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Dee Gordon And Freddie Freeman Combine For Pretty Defensive Play
Dee Gordon showed off his considerable range and Freddie Freeman showed off his considerable flexibility to retire Michael Brantley and get the National League out of the sixth inning. ...
Browns Owner Avoids Federal Prosecution With Massive Settlement
Browns owner Jimmy Haslam, who is the CEO of a truck stop empire that committed a whole bunch of fraud, probably won't be spending any time in prison for presiding over a company that bilked customers out of tens of millions of dollars. That's because his company, Pilot Flying J, just agreed to pay ...
Why LeBron Came Home
The sports media world churns with the effort to understand LeBron James’s reasons for returning to the Cleveland Cavaliers after his four-year run with the Miami Heat. Why did he make this choice? Is he ready to be great on his own terms? Has he now, at 30, finally become a man? Does he care more a...
Madison Bumgarner, Buster Posey Make History With A Pair Of Grand Slams
San Francisco Giants teammates Madison Bumgarner and Buster Posey made MLB history Sunday against the Diamondbacks by becoming the first starting pitcher-catcher pair to ever hit grand slams in one game....
Report: Isaiah Thomas To Suns In Sign-And-Trade
With LeBron's signing out of the way, the rest of the free agency dominoes are starting to fall like many predicted. ...
Report: Chris Bosh Stays With The Heat
One piece of the Big Three is reportedly staying in Miami. LeBron's gone, but maybe the Heat aren't totally fucked!...
LeBron's Essay, In Comic Sans
In honor of the now-maybe-forgiven-still-pretty-inexplicable Dan Gilbert letter, here's LeBron's "I'm Coming Home" essay, presented in Comic Sans....
Woman Knocked Unconscious In Fan Fight Outside AT&T Park
A woman was knocked unconscious and hospitalized after being punched in what's being described as a fight between A's and Giants fans outside of AT&T Park yesterday afternoon. To California and America: please cut this shit out....
LeBron Would Be Nuts To Stay In Miami, Because Dwyane Wade Is Dead
In the commotion surrounding the immediate real estate plans of LeBron James and, to a lesser extent, a supporting cosmos of NBA stars, it has gone politely unsaid that one of the summer production's principals is—and in fact has been—dead. Dwyane Wade is no longer a great or even very good NBA pl...
All The Internet Clues That Point To LeBron Going To Cleveland
Though LeBron James has remained totally silent about his free agency plans, the tea leaves are there, if you're desperate and crazy enough to read them. ...
Jury Finds Dodgers Partly Liable For The Beating Of Bryan Stow
A Los Angeles jury found the Dodgers 25 percent responsible for the permanent brain damage suffered by Giants fan Bryan Stow during a parking-lot assault in 2011. They'll owe him $4.5 million of the $18 million he was awarded for his injuries. ...
Don't Do This To Yourself, Cleveland
No. Don't do this. You're going to jinx it....
Other Plan B's For The Cleveland Cavaliers To Consider
By trading Jarrett Jack in order to clear cap space today, the Cavs made it clear they're all-in on trying to get LeBron James. It's also being reported that if they miss out on James, their Plan B involves trying to sign Chandler Parsons or Trevor Ariza. Those are pretty sad plans! Here are some ...
The Cavs Just Cleared Some LeBron-Sized Cap Space
So it appears that the Cavs are really going for it. LeBron's old team just swung a three-team trade that will clear $9.5 million off the Cavaliers' books, leaving them with about $24 million in cap space, and that puts them them well in position to offer LeBron a max contract at $20.7 million....
Alfredo Di Stéfano Could Wallop With The Best Of 'Em
It's unfortunate that it can take a great player's death for us to go back and really appreciate what a talent like Alfredo Di Stéfano brought to the sport. That's especially so in America, where the popular notion of soccer involves Brits inventing the game, Pelé and Brazil mastering it, us continu...
The Cavs Needed The NBA's Help To Delete Dan Gilbert's Comic Sans Letter
Dan Gilbert's tantrum of an open letter remained on the Cavs' website for one day shy of four years, conveniently being deleted just as the Cavs stepped up their free agency pursuit of LeBron James. A team spokesman explained to SB Nation's Mike Prada just how that went down:...
Reminder: The LeBron Free Agency Circus Is The NBA's Fault
We're watching the rubber band snap on LeBron free agency coverage. We waited all year to see what would happen, and now that it's happening, there's... rather a lot of coverage, isn't there? But remember, whatever hysterics into which teams and Twitter and ESPN have been thrown were created by the ...
Superstar Alfredo Di Stéfano, Real Madrid's "Blond Arrow," Has Died
You've heard of Pele and Maradona, most certainly. Today, though, I sing of Alfredo di Stéfano. Di Stéfano, who died today at 88 from a heart attack, was arguably the greatest player never to have played in a World Cup....
How The Rivalry That Was Supposed To Usher In Cycling's New Era Didn't
On Tuesday, May 29, 2012, Andy Schleck won the 2010 Tour De France. He finished 39 agonizing seconds behind Alberto Contador on the road, but the Spaniard's suspension for taking clenbuterol meant that Schleck inherited the yellow jersey. Winning a proxy war against Contador was a cruel way to bag...
