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Attention: Half Of Canada Calls Kickball "Soccer Baseball"
Alarming news from the north....
My Five Favorite Moments From The Yankees-Tigers Brawl
Yesterday saw the weirdest and most interesting game of the season, a 10-6 Tigers win over the Yankees that saw eight ejections, four batters hit by pitches, three bench clearings, and a whole bunch of legitimate punches....
Here's What Police Knew About The Ezekiel Elliott Bar Fight Investigation
On July 16, a Dallas DJ was punched in the face at Clutch, a local bar, and early reports said that Ezekiel Elliott was a part of the investigation. A TMZ report later suggested that at least two people saw the Cowboys running back throw the punch. But whoever it was that talked to TMZ, they weren’t...
Reports: College Football Players Will Play In Michigan-Florida Game
Jim Harbaugh is confirmed to be coaching a football team up in Ann Arbor, but right now, that’s about all he’ll tell you. While it seems safe to assume that his football team is, in fact, made up of currently eligible football players, the most recent official roster out of Michigan is still from 20...
Reports: Jon Jones Fails Yet Another Doping Test
Jon Jones tested positive for steroids at UFC 214 and is expected to be stripped of the title he won from Daniel Cormier, as first reported by TMZ and later confirmed by MMA Fighting. ...
Lane Kiffin Is Consulting Disgraced Former Baylor Coach Art Briles
We hadn’t heard much from Art Briles for a while, and that was a good thing. The disgraced former Baylor coach, who ran the program amidst a horrifying and wide-ranging sexual assault scandal, has popped up here and there in efforts to salvage his public image, even as new lawsuits against Baylor co...
Boston College Claims "Everything Is Fine" With Coach Who Said He Would Stare At The Eclipse<em></em><em></em>
Boston College head football coach and best Vine user in history Steve Addazio had an interesting take on yesterday’s solar eclipse. While everyone else was fretting about possibly going blind by staring directly into the sun, Addazio refused to be cowed by fear:...
Glory Johnson Slams WNBA For One-Game Suspension After Throwing Punch
Dallas Wings forward Glory Johnson has come out swinging against the WNBA after being issued a one-game suspension today for throwing a punch during an on-court altercation Saturday....
Dante Fowler Charged With Three Misdemeanors After Allegedly Punching Man, Throwing His Booze In Lake
Jaguars defensive end Dante Fowler has been formally charged on misdemeanor counts of battery, criminal mischief and petit theft after a July incident in which he allegedly punched a man who criticized his driving before stomping on his glasses and tossing his recently purchased liquor in a nearby l...
Eagles WR Complains About Being Fined For Block; Guy He Concussed Tells Him To Play Better
Wide receiver Bryce Treggs signed with the Eagles last September and caught a whopping three passes in his rookie season. He’s trying to make it onto the roster again this year, and a solid seven-catch preseason debut against the Packers might help his cause. However, Treggs also picked up a $25,000...
David Silva's New Hairdo Bums Me Out
Hair loss, like death, is coming for us all. No matter how strong your genes are, life eventually steals your flowing locks and turns them white, or, worse yet, takes them altogether. You can fight it, but nature always wins. Which brings us to Manchester City attacker David Silva....
Gymnast Botches Turn On Beam, Kind Of Invents New Skill
ANAHEIM, Calif.—Jordan Chiles is a 16-year-old gymnast from Washington that you’ve probably never heard of. She was too young to vie for a spot on last year’s Olympic team so this year is her first time competing at the national championships in the senior ranks. And when she was competing on balanc...
The Gymnasts Who Say Larry Nassar Abused Them Are Speaking Out At The National Championships
ANAHEIM, Calif.—Every year during the national gymnastics championships, there’s a trade show for the members of the sport’s community—many of them gym owners and coaches—who have converged on the competition and the congress. It’s at the trade show that you get to see the range of businesses that s...
Jets Linebacker Calls Out Breitbart Chud For Twisting His Words
Jets linebacker Jordan Jenkins didn’t hide his feelings about what went down over the weekend in Charlottesville, Va., from the creeping normalization of the KKK and its sympathizers to the neo-Nazi murder of a counter-protestor to the president’s refusal to call what happened for what it is....
Brian Kelly Has His Excuses Ready
“Brian Kelly is not pulling back,” Bleacher Report’s Matt Hayes writes in his feature on the Notre Dame football coach. That’s the angle: that the irascible, gurgling Kelly, whose program finished 4-8 last season, will not alter his approach as he hopes to restore the program to its winning ways. Th...
The Mets Are Dealing With Infield Injuries Just Fine, Thanks
There are any number of logical team strategies for dealing with injuries. Call up help from the minor leagues. Get a little more creative than usual with your defensive alignments. Let a catcher make his first career appearance at third base, but live in such terror of him actually having to field ...
Grizzlies Coach David Fizdale On Confederate Statues: "Take 'Em Down"
Memphis Grizzles coach David Fizdale shared his perspective on last weekend’s white nationalist rally and subsequent domestic terrorism in Charlottesville in an interview today, condemning President Donald Trump’s response to the event and calling for Confederate memorials to be taken down....
The NFL Set Itself Up For This
No matter what the NFL does, it devolves into a bunch of dudes arguing about whether or not a woman is a liar. It happened with Janay Rice. It happened with Nicole Holder. It happened with Molly Brown. And it’s happening now. The best case for the NFL just packing up and admitting, “We have no clue ...
All The Top Men In Tennis Are Broken And Calling It A Day
First it was Novak Djokovic, sitting out the rest of the season to just, uh, generally debug....
Ezekiel Elliott Accuser Discussed Using Sex Tape As Blackmail
Yahoo’s Charles Robinson has gotten his hands on a portion of the NFL’s 160-page report on the Ezekiel Elliott domestic-violence case detailing an exchange between Elliott’s accuser, Tiffany Thompson, and an unnamed friend in which they discuss using sex videos featuring Thompson and Elliott as a me...