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Tank Warfare, Or A Night At Mavericks-Suns
DALLAS — If the Mavericks were going to do what needed to be done on Tuesday night in the finale of their 2018 season, it would take an almost herculean effort. A guaranteed share of the NBA’s third-worst record and the attendant lottery-odds boost was on the line, but they would have to lock in, fo...

Prosecutors: Aldon Smith Had A .40 BAC When He Went To Get His Ankle Monitor For Alcohol Testing
Former Raiders and 49ers linebacker Aldon Smith, who’s been indefinitely suspended from the NFL since he was charged with domestic violence in March, was put back in jail last week for violating his bail. According to San Francisco prosecutors, that violation occurred because Smith was almost incomp...

The Combine At Night Is Where The NFL Happens
INDIANAPOLIS — At 1:12 a.m., my phone lit up with a text. It was one of my spies telling me the party had arrived....

Report: Bengals, Of All Fucking Teams, Concerned About Eric Reid's Kneeling
The Cincinnati Bengals, an NFL franchise which has employed some of the most violent players in the sport, reportedly met with free-agent safety Eric Reid, who previously protested police brutality and racial discrimination by kneeling during the national anthem. According to Pro Football Talk’s Mik...

The Rape Case Tearing Apart Irish Rugby
Rory Best should have stayed in Carton House with the rest of the Irish national rugby team. Instead, the captain and starting hooker sat in Belfast’s Laganside Crown Court alongside his teammate Iain Henderson, watching the trial of two other teammates for the alleged rape of a 19-year-old woman in...

Ray Lewis Says Odell Beckham Jr. Has "Removed God From His Life"
Former NFL linebacker Ray Lewis, who now makes a living going on TV to say “God” and “greatness” as many times as possible, joined Colin Cowherd on FS1 today to dish about Odell Beckham Jr....

Andrew Luck: I Still Haven’t Thrown A Real Football
Andrew Luck missed all of the 2017 season. At Colts minicamp today, he spoke with reporters for the first time in 2018. How’s his rehab from injury going?...

Report: Bill Belichick Chewed Out Gronk In Front Of Teammates For Using Tom Brady's Sketchy Guru<em></em>
However the relationship between Patriots head coach Bill Belichick and quarterback Tom Brady stands now, it’s clear that the former still takes issue with the latter’s body coach and business partner Alex Guerrero. Belichick last season reportedly banned Guerrero from the team’s sidelines and revok...

Packers' Trevor Davis Jokes About Smuggling Bomb Onto Plane, Gets Arrested
Packers wideout Trevor Davis apparently tried to test the seriousness with which airport security takes those questions about putting stuff in your luggage. Turns out they take it pretty seriously!...

Garry Shandling's Power Was His Fear
Originally published in the February 1997 issue of GQ as “Shandling Agonistes” this story appears here with the author’s permission....

Report: Aldon Smith Arrested For Violating Electronic Monitoring Conditions One Day After Start Of Electronic Monitoring
Indefinitely suspended defensive lineman Aldon Smith, whose depressing list of off-field transgressions has long since overshadowed anything he ever did as a player, was reportedly arrested in San Francisco on Friday. This San Francisco Chronicle report says Smith was arrested for “violating a cond...

NHL Just Up And Decides To Invent Tiebreaking Game Two Days Before It Might Need One
The NHL regular season ends on Sunday, and the second wild card spot in the East currently belongs to the Flyers, who have one game left to play. The Panthers, with two to play, are four points back. But: what if they end up tied? And what if they also end up tied in every extant tiebreaker? It’s a ...

Why The Rams Are Going For It Right Now
The Los Angeles Rams have been rather aggressive this offseason. By signing Ndamukong Suh and making several trades—the latest being Tuesday’s big deal with the Patriots for wideout Brandin Cooks—the Rams have made significant upgrades to a roster that won 11 games and an NFC West title last season....
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Liberty University Settles Claim That It Expelled Football Players To Make Up For Hiring Disgraced Baylor Officials [CORRECTED]
Liberty University appears to have paid settlements for hiring several key athletic-department officials who had been accused of creating “a hunting ground for sexual predators” when they worked at Baylor, then allegedly overcorrecting by expelling three football players on unfounded sexual-assault...

Bob McNair Regrets His Apology For His Regrettable "Inmates" Remark<em></em>
Texans owner Bob McNair had a tense standoff with his players last season after he remarked, “We can’t have the inmates running the prison,” during an October owner-player meeting about the national anthem demonstrations. Star receiver DeAndre Hopkins skipped practice in protest; a number of Texans ...

Von Miller Says The Bloody Shark He's Holding Didn't Die
Broncos linebacker Von Miller is reportedly under investigation by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission after his boating trip last week off the coast of Miami resulted in a photo of Miller holding a bloody hammerhead shark. Harvesting hammerheads in Florida waters is a misdemeanor,...

Ravens Sign Former Browns QB
The Baltimore Ravens announced today that they have agreed to a one-year deal with a quarterback who is not Colin Kaepernick....

Johnny Manziel: The Browns Should Have Known I Had No Idea What I Was Doing
Johnny Manziel’s odd redemption tour continued today when he appeared on The Dan Patrick Show. During the segment he was asked what he would go back and change about his rookie season if he had the chance, and his response was further proof that absolutely no one is incapable of clowning the Browns:...

Native American Lacrosse Teams Reported Racial Abuse. Then Their League Expelled Them.<em></em>
Lacrosse was played by Native American nations across North America long before it was colonized by Europeans. But despite Native people’s historical and cultural connection to the game, they were periodically banned from playing before the 1973 American Indian Religious Freedom Act restored Native...

The Predators Got Hosed By Goalie Interference
In a game loaded with playoff and seeding implications, Predators-Panthers had an ending that should terrify everyone that a rough goaltender interference call could fuck over any team at any time. Isn’t hockey great?!...