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Clemson eyes bowl eligibility vs. FCS opponent FurmanConsecutive wins over Florida State and then-No. 20 Louisville have Clemson, the preseason fourth-ranked team, in position to become bowl eligible when the Tigers host FCS opponent Furman on Saturday.,The Tigers (5-5, 4-4 Atlantic Coast Conference) avoided a losing conference record with a 20-19 win...

Washington Spirit offers ticket deals for furloughed workersThe NWSL's Washington Spirit have offered free and discounted tickets to furloughed federal employees for Sunday's match with the San Diego Wave on Sunday, Oct. 5.,The 200 tickets that were offered via voucher were quickly claimed on Wednesday as the federal government was shut down.,The club will a...

Roger Goodell: NFL working on adding Berlin gameThe New York Giants and Carolina Panthers will close the 2024 NFL International Series with a game in Munich on Sunday, and commissioner Roger Goodell said the NFL is working on adding a game in Berlin in 2025.,In fact, Goodell said Saturday the prospects are strong of playing a game in the German c...

No. 6 Ole Miss crushes Furman 76-0, ties school mark for most points

Jaxson Dart passed for 418 yards and five touchdowns in one half, Tre Harris caught two scores, and the No. 6 Ole Miss Rebels tied their school record for points, demolishing the Furman Paladins 76-0 on Saturday night in Oxford, Miss. , ,The high-powered offense of the Rebels (1-0) erupted for 52 po...

James Harden finally found a restaurant willing to carry his wine

Are you looking for traditional flavors with a Japanese flare, a stunning lounge with a live DJ, bowling lanes, exotic hookah, a nightclub, and bottomless J. Harden Wine prosecco all in one convenient, classy one-stop shop? Well look no further than Thirteen Houston, James Harden’s new restaurant ve...

The best March Madness performances by players on mid-majors

Every year in the March Madness tournament, some school you have never heard of from the middle of nowhere qualifies. They almost are never expected to win, but sometimes, they have one ringer who can carry them very far. Here are some of the best players from mid-major colleges that have dazzled th...

Mike Tyson clip from Jake Paul hype package is 4 years old

Yesterday, Jake Paul and former Heavyweight champion Mike Tyson announced that they would be fighting in July at AT&T Stadium and streaming live on Netflix. ...

The NBA trade deadline was a bit of a dud, but here's a look at who won and who flopped horribly

After last year’s insane trade deadline, which featured Kevin Durant being dealt to the Phoenix Suns, this year brought a bunch of smaller, shrewd moves that moved teams into contention. We have tracked the trades and broken them down by time-tested winners and losers rubric to track how the day wen...

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Keeping track of all the NBA trades before the deadline ends

The NBA Trade Deadline is officially upon us. While the deadline may not be as exciting as years past with big stars going on the move, it’s a deadline that’s as important as any in recent memory. Both conferences are up for grabs, with no real contender running away with it. Can someone make a move...

by Mackenzie Meaney|

|Thu Feb 08 2024

Why does the NFL refuse to return the bench press competition to Pro Bowl weekend?

The list of events for the Pro Bowl games was released on Wednesday. This annual celebration of the NFL’s top players has turned into summer camp. Like summer camp for kids, not training camp or an Illinois music festival. The players compete in events like dodgeball and tug of war, and the game is ...

by Stephen Knox|

|Wed Dec 20 2023

ESPN cuts pay during COVID, inks Pat McAfee for $85M, vax jokes with Aaron Rodgers

Dancing with the devil is a personal choice. But when the heat from that tango singes others, it becomes a problem. Some ESPN employees have to be burning mad over how they lost money due to pay cuts during the COVID-19 pandemic, all for the worldwide leader to spend almost $100 million for Pat McAf...

by Carron J. Phillips|

|Thu Oct 12 2023

LeBron James is Team USA’s shadow GM and possibly its next director

LeBron James is back to doing what he does best, flexing those roster construction muscles as the league’s greatest shadow GM. According to Shams Charania and Joe Vardon’s report in The Athletic, an effort to recruit Steph Curry, Kevin Durant, Anthony Davis, Jayson Tatum and Draymond Green, is being...

by DJ Dunson|

|Mon Sep 11 2023

Behold the dumpster fire that is the Los Angeles Angels' front office

On Wednesday, the Los Angeles Angels added another day of ignominy to their woeful franchise’s history under Arte Moreno by placing starting pitcher Lucas Giolito, relievers Matt Moore and Reynaldo López, plus outfielders Hunter Renfroe and Randal Grichuk on waivers. In a vacuum, they aren’t the big...

by DJ Dunson|

|Thu Aug 31 2023

Crawford-Spence was an all-timer — just not in the way fans expected

The only ruling necessary after Terence Crawford’s TKO of Errol Spence Jr. was whether Saturday’s fight at the T Mobile Center in Las Vegas met the hype. It was one-sided throughout, as Crawford (40-0, 31 KOs) put Spence (28-1, 22 KOS) on the canvas in the second round for the first time in Spence’s...

by Sean Beckwith|

|Tue Aug 01 2023

Where did the American heavyweight boxing champions go?

Errol Spence and Terence Crawford’s highly-anticipated welterweight Fight of the Year doubles as a ring showdown for the pound-for-pound crown that boxing aficionados have been counting down to for years....

by DJ Dunson|

|Fri Jul 28 2023

Miami Heat can’t survive NBA Finals with a punchdrunk Jimmy Butler

Jimmy Buckets was in standby mode for Game 1. Maybe it was the altitude that Ball Center resides at, or the altitude of expectations, but regular season Jimmy Butler pulled up for Game 1. Butler seemed more intent on picking his spots and taking the Denver Nuggets’ temperature. Likewise, the Miami H...

by DJ Dunson|

|Fri Jun 02 2023

Slow News Day: Dom Toretto is one of the greatest (fictional) athletes of our generation

Vin Diesel’s Dom Toretto lives his life a quarter-century at a time. That’s almost how long the Fast and Furious franchise has been snaking its way into the sports-entertainment lexicon. You heard me right. In my personal headcanon, the Fast Saga is a quintessential sports franchise, and it should ...

by DJ Dunson|

|Wed May 24 2023

I called Saint Peter’s and Furman, now Auburn is going to take down No. 1 Houston

Now that my undefeated record of picking No. 13 seeds or lower in the NCAA Tournament publicly is still intact after Furman’s victory over Virginia on Thursday, I’m deciding to not rest on my laurels and tell you all about another prediction I made earlier this week. For fans of Deadspin’s Agree to ...

by Eric Blum|

|Fri Mar 17 2023

Presenting the ‘You Gotta Be Kidding Me’ Team from opening day of March Madness

If you’re like me — an NBA fan who pivots to college basketball for a few weeks in March — the best part of the NCAA tournament is the unknown. What I don’t know about draft stock, a coach, a player, a team, or anything, makes the discovery all the more entertaining....

by Sean Beckwith|

|Thu Mar 23 2023

Here's how Furman just busted your bracket

One of the first thrilling finishes of the 2023 NCAA Tournament also gave us our first March Badness play to consume in the form of Virginia’s stunning 68-67 loss to the Furman Paladins. Clad in Willy Wonka purple, Furman earned their golden ticket to the tournament for the first time in 43 years, a...

by DJ Dunson|

|Thu Mar 23 2023

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