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Science! Shows That Roger Federer's Backhand In Fact Defeated Rafael Nadal
Yesterday we argued that Federer’s unusually strong backhand anchored his Australian Open win over Rafael Nadal, and today we found a startling statistical basis for that claim. It comes courtesy of the always helpful Jeff Sackmann at TennisAbstract. Relative to other sports, tennis remains fairly d...
Lane Kiffin Fires Up FAU Fans By Squinting And Mumbling<em></em>
Florida Atlantic football is looking for fans to support them this upcoming season, but don’t take my word for it. Listen to head coach Lane Kiffin, who definitely had a burlap sack pulled off his head two seconds before the camera started rolling....
ESPN Would Prefer Dan Le Batard Stick To Sports; He Declines <em></em>
ESPN has always struggled with addressing politics. Traditionally, the president coming on SportsCenter for a lighthearted segment picking a March Madness bracket represents the far edge of its political engagement, and even FiveThirtyEight, the network’s boldest experiment in this area, is more abo...
Here Is A Delightful Stephen Jackson Story About Smoking Weed Before Games
Former NBA player and current good opinion-haver Stephen Jackson has not been shy about his support for laxer weed restrictions in the NBA. Back in May, he went on The Jump and spoke about drug testing and how much it’s changed from the time when he entered the NBA and there was just one test at the...
If Motodoping Exists, <i>60 Minutes</i> Sure Didn't Prove It<em></em>
One year ago to the day, officials uncovered one of the strangest scandals in a sport famous for strange scandals....
Roger Federer Played Free And Gave His Archrival The Back Of His Hand<em></em>
“I’m a different player due to Rafa’s presence,” Roger Federer said in a 2015 press conference, and if you needed it, yesterday’s 6-4, 3-6, 6-1, 3-6, 6-3 Australian Open win offered the clearest possible evidence. When your defensive-genius nemesis applies crushing pressure on you for more than a de...
Roger Federer Wins Australian Open For First Grand Slam Title In Five Years
Thirty-five-year old Roger Federer took down old rival Rafael Nadal in five sets to win the Australian Open—his 18th Grand Slam title, but his first in five years. ...
Georgia Tech Upsets No. 14 Notre Dame With Buzzer-Beater
Unranked Georgia Tech took down No. 14 Notre Dame at the buzzer today with a half-court heave from Tadric Jackson to set Josh Okogie up for the game-winning layup....
Danny Welbeck Is Back
Starting for Arsenal for the first time in nine months today, Danny Welbeck is clearly not bothered any more by the knee injury that kept him sidelined for so long. Welbeck scored the first two goals of the day and helped out on the third to put Arsenal up 3-0 over Southampton in the FA Cup, showing...
Whose Hat? My Hat
Did you lose your hat? Too bad; it belongs to the bear now. It’s his. ...
You Won't Believe What Hipsters Are Doing Now (Or Maybe You Will—It's Ridiculous)
Hipsters: haven’t they settled down and gotten a real job by now? Actually, no—and wait until you hear the enraging trends they’re adopting now!...
Roger Federer And Rafael Nadal Will Face Off In A Throwback Australian Open Final
This photo’s from 2005—they were about to meet in a Grand Slam for the first time, the 2005 French Open, a semifinal match Rafael Nadal won before claiming the title, his first of many. They’d then spend about a decade at the top of the game, sucking up all the available oxygen, dominating all major...
Report: LeBron James Wants The Cavaliers To Increase Payroll
LeBron James’s ongoing displeasure with the Cavaliers is apparently over what he perceives to be not enough spending on payroll by team owner Dan Gilbert, according to a report from Brian Windhorst. ...
Daniel Cormier Will Fight Anthony Johnson At UFC 210
Daniel Cormier, UFC light heavyweight champion, will take on Anthony “Rumble” Johnson, the weight class’s top contender, at UFC 210 in Buffalo. The title fight will happen on April 8, four months after the two were supposed to fight at UFC 206....
Mike D'Antoni Joins Ongoing Roast Of Alternative Facts-Peddler Sean Spicer
The Rockets have gone 3-5 over their past eight games, but if you look at those numbers in a different light, they’ve actually gone 8-0. Most cowardly media elites won’t tell you this....
Now It's Just Rafael Nadal And A Bunch Of Gorgeous One-Handers
Rafael Nadal dug around and exploited two glitches in the Milos Raonic serving machine—two successfully converted break points, that is—to win his Australian Open quarterfinal 6-4, 7-6 (7), 6-4. And now he’s surveying a field full of the prettiest one-handed backhands in all the land. Roger Federer’...
Roger Goodell Insists That Thursday Games Are Not Ass
Roger Goodell had a chat with repugnant putz Colin Cowherd today on his show, and, among other topics, the NFL commissioner defended the quality of Thursday games....
Yordano Ventura/Andy Marte Autographed Combo Pack Is A Morbid Deal Of The Day
Congrats to memorabilia website Insider Sports Deals for the baldest display of opportunism in recent memory with this pairing of Andy Marte and Yordano Ventura autographed baseballs, marked down in price and marketed as the deal of the day....
These DeAndre Jordan Free Throws Are High Art
DeAndre Jordan stands to have his production decline as much as anyone on the Clippers in Chris Paul’s absence. Jordan is Paul’s primary alley-oop muse, and his offensive rebounding skills are a lot less handy without Paul’s penetration. However, that has nothing to do with Jordan airmailing two fre...