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Sepp Blatter's 90-Day Suspension Is In The Hands Of The Man Who Whitewashed FIFA Corruption
According to various reports, FIFA’s ethics committee has recommended a 90-day suspension of president Sepp Blatter while they wait to see if any of the numerous investigations of him stick. Mind you, this is only a provisional suspension which must be ratified by a man with a track record of trying...
Report: Auburn Receiver Duke Williams Went On A Punching Rampage
Auburn Tigers head coach Gus Malzahn announced yesterday that he had dismissed wide receiver D’haquille “Duke” Williams from the team. Malzahn didn’t get into the specifics of why Williams was dismissed, but it might have had something to do with an alleged rampage that Williams went on at a local b...
Can I Sue My Ex For Giving Me Chlamydia On Purpose?
Welcome back to Ask a Lawyer, wherein I, a lawyer, respond to your questions. Got a vexing legal issue? Send it over, or drop it in the comments below. Today’s query:...
Here Is What "Stuff" Means in Baseball
What is “stuff”? The New York Times devoted part of its Sunday front page to the question of what, exactly, the term means in baseball. It is, John Branch of the Times reported, an underexamined mystery of the game. ...
Roy Hibbert And Trevor Booker Had A "Fight"
Roy Hibbert is a giant doofus whose sole marketable skill is his ability to raise his arms above his head without falling over. Inconceivably, this once made him the greatest threat to LeBron James’s championship aspirations, but nowadays he is a great big sad hat stand with six fouls to give, and s...
Little Football Players Abandon Game To Dance Like Champions
There’s an argument to be made that the more people learn about the inherent dangers of football, the less parents will be inclined to let their children participate in the game, thus leading to the eventual death of youth football. Thankfully, the Milford Mighty Mites have developed a plan to save ...
How ESPN's Fear Of The Truth Defeated "Black Grantland"
Last month, The Atlantic published an 18,000-word article by Ta-Nehisi Coates called “The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration.” It was the second epic piece in what appears to be a series in which Coates examines the toll of white supremacy as American policy on black life in the United St...
Report: Wobbly CC Sabathia Was Drinking In Clubhouse On Friday
CC Sabathia announced yesterday that he would go to rehab for an alcohol problem, and today, a report from ESPN’s Wallace Matthews highlights one possible reason for the timing: Sabathia hitting the liquor in the clubhouse after Friday’s rainout in Baltimore....
The Quiet Century: How Osama Bin Laden Destroyed Baseball
Reader: As you undoubtedly know, the play-offs will soon be upon us. These are heady days; days that call for reflection, reflection upon both our future and, yes, reader, our past. But before I unveil yet another world-historical revelation, I would like to take a moment to offer my readers a clari...
The Cubs Might Have Screwed Themselves By Screwing Kris Bryant
This Wednesday, the Cubs play the Pirates in the NL wildcard game. The game is in Pittsburgh, but it’s worth noting that the Cubs finished one win away from hosting it themselves. The slimness of that margin should send Cubs fans back to April, when their front office decided to detain Kris Bryant f...
Steph Curry And The Warriors Are Already Blessing Us With Gorgeous Highlights
I’m going to recommend that you watch this play a few times over, so as to fully absorb all of the awesome shit that is contained within it. Try not to yelp when you notice Steph Curry high-fiving his bench before the ball even goes in....
The Dolphins Still Have A Big Mess To Clean Up
The Dolphins fired Joe Philbin yesterday—by phone, it turns out—and we got the usual post-firing report on how dysfunctional things had gotten under his tenure. But another report today says Miami players won’t be content with just a new head coach—they want both coordinators out too....
High School Football Player Dies From Injury Suffered While Making A Tackle
Seventeen-year-old Kenney Bui, a senior at Evergreen (Wash.) High School and a defensive back on the football team, died today from injuries suffered while making a tackle during a game on Friday....
Bruce Bochy Was "Giddily Incredulous" With How Matt Williams Handled His Bullpen
Whenever just-fired former Nationals manager Matt Williams found himself on the receiving end of pointed questioning about a decision he made, his go-to move was to simply state one of his players’ role. ...
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MMA Fighter In Choke Taps Out, Shits Himself, Leaks Shit All Over Cage [NSFW]
Look, this video delivers exactly what it promises. You clicked on this. One poor MMA fighter—Travis Walford, according to our friends at Bloody Elbow—not only lost the match to Daniel Cooper at a Ruckus in the Cage event in West Virginia on Saturday, but pooped himself. It got everywhere....
Report: Ryan Tannehill Did Not React Well To Getting Beaten By The Scout Team
Whenever an NFL coach gets fired, it’s always fun to sit around and wait for the follow-up stories that shed some light on just how bad things were before the firing. The Dolphins fired head coach Joe Philbin this morning, and the National Football Post’s Aaron Wilson has provided us with such a rep...
CC Sabathia Is Checking Into Alcohol Rehab
Yankees pitcher CC Sabathia announced today that he is checking himself into an alcohol rehabilitation center and will miss the playoffs. ...
Miami Dolphins Fire Head Coach Joe Philbin
Well, that all went to shit in a hurry. After three embarrassing losses to the Jaguars, Bills, and Jets, the Miami Dolphins have fired head coach Joe Philbin....
Report: Nationals Fire Matt Williams
The news everyone on the planet was expecting has broken: the Washington Nationals have reportedly fired manager Matt Williams....