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Gift Ngoepe, First-Ever African-Born MLB Player, Got A Hit In His First Career At-Bat
Earlier this week, the Pittsburgh Pirates were losing to the Cubs and they replaced Antonio Bastardo on the mound with Dovydas Neverauskas. The Lithuanian pitched two innings and became the first Lithuanian-born player to play in a major league game. Neverasukas was optioned back to Triple-A Indiana...
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Predators Rookie Kevin Fiala Stretchered Off Ice And Hospitalized After Scary Injury [Update]
During the first period of Game 1 of the Predators’ playoff series with the Blues, Nashville winger Kevin Fiala got squished into the boards by Blues defenseman Robert Bortuzzo. The crash was very ugly and Fiala folded up like an accordion after he hit the wall. Getting scrunched down to the ice by ...
The King's Arm Is Dead
Mariners pitcher Felix Hernandez has had an underwhelming start to the season, and it turned worse Tuesday. Hernandez lasted two innings in Seattle’s 19-9 loss to Detroit, ceding four runs before getting yanked after 48 pitches. Hernandez leads the majors in hits allowed with 39 and currently has a ...
Pro Golfer Creeps On High School Student, Deletes Tweet
Grayson Murray, one of golf’s up-and-coming talents, has spent the past month pushing golfers to take a more active role in showing off their personalities online. On Wednesday, Murray shared a little too much of his....
Joe Thomas Says He's Already Experiencing Memory Loss
Browns All-Pro tackle Joe Thomas was a guest on In Depth With Graham Bensinger, and he spoke candidly about the ways in which football may have already affected his brain....
Barcelona Fans Celebrate Messi Goal With Homage To His <i>Clásico</i> Celebration
It was a full-on party today in Barcelona as the Catalan club blasted Osasuna by a score of 7-1. Before the game, fans unveiled a massive banner to commemorate Lionel Messi’s 500th Barça goal, the one he scored this weekend when he snipped the balls off of Real Madrid and then celebrated in the most...
Pope Francis Scores Some Sweet New Kicks From Jim Harbaugh
Jim Harbaugh, Michigan’s favorite woke slam poet, joined his wife Sarah in visiting the Vatican on Wednesday, gifting Pope Francis with a Wolverine football helmet and a pair of basketball shoes. The pope reportedly told the Harbaughs to “Pray for me, don’t forget.” According to Sarah, Jim was left ...
ESPN's Latest Layoffs Are Just A Way To Buy Time<em></em>
The big ESPN layoffs that everyone knew were coming finally arrived today, and the culling has been as brutal as anyone could have expected. Though the final number isn’t in yet, various reports have around 100 people losing their jobs, and many of the people who have been fired so far aren’t just l...
Hilariously Rich University Presidents Don't Think College Athletes Should Be Paid
Ohio State University president Michael Drake and Stanford University president Marc Tessier-Lavigne have joined that dipshit from Notre Dame and that dipshit from Texas as the latest university presidents to say that college athletes should not be paid. Young people should not be paid for their rev...
Bob Ley Closes <i>Outside The Lines</i> With A Farewell To Those Laid Off By ESPN
Today’s ESPN layoffs have been a bloodbath—and they’re still ongoing. You’ll find goodbyes and tributes to former colleagues all over Twitter, but there appears to be just this one mention of the brutal cuts on ESPN programming....
Patrick Beverley And Russell Westbrook Will Probably Hate Each Other Forever
Patrick Beverley is a highly flammable substance, and last night Russell Westbrook, down by three and going out in a blaze of glory, lit him up. Maybe for old times’ sake. They then had a funny spat that produced some historically good Russ Faces....
It Looks Like Marshawn Lynch's Return To The NFL Is Really Happening
The idea of Marshawn Lynch coming out of retirement to play for the Oakland Raiders has been floating around for some time, and now it seems like this is actually happening....
Georgia Football Writer Jumps To Defense Of Former Recruit Accused Of Domestic Violence
The Georgia Bulldogs will not admit four-star recruit D’Antne Demery after the football player allegedly choked his girlfriend on Saturday. Out of Demery’s arrest came a baffling apologia from Jeff Sentell of DawgNation, a site connected to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. It’s a case of a reporte...
Flexible Soccer Referee Steals Show By Doing Splits To Dodge Ball
Who would’ve thought the most impressive feat of athleticism on display during this youth soccer game would come from the referee?...
A Running List Of ESPN Layoffs<em></em>
With phone calls and meetings beginning informing some ESPN employees that they have been laid off, word will slowly trickle out all day long about who they are. There will be plenty of names you have heard of, as ESPN reorients their daily lineup of shows, and their online video and stories to matc...
ESPN Officially Announces Layoffs, Says Very Little Else
In a buzzword-filled memo that otherwise said very little, ESPN president John Skipper announced officially this morning what has been known for awhile: Layoffs are coming to ESPN, starting today....
Do Jeb And Jeets Have Enough Money To Buy The Marlins?
Yesterday, Bloomberg reported that a group led by Jeb Bush and Derek Jeter had won the bidding to buy the Miami Marlins. But a whole host of conflicting reports indicate that may not be time to say “yeah Jeets” (or, gross, “yeah Jeb”) just yet....
The Thunder Didn't Stand A Chance
The Houston Rockets won Game 5 over the Thunder tonight, shooting their way out of a handful of Russell Westbrook-induced holes and taking a close one, 105-99. Much like the entire series, the game was excruciating to watch and the Thunder’s brief flickers of life did little to stave off the feeling...
Homer-Smacking Eric Thames Isn't Worried About Drug Tests Because He Has "A Lot Of Blood And Urine"
Home run hero Eric Thames spent last week abusing Reds pitching and mashing big taters, and he picked right back up where he left off this week, smacking three more cuadrangulares in the past two games. He now has eight home runs in six games against the Reds and 11 on the year....
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Rockets Owner Leslie Alexander Looked Really Quite Mad At This Referee [Update]
The first-round series between the Rockets and Thunder is already plenty spicy on the court, and it’s only getting more contentious thanks to the involvement of both teams’ ownership groups. This weekend, the NBA said it was looking into a postgame incident between Patrick Beverley and the son of Th...