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This Is A Good Hockey Family
Jake Guentzel made his NHL debut for the Pittsburgh Penguins tonight and he got to work immediately, scoring on his very first shot. But that’s not why we’re here. Guentzel’s first goal (he scored both Pittsburgh goals on the evening) was the mere appetizer for his family losing their collective shi...
DraftKings And FanDuel Finally Agree To Merge, Still Face Major Antitrust Scrutiny
After months of reporting indicating that daily fantasy titans DraftKings and FanDuel would merge, they have finally agreed on the terms, and expect to close the merger sometime in 2017....
The Washington Wizards Are In A Bad Place Right Now
The Wizards are playing like a big pile of dog poop this season, and they delivered their most nauseating performance of the year tonight against the Sixers. Philadelphia didn’t even have their talismanic center Joel Embiid, but they shot 54.5 percent against the Wizards tonight and beat them for ju...
Paul Ryan's Fantasy Football Team Must Suck
Rep. Paul Ryan, Speaker of the House and a man who definitely has an Ayn Rand quote poster taped to the ceiling above his bed, met with NFL players Tuesday in Washington, D.C. to discuss race and police issues. They took a nice photo together:...
Pete Carroll Was Not Impressed By Patriots Fans
The Seahawks’ Sunday night win at the Patriots was a pretty excellent game between two of the NFL’s best, but Seattle coach Pete Carroll is wondering why it felt like a preseason crowd....
The Best Fight At UFC 205 Happened In The Crowd
Here’s some video from last night’s UFC 205 event at MSG. You can tell by the music that it’s just as Conor McGregor entered the arena, and it’s a lovely brawl. Reader Jason shot it, and we’re happy to actually have UFC video we can use for once. ...
Iowa Fan Arrested For Public Intoxication Thought She Was At Iowa State Game That Didn't Exist
Unranked Iowa’s upset win over #3 Michigan yesterday was worth celebrating. But some people took it a little too far, and University of Iowa police had to make game-day arrests for the first time since September. (The campus that gave us Vodka Samm has had plenty of game-day citations since Septembe...
Life Is Futile
Look to the children for inspiration... or don’t, as they tried to retrieve a football stuck in a tree, got another football stuck in the tree, and continue in a futile effort to get back what has probably been lost forever....
Seahawks Fan Calls Bills Coach "Waitress"; Woman Next To Him Slaps Him
A Seahawks fan said some sexist shit to Bills special teams quality control coach Kathryn Smith as she walked to the field in Monday’s game, but was swiftly reprimanded by the woman standing next to him....
Donald Trump Uses <i>Fox & Friends</i> Appearance To Burn Tiffany Trump One Last Time
Earlier this morning, Donald Trump stopped by one of his favorite cable TV haunts, Fox & Friends, for one last campaign call-in. Also on the docket: Burning his very own daughter. ...
Cubs Will Remove Fan Messages From Stadium Walls
Throughout the playoffs, Cubs fans have been writing messages and drawing with chalk on the walls of the team’s stadium (thank you to the tipster who sent us photos of all the nearby dicks they could find scrawled on the ground). The Cubs cleaned everything off when the World Series started, but sin...
The Entire Plot Of The Next Season Of <i>Game Of Thrones </i>Seems To Have Leaked
HBO’s Game Of Thrones, the hit show about sibling fucking, is currently in the process of filming its seventh and kinda-sorta-not-really final full season in Spain. While most of the plot developments of the first six seasons were either matters of public record or relatively simple to discern, auth...
Fan Runs On Field, Headbutts Official In Algerian Soccer League
There really aren’t too many avenues for fans to express displeasure towards officials. There’s a large vocabulary to express that displeasure—like, any and every obscenity imaginable, to start—but actual methods of expression here are largely limited to just screaming from the stands like an asshol...
Alabama Students Charged With Breaking Into LSU's Stadium, Trying To Deface Midfield Logo, Failing
ESPN’s Marty Smith reports LSU police charged two Alabama students with criminal trespass after a 3 a.m. call reported suspects could be found at midfield of Tiger Stadium. Smith published photos of an apparently very-weakly-attempted defacing of the midfield logo, something easily patched-up by the...
This One's For All The Cubs Fans Who Didn't Live Long Enough To See It
Fair warning, but this’ll probably make you cry....
Old People Celebrating The Cubs' World Series Win Are Just The Best
When a team goes 108 years without winning a World Series, it ends up with a fanbase full of old people who have literally waited their whole lives to see the team win it all. When that team finally goes and gets a title, as the Chicago Cubs did last night, we are left with some impossibly adorable ...
What Is Sports If Not Pain?
Good things come to those who wait, unless they die first. ...
I'm The Big Boy
In 2011, The Metropolitan Golf Writer’s Association awarded the Trump family the honor of Golf Family of the Year. Also in 2011, Donald J. Trump Jr. was a big, fancy booster chair boy....