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Report: New Hampshire Youth Baseball Coaches Planned To Bean Their League's Lone Girl Player Into Quitting
In another hideous example of adults and men being absolute shit, the father of a New Hampshire youth baseball player says two coaches in his daughter’s league conspired to have her beaned so that she would quit the league, according to a Foster’s Daily Democrat report:...
Jrue Holiday And Anthony Davis Overwhelmed The Trail Blazers
Saturday’s slate of NBA playoff games—Game 1s? Games 1?—mostly went as expected: the Warriors made lunchmeat out of the Spurs; the Raptors almost Raptored against the Wizards, but pulled away in the fourth quarter; the Sixers just ran away from the Heat in the second half. Home teams went 3-0 throug...
A Squeeze! We've Got A Squeeze Here, Folks
The Nats—who’ve been playing like the friggin’ Nots to start this season—came into Saturday at risk of getting swept at home by the Colorado Rockies after getting dropped Thursday and Friday in crappy, dispiriting performances. Desperate times, my friends:...
Mark Sanchez Suspended Four Largely Hypothetical Games For Failed PED Test
Former (and I suppose sort of current) NFL quarterback Mark Sanchez will be suspended for the first four games of the 2018-19 NFL season after testing positive for a banned performance-enhancing substance. Sanchez announced the news himself on Instagram, claiming that he was “blind-sided by the news...
Shocking Video Reveals That Ronaldo And Messi Have Different Personalities
Cristiano Ronaldo vs. Lionel Messi. It’s an argument as old as time itself, with diehard fans of these two all-time greats throwing out stats and facts in support of their preferred candidate to make their case for superiority—Messianiacs pointing to his better scoring record, his better passing, hi...
The Broken Oilers Are Keeping Their Crappy GM
It’s pretty hard for a team to be a bigger disappointment than the Edmonton Oilers were this year. Coming off a tough Game 7 loss in the second round of last year’s playoffs, this year’s squad—led by the attractive young duo of Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl, plus a potentially great defenseman i...
MSU Board Meeting Erupts As Larry Nassar Victim Says School President Tried To Buy Her Off
While speaking at a tense Michigan State University board meeting today, Kaylee Lorincz, who said she was sexually abused by former MSU doctor Larry Nassar, detailed a troubling interaction with interim president John Engler. According to Lorincz, Engler attempted to “coerce” her into settling a civ...
Looks Like Woj Got A New Word-A-Day Calendar
“... a punishment that will vanquish him from the postseason roster, league sources told ESPN.” [ESPN]...
Boxer Wears Anti-Immigrant Trunks, Gets Soundly Beaten By Mexican Opponent
American boxer Rod Salka lost a six-round bout to Mexican fighter Francisco Vargas last night. Salka, who is known for having been brutally knocked out by Danny Garcia in 2014, entered the ring wearing trunks with an anti-immigrant message. The top of Salka’s trunks had “AMERICA 1ST” written on them...
Is This The Dumbest-Ass Shit Anyone Has Ever Written About Richie Incognito?
Stuck down at the bottom of Andy Benoit’s latest column for The MMQB is this short blurb reflecting on the retirement of offensive lineman Richie Incognito:...
How Pat Burrell Set The Home-Run Record... In A Sci-Fi Novel About Killer Prehistoric Sharks
Steve Alten grew up in Philadelphia. He went to schools—Penn State, Delaware, Temple—that Philly kids go to. And, though he lives in South Florida now, he’s still a huge Philadelphia sports fan....
Good Lord, Filip Forsberg, This Is Sorcery
Filip Forsberg scored twice in the third period of the Predators’ 5-2 win over the Avalanche in Game 1 of their first-round series tonight, but forget about that first goal for now, because his second one was truly gorgeous. It’s unclear how exactly he managed to keep track of the puck here in order...
Capitals Collapse, In What Is Surely Not An Omen Of Things To Come
Maybe it’s just me, but it felt easier to talk myself into the Capitals this playoffs. They’re still a very good team, the thinking went, but without the pressure of the Presidents’ Trophy—which they won the past two years—maybe they could learn from experience and surprise people by avoiding the in...
Phil Nevin Is Still Pissed That Alex Cora Waved At Him From The Dugout
While you might think that the ugliest part of last night’s Yankees-Red Sox donnybrook was guys like Joe Kelly and Tyler Austin trying to bloody each other in the infield, Yankees third-base coach Phil Nevin has other concerns—namely, hand waving from Red Sox manager Alex Cora....
Give Me The Rest Of The Smoothie Instead Of Throwing It Out
My very stupidest design feature is that I am always, at all times, hungry. This links neatly to my second-stupidest attribute, which is that I’m a sucker for smoothies, the most flagrantly upcharged non-artisan foodstuffs currently available for purchase....
San Diego's Month-Old Radio Station Was Already Forced To Redo Its Whole Lineup
Farewell, 97.3 The Machine. We never knew ye....
Portugal Forward Jéssica Silva Is The Queen Of Filthy Nutmegs
Meet Jéssica Silva, forward for Spanish club Levante and the Portuguese national team. Last week, she made an appearance for Portugal in a Euro 2021 qualifier against Belgium. This gave her an opportunity to do what she does best, which is to absolutely ruin defenders with beautifully disgusting nut...
How On Earth Did Trayce Thompson Catch This?
Your average snow cone catch is great, sure, but have you considered the reverse snow cone? The ball somehow just barely pinned at the very bottom of the glove? Trayce Thompson provided tonight in his second game as an Oakland Athletic, robbing Yasiel Puig in the sixth inning, and the result was pre...
Part-Time Tennis Man Beats World No. 34 In Triumph Of The Everyman
It’s been two full years since Lamine Ouahab played a match in the main draw of an ATP tournament. Even his appearance at lower levels of competition has been sporadic; the 33-year-old has been “seemingly competing only part time,” per Sport360. If you’d tuned in at any point in today’s first-round ...
The Tale Of Gabe Kapler's Bizarre Ice Cream Habit<em></em> Is Actually Even Weirder
It’s too early in the baseball season to make any meaningful judgments about the strength of any teams, but one takeaway from the first couple of weeks is that rookie Phillies manager Gabe Kapler is one of a kind....