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Is Competitiveness Poor Sportsmanship?
Thanks to social media, sportsmanship has taken on proportions well beyond the usual no-cutting-the-course, no-tripping no-brainers. Recently, the brand of sportsmanship that's garnered attention—and been called "inspiring"—includes stopping mid-race to help a fallen competitor, at the cost of perso...
Rajon Rondo's Free Throw Shooting Is Historically Awful So Far
Rajon Rondo has never been a great free-throw shooter. Coming into the 2014-15 season his career average was 62.1 percent—substandard for a point guard—but so far this season, Rondo has been a calamity. He's shot a horrendous 9-30 (30.0 percent) clip from the "charity stripe" in his 15 games played....
Clueless Soccer Owner Tacks On More Racism In Apology For Earlier Racism
Dave Whelan, the septuagenarian owner of former Premier League club Wigan, is having some trouble keeping his foot out of his mouth. Of course, when words like "chink," "chingaling," and phrases like "Jewish people chase money more than everybody else" seem like acceptable fodder for public statemen...
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Bears Fans Stabbed After Game [Update]
A fight between two Bears fans and four Cowboys fans last night outside Soldier Field ended with the Bears fans sent to the hospital with stab wounds. [Update: see below.]...
Police Lock Down Moda Center As Hundreds Of Protesters Gather Outside
Police aren't letting anybody enter or leave the Moda Center—better known as the Rose Garden, and the site of a Trail Blazers-Pacers game that is currently in the fourth quarter—according to KOIN News. Hundreds of demonstrators have amassed outside, arriving after marching through downtown Portland ...
Brennan Clay Posts Alleged Sexts Between His Wife And DeMarco Murray
Former Oklahoma running back Brennan Clay tweeted on Sunday that his wife Gina D'Agostini was cheating on him with Cowboys running back Demarco Murray. Tonight he posted a photo of what he says is a text message conversation between Murray and D'Agostini from October, after Clay had flown to San Die...
Report: It's Not Johnny Football Time Just Yet
According to reports from NFL insider the 7-5 Browns are not going to start Johnny Manziel on Sunday against the Colts, despite the fact that Manziel played well after replacing struggling starter Brian Hoyer during last week's game against the Bills....
UFC Gets A Reebok Deal, Possibly No Longer Aesthetically Destitute
The UFC just got in bed with Reebok, and in doing so, threw out a load of its old sponsors. It's the sort deal a grown-up company makes, and also the sort of deal that reminds you that the UFC has some growing up left to do....
J.J. Watt Blew Out The Titans, All On His Own
There was a lot going right for the Texans yesterday, as they beat the brass off the Titans 45-21. Ryan Fitzpatrick threw for six touchdowns; DeAndre Hopkins caught nine balls on nine targets for 238 yards and two touchdowns; and in a week of blowouts, flatlined Tennessee's Win probability under 20 ...
This Will Probably Be The Slowest College Basketball Season Ever Played
You can't make many sweeping judgments early in the season, but one thing is nearly certain at this point: This will be the slowest-paced season that college hoops has seen. If it is, we're in for some really dire basketball this winter. ...
Hey, Matt Schaub Threw Another Pick-Six. How's He Keep Doing It?
Poor Matt Schaub found himself back in the funny pages yesterday. With Oakland already trailing St. Louis 42-0 in the fourth quarter, Schaub entered in relief of Derek Carr and promptly fumbled on a sack for a turnover, threw yet another pick-six on the following drive, and fumbled again for good me...
Odell Beckham Jr.'s Catch Was A Culmination: A Former WR Explains
A few days ago, in the Cowboys-Giants game, Odell Beckham Jr. made a very difficult catch. How? He just did it....
The Time A One-Armed Baseball Team Took On A One-Legged Baseball Team
Back in olden times, novelty barnstorming baseball teams were all the rage. While squads of all women, all Asians, and all blacks were popular, maybe no game was as indelibly memorable as the Snorkeys vs. the Hoppers: the former, a team of one-armed players; the latter, a collection of one-legged ...
Report: RGIII Benched, Colt McCoy To Start Against Indianapolis
Earlier today it seemed Jay Gruden really wanted to bench Robert Griffin III, and according to a report from Adam Schefter (and confirmed by Mike Jones), he's finally done it. Schefter, citing a team source, says that Colt McCoy will be Washington's starting quarterback when they take on Indianapoli...
Players' Tribune Boss Says Tiger Woods Isn't Being Defensive, <em>You</em> Are
Last week, we and many other people made fun of Tiger Woods for revealing himself to be a hollow replicant by "writing" what he imagined to be a scathing takedown of Dan Jenkins's satirical and clearly fake interview with Woods. Now, the editorial director of The Players' Tribune, Gary Hoenig, is ou...
J.J. Watt Is Still A Total Anomaly
There was a disturbance in the force over the weekend, when J.J. Watt spent much of the day lined up against backup lineman Marshall Newhouse in the Texans' 22-13 loss to the Bengals and didn't come away with any sacks. That's a little surprising, but only because J.J. Watt is understood to be unrea...
The Bucs Found A Really Impressive Way To Blow The Game This Week
We normally go over the most highly leveraged plays, or some collection of them, when we round up Brian Burke's WPA from Advanced Football Analytics every week. The list is almost always bottom-heavy, comprising plays that just happened to occur in the fourth quarter, or long touchdowns, like Lata...
"We Now Know Your Name: Ladell Beckham Jr."
According to CBS' Solomon Wilcots, after his stunning catch last night Odell Beckham Jr. apparently went to the local courthouse and changed his name!...
It Sure Looks Like Odell Beckham Jr. Made That Catch With Three Fingers
If you haven't seen Odell Beckham Jr.'s insane catch by now, watch it here, but also check out these photos from Al Bello of Getty Images. The details of the whole highlight are beautiful, like Cowboys corner Brandon Carr tumbling out of bounds, the flag on the eventually declined penalty, and the f...
LeGarrette Blount Says He Wasn't Trolling The Steelers With His Dance
LeGarrette Blount, five days after getting cut by the Steelers, scored a goal-line touchdown for the Patriots today, and celebrated with a dance used by one of his former teammates, Antonio Brown....