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Report: The NFL And ESPN Are Bugging The Heck Out Of Each Other
ESPN and the NFL are getting on each other’s nerves. A new report from Sports Business Journal outlines a slow boil of escalating feuds, which could eventually end the partnership of the two sports giants....

Top Greek Soccer League Suspended After Team Owner Storms Pitch With Gun On His Hip
A top-of-the-table clash between PAOK and AEK Athens in Greek’s Superleague was cut short after PAOK owner Ivan Savvidis ran onto the pitch to confront the referee while flanked with two bodyguards and with a holstered revolver on his waist. Here’s video of this peculiar Idiot On The Field incident:...

What A Depressing Offseason
The caveats are caveats, but they do exist. Mike Moustakas is not a superstar, for reasons that are easy enough to identify. He has mostly been a decent defender at an important position, but his defense was unexpectedly and undeniably poor last year; he is a good hitter with real power, but not an ...

Tiger Woods's Impressive Showing Comes Up Agonizingly Short
This weekend’s Valspar Championship wound up quite a bit more thrilling than your average pre-Masters tune-up: Tiger Woods came into Sunday near the top of the leaderboard, and spent the afternoon just off the lead, tantalizingly close to a breakthrough win for this comeback chapter of his career. T...

The Raptors Are Ridiculously Good
The Toronto Raptors have now won eight in a row, after coolly dispatching the horrid Knicks Sunday afternoon at Madison Square Garden. I have been resisting this take for some time, but it can be resisted no longer: the Raptors are genuinely, truly Good. They are the best team in the Eastern Confere...

Iowa Correctional Officer Recruits Inmates As Outside-The-Box Solution To Youth Sports Ref Shortage
So, there’s a nationwide shortage of youth sports referees, related to crappy pay and ridiculous workloads and abusive parents. Here’s a novel idea for how to combat this problem, by way of sunny Iowa: train prison inmates in the subtle arts of basketball refereeing....

Richard Sherman's 49ers Versus Russell Wilson's Seahawks Should Be A Hoot
If for no other reason than that he will face the Seattle Seahawks, and thus Russell Wilson, twice per regular season, this should be fun: Richard Sherman has reportedly joined the San Francisco 49ers:...

Whose On First
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Tiger Woods Is In The Lead In The Third Round Of An Honest-To-God Golf Tournament
Oh man. Tiger Woods is atop the leaderboard in the third round of the Valspar Championship in Palm Harbor, Florida. Woods shot a 68 on Friday, and has stayed out of trouble so far on Saturday, scattering four birdies thru 11 holes without any bogies. He jumped into a tie for the lead with this delic...

The Fraudsters At Jimmy Haslam's Pilot Flying J Had Some Very Racist Takes On The Browns And Raiders
A U.S. District Court Judge has unsealed transcripts of secretly recorded tapes gathered in the investigation of fraud perpetrated by Browns owner Jimmy Haslam’s Pilot Flying J company. While the transcripts apparently don’t contradict Haslam’s claim that he was in no way involved in the scheme, the...

Lonzo Ball And The Lakers Are Beefing With Jamal Murray
Back in December, at the end of a Nuggets home win over the Lakers, Jamal Murray engaged in some extremely rude dribbling, to the great irritation of several Lakers players:...

Video Surfaces Of Odell Beckham Jr. Enjoying A Delightful Pizza Party In Bed, Plus Maybe Some Drugs?
Who among us hasn’t enjoyed the thrilling, illicit pleasure of a hot pepperoni pizza in a warm bed? Truly one of life’s great pleasures is slapping the pizza box down on the bedsheets and going to town on the cheesy goodness. As you will see in the strange and fleeting video below, Odell Beckham Jr....

The Browns Trade A QB, Receive A QB, And Still Need A QB
The Cleveland Browns are making moves, in the same way that a dead squid writhes after being covered in soy sauce. New GM John Dorsey pulled off three whole trades today, two of them involving quarterbacks, and neither of them involving A.J. McCarron....
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Former WSU Player Sues Mike Leach, Says Coach Only Enforced "Three Sins" Rule When He Felt Like It [Update]
Washington State football coach Mike Leach has said he has a policy that any player who commits one of three acts will get kicked out of the program: violence against women, illegal drugs, and stealing. One former Cougars player is suing because he says he was unfairly dismissed, and Leach isn’t act...

Bonzie Colson Was The Greatest Duke-Killer Of Our Generation
Last night, Duke rode Marvin Bagley’s monster 33-point, 17-rebound performance to an easy win over Notre Dame in the third round of the ACC tournament....

Let’s Revisit Richard Sherman’s Best And Loudest Moments With The Seahawks<em></em><em></em>
The Seahawks released cornerback Richard Sherman today after seven seasons with the team, ending an amazing run in Seattle for one of the most iconic defensive players of all time. Sherman was a three-time first-team All-Pro selection with the Seahawks, and he was a key part of the defense that utte...

Muhammad Wilkerson's Mom Goes On Radio To Blast Reporter Who Said Her Son Had "Issues With Alcohol"
Yesterday, New York Daily News reporter Manish Mehta suggested that defensive lineman Muhammad Wilkerson, who was recently cut by the Jets and is currently visiting Green Bay and New Orleans, shouldn’t sign with the Saints because of “issues with alcohol.” This understandably pissed off Wilkerson’s ...

Just Two Fine Young Boys Enjoying A Basketball Game
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COME TO MINNESOTA, DREW BREES!<em></em>
NFL free agency begins next week and the biggest name available will be quarterback Kirk Cousins, who is sure to command a blessed shitload of money from one of five horny suitors (Denver, Minnesota, Cleveland, Arizona, the Jets). HOWEVER, there’s a very good possibility that Cousins won’t even be t...

Will Cain Is An Idiot
Former LSU running back Derrius Guice said he was asked by one NFL team at last week’s combine whether he liked men, and asked by another team if his mother was a prostitute. There’s a question of whether that first one is even legal, but both are, by any measure—and as already admitted by the leagu...