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Troy Hennum, The Softball Coach Who Used His Players To Pick Up Girls, Has A Side Job Handicapping Sports
We told you on Friday about Troy Hennum the newly-hired and quickly-fired softball coach at Roosevelt high school in Seattle. He used his athletes to help score him dates with other girls in a self-described "genius" use of his coaching position. He was also let go from a previous position for send...
There Were A Whole Lot Of Hearts Broken In The Horizon League Tournament Last Night
Yesterday's Horizon League semifinal games were fucking nuts. The above video is from the first matchup, a tightly defended contest between second-seed Detroit and the third seed, Wright State. Both teams were tied at 54 with five seconds left when Wright State's Miles Dixon drove the ball from th...
Buzzer-Beater Celebration Runs Over Recently Vanquished, Mascot Tries To Console Him
As far as buzzer-beaters go, this is OK, I guess. Nothing quite like last week's, but still: it's a buzzer-beater. On Saturday, Batavia picked off Olean in the New York Class B western regional on a mad-dash last possession ending in a desperation three. What makes this one special is how the shot...
At The End Of The First Quarter Last Night, Deron Williams Had Made More Threes Than The Wizards Had Field Goals
A few mind-blowing stats from Deron Williams's record-setting shooting night, in which he hit nine threes in one half (the record) and 11 overall: At the end of the first quarter, he had hit 8/9 shots, and was 7/7 from downtown. The Wizards, at that point, were six of 24 from the field, and had mi...
Worst Buzzer-Beater Ever: High Schooler Scores Game-Winner On His Own Basket
Last night, Oklahoma boys' 3A playoffs. Hugo High School inbounding, up one point on Millwood, 3.7 seconds left....
High School Softball Coach Suspended For Sending His Players Out To Find Him Dates, Just Days After Starting The Job
Troy Hennum, the 25-year-old softball coach at Roosevelt HS in Seattle, started work last week. It took him until Monday to be placed on unpaid leave after sending his players out on a scavenger hunt. Their mission: take photos of "cute girls" and get their phone numbers for him....
JaVale McGee Blocks Shot, Pretends To Sign Ball
Here's JaVale McGee's latest addition to his growing repertoire of awesome celebrations. We've seen the fingerstache and the finger-lickin'-good three-point celebration, and now we have this. After blocking a Matt Barnes layup attempt in the third quarter of last night's Clippers-Nuggets game, McG...
High School AD Accuses Opposing Trainer Of Misdiagnosing Concussion To Remove Star Player From Game
There's major controversy over an incident in a Boston girls' basketball playoff game, in which New Mission High School's star player was injured during the fourth quarter. She was examined by the other team's trainer and diagnosed with a concussion—falsely diagnosed, says New Mission's athletic dir...
Jamal Crawford Goes Between-The-Legs To Set Up Blake Griffin Windmill Alley-Oop
Just watch it. I could describe it for you, put it in context and all the usual jazz, but that would be time spent not watching a between-the-legs, windmill alley-oop. Why would you want to waste your time like that?...
Georgia Tech Upset Miami At The Buzzer
Marcus Georges-Hunt missed his initial shot, but followed up the miss with a tip-in as time expired for just his second field goal of the game. The Yellow Jackets won 71-69 in a game that saw the Hurricanes blow an 11-point second-half lead. Miami could have wrapped up outright possession of the r...
Do Not Lecture JaVale McGee On The Differences Between The Atmosphere And The Stratosphere
In the video above, you will see JaVale McGee throw down a very nice alley-oop during last night's Nuggets-Kings game. McGee enjoyed the play so much that he sent out the following celebratory tweet, in his usual house style:...
High School Coach Whose Wife Was Diagnosed With Cancer Hits Half-Court Shot For $20,000
This happened between the third and fourth quarters of last night's Lakers-Thunder game, and it's one of the best fan-makes-half-court-shot videos of the year. The fact that Heath Kufahl's perfectly executed shot is followed by everyone on the court freaking out jumping around to a Blur song makes...
High School Player's Grandma Adorably Comments On Newspaper Story To Explain Why He Had A Bad Game
The Washington Post has a gamer for a 4A playoff semifinal last night, where Wise HS walloped DuVal by 31 points for a major upset. It's of interest only to that very small segment of readership who follows Maryland prep hoops, and of course, family and friends of the players. So while there's only ...
Eric Fehr Used Some Kind Of Dark Wizardry To Score This Overtime Winner
I'm especially taken by the screengrab at the top of the Puck Daddy post on Eric Fehr's OT goal that gave the Capitals a 4-3 win over Boston last night, completing a comeback from 3-0. Fehr was all alone entering the Bruins zone, with two defenseman directly in front of him—Dougie Hamilton to his ...
Here's More Proof That Larry Sanders Is The NBA's Best Interior Defender
One of the best things to come out of this year's Sloan Sports Analytics Conference was Kirk Goldsberry's paper on interior defense, in which he details which defenders are the best and worst at lowering opponent field goal percentage on shots at the rim. Surprisingly, the paper pointed to little-...
Bank-Shot Buzzer-Beater Wins Championship
St. Andrew's School (R.I.) led by two and was 3.3 seconds away from winning the New England Preparatory School Athletic Council (NEPSAC) Class AA title against Cushing Academy (Mass.) on Sunday. But Cushing sophomore Jalen Adams took the inbounds pass, dribbled a few steps across halfcourt, and la...
JaVale McGee Spikes A Shot Into The Crowd, Preens, Throws Down Alley-Oop
Some advice for Anthony Tolliver: Next time, just forgo the pump fake and shoot the ball over Wilson Chandler. Chandler may have gotten a hand in your face and disrupted your shot, but he probably wouldn't have infantilized you with a vicious volleyball-spike, mean mugged at the crowd until he got...
This Is One Of The Craziest Buzzer-Beaters You Will Ever See
I know I just posted a video of some sixth-grader hitting a buzzer beater to win the league championship. Forget about that stupid kid. He is meaningless. This shot right here might be the craziest thing I've ever seen. New Rochelle was trailing by 10 with three minutes to go and mounted a stron...
Sixth-Grader Hits Half-Court Buzzer-Beater
With two seconds left in a 33-33 tie in the Central Louden Loudoun (VA) Basketball League's championship game, Team Red attempted to inbound the ball but it was picked off by Alex, of Team White, who promptly drained it from half court....
17 Sports Moments That Will Restore Your Faith In Humanity
It's been a rough week in the sports world for those of us who put faith in our fellow man and woman. From NASCAR drivers' alleged bigotry, to NFL execs wanting to know if Manti Te'o is gay, to a youth hockey coach being sentenced for tripping a little kid, it's tough to look at the sports world ...