early reports have pegged the total sum at $60 million, which would make the 34-year-old baseball’s highest-paid...
Michigan Upsets No. 2 Louisville For Sweet Sixteen Spot
Louisville coughed up an eight-point halftime lead in an upset loss to Michigan....
Mike Matheny Made A Joke?
The St. Louis Cardinals, who were 38-43 at home last season, are 6-0 at home for spring training. (That’s swell. Almost means as much as those 81 games.) Manager Mike Matheny was asked a light question about the team’s preseason performance, and I think he tried to be funny and peck at the Cubs?...
Mike Piazza Has Been Captured By Nelly
Last week, Hall of Fame catcher Mike Piazza needled the city of St. Louis when he said he’d rather own a third-tier Italian soccer team than an MLS team in St. Louis because you “can’t get a good meal” in the city....
Louisville's Donovan Mitchell Reached Out Of The Arena To Finish Ridiculous Alley-Oop
After last Wednesday, Louisville forward Deng Adel probably thought he was in the clear for claiming the team’s dunk of year. Unfortunately for him, Syracuse defenders are a bunch of ball-watchers....
Louisville Student Who Made Half-Court Shot Won't Get $38,000 Prize Because He Played High School Basketball
A Louisville sophomore who won $38,000 at a women’s basketball game by hitting a layup, a free throw, a three-pointer and a half-court shot has now been told that he cannot receive the money because he played basketball in high school....
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Pissed Off Rick Pitino Blows His Top At Fan, Has To Be Restrained By Coaching Staff [Update]
Rick Pitino was mad tonight! How mad? Mad enough that he had to be held back by his assistant coaches as he and a North Carolina fan got into a shouting match....
Louisville's Deng Adel Smashes Down Ferocious Dunk
UNC and Louisville are in the midst of a tight one in Chapel Hill right now. It’s been a good game between the top-ten teams, and the best moment was easily Deng Adel’s eye-popping dunk from just in front of the free throw line. Look at this jam!...
Mike Piazza Shits On St. Louis And Major League Soccer At The Same Time, Achieves Glory
Mike Piazza, Hall of Famer and the best-hitting catcher in major-league history, is having a fine time in Italy these days. Much of it has to do with Reggiana, the third-tier soccer club in which he purchased a majority stake last year, and the New York Times’s Andrew Keh wrote a wonderful story abo...
Dexter Fowler Isn't Sweating The "Stick To Sports" Crowd
Over the weekend, Cardinals outfielder Dexter Fowler was asked what he thought about Donald Trump’s Muslim travel ban. Fowler has a personal stake in the ban, as his wife is from Iran and his sister-in-law recently cancelled a return trip from Qatar because she didn’t want to be detained. Given thes...
Who Could Ever Forget That Amazing Arizona Cardinals Super Bowl Win?
ESPN’s Mark Adams related a story he says Rick Pitino told him years about about the resilience of the 2008 Arizona Cardinals, who lost to the Patriots 47-7 and went on to win the Super Bowl. Perhaps Pitino turned the game off with 40 seconds left?...
Idiot On The Court Gets Arrested Trying To Join Miami Huddle
The latest entry to the Idiot On The Field series took place in Louisville, where 31-year-old Randall Bolton tried to enter the Miami huddle during a first-half timeout of what would go on to be a 71-66 victory for the Cardinals....
Looks Like David Johnson's Feeling Fine
On the Arizona Cardinals’ New Year’s Day season finale win over the Rams, Cardinals running back David Johnson suffered a scary-looking knee injury, later classified as an MCL sprain. Let’s check in on him....
The Cardinals' Hacking Scandal Stands Alone In The History Of Cheating In Baseball
The St. Louis Cardinals hacking scandal—in which then-scouting director Chris Correa used a former colleague’s password to access the Houston Astros’ player database over 50 times in 16 months—is unprecedented in baseball history. This must have made Commissioner Rob Manfred’s decision on how to pun...
Cardinals Hacker Insists That Astros Stole Information First
A statement criticizing MLB’s investigation into the Cardinals hacking scandal was posted by a Twitter account that appears to be from Chris Correa, the currently incarcerated former scouting director who accessed the Astros’ internal player information database more that 50 times in 16 months....
Cardinals Must Send Two Draft Picks, $2 Million To Astros For Hacking Scandal
The St. Louis Cardinals will have to pay $2 million and send their top two draft picks in the 2017 draft to the Houston Astros as punishment for former Cardinals scouting director Chris Correa repeatedly logging into the Astros’ player information database. ...
Feds: Cardinals Hacker Probably Leaked To Deadspin As Revenge For Astros' <i>Sports Illustrated</i> Cover
Documents unsealed last week in U.S. District Court for the southern district of Texas reveal new details about the crimes committed by former St. Louis Cardinals scouting director Chris Correa, who was sentenced to 46 months in prison for hacking into the Astros’ player information database....
Louisville: Sure, We Hosted Sex Parties, But They Were Cheap And Didn't Help With Recruiting
Rick Pitino and the University of Louisville have accepted the majority of the NCAA’s accusations relating to their stripper recruiting scandal, but the two have singled out a few interesting points to push back on in their official responses....
Duke Loses Once Again
No. 7 Duke lost their second straight game and their fourth of the year, falling to no. 14 Louisville by a score of 78-69 on Saturday afternoon....
Louisville Women Trick Duke Into Defending Wrong Basket
No. 13 Duke edged No. 8 Louisville 58-55, but the Cardinals ran the cleverest play of the night. To start the second half, Louisville fooled the Blue Devils into defending the backcourt, leading to the easiest layup Briahanna Jackson’s ever had....