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Sheffield Wednesday Manager Smashes Money To Prove His Team Doesn't Suck
Carlos Carvalhal, the manager of underachieving English second-tier club Sheffield Wednesday, faced some tough questions from the media following a 4-2 defeat to crosstown rivals Sheffield United. Rather than answer simply with words, a testy Carvalhal pulled out a 20-pound note and gave reporters a...

The World Beard And Mustache Championships Is A Place To Be Seen
If you watch the Westminster Dog Show on television, what you’ll see is the best of groups—like toy or hunting—and ultimately the best in show. But earlier in the day, in a warehouse on a pier, judges pick the best in breed. This is my favorite part. Since dog shows grade canines on their adherence ...

Big3 Files Defamation Lawsuit Against Champions Basketball League
The Champions Basketball League, an independent pro league that has repeatedly failed to start its inaugural season after taking hundreds of thousands of dollars of investment from regular fans, sued Ice Cube’s Big3 league for $250 million earlier this month. Today, the Big3 filed a counter defamati...

Jürgen Klopp Left Extremely Confused By Bizarre Beef Between Him And Sevilla Coaches
I should admit up front that the following beef between Liverpool manager Jürgen Klopp and his coaching counterparts on Sevilla’s bench doesn’t make total sense, but the strange, match-long affair does involve Sevilla’s manager twice playing keepaway with a Liverpool player, him getting sent off for...

Referee Almost Hit By Huge Flare Fired From The Stands
Today’s Champions League match between NK Maribor and Spartak Moscow was briefly interrupted after a fan in the Spartak section fired a flare onto the pitch, narrowly missing the head referee....

Marco Asensio Will Miss Champions League Match After Hurting Himself Shaving His Legs
In a recent interview, Real Madrid’s Marco Asensio recalled that manager Zinedine Zidane once told him that the wonderkid was in possession of the best left foot since Lionel Messi’s. Sadly, we won’t get to see that special foot in action today, not after Asensio injured himself while trying to pret...

Barcelona Are Still One Of The Greats
Catalonia was in panic mode this past month, as the shock departure of Neymar to PSG dealt a debilitating blow to a Barcelona squad that already wasn’t running at peak efficiency. For a fan base that has become accustomed to not just consistent success, but consistent domination, this was unacceptab...

Champions Basketball League Sues Big3 For $250 Million
The Champions Basketball League, which was pitched to investors as a 16-team basketball league made up of former NBA players, has had quite a bit of trouble getting itself off the ground. The league is now placing the blame for its struggles at the feet of another independent basketball league, Ice ...

Here's The Champions League Group Stage Draw
With the final teams determined yesterday in the play-in round, UEFA wasted no time picking the matchups for the true beginning of the Champions League....

Qarabağ Just Became The Feel-Good Story Of The Champions League
Dino Ndlovu scored a second-half goal that proved to be just enough for the Azerbaijani club Qarabağ, as today they advanced to their first-ever Champions League group stage, winning their matchup with FC København by virtue of away goals. With this win, Qarabağ is now a thrilling underdog about to ...

Champions Basketball League Cancels Inaugural Game Yet Again
Earlier this month, we reported on the struggles of the Champions Basketball League, a startup league that has repeatedly failed to get off the ground after raising over $700,000 from hundreds of investors who were promised an impressive list of perks and ownership of a piece of a 16-team pro league...

Manchester City's Owners Buy La Liga Club Girona
The long-awaited deal that adds newly promoted La Liga club Girona to City Football Group’s growing roster of world soccer teams appears to be all but completed. When it’s final, Girona will join MLS’s NYCFC and Manchester City, as well as clubs in Australia, Japan, and Uruguay in CFG’s portfolio....

Mini McGregor Falls To Mini Mayweather In Likely Preview Of Actual Fight
They’ve held almost every kind of wrestling at the building formerly known as the ECW Arena. But according to the guy who sold me my ticket, Friday night was the first time the 2300 Arena was hosting Micro Championship Wrestling....

Champions League Coverage Set To Get Fucked The Same Way EPL Coverage Has
In their infinite wisdom, NBC recently saw fit to take a good and beloved Premier League broadcast strategy and make it bad and hated by cleaving its once-unified televised and streaming services into two smaller and less satisfying parts, and charging for each separately. Turner, which recently bou...

Ian Poulter Endured Silly Rules Drama This Morning At The PGA Championship
Ian Poulter found himself bickering angrily with tour officials on the par-four eighth hole this morning at the PGA Championship, after rocketing his tee shot into the woods to the right of the fairway....

Emma Coburn Wins World Steeplechase Title With Kick At Final Water Jump
Emma Coburn kicked at just the right time....

Here Are Some Snapshots From John Daly's Last 24 Hours
Today was the first round of the PGA Championship, hosted this year at Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, N.C. It’s been an eventful one, to say the least, for John Daly. ...

Startup Basketball League Talks Big, Gets Big Investment From Fans, Fails To Start On Time<em></em>
For the first few months of 2017, sports fans were offered a unique opportunity: the chance to own a piece of the Gotham Ballers, a New York-based pro basketball team in the 16-team Champions Basketball League that was set to start its first season in July. The team’s roster is made up of recently r...

Brooks Koepka Tee Shot Bloodies Course Marshal
The PGA Championship begins today, and it will be a memorable one for one course marshal. A tee shot on the 16th from Brooks Koepka, the reigning U.S. Open champion, went into the gallery and hit a course marshal. Video feeds saw the man on the ground and bloodied....

Jason Day Is A Trailblazer, Makes "Uranus" Joke At PGA Tournament Press Conference
As children, generally, we receive plenty of chances to make jokes about Uranus. Science class! Planetarium field trip! Literally any time any one says anything about the solar system! As an adult? Not so much. If you are the type of adult who enjoys making Uranus jokes and you have the good fortune...