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Judge Accepts New Darren Sharper Plea Agreement, Will Probably Sentence Him To 15-20 Years
Serial rapist Darren Sharper will likely be sentenced to 15-20 years for his crimes, after he and federal prosecutors agreed to a new supplemental plea agreement, and the judge signed off. Sharper’s original plea agreement, which would’ve seen him serve just nine years in prison, was rejected last m...
How To React To A Bad Person's Death
People die every day; famous people die over the course of many days. Those left behind watch as the internet floods with earnest RIPs and dewy-eyed takes and angry ripostes toward anyone with the gall to joke or critique At a Time Like This. In some instances, some otherwise empathetic people cut s...
The Best Places To Urinate Outside, Ranked
Before we get deep into the bowels of the Funbag, one quick note: I’m out next week on Spring Break with my kids. This will not be like your Spring Break. Your Spring Break will be in Lake Havasu surrounded by fruity drinks and horny twentysomethings. I, on the other hand, will be stuck in Virginia ...
New Yorkers! If you like basketball, you should definitely attend tonight’s Varsity Letters reading series, presented by Gelf Magazine. SI senior writer Alexander Wolff will be there to discuss his new book, The Audacity of Hoop: Basketball and the Age of Obama. He’ll be joined by Shawn Fury, author...
NFL Makes All Chop Blocks Illegal
Today the NFL revealed the rule changes that will be implemented for the upcoming season. There’s nothing too drastic on this list:...
Is The Longhorn Network Killing The Big 12?
Five years into the grand experiment, and the Longhorn Network is kind of a disaster. It’s losing money hand-over-fist: reportedly $48 million since its launch, with annual losses hovering in the millions. Subscriber fees are painfully low, and ESPN is locked into this thing for another 15 years. An...
The Broncos Want To Find "The Next Brock Osweiler"
At the NFL meetings in Boca Raton today, Broncos coach Gary Kubiak addressed the team’s very fluid quarterback situation, which right now consists of Mark Sanchez, Trevor Siemian, and a big ol’ question mark. Kubiak said Denver’s hope is to find “the next Brock Osweiler,” which is a slightly weird t...
Errant Lionel Messi Shot Breaks A Fan's Wrist And Leaves Her Woozy
From the look of Raquel’s careful, handrail-aided steps, the slow wipe of her mouth, her collapse into a seat, and her dazed swaying as she attempts to pick herself up afterward, you’d think that the Villarreal-Barcelona match attendee had just realized, after puking up a quart or so of alcohol, tha...
Jay Glazer Has Very Strange Ideas About Football, The Military, CTE, And PTSD
Last Friday, NFL insider and MMA enthusiast Jay Glazer went on Bill Simmons’s podcast to talk about football, MMA, and his ongoing feud with ESPN’s NFL reporters. At one point, the conversation turned to football’s relationship with CTE, and things got very weird....
Well, This Is The Worst Way To Start A Race
If you’re interested in the vector of virality, you’ll surely find interest in this New York magazine story on a video of an eighth-grader faceplanting at a track meet a full year ago, but the video itself not blowing up until a new friend decided to Tweet it out this weekend....
The Browns Have A Ton Of Options At QB, I Wonder How They'll Blow It
The carousel of mediocre-to-competent QB talent is spinning, and I want to get off. And not because it’s too intoxicating. For the Browns, we know this is going to end in tears. Tears and barf....
A Bewildered Jim Ross Called The Weirdest U.S. Fight PPV We've Ever Seen
“Roy Jones Jr. will fight a fan in Phoenix!” the promo reel screamed, and that was just the main event to a bizarre card put on by URShow.tv last night in an online-only pay-per-view featuring MMA, pro wrestling, “grappling,” and boxing as called by an in-the-flesh Jim “J.R.” Ross....
Some Soccer Fans In Spain Rushed The Pitch And Stabbed A Player In The Heart
Stories about violence during soccer matches are becoming so routine that they don’t really need much in the way of a lead-in. Alhaurín de la Torre’s 24-year-old forward Samuel G.P. played an away match for the club’s B-team on Sunday. At the end of it, some fans stormed the field and apparently tri...
Ladies And Gentlemen, Your 2016 NFL Coaches' Class Photo
The NFL is in Boca Raton this week for its annual meetings, and that means it’s time for the head coaches to get together for their group photo. (Click here for full resolution.) I don’t recognize a lot of these guys! But that’s always how it is with new coaches: you can’t truly get to know their fa...
DraftKings And FanDuel Agree To Cease Operating In New York
DraftKings and FanDuel have reached an agreement with New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman to immediately cease operating in the country’s fourth largest state. The sites will remain inoperative in New York until at least September, when the state’s Supreme Court Appellate Division will hear ...
Fans Are Trolling A Gag "LaRoche Family Recovery Fund"
I can’t get enough of this Drake LaRoche thing. It’s the best, dumbest, most baseball controversy I can imagine. Adam Eaton saying of a 14-year-old boy that “we lost a leader?” Love it. Unnamed White Sox players finally emerging to say actually, it kind of sucks to have a teen in our workplace every...
What On Earth Is Going On With José Mourinho's Manchester United Pre-Contract?
We can all agree that the big takeaway from the pre-contract José Mourinho has reportedly signed with Manchester United is the simple fact that, after a few months on the sidelines, no doubt stewing over the calamity that was his final season at Chelsea, our man Mourinho will almost certainly be bac...
Notre Dame Tip-In Ruins Everything
Our bodies were ready. Stephen F. Austin’s late five-point lead left the sportswriting world dreaming of four days full of “STONE COLD!” references and Attitude-Era GIFs celebrating the Lumberjacks becoming just the third 14-seed ever to make the Sweet Sixteen. Then Notre Dame’s Rex Pflueger, a scru...