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Adam Silver Denies That NBA Teams Are Tanking
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver does not believe his league's worst teams are losing intentionally. He believes they're just so bad that they can't help themselves....
Pit Stop Perfecto
Via Dave Pellwho got this from Kottke (both are essential daily reading), dig this F1 pit stop ballet. ...
AWOL NFL Prospect Believes He's Fulfilling Internet Messiah's Prophecy
The story of Adam Muema, the San Diego State running back who left the NFL Combine because he believed God told him to, then spent three days at the airport, somehow manages to take even more unexpected turns....
The Browns Are Asking Prospects About Bricks And Paper Clips
Some franchises want to identify the best football players in the draft. The Cleveland Browns want to identify the best MacGyvers....
Dee Ford: Jadeveon Clowney Plays Like A "Blind Dog In A Meat Market"
Folks, we have some hot NFL draft prospect beef. THIS BEEF IS HOT....
Report: The Phillies Ratted Out Two Draft Picks To The NCAA
Oregon State pitcher Ben Wetzler has been suspended since the start of college baseball season. The NCAA is investigating whether he retained the services of an agent to negotiate with the Phillies, who drafted him in the fifth round in 2013 but were unable to sign him. Now it seems the Phillies hav...
Why Is The NFL Getting In Bed With Football's Infamous Troll Scout?
This afternoon, an article underneath former Pro Football Weekly senior editor Nolan Nawrocki's byline was published on NFL.com. The article is, ostensibly, a listicle detailing the "character issues" of a few top NFL draft prospects, and in its irresistible clickiness, in its eagerness to be argued...
NFL Prospect Quits Job, Lives In Van To Train For Draft
You won't recognize Rashid Williams's name, and it might not even be called in the NFL Draft, but he gave up so much for the mere possibility of being picked by a team this May....
Dude Purposely Ruins Mock Baseball Drafts For Our Delight
Last August, we had a laugh when a guy named Stefan picked NFL players like placekicker Aaron Pettrey first overall in mock football drafts, pissing off people who found it inconvenient to exit and join a new mock draft in five minutes. Stefan is back ruining mocks, but this time, he invaded fantasy...
Proposed Overhaul Of The NBA Draft Would Eliminate Tanking
Tired of the way the NBA draft lottery incentivizes tanking and fills the league with crappy teams slogging through crappy seasons, hoping to grab a No. 1 pick? Well, salvation may be at hand. Look upon The Wheel, and rejoice....
Texas Rangers Draft Russell Wilson (Yes, That One)
In today's Rule 5 draft, which allows teams to snatch up other teams' minor leaguers not on a 40-man roster but with a certain amount of service time, the Rangers took Russell Wilson, second baseman. He's probably not going to make much of an impact for Texas: he's got a pretty good football career ...
Next Draft: League of Denial
I've raved about Kottke in this space before as a choice place to find cool shit. Here's another—Dave Pell's Next Draft. I get his daily e-mail which is chock full of interesting. ...
Jadeveon Clowney Shouldn't Play Until He Gets Paid
South Carolina's all-world DE Jadeveon Clowney didn't play this weekend with a muscle strain, or maybe bruised ribs, and also some bone spurs in his foot. He's not been particularly clear on the ailment, or the state of his recovery, and the Gamecocks were surprised and confused that Clowney himself...
Study: NFL Teams Have No Idea What They're Doing In The Draft
Today the Philadelphia Inquirer profiles Cade Massey, a professor at Penn's Wharton School of business. Already with a study under his belt arguing that the conventional wisdom of the Draft Value Chart is all wrong, Massey was contracted by an unnamed NFL team to study the history of the draft for m...
WWF-Themed Fantasy Football Draft Features Impressive Costumes
On Tuesday, we brought you pictures from a reader who recently held a Game of Thrones-themed fantasy football draft. To our surprise, there are other people out there who like to play dress up while drafting a fantasy football team. This is a apparently thing that people do, and it's a thing that th...
Guy Intentionally Screws Up Mock Drafts To Capture Reactions
For people who really like fantasy football, mock drafts are useful as a run-through, just to get a feel of which players are being picked in what round. As we found out thanks to a man named Stefan, people take their mock drafts very seriously....
The Decade In Wasted NBA Draft Picks
Everyone should hurry over to HoopsHype, which has a fantastic story and graphic looking back on the last decade of NBA draftees—specifically, which ones signed contract extensions before their rookie deals expired....