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The Atlanta Hawks Are Being Whiny Babies
One of the best things about basketball is that it is not baseball. I enjoy both sports equally, but basketball has always had an edge in the not-employing-humorless-dickwads department, which means you rarely ever see NBA players or coaches talking about “class” or “playing the right way.” The Atla...
Everybody Is In Big Trouble If LeBron Finds His Jumper
There’s not much the Atlanta Hawks can say about the record-setting three-pocalypse the Cavs laid on them last night. Sometimes the ball just won’t stop going in the hoop, and all you can do is turn your palms up, shrug, and move on. What should concern the Hawks, and the rest of the remaining playo...
The Cavs Just Went Scorched Earth On The Poor Hawks
Tonight the Cleveland Cavaliers dropped an unholy beatdown on the hapless Hawks and put them into the toilet to the tune of 25 threes, 123 points, and 55 percent shooting from three. Every non-garbage time player who took a three hit one, and they smashed the NBA records for most threes in a half (1...
Browns Draftee Celebrates By Jumping Fully Clothed Into His Pool
Arizona linebacker Scooby Wright got picked in the seventh round by the Browns, and he celebrated by, well, you’ll see....
The Playoffs Are Shaping Up Nicely For The Cavs, Huh?
The Cavaliers finished off their sweep of the Pistons Sunday night, but almost as important as beating the Pistons 4-0 was how they did it. LeBron James, Kyrie Irving, and Kevin Love are all healthy, and for the first time in two years actually look like a cohesive unit. Irving is relieving James of...
The NFL Draft Did Not Ruin Johnny Manziel
There is a weird-as-hell story on A1 of the New York Times today mashing up two of the two biggest stories of the NFL week—the indictment of Johnny Manziel for assault, and this Thursday’s NFL draft. It’s an amalgamation of two distinct ideas, both with merit but neither fully formed, fastened onto ...
Kyrie Irving Hits Half-Court Buzzer-Beater
Despite doing just about everything right, the Detroit Pistons just can’t hold an edge against the Cavaliers in this do-or-die Game 4. Kyrie Irving punched the Pistons in the gut with this half-court buzzer-beater at the end of the third quarter, one that gave Cleveland a three-point lead heading in...
Johnny Manziel Indicted
A Dallas County grand jury has indicted Johnny Manziel on charges he assaulted his ex-girlfriend, according to KRLD in Dallas. The former Browns quarterback is accused of hitting Colleen Crowley multiple times during an argument that she says included Manziel dragging her into his car. ...
Stanley Johnson Thinks He's In LeBron's Head. Okay, Stan.
LeBron James spent large portions of Game 2 punking the Detroit Pistons. He dunked all over Reggie Bullock and let everyone know how awesome it felt, he stink-faced Marcus Morris for daring to leave him open, and he gave rookie Stanley Johnson a meaningful bump during a timeout:...
Browns Trade Second Overall Pick To Eagles For A Buttload Of Picks
Draft picks are flying around by the buttload this offseason. ...
The Pistons Are Never Going To Get Those Calls Against LeBron
It all fell apart rather quickly for the Pistons in Game 1 against the Cavaliers. For most of the game they acquitted themselves about as well as an 8-seed can hope to, sticking close to the favorites all the way into the final minutes of the fourth quarter. Then Reggie Jackson got mad....
The Cavs' Best Offense Runs Through Kevin Love
In Kevin Love, the Cavaliers have an incomplete player who is very good at the things he does well, and a liability in the things he doesn’t. Trailing in the fourth quarter, and so perhaps out of desperation, Tyronn Lue and the Cavs switched to a risky gameplan that paid off with a win, and a somewh...
The Miami Heat Today Looked Like A Team No One In The East Wants To Play
The sweepstakes to see who loses the NBA Finals, a.k.a. the East, is looking, in the very early going, like someone other than LeBron James could emerge for the first time since 2010. The Pistons gave No. 1 seed Cleveland all it could handle in the matinee, making 15-of-29 threes and playing the Cav...
Rajai Davis Struggles Defensively
Rajai Davis took on the role of a one-man defensive disaster in the second inning of his team’s game against the Mets today. Here’s the Cleveland outfielder’s struggles with the sun, as called wonderfully by Mets Spanish-language announcers on WEPN radio. Baseball’s rules being what they are, neithe...
Whatever Happened To Johnny Fucking Football?
In the 15 months since Skip Bayless was chastized for saying that Johnny Manziel was an alcoholic, our “Johnny Manziel” tag has featured copious amounts of partying, lying, and domestic abuse accusations, and very little football....
Francisco Lindor Won't Let The Rays' Catwalks Get Him Down
The Tampa Bay Rays still have dumb catwalks at the top of their dumb stadium, and they still occasionally wreak havoc on high fly balls. During last night’s game against the Indians, one catwalk prevented shortstop Francisco Lindor from catching a foul ball with two outs in the ninth inning. ...
Report: NFL Denies Josh Gordon's Reinstatement, Won't Reconsider Until August
Josh Gordon, who’s on his third suspension for violating the NFL’s substance-abuse policy, won’t be reinstated any time soon, according to Mary Kay Cabot of Cleveland.com. The league has denied his request, which will leave the Browns receiver suspended through at least the start of training camp....
LeBron James Has Turned It On
LeBron James’s regular season is over. He came out of the game after the third quarter, with the Cavs up 15 on Atlanta in an eventual 109-94 win, and now that Cleveland has clinched the No. 1 seed in the East, James and the rest of the starters will sit out Wednesday’s finale. It has been a down yea...
Report: Josh Gordon Failed Yet Another Drug Test
Earlier today, answers finally surfaced in the NFL offseason’s most ragin’ mystery: Who is Johnny Manziel’s roommate? Initially, it appeared it was fellow ex-Texas A&M Aggie Von Miller, but it turns out Manziel is shacking up with suspended Browns receiver Josh Gordon....