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The Nationals Bullpen Is A Sad Little Mess
The Nationals bullpen continued their season-long trend of blowing games tonight, with Jacob Turner giving up two runs in the eighth and Matt Albers giving up three in the ninth to collectively turn what had been a late three-run lead into a loss to the Braves. ...
Colorado Chancellor Suspended, <em></em>Athletic Director And Head Coach Fined Over Assistant's Alleged Domestic Violence
Colorado chancellor Phil DiStefano will be suspended 10 days and athletic director Rick George and head football coach Mike MacIntyre will each be required to donate $100,000 to domestic violence awareness for their handling of domestic violence allegations against former assistant coach Joe Tumpkin...
Look At The No. 3 Overall MLB Draft Pick's Ridiculous Foot
The San Diego Padres had the third pick in this evening’s MLB Draft. They chose MacKenzie Gore, who is a pitcher from North Carolina born in 1999. Gore’s first and last names are both cool, but that’s not why we’re here in this blog post. No, the important thing to note here is his foot. Look at tha...
Leicester Hero Claudio Ranieri Wants To Manage In France, But He Might Be Too Old
Claudio Ranieri, who masterminded the greatest upset in sports history with Leicester City and was fired not even a full year later, is on the precipice of his latest adventure, as he and Ligue 1 club Nantes have reached an agreement for him to become the team’s new manager. Because of a wacky Frenc...
Rondae Hollis-Jefferson Found $5 In The Ocean
This is the most compelling Brooklyn Nets news of the year....
After Rome Fell, Europe's Barbarians Had To Figure Out How To Be Kings
Political structures and institutions—the bedrock of the systems that underpin our world and society—aren’t a given. They can and do evolve and strengthen, or, alternatively, crumble into nothingness. That’s one of many reasons the fall of the Roman Empire is a valuable example for us to bear in min...
The 2017 <i>Hockey Night In Canada</i> Season-Ending Montage Is Here
Realizing the NHL season is over for a few months while watching the victorious team parade with the Stanley Cup really sucks, but each year the Hockey Night in Canada folks help add some sweet to that bitter with its annual montage of this season’s best Stanley Cup Playoffs moments. (The music this...
Penguins Win Fifth Stanley Cup
A Patric Hornqvist goal with 90 seconds left in the third period gave Pittsburgh the lead they needed as the Penguins claimed the Stanley Cup for the second straight year, winning by an eventual score of 2-0 after a late empty-net goal by Carl Hagelin....
Strong Young Baseball Man Struggles To Throw Vile Prolate Spheroid
Here is a video of young Nationals infielder Wilmer Difo making a strong throw across the diamond to nab Maikel Franco at first base:...
Scotland Score Two Free Kick Goals To Take Lead In Final Five Minutes; Still Don't Win
Leigh Griffiths hammered home a pair of free-kick goals in the final five minutes of Scotland’s World Cup qualifier against England today, taking a 2-1 lead only to see the match end in a draw thanks to, yeah, Harry Kane....
Old Man Beef Sizzles Between Buck Showalter And Nats GM Mike Rizzo
Thursday night the Nationals faced the Orioles in a makeup of a May 11 date that was postponed and rescheduled after a day of shitty rain. That was a shitty, rainy week in DC—Washington’s next game, a series opener against the Phillies on May 12, was also rained out....
Rafael Nadal Took A Gifted Youth's Lunch Money, And His Will To Live
Towards the tail end of the clay season, even this skeptic had cast aside old doubts: 23-year-old Dominic Thiem is the future. Particularly on the dirt. But as of right now, the future still feels impossibly far away. Rafael Nadal, 31 years old and the best clay court tennis player past and present,...
Olivier Giroud Golazo Gives France Short-Lived Lead
Olivier Giroud is no stranger to magnificent goals, and his half-volley bender to put his France side up 1-0 on Sweden today ranks up there with the best of them. (Perhaps in shock, the Frenchmen surrendered a Jimmy Durmaz equalizer minutes later.)...
Ohio State Hires Butler's Chris Holtmann As New Men's Basketball Coach
Chris Holtmann, who only two days ago was tweeting about how eager he was to coach Butler’s team this year, will succeed Thad Matta and take over the Ohio State men’s basketball program, the school announced today. ...
U.S. Beat Trinidad & Tobago Thanks To Pair Of Christian Pulisic Goals
A pair of gorgeous second-half goals by America’s Wonderteen gave the U.S. a 2-0 World Cup qualifier win tonight in Denver over Trinidad and Tobago....
White Sox Benefit From Series Of Cartoonish Errors And Misplays, Still Fail To Score
Willy Garcia was the very lucky recipient of one bad read, one fumbled catch and one airmailed throw on a fly ball he hit to deep right field tonight. Granted all of those advantages, he was then thrown out at the plate:...
Maikel Franco's Bat Causes Lengthy Delay In Atlanta
Philadelphia third baseman Maikel Franco, like many of his Phillies teammates, found a new way to screw up a baseball game tonight as he hurled his bat into the backstop netting, lodging it there and leading to a series of pathetic attempts to retrieve it....
Massachusetts Soccer Club Gets In Bed With New Sponsor
The internet is nothing if not full of men sending desperate tweets to members of the porn industry....
Michigan State Trustee: Auston Robertson Reported January Sexual Assault To Mark Dantonio
Auston Robertson, the former Michigan State defensive end arrested in April on sexual assault charges, reported a rape and sexual assault involving three recently dismissed Spartans to head coach Mark Dantonio, according to Michigan State trustee Mitch Lyons....
How Did Umpires Declare This A Home Run?
Rays centerfielder Kevin Kiermaier’s defense has such a strong reputation that when he misplayed this fly ball in the first inning of Tampa Bay’s game Tuesday against the White Sox, umpires decided the ball must have struck one of Tropicana Field’s rings—and awarded batter Yolmer Sanchez a home run....