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Chiefs End The First Half With A 57-Yard Mini Hail Mary Touchdown

Alex Smith isn’t the type to throw deep bombs, even in Hail Mary situations, but at the end of the first half today against the Cowboys, the Chiefs QB found a way around that limitation. On the final play before the clock hit zero, Smith was in his own territory and threw a relatively short pass acr...

Dan Girardi Flattens Matt Calvert With Shoulder-To-Shoulder Check

For a brief moment in yesterday’s Blue Jackets-Lightning third period, veteran Tampa defenseman Dan Girardi brought back a lost art. As Columbus’s Matt Calvert focused on bringing the puck into the offensive zone, Girardi laid him out in the middle of the ice, delivering a clean shoulder check with ...

Scottish Captain, Two Others Kicked Off Team In Middle Of Rugby League World Cup For Being Too Drunk

The Rugby League World Cup is underway in Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea, but the Scottish national team left captain Danny Brough and two other players behind in Christchurch today as the team flew to Brisbane because they were just too drunk. ...

Needless To Say, This Man Required Medical Attention

Ovince St. Preux kayo’d Corey Anderson in a prelim for tonight’s big UFC event in New York, leaving Anderson looking... not great....

When You're Losing 42-9 To Missouri

They Didn't Even Make The Playoffs This Year

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Report: Ooh Shit, NFL Owners Have To Turn Over Their Phones [Correction]

As a result of Colin Kaepernick’s collusion grievance against the NFL, Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, Texans owner Bob McNair, and Patriots owner Bob Kraft will have to turn over their phones, according to ESPN’s Adam Schefter. Those three might not be the only ones, either:...

Everybody Hates Thursday Football

Did you watch last night’s 34-21 Jets win over the Bills? Even if you’re a football fan, there’s a good chance you didn’t. The NFL’s expanded Thursday slate rubs players the wrong way, and with general viewership declines, many media executives are blaming the Thursday games for the public’s general...

Damian Lillard Finishes Off Lakers With Last-Second Shot

Damian Lillard drained a three-pointer as the clock’s final seconds ticked down in a tie game to boost the Blazers over the Lakers....

Auburn Suspends Two Players Likely Tied To FBI Investigation

Auburn announced on Thursday that men’s basketball players Austin Wiley and Danjel Purifoy have been suspended indefinitely. While the school did not specify the reason for their suspensions, the fact that they were recommended by the school’s compliance department confirms that they are “Player 1" ...

Connor McDavid Needs Some Help

Connor McDavid did another Connor McDavid thing Wednesday, with a brilliant deke on Olli Määttä that set up an easy tap-in goal for Leon Draisaitl. It was McDavid’s second assist in the game, and it gave the Oilers a 2-1 advantage that, unsurprisingly, they would not keep for long....

David Fizdale Calls Out Mario Chalmers: "His Brain Was Gone"

The Memphis Grizzlies are in a tough spot. They are a perennial playoff team on the descent, not good enough to do much more than scrap for tough wins every night and compete for a bottom-rung playoff spot. Things got a little worse last night, with star point guard Mike Conley on the bench with an ...

Here Are The Police Reports From Bruce Maxwell's Arrest

Police in Scottsdale, Ariz., released 20 pages of reports late Tuesday, documenting the night they arrested Oakland Athletics catcher Bruce Maxwell after a Postmates delivery driver told them he answered the door by pointing a gun to her face. Maxwell was charged with aggravated assault with a deadl...

Who Calls Dirk Nowitzki "Tall Baller From The G"?

Basketball Reference is an invaluable resource, and millions of people are surely grateful that it exists. There is one minor feature on the site that might make you question the whole enterprise, and that’s the field for nicknames:...

Ezekiel Elliott Is Re-Resuspended

Another layer to the mess that is the NFL’s disciplinary action against Ezekiel Elliott: His suspension is in effect again, two weeks after a judge ruled that the league would be “temporarily restrained and enjoined from enforcing” discipline against Elliott until a different judge returned from vac...

El Líder Mundial... En Osos

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Carmelo Anthony Explains Why He Screams While Rebounding

Arriving on a new team must be tricky; you’ve got to get acclimated to new surroundings and personalities. Happily it took Carmelo Anthony roughly zero regular season games to get comfortable screaming, “Get the fuck out of here!” at his teammates while gathering rebounds....

Mark Dantonio Has A <i>Moana</i> Ringtone [Update: Or Not!]

Have you ever wondered what Michigan State head coach Mark Dantonio’s ringtone is? Well, here you go:...

Man, Is There Something Sketchy About These World Series Baseballs

So it’s still Game 5 of the World Series, and we’ve already reached the all-time record for home runs. There’s something very, very wrong with these baseballs. Further evidence follows:...

Reports: Jim McElwain Out At Florida

After a tumultuous week that featured reportedly unverifiable claims of death threats and concluded with a 42-7 loss to Georgia, Jim McElwain and Florida have parted ways with four games left in the season, per multiple reports and first reported by Football Scoop....