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NBA Memo Warns Teams And Players Not To Protest During The National Anthem
According to a report from ESPN’s Zach Lowe, the NBA sent a memo to its teams this evening “reinforcing” the existing rule requiring players and coaches to stand during the national anthem. This echoes remarks made by commissioner Adam Silver yesterday, when he said he expects NBA players not to kne...
Davante Adams Carted Off Field After Brutal Hit To The Head From Danny Trevathan
Packers wide receiver Davante Adams was taken off the field on a stretcher and left the stadium in an ambulance tonight after being the victim of a vicious hit from Bears linebacker Danny Trevathan. The hit—which was called as an unnecessary roughness penalty—sent Adams’s mouth guard flying as his h...
The Laver Cup Is What You Get When Tennis Tries To Be More Like Pro Wrestling, And That's A Good Thing
The worst-case scenario for the Laver Cup—a first attempt to construct an all-star game for men’s tennis, pitting the best players from Europe against the best players from everywhere else—was that it’d end up an elaborate, expensive excuse to smush nemeses Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal onto the sa...
The NCAA Finally Got The Lawsuit It Deserved, And The One It Wanted
“The schools are, in a way, the victims.”...
The Best Of NBA Photo Day 2017
NBA teams have taken their requisite pictures which can be disseminated in promotional materials you’ll probably throw away almost immediately, but it’s unfair to condemn the practice of making enormous people pose in dumb ways with balls, since the result is so wonderfully goofy. Here are, for one ...
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...
Fans Cheer Bruce Maxwell In First At-Bat Since Kneeling For Anthem
In his first plate appearance since he began kneeling for the national anthem, Oakland A’s catcher Bruce Maxwell was greeted with a round of cheers from the crowd as he went to bat in the second inning of tonight’s game against the Mariners:...
Dallas Sportscaster On NFL Players Taking A Knee: "All Of Us Should Protest How Black Americans Are Treated In This Country"<em></em>
Sportscaster Dale Hansen of Dallas ABC affiliate WFAA—whose excellent work we have shouted out before—offered a beautifully strong and clear defense of the national anthem protests on his segment tonight....
Dez Bryant's Superhero Touchdown Delighted The ESPN Deportes Announcing Team
Dez Bryant’s 15-yard touchdown catch that saw him singlehandedly beating half the Cardinals defense gave the Cowboys a seven-point lead and gave ESPN Deportes announcers Álvaro Martín and Raúl Allegre the ride of their lives....
Report: "NFL Owner," Who Is Actually Just Some Packers Fan, Is Very Mad About Anthem Protests
David Hookstead of the Daily Caller spoke to an NFL owner who is livid about the anthem protests, and he wants you to know:...
Cowboys Try To Please Everyone By Kneeling Before Anthem, Accomplish Nothing<em></em>
The Dallas Cowboys, including the team’s coaching staff and owner Jerry Jones, decided to collectively kneel before tonight’s Monday Night Football game—but before tonight’s national anthem performance, while nothing was happening, in a flimsy attempt to please everyone by taking the imagery of prot...
Cycling's Governing Body Is Not So Sure About Paying Women
Today, the UCI announced that they’d be raising the minimum wages for some professional cyclists. The lowest paid male riders at the WorldTour and Pro Continental level will now make around €2,000 and €650 more per year respectively, with guaranteed salaries of €38,115 for WorldTour racers and €30,8...
Report: Darren Sproles Broke His Arm And Tore His ACL On The Same Play
Eagles running back Darren Sproles ran into the worst luck imaginable yesterday, reportedly breaking his arm and tearing his ACL on the same play against the Giants. Adam Schefter says Sproles will have surgery on his arm today, then surgery on his ACL later....
Sparta Rotterdam Keeper Saves Deluge Of Point-Blank Shots By Morphing Into Spider-Man
Soccer highlights generally depict the cool things players do to beat goalkeepers en route to scoring, but sometimes it’s the goalkeeper himself who plays the hero and earns himself immortalization in the form of a breathlessly titled Youtube video. No keeper deserves this treatment more than Sparta...
Bruce Maxwell Becomes First MLBer To Protest During National Anthem
A’s catcher Bruce Maxwell became the first major league ballplayer to join the dozens of NFL pros protesting racial injustice by kneeling during the national anthem tonight before Oakland’s game against Texas....
The Brewers Hit Two Clutch Dingers To Stay In The Thick Of The Wild Card Chase
The Milwaukee Brewers are the losingest National League team to still be mathematically alive for the postseason, clinging to the very bottom rung of the Wild Card chase with just seven games to go. ESPN gives them just a 16 percent chance of edging into that final spot. It’s all do-or-die from here...
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Emails: Ex-Baylor President Says NPR Helped Him Understand Women Who "Make Themselves Victims”
David Garland—interim president at Baylor prior to the university’s hiring of Linda Livingstone—sent an email to a school administrator in which he wrote that a radio segment he listened to recently “added another perspective for me of what is going on in the heads of some women who may seem willing...
Fuck Sports Bottles<em></em>
I thought I was done. My kids were no longer babies, which meant no more formula, which meant no more time laboring at the sink, hand-washing 90 separate Dr. Brown’s bottle parts and leaving them soaking on a dishtowel to dry. That part of my life, as far as I was concerned, was over....