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Oregon Knocks Off Utah With Late Touchdown Pass, Replay
Oregon stunned 12th-ranked Utah in Salt Lake City today as Justin Herbert found Darren Carrington in the end zone with two seconds remaining on a play officials initially declared an incomplete pass before overturning the call upon a lengthy video replay....
UTSA's Josh Stewart Makes Incredible Touchdown Grab
Frank Wilson proved himself to have the best musical taste among FBS head coaches when he named Trombone Shorty his favorite act, and the UTSA head coach had to be jazzed when Josh Stewart hauled in this one-handed grab to narrow heavy favorite Texas A & M’s lead....
Greg Jennings Put The Team On His Back: Kalamazoo <i>College GameDay</i> Sign Roundup
Most expected College GameDay to be in Morgantown today for the Oklahoma-WVU game—but ESPN switched everybody up for its second-ever MAC visit, in Kalamazoo. Here are your WMU-y GameDay signs....
Oh My God, This Might Be The Best Block I've Ever Seen
Remember Anthony Randolph, that dude who for a brief moment in time looked like he was going to be a real NBA star? Well, he’s still playing ball in Europe, and he just made one of the most incredible defensive plays I’ve ever seen....
Cristiano Ronaldo Gave A Truly Moving Speech After Winning Euro 2016
Literally nothing bad to say about this. Cristiano Ronaldo did a legitimately cool thing. I’m as shocked as you....
It's Friday And Jason Williams Turns 41 Today, So Enjoy This Highlight Reel
Happy birthday to White Chocolate, who is now “over the hill” but who will never stop giving us the good shit, and happy Friday afternoon....
Why China Is Betting Big On The Premier League<em></em>
Premier League ratings are falling in England and the United States! The live sports rights bubble is bursting! The first of these is definitely true, and the second I believe to be true, but nonetheless Chinese streaming video company PPTV shelled out $700 million for Premier League TV rights, acco...
The Four Best Men's Tennis Players Will Sort Out Where They Sit On The Food Chain
Novak Djokovic, who’s been blessed with some well-timed cakewalks lately, rounded up and slapped a group full of youngsters right in their apple cheeks. Meanwhile Andy Murray hacked his way through a death group, culminating in today’s dismissal of Stan Wawrinka (and a very respectable Stan, too) in...
“You Shitti Farty Dirty Nasty JUDE Bitch!”: Trump Voters Send Their Best
Donald Trump is about to be president, a white nationalist is whispering in his ear, and Jeff “The Ku Klux Klan Is Alright By Me” Sessions will soon be our attorney general. We are entering a golden age for racists in America. And according to my inbox, these assholes know it....
Tom Thibodeau Hasn't Changed
If you’re a Timberwolves fan, you no doubt enjoyed watching your team flex on the hapless Sixers on national TV last night. Karl-Anthony Towns undressed Joel Embiid multiple times, Andrew Wiggins hit shots from all over the floor, and the future once again looked bright. But if you watched the blowo...
Good Luck Trying To Keep Karl-Anthony Towns From Embarrassing You
Timothé Luwawu-Cabarrot was projected to be an intriguing small forward in the NBA thanks to his smooth athleticism and impressive physical profile. However, in tonight’s game against the Wolves, he merely ended up like an intriguing bug splattered across the windshield after Karl-Anthony Towns dunk...
Houston Is Destroying Fifth-Ranked Louisville Thanks To Some Insane Plays
Louisville came into this evening’s game with Houston with a decent chance of making the playoff. Even if Alabama and Clemson win out, all they had to do was win out and inevitably leapfrog the loser of the Ohio State-Michigan game. Instead, they are in the process of getting turned into jelly by th...
Zach LaVine Pulled Off The Rare Free-Throw Putback Dunk
Zach LaVine has always been an athletic freak capable of jamming it on people and pulling off a wide variety of spectacular dunks. This year, he’s improved his shooting and ballhandling and turned into a very good all-around player for the young Timberwolves. However, he’s also still liable to go of...
Kindly Bozo Gets Fed To Novak Djokovic
Nobody really wants to stand across the court from Novak Djokovic right now, least of all a hobbled Gael Monfils. So when Monfils withdrew from the ATP World Tour Finals, citing a rib injury, I figured he was politely sparing Djokovic the hour or so it would’ve taken to thrash him. But it turned out...
The Premier League Should Bring Back Standing Sections
The introduction of safe standing was on the agenda at a Premier League meeting today, and reports coming out of it were cautiously optimistic that it could be introduced to the Premier League in the not-so-distant future. That would be a great thing for both fans who attend games and those who watc...
Report: Prep School Football Coach Molested Students For Decades While Administration Looked The Other Way
In a massive, devastating feature up at Esquire, Eric Lewis writes about the sexual abuse carried out by football coach Philip Foglietta at Brooklyn’s Poly Prep Country Day School spanning from the 1960s through the 1980s. The details of the coverup, which ranges from incompetence to intimidation, m...
Marc Gasol Unveils The "Spanish McGregor Walk"
The Memphis Grizzlies got themselves an impressive win on the road against the Los Angeles Clippers last night. The Grizz were down 107-106 with 23 seconds to play when Marc Gasol stepped up to hit a game-winning three from the corner. ...
Russell Westbrook Dribbled Through Nenê's Legs And It Was So Smooth I'm Not Sure Anyone Noticed
Yeah, we already blogged a Russ highlight from last night’s 105-103 OKC win over Houston. But who’s going to complain about a second one? You? Nah....
The Washington Wizards Are In A Bad Place Right Now
The Wizards are playing like a big pile of dog poop this season, and they delivered their most nauseating performance of the year tonight against the Sixers. Philadelphia didn’t even have their talismanic center Joel Embiid, but they shot 54.5 percent against the Wizards tonight and beat them for ju...