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Dirk Nowitzki Calls It A Career
Following the Mavericks’ 120-109 win over the Suns on Tuesday, the team held a postgame ceremony to honor the career of Dirk Nowitzki. On the floor were Larry Bird, Charles Barkley, Scottie Pippen, Shawn Kemp, and Detlef Schrempf, who spoke about the legend’s career. When the mic finally reached Now...
Wake Forest Was A Mild Breeze Away From Upsetting Duke
Wake Forest, a lowly 4-12 ACC squad that Kenpom said had a 99.6 percent chance of losing tonight, came achingly close to beating Duke on “Senior” night at Cameron. The Demon Deacons held with the Blue Devils all night, and even jumped out to a 10-point lead in the second half, but in the end the det...
Wake Forest's Matt Colburn Runs All Over Louisville, Who Pulled His Scholarship In 2015
Wake Forest running back Matt Colburn got a chance to kick the teeth in of Louisville’s defense on Saturday in a game that was all about sweet, sweet revenge for the senior....
Wake Forest Kicker Shanks Field Goal After Forgetting He's Part Of The Field Goal Unit
“Practice makes perfect” is certainly a mantra Wake Forest kicker Nick Sciba adheres to. In fact, he’s so serious about it that he was still practicing while the rest of his team set themselves up in position to kick a field goal in the first quarter against Notre Dame. The good news was that the De...
Wake Forest Basketball Coach Charged In Fatal Attack On New York City Tourist After Uber Mixup
Wake Forest assistant basketball coach Jamill Jones, 35, surrendered to the police Thursday in New York after he was charged in connection with the death of a man who mistook Jones’s car for his Uber ride, reports say....
American Defender Lays Waste To Arsenal In FA Cup First Half
Nottingham Forest’s Eric Lichaj has spent the vast majority of his career in the second tier of English soccer and the fringes of the USMNT. But in the first half of his team’s FA Cup match against Arsenal, Lichaj looked like a savior. The 29-year-old American defender scored both of his team’s goal...
Here Are The Most George Lucas-Ass Names In The NFL
For all the things that he has gotten wrong in his career as a mythmaker and world-builder and filmmaker and Extremely Satisfied-Seeming Beard-Haver, George Lucas has gotten the big things right. He’s seemingly constantly borne aloft on a cloud of oblivious self-regard, but also he created Star Wa...
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Iowa Radio Announcers Fired After Decrying Opposing Team's "Español People" [Update]
Last week, before a basketball game between Eagle Grove and Forest City in Forest City, Iowa, two local radio broadcasters were heard cheerily expressing their disdain for the “Español people” who played for Eagle Grove High School, before wishing they would “go back to where they came from.”...
Angry Idiot Sneaks Onto Field To Berate His Team's Players
Coventry City fans don’t take losing home matches against relegation candidates too lightly, apparently. Hence this Coventry supporter making his way onto the pitch during his team’s 1-0 loss to Forest Green in England’s fourth tier to really make his displeasure felt:...
Lamar Jackson Accuses Wake Forest Coach Of Anonymously <em></em>Trashing His NFL Dreams
Lamar Jackson, the 2016 Heisman winner who, for a while, appeared to be the Second Coming, is heading into the fall with the typical pressure being applied to college football’s reigning MVP—he’ll be tasked with somehow improving his draft stock, bettering a team that fell apart down the stretch, an...
Cum Dog News: Cum Dog On The Move, They Transferred Cum Dog
Famous or anyway probably real and human soccer person Jason Cummings has been transferred from one team to another team, according to this report. He is the Cum Dog. Cum Dog coming to Nottingham Forest, is what I’m saying here....
D'Onta Foreman Shares Heartbreaking Story Of His Infant Son's Death
Texas running back D’Onta Foreman had a tremendous season on the field for the Longhorns last year, rushing for 2,028 yards, scoring 15 touchdowns, and winning the Doak Walker award for best running back in the nation. Off the field, he suffered a tremendous loss....
Wake Forest's Greg McClinton Nails Casual Buzzer-Beater From Goddamn Mars
Greg McClinton must have played football or something, because this overhander was as nice as pie....
John Collins Might Just Will Wake Forest Into The Tournament
As was the case with several bubble teams, the last couple games of the regular season have been crucial for Wake Forest. Entering Wednesday night’s clash with No. 8 Louisville at 16-12 and 7-9 in conference play, the Demon Deacons desperately needed a signature upset to separate themselves from the...
The Fake All-Star Team On A Bender That Inspired Ireland To Play Basketball
You can leave home again. Pete Strickland, an American who as a young man served as a Johnny Appleseed of basketball in Ireland, is going back, this time to coach the Irish national team....
Louisville Suspends Coach Who Received Plays From Wake Forest Radio Announcer
Louisville athletic director Tom Jurich announced today that offensive coordinator Lonnie Galloway will be suspended for the Dec. 31 Citrus Bowl for taking game plan materials from Wake Forest radio announcer Tommy Elrod....
Virginia Tech AD Says Hokies Received Wake Forest Game Plan Before Football Game
Yet another college program team has been forced to admit that it was involved in the Wakeyleaks scandal, which consisted of former Wake Forest radio announcer Tommy Elrod sharing game prep material with the Demon Deacons’ opponents for at least two years. According to Virginia Tech athletics direct...
Army May Also Have Been Provided With Wake Forest's Leaked Game Plan
A third school has now become involved in the Wakeyleaks scandal. Wake Forest officials informed Army athletic director Boo Coriggan this evening that Wake’s game plan may have been leaked to Army as well. Corrigan spoke to Sports Illustrated and confirmed that Wake Forest had reached out....
Louisville AD Says Cardinals Received Plays From Wake Forest Radio Announcer Before Football Game
One day after Wake Forest fired and banned football radio announcer Tommy Elrod for sharing game prep materials with the team’s opponents for at least two years, Louisville athletic director Tom Jurich said that the Cardinals had received information from Elrod this season, before their Nov. 12 game...
Wake Forest Radio Announcer Fired For Giving Game Prep Materials To Opponents
Wake Forest announced that football radio announcer Tommy Elrod—a former player and coach at the school—was fired from his position and banned from athletic facilities, after it was discovered that Elrod has been giving or attempting to give game prep materials to opposing teams for at least two yea...