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UFC Fighter Uses Homophobic Slur, Manager Offers Moronic Defense
Yesterday, UFC fighter Nate Diaz took to his Twitter account to voice the following opinion:...
ESPN Will Replace CBS As The Home For The U.S. Open Finals. Thank God.
In two years, ESPN will start broadcasting the men's and women's finals at the U.S. Open. ESPN has gone all-in on tennis—it already airs the Australian Open and the Wimbledon finals—and this means that CBS's decades-long run of broadcasting the men's and women's U.S. Open finals will conclude next S...
Greg Oden Is On The Comeback Trail, And He Looks "Unbelievable"
Remember Greg Oden? He used to play basketball. He'd like to play basketball again....
Life Saver
Over at Sports on Earth, Peter Richmond writes about how Chuck Muncie saved his life:...
The Kings Are Staying Home, But The NBA Is Still Rigged Against Them
Originally published in Bloomberg View....
The Warriors Returned To The Court To Thank Their Fans
If there is a silver lining in being eliminated at home, it requires a team like Golden State to take advantage of it. After their loss to the Spurs, the Warriors came back out on the court to high-five their fans, and Steph Curry took the mic to thank the crowd....
More Surgery For Rob Gronkowski, But This Time It's A Good Thing
Everyone grab a cheap beer and a college girl, because the Summer of Gronk is back on!...
The Kings Are Staying In Sacramento
The Maloofs are out. According to the Sacramento Bee, the brothers came out of hiding long enough to to sell the Kings to a group for $535 million. The group, led by Silicon Valley billionaire and Golden State Warriors minority owner Vivek Ranadive, will be keeping the team in Sacramento. The deal i...
Knicks Beat Pacers To Force Game 6, Ruin Everyone's Saturday Night
Of all the NBA conference semifinals, including the Grizzlies' and Heat's respective molly whopping of the Thunder and Bulls, the Knicks-Pacers series is by far the worst. We held out hope that Indiana would be able to travel to Madison Square Garden and blow out the Knicks by like seven to put this...
When You Try To Dunk On Tyson Chandler, This Can Happen
Pacers guard Lance Stephenson tried to get cute near the end of the second quarter when he elevated for what would've been a vicious tomahawk dunk in traffic over New York Knicks center Tyson Chandler. It even looked for a second like he had a chance. He didn't....
Chris Kluwe Signs With The Oakland Raiders
It looks like our boy has finally found work. Chris Kluwe punted for the Minnesota Vikings for eight years, but was cut 10 days ago to make room for a younger, cheaper option: rookie punter Jeff Locke out of UCLA. In his time at Minnesota, he carved out a resume as maybe the best punter in franchise...
Can Dennis Rodman Survive Retirement?
Originally published as "No Rebound" on June 1, 2003, in The New York Times Magazine. Footnotes from the author are included throughout the story....
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I Can't Stop Watching This Dude Eat Cotton Candy In Reverse
[Reddit, via Bob's Blitz]...
Tennis Player Has Cameraman Help With Epic Tirade Against Chair Umpire
This video of Viktor Troicki's meltdown at the Italian Open goes on for four minutes, but be sure to watch it from beginning to end. It just keeps getting better and better....
Here's What You Would See If A Grizzly Bear Was Eating Your Face
Biologist Brad Josephs recently planted a GoPro camera out in the Alaskan wilderness, hoping to capture some up-close footage of bears for a BBC nature show. He ended up getting much more than he bargained for. ...
Former NASCAR Driver Dick Trickle Dead In Apparent Suicide
As first reported by ESPN's Ryan McGee, former short-track superstar and NASCAR fixture Richard "Dick" Trickle was found dead today, of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. He was 71....