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Inside The Barclays Center's Mysterious Meditation Room
In exchange for giving Forest City Ratner more than $300 million in public subsidies to build the Barclays Center in downtown Brooklyn (and that's not counting additional tax breaks and below-market land), the developer promised to give back to the community, including affordable housing, and new ra...
Aroldis Chapman "Doing Better" After Taking 110 MPH Liner To Face
Salvador Perez was crying as he left the field, hugged by Eric Hosmer. It was a line drive off the bat of the 23-year-old Royals catcher that struck Reds pitcher Aroldis Chapman flush, basically breaking his face....
Emmanuel Sanders's Broncos Deal Pissed Off Some Other Teams
The Broncos introduced their newest wide receiver yesterday, but a handful of teams are still fuming about Emmanuel Sanders's free agency, which one burned NFL executive called "one of the worst situations in modern football negotiations."...
Russell Westbrook And Patrick Beverley Still Don't Like Each Other
Russell Westbrook still despises Patrick Beverley, as was made clear early in tonight's Rockets-Thunder game....
Dunk City Is Dead; Let Us Remember The Dunks
Florida Gulf Coast captured our attention last season as the 15-seed threw precedent out the window en route to a dunk-a-licious berth in the Sweet Sixteen. We won't see a repeat this year, as Mercer knocked off the top-seeded Eagles in the Atlantic Sun championship game today—so let's remember last...
Brad Penny's Comeback Went About As Poorly As Possible
Let's raise a glass to Brad Penny, and, hell, all the Brad Pennys of the baseball world, those thoroughly passable starters who find the right mix of good teams, tepid consistency (or rather, consistent tepidity), and just enough semi-standout seasons to garner tens of millions of dollars over a len...
Gerald Green Is The Gunner We Need
Suns swingman Gerald Green, who is putting the finishing touches on the best season of his career, blitzed the Oklahoma City Thunder with a career-high 41 points last night, the better part of them coming from eight made three-pointers. This topped a previous career high set just last month, when h...
Russell Westbrook Needed Only 21 Minutes To Get A Triple-Double
Yes, it was against what is essentially a D-League team, but Russell Westbrook's 21-minute bludgeoning of the 76ers is worth being excited about. 13 points, 14 assists, and 10 rebounds in 21 minutes isn't something that just happens to a guy coming off his second knee surgery of the year. 13 points...
Here's A Story About Kevin Durant Being A Really Nice Dude
Previously, the Reddit NBA forum brought us a story about LeBron James being really nice to some guy's mom. Now we have a similar story about Kevin Durant, who is apparently very kind to clumsy camera men....
Let's Go To The Movies
I thought of the old New Yorker theater the other day because it is where my brother and I saw Tron. Our old man dropped us off outside the theater and we asked some grown ups to get us in. Later, I saw The Rocky Horror Picture Show there. This was well past the theater's prime, but I am fortunate e...
The Case For New York City As Greatest City In The World
There was some rumor going around about a Space Jam sequel last week starring LeBron James. Now, I hated that movie. I didn't even like it in the ironic way that some people like it because it was badly acted or whatever. But anyway, the guy who directed Space Jam was a legendary ad director name...
LeBron James Is Capable Of Bleeding
LeBron James took a hit to the nose in the fourth quarter of tonight's Heat-Thunder game, and proved he's mortal by bleeding on the floor. But he still completed the dunk after getting smacked in the nose by Serge Ibaka, which is damn impressive. ...
Police Summons: Ray Rice Knocked Fiancée Out
The Atlantic City Police summons for Ray Rice provides more detail regarding the "very minor physical altercation" over the weekend. According to the description of the incident in Rice's summons, Rice struck his fiancée Janay Palmer "with his hand, rendering her unconscious, at the Revel Casino." E...
Man City Learned From Barcelona, But Can The Student Kill The Master?
We've finally arrived on the day of the Champions League's return, just a short time away from one of the most intriguing round of 16 matchups in recent memory: Barcelona vs. Manchester City....
No, Kevin Durant Is Not "The Servant"
We need to talk about Kevin Durant’s nickname....
The Kansas City Royals' New Billboard Is Pretty Clever
The Kansas City Royals are decent at this advertising thing. Last season, they put up James Shields pitching to Salvador Perez over two billboards, with the ball seemingly ripping the background. This year, outfielder Alex Gordon's sliding across the billboard, collecting everything in his path. If ...
Brooklyn Nets Hold Kevin Durant To Just 26 Points
And Scott Brooks held Durant to just 3o minutes. Still, everyone in Brooklyn, even the Nets, watched Kevin Durant in awe. Minus context, his line—26 points, 3 rebounds and 7 assists—sounds just OK. His numbers in Brooklyn were not nearly as impressive as they had been during the 12-game streak where...