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How To Housetrain Your New Puppy
Like anyone who grew up with family pets, wore out VHS tapes of Homeward Bound, and suddenly found themselves in very dusty rooms when Vincent faithfully laid down next to Jack during the finale of LOST, I love dogs. That said, I felt no particular urgency to get one of my own until recently—I knew ...
Report: Cal Men's Basketball Assistant Coach Fired Over Sexual Harassment Allegations
The Cal Golden Bears men’s basketball team has fired assistant coach Yann Hufnagel for violating the school’s anti-sexual harassment policy, according to the San Francisco Chronicle....
Former Yale Basketball Captain Plans To Sue University Over Sexual Misconduct Expulsion
An attorney representing Jack Montague, the former captain of the Yale University men’s basketball team who was expelled for sexual misconduct last month, has issued a statement claiming that Montague was wrongfully punished by the university. The statement refers to Montague as a “whipping boy,” an...
Mike Commodore Calls Leafs Coach Mike Babcock "The Biggest Piece Of Shit"
Former NHL defenseman Mike Commodore despises Mike Babcock. The pair’s relationship consists of Commodore publicly talking about how much he hates his two-time ex-coach, particularly the time he signed a one-year deal with the Red Wings, only to be scratched and traded away after 17 games. With the ...
Whoever Leaked The NCAA Tournament Bracket, Thank You
Sports fans can appreciate spectacle for spectacle’s sake—to a point. The NCAA tournament selection show is worthwhile drama, for fans of many schools the nervous culmination of a season and a chance to find out where they’re going next, and for fans of a small handful, the nailbiting tension of fin...
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Download Your Printable NCAA Tournament Bracket Here
March Madness is upon us. Here’s a link to download and print your NCAA tournament bracket. Who do you have going all the way? My money’s on the Cal State-Bakersfield Roadrunners....
Dead Letters: Steph Curry Is A "Garbage Human Being" Edition
This morning, we brought you Steph Curry’s turnaround thunderbolt against the Phoenix Suns. It was a great shot, but according to this reader who emailed me 20 minutes after our article was published, it was actually extremely problematic and we should stop covering him. Also, I am like 90 percent s...
VCU Cheerleader Takes Out Her Rage At Losing On Some Defenseless Balloons
Sometimes when you lose, you shoot sad videos of your dog coming over and giving you a kiss, and sometimes you just want to smash some balloons....
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Every Quarter Of This Insane Ohio High School Basketball Final Ended On A Buzzer-Beater
Garfield Heights took down St. Ignatius last night in some hot Cleveland Regional Final action to head to the state semifinals. The Bulldogs beat the Wildcats (this was one of probably like 3,000 Bulldogs-Wildcats meetings this weekend) 70-69 in two overtimes, and every single quarter ended with som...
Cal State-Bakersfield Wins First NCAA Tourney Bid With Last-Second Stunner
Dedrick Basile’s last-second three-pointer gave the Cal State-Bakersfield Roadrunners a 57-54 win over NMSU and punched that school’s first ticket to the NCAA tournament since joining Division I nine years ago....
Lies, Corruption And Cronyism: It's Called Thursday And Friday At The IAAF
Forty-eight hours of the most idiotic, baldface lies and studiously overlooked corruption spread around amongst smirking, backslapping insiders in a posh setting—the IAAF calls that Thursday and Friday. ...
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Catholic School President Apologizes For His Students Chanting "You Killed Jesus!" At Opponents
Catholic Memorial School took on Newton North High School in basketball up in a suburb of Boston last night. Catholic Memorial won the game 77-73 to head to the EMass final, but not after some good old fashioned anti-Semitism from its fans. Fans of the Catholic school responded to “Sausage fest!” ch...
Diego Costa Sent Off After Getting Intimate With Gareth Barry (And Maybe Biting Him)
Everton downed Chelsea 2-0 in FA Cup action today, though the real excitement came in the final minutes as Diego Costa earned a red card for intruding on Gareth Barry’s personal space; Barry himself would be sent off minutes later, but let’s not miss the glory of Costa either kissing Barry, trying t...
Report: Illinois Basketball Player Jaylon Tate Arrested For Punching His Girlfriend In The Face
Illinois basketball’s bad season ended yesterday with a blowout loss to Purdue in the Big Ten tournament. Shortly after the team returned to Champaign from Indianapolis, junior point guard Jaylon Tate was arrested for domestic battery and to the Champaign County Jail. Per court records, he was booke...
High School Basketball Player Hits A Buzzer-Beater From Goddamn Neptune
Prepare for the fourth of the approximately one million buzzer-beaters that will happen this weekend....
So, Who Did Dennis Wideman Actually Send That Stupid Text Message To?
When Gary Bettman wrote a 22-page report detailing why he was upholding Dennis Wideman’s 20-game suspension for checking an official, one of the pieces of evidence upon which he hinged his argument was a text message Wideman purportedly sent to a teammate that showed he had no remorse for his action...