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Hot Mic Catches Jon Jones And Daniel Cormier Talking Incredible Shit
"Hey pussy, are you still there?" ...

Joe Theismann Shills For Dan Snyder And Redskins Facts Site
As the two-minute warning approached in the first half of the Washington's preseason opener against the Patriots, Kenny Albert casually asked the Joe Theismann muppet with Dan Snyder's hand up its ass what it thought about the name controversy. Strap in, kids, Theismann has done a lot of research on...

Dan Jennings Hit In Head By Screaming Line Drive
This is legitimately terrifying. Pirates shortstop Jordy Mercer hit a line drive right back at Marlins pitcher Dan Jennings and hit him square in the head. He immediately went down to the ground and then scrambled around on the mound before getting up, freezing, staring blankly into space, and the...

ESPN Suspends Dan Le Batard Two Days For Trolling LeBron With Billboard
When ESPN's Dan Le Batard had his LeBron-busting ad rebuffed by a Cleveland newspaper, he didn't give up on his dream of taking a light-hearted, public shot at LeBron James on behalf of Miami Heat fans. Instead, he put the ad on a billboard in Akron, Ohio....

Univ. Of Minnesota: Vikings Will Help Ban "Redskins" During Nov. 2 Game
The Vikings will play all of their home games at the University of Minnesota this season, while they wait for a new stadium to be built. In week nine, the Vikings will host Washington and the university's president said the school was "working with the Vikings to make every effort to eliminate the u...

The Time MJ Reffed A 3-On-3 Game Between NBA Stars And Sumo Wrestlers
Here's some fascinating video out of 1996 Japan. While on a promotional tour for Nike, Charles Barkley, Jason Kidd and Michael Finley took on three sumo wrestlers in a game refereed by Michael Jordan. ...

Video: Michael Jordan's And Kobe Bryant's Games Were Remarkably Similar
Youtuber Youssef Hannoun has put together this video showing Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant pulling off identical plays, sometimes switching between the two mid-play. It's uncanny....

Brendan Ryan Slows Liner Down With Glove, Makes Bare-Handed Grab
That's one way to record an out, sure. Not the most efficient way, but an out's an out and Brendan Ryan finally corralled J.D. Martinez's liner with his bare hand after it popped out of (or off) of his glove....

How Dan Snyder Bought Off The D.C. Media
In 2000, then-editor Wes Pruden of the Washington Times blasted Dan Snyder's efforts to control the flow of information about the Redskins as "chickenshit" tactics....

Jon Jones And Daniel Cormier Promote Fight With A Stagey Brawl
On the question of whether this UFC 178 media day brawl involving Jon Jones and Daniel Cormier is real or staged, let's just be safe and say it looks like something on the staged side of real. ...

Cleveland Newspaper Rejects Heat Fans' Ad Busting On LeBron
Dan Le Batard, as part of a stunt for his radio show, attempted to purchase a full-page ad in the Cleveland Plain Dealer. (A mockup, via @itsleooo, can be seen below.) It would have been paid for by interested Miamians via Kickstarter, and poked fun at LeBron James for not, as of yet, publicly thank...

Too Much Is Just Enough: <em>Guardians of the Galaxy</em>, Reviewed
1. The best thing about the Marvel movies, to my eyes, is how self-aware they are without ever getting too winking about it. Captain America and Thor are excellent at this, playing off their leads' lunkheaded, uber-wholesome charm, but 2012's The Avengers—still the best Marvel film, and one of the...

New, "Grassroots" Pro-Redskins Website Is Run By A PR Firm, Of Course
Redskinsfacts.com, which just launched this month, doesn't hide its position on the team's controversial name. It features a revisionist history of the word and the team's appropriation of it, interviews with former players and Native Americans who support its usage, and invites fans to lend their...

Peyton Manning Dances Up A Dorky Storm
I'm not going to apologize for the autoplay video, because come on, you were going to break the sound barrier reaching to click play. I will apologize that it doesn't automatically loop, forever. Sorry about that. Just hit the button and Peyton Manning (and Wes Welker) will dance for you again, fore...

Golovkin Demolishes Geale
Tonight's Gennady Golovkin-Daniel Geale bout on HBO was nasty, brutish, and short. It wasn't as short as it should have been, though, because a (drunk?) timekeeper allowed the opening round to go for four minutes....

Johnny Damon: An Idiot in Exile
Pat Jordan's latest for Sports on Earth:...

Man Who Helped Kill Women's Pro Soccer Dies While Playing Soccer
Early this morning rumors began to swirl that Dan Borislow, the millionaire entrepreneur whose legal war with Women's Professional Soccer was instrumental in bringing about the league's demise, had died at the age of 52. Bloomberg has since confirmed that Borislow died last night of a heart attack a...

Mike Modano Wonders "Where Is Ronald Reagan?" Followers Inform Him.
Most likely, Mike Modano turned his lonely eyes to Twitter and wistfully pondered where had Ronald Reagan gone. We're going to choose to believe Mike Modano is aware that the former president-turned-conservative-heartthrob has been dead for 10 years and was just making a pseudo-political stateme...

Dan Uggla Refuses To Go Quietly, Signs Minor League Deal With Giants
Dan Uggla's back, baby! Four days after being released by the Atlanta Braves, and just more than a week after being suspended (reportedly for showing up to a game at Wrigley Field just an hour before first pitch), Uggla is getting a minor league deal with the Giants, a well-known corpse repository/b...

Rangers, Blue Jays Baffled At The Sight Of Birds
We're used to seeing weird things happen on the baseball field. From idiots running onto the field for a selfie to the destruction of life via a Randy Johnson pitch, you would think nothing should surprise anyone. ...