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Dan Gilbert Has Had It Up To Here With These Landlines That Won't Receive His Text Messages<em></em>
This weekend, the New York Times published an article on Dan Gilbert and his scam mortgage factory, Quicken Loans. It reads like a typical Times business article for the most part, but whenever it touches on Gilbert himself, he comes off as a paranoid business guy keen on digging up conspiracies aga...
Oregon Plans To Fire Co-Offensive Coordinator Arrested For DUI Five Days After He Was Hired
When Willie Taggart upgraded his head football coaching gig from South Florida to Oregon, he brought along associate head coach David Reaves to take over as one of the Ducks’ new co-offensive coordinators. After five days of officially being on the job, Reaves has been suspended indefinitely as the ...
Report: The Fate Of Yordano Ventura's $20 Million Depends On Whether He Was Legally Drunk
It feels almost meaningless to discuss the money still remaining on the contract of Yordano Ventura, the 25-year-old Royals pitcher who was killed in a one-car crash early Sunday in his native Dominican Republic. But it’s obviously not meaningless to his family, which would be in line to receive the...
Adam "Pacman" Jones To Police: "Suck My Dick"
Bengals cornerback Adam “Pacman” Jones was arrested on Jan. 3 in Cincinnati and charged with assault, disorderly conduct, and obstructing official business, as well as harassment with a bodily substance after he allegedly spit on a nurse at the jail. Today, TMZ published video footage of Jones while...
Rafael Nadal Turned Off The Gael Monfils Show
Rafael Nadal put up a sweat-saturated 6-3, 6-3, 4-6, 6-4 performance to end Gael Monfils’s run at the fourth round of the Australian Open. Through the first two sets it looked like old-school Nadal dominance. Both sixth seed Monfils and ninth seed Nadal are rangy scramblers who cover every inch of t...
"Becoming Yordano"
Something worth revisiting after the death of Yordano Ventura this morning—the Kansas City Star’s 2015 series “Becoming Yordano,” which followed the pitcher home to the Dominican Republic and traced his background from his childhood small town to the Royals Academy in Santo Domingo....
Paul Daley Takes Out Brennan Ward With Flying Knee To The Head
Brennan Ward and Paul Daley were the undercard at last night’s Bellator 170, but they had the most exciting—and most terrifying—finish....
Royals Pitcher Yordano Ventura Killed In Car Crash
Kansas City Royals pitcher Yordano Ventura died in a car crash today in his native Dominican Republic, according to several reports....
Feel This Big-Ass Bear's Art
What is good art? A silly question asked by silly people throughout history. I scoff at them! ...
David Moyes To Sunderland Fans: Abandon Hope, All Ye Who Enter Here
Sunderland are in trouble. The squad is bad, the team is broke, and the man overseeing it all, once-heralded and now cosmically beleaguered manager David Moyes, can’t muster the will to even feign optimism....
I Believe The Children Are Our Future
The nation is in safe hands, everybody....
ESPN's Darren Rovell Has Always Been Like This, Apparently
Prolific tweeting cornball Darren Rovell has a pretty cute story about Jeff Bagwell coming to his bar mitzvah on ESPN today. ...
Connor McDavid Wins It With 2.6 Seconds Left In Overtime
On the same night Oilers sophomore Connor McDavid picked up his 100th career point, he cinched an overtime win over the Panthers with a breakaway goal with 2.6 seconds left in the frame. He just had to wait a little longer....
Jameis Winston Sexual Battery<em></em> Lawsuit Formally Dismissed
This morning, a U.S. District Court judge dismissed two lawsuits involving Jameis Winston, finally ending a four-year legal saga. A sexual battery lawsuit filed by Kinsman against Winston in 2015 and an earlier suit filed by Winston against Kinsman for defamation were both dismissed. The pair settle...
How Did Jorge Posada Become A First-Ballot Hall Of Fame Washout?
Amid the arguing over this year’s Hall of Fame, one of the weirder potential results involves no argument at all. Unless there’s a dramatic and unexpected late break in the voting, Jorge Posada—who as of this afternoon appeared on 10 of 239 known ballots in the ballot tracker—is going to miss the fi...
Police: Vincent Viola Punched A Guy In The Face At A Horse Auction
Vincent Viola, owner of the Florida Panthers and Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of the Army, was accused of punching a concessions worker in the face at a New York racehorse auction on Aug. 8, 2016, according to the New York Times....
Chris Kreider Bludgeoned Cody Eakin With His Own Helmet
The helmet: a useful tool for keeping your brains intact. Also, apparently a weapon?...
Should Have Stuck With The Old Elites
After decades of growing inequality, our presidential election was a violent revolt against The Elites. So who the hell is actually trying to remedy that inequality frustrating our nation? The elites!...
The Supreme Court To Hear Case That Will Likely Decide Redskins Trademark Drama
The Supreme Court of the United States will hear a case tomorrow that will take on the United States Patent and Trademark Office’s application of a section of the Lanham Act. The section deals with the registration of terms that “may disparage” people groups, and that makes this a very meaningful ca...
Real Dumb Guy Throws Himself Into Giant TV After Cowboys Lose
I understand that playoff football brings out the emotions in all of us, but if a loss in the divisional round makes you do this to your TV:...