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Baltimore Prep Football Fight Gets Bigger And Uglier
The predicted unraveling of Baltimore’s prep football scene appears to indeed be underway. Another scheduled opponent bailed on playing the city’s burgeoning national gridiron powerhouse, St. Frances Academy, as accusations of cheating, cowardice and racism were flying all over town. All because St....
Washington Football Executive Resigns Over Cheerleading Escort Scandal
Washington president of business operations Dennis Greene has resigned in the aftermath of a New York Times report detailing a disturbing trip to Costa Rica made by the team’s cheerleaders for a photo shoot, where they were told to serve as escorts for sponsors....
Cavs-Warriors Game 1, Simulated In <i>NBA Live 96</i>
Yes, yes, we updated the rosters and are simulating tonight’s NBA Finals Game 1 between the Cavaliers and Warriors, LIVE:...
Doris Burke Was Wrecking Shit In High School Basketball
Before she was Doris Burke, widely beloved NBA analyst for ESPN and ABC, she was Doris Sable, menace in transition with an extremely tight handle. ...
Jaelene Hinkle Turned Down USWNT Call-Up Because She Didn't Want To Wear LGBTQ Pride Jersey
Jaelene Hinkle is a 25-year-old American soccer player who currently plays for the NWSL’s North Carolina Courage. Last June, the defender was named to the USWNT’s roster to play in a couple friendlies, but refused the call-up, citing “personal reasons.” In a recent interview, the devout Christian at...
Somehow Max Scherzer Is Better Than Ever
Yes, it was the Orioles, and yes, there are only a limited number of ways to talk about this sort of thing, but Max Scherzer surgically picked apart a lineup so thoroughly that it almost doesn’t matter that the lineup was one of the league’s worst. The Nationals beat the Orioles 2-0 Wednesday night,...
Baltimore High Schools Sick Of Getting Whupped By Football Coach Who Spends Millions On His Team
Can too much charity be a bad thing? The Baltimore prep sports scene seems to be on the verge of unraveling with the emergence of a parochial powerhouse, funded by a head coach with apparently massive financial means and the desire to make schoolboy football the focus of his philanthropy....
Joe Musgrove Reheats The Pirates-Cubs Beef, But Only A Little Bit So It's Still Cold In The Center
The Pirates made it seem like they had moved past Cubs first baseman Anthony Rizzo’s “illegal but not dirty” slide into catcher Elias Diaz in Monday’s game, but in the third inning last night Joe Musgrove put the beef in the microwave for about 30 seconds. The Pittsburgh pitcher slid hard into Chica...
The Week That Twitter Wrecked Everyone
During this week, which is only about half over, some extremely overstated acts of Twitter-based idiocy have already led to the cancellation of ABC’s hit reboot of Roseanne, thanks to the latest extremely racist flare-up of star Roseanne Barr’s longstanding and apparently incurable case of Internet ...
Braden Holtby Made The Save Of His Life
If you have not yet seen Braden Holtby’s game-saving save with two minutes left in Washington’s 3-2 Game 2 win, well, first see Alex Ovechkin’s reaction on the bench:...
The Capitals Refused To Blink In Game 2
The Golden Knights have trained people to believe that they’re always going to bounce back. All though this postseason, Vegas has shrugged off potentially game-changing goals from their opponents, like Tom Wilson’s tiebreaker in the third period of Game 1, and quickly reasserted control. But in a 3-...
Bryan Colangelo’s Wife Could Be The Person Behind Woodergate
When Sixers GM Bryan Colangelo defended himself against Tuesday’s report from The Ringer that linked him to some aggressive anonymous Twitter accounts, he told a reporter, “Someone’s out to get me.” But as Colangelo continues to deny any connection to the accounts, new findings in the Woodergate cas...
Bryan Colangelo On His Alleged Burner Accounts: “Someone’s Out To Get Me”
Here is a sentence of fascinating developing NBA gossip: Bryan Colangelo says he is not behind the Twitter accounts attributed to him in a bombshell article by The Ringer last night, and believes someone is “out to get him.” ...
Fed-Up Horse Hops Fence, Briefly Escapes Horse Show
The Devon Horse Show, the oldest multi-breed horse show in the United States, is currently happening in suburban Philadelphia, but one horse did not care about any storied tradition or pageantry. Last night Action News obtained footage of the rogue horse making a break for it....
What Are The Last Two Numbers Of Bryan Colangelo’s Cell Phone?
When news of The Ringer’s investigation into burner Twitter accounts broke last night, it lit basketball corners of the internet aflame. Because the information tweeted by accounts like @Enoughunkownso1, @AlVic40117560 and @s_bonhams seemed to include things only a member of the Sixers’ front office...
The Sixers Will Investigate Bryan Colangelo's Twitter Use
Way more interesting than the finals is the Ringer story reporting that Bryan Colangelo, the Philadelphia 76ers’ president of basketball ops, may have been behind up to five anonymous Twitter accounts airing the team’s dirty laundry and defending Colangelo and his shirt collars....
Kyle Gibson's Slider Is The Sneakiest Pitch In Baseball
Minnesota Twins starter Kyle Gibson didn’t get the win in his seven innings of shutout work Tuesday night against the Royals—the final score was 2-1, Kansas City, in 14 innings—but he did get another opportunity to show off his glorious slider, a strikeout pitch that’s been better at getting swings ...
The Yankees Got A Ridiculous Out Thanks To Their 10th Fielder Mr. Backstop
In the 10th inning of a thrilling Yankees win over the Astros, the New York battery of Aroldis Chapman and Gary Sanchez used a ricochet off the backstop to force a threatening runner off the bases. Chapman’s 100 mph fastball missed Sanchez’s glove at first, but bounced right back to the alert catche...
Report: These Anonymous Twitter Accounts Love To Defend 76ers GM Bryan Colangelo's Honor And Shirt Collars
In a report for The Ringer, Ben Detrick has presented compelling evidence that Philadelphia 76ers president of basketball operations Bryan Colangelo has a set of anonymous Twitter accounts, which he’s used to criticize his own players, slam former team GM Sam Hinkie, give out his players’ private me...