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Tracy McGrady Blocked Two Shots, And The Spurs Won, Too
So, the San Antonio Spurs smacked the Golden State Warriors 109-91. The Spurs are up 3-2, and have a chance to close out the most exciting series of the NBA Conference semifinals when they travel to Golden State on Thursday. Fine. Great. That's not why we're writing this....

Here Are All 272 Of Steph Curry's Record-Breaking Three-Pointers
Hey, here's some basketball porn for you. You're welcome. ...

Sure Shots
Pat Jordan has a good profile on women rifle shooters over at Roopstigo:...


Fired UT Employee May Have Had Inappropriate Relationship With Athlete
The University of Tennessee has fired its director of the office of student judicial affairs, Jenny Wright, after she refused to cooperate with an investigation into whether or not she was involved in an inappropriate relationship with a student-athlete....

Marquis Teague Tips Ball Into Own Basket, Exemplifies Bulls' Futility
This happened in the fourth quarter of last night's Heat-Bulls game, and it perfectly sums up the Bulls' Game 4 performance, which was like watching a bunch of dudes try to beat themselves to death with feather dusters....

The 10 Films I'm Most Excited To See At The Cannes Film Festival
The Cannes Film Festival, which kicks off on Wednesday, is the year's premier film festival, the launching pad in recent years for celebrated movies like The Tree of Life, No Country for Old Men, The Artist, Amour, Holy Motors and Inglourious Basterds. It's funny that Cannes takes place just as summ...

The Spurs May Finally Be Too Old For This Shit
It's hard to imagine the Spurs getting old. Maybe it's because they've already spent so many years as the elder statesmen of the Western Conference that we just expect them to keep doing what they do forever—consistently outplaying and outsmarting younger teams while staring down the perils of age b...

Sergio Garcia Stirs Up The Ghosts And The Water
There's no shame in splashing short of TPC Sawgrass's iconic 17th, as Sergio Garcia did yesterday (twice!). Better players have found the drink in the past, and will in the future. But it's hard to beat Garcia's meltdown for pathos, because of history both ancient and recent....

Tiger Woods Wins Players Championship, Still Can't Celebrate Properly
We'd probably think it was unfair if Tiger was awesome at both golf and celebrating golf played well, but still, these celebrations are brutal....

A Special Mother's Day Message From "Get In The Hole!" Guy
The "get in the hole!" guy is pretty much the worst guy on any televised golf course, but even that guy has a mom, or a wife or a sister with kids. ...


A Feud Between Tiger Woods And Sergio Garcia Is Not Much Of A Feud
Golf feuds are different than most sports-related feuds. Like everything else with golf, the feuds are a bit more genteel than, say, Jeff Van Gundy hanging off the leg of Alonzo Mourning. ...

Lee Westwood, Professional Golfer, Just Completely Whiffed On A Shot
He then insisted to everyone around him that it was a practice swing....

The Meaning Of Convicted Rapist Mike Tyson's New Cartoon
Twenty years ago The Ring magazine asked the question, after Mike Tyson's rape conviction, "What If Mike Tyson Had Never Gone To Jail?" The cover story posed a counterfactual in which Tyson did not receive a guilty verdict on his 1991 indictment for rape, confinement and criminal deviant conduct....

Golf Marshal Callously Plops Turtle Into Pond
A golf marshal had the fun task of removing a turtle from the course and putting it into a pond at the Players Championship on Friday. Maybe the marshal didn't appreciate the way the turtle tried to bite him as he (she?) was being escorted, but he ended up dropping that turtle into the water with no...

Straight to the Hole (like my man Malik Sealy)
Love this short essay Jeff MacGregor wrote in 2011 about basketball at the West 4th Street courts in Greenwich Village:...

Luol Deng Lost 15 Pounds While He Was In The Hospital
Yesterday, Luol Deng returned to the Chicago Bulls' practice facility for the first time since being laid up in the hospital due to complications from a spinal tap procedure. It sounds like he had a pretty awful time while he was there....

Sidney Crosby Blasts Through Two Defenders For Filthy Breakaway Goal
This play didn't begin as a breakaway. When Sidney Crosby got the puck at center ice, Thomas Hickey was in his way, with Lubomir Visnovsky closing in on Crosby's right. Plenty of room....

Old Lady Drives Car Onto Golf Course During U.S. Open Qualifier
A reader named David sent us this. He said his friend was playing today at Emerald Hills in Hollywood, Fla., when "an old lady (par down here) drove onto the cart path and continued into the sand trap." If she wanted to play through that badly, she should have just asked....