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Here's The Moment These Cleveland Newscasters Learned Live On-Air The Cavs Were NBA Champions
Here’s your WJW (Fox) Cleveland crew live on-air watching and announcing that the Cavaliers were NBA champions. (They immediately went live to Akron.)...
Listen To The Cavaliers' Radio Calls Of Cleveland's First Title In Decades
As you might imagine, the Cleveland Cavaliers’ first-ever NBA championship—and the first in any sport for that city in decades—launched the team’s radio announcers into ecstasy. Up above you can hear the Cavs’ English-language announcers; below, their Spanish-language feed....
Holy Shit, Cleveland Won A Championship
We’ll have plenty of analysis later, but for the moment: holy shit....
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The USGA Won't Tell Anyone If Dustin Johnson Will Be Penalized [UPDATES]
Dustin Johnson is trying to win his first major, and he’s currently in the U.S. Open lead... maybe....
Blind MLS Refs Botch Obvious Own Goal Call
This is so obviously an own goal it almost hurts to watch, but neither an always-attentive MLS referee nor any of his assistants were able to notice the ball traveled well past the line. Great job, everybody....
With No Regard For Human Life
This is a great individual effort by Wilmer Flores, but the cowering fans (save for the gent who tries to catch it himself) make this play special....
UK Pols Believe Russian Hooligans Who Put Two England Fans Into Comas Were Working On Putin's Orders
The British government believes Russian hooligans who beat the hell out of England fans in Marseille—putting two of them into comas—were acting at Vladimir Putin’s command as part of his “hybrid warfare” campaign....
The Cardinals Lost Their 32nd Game
A late-innings meltdown by the Cardinals bullpen allowed Texas to surge past St. Louis for a 4-3 win on Saturday, ruining a marvelous seven innings of shutout pitching by Carlos Martínez....
Chile's Win Over Mexico, As Called By Wrestling Legend "J.R." Jim Ross
Chile obliterated Mexico in last night’s Copa América quarterfinal, running up a seven-spot and keeping El Tri scoreless. As is our custom, here are all those goals as called by wrestling legend Jim “J.R.” Ross....
Orlando City Returns To Action With Emotional Pre-Game, 49:00 Remembrance
Tonight’s Orlando City-San Jose MLS match is the first major sporting event in that city since last weekend’s shooting at the Pulse nightclub killed 49 people, and the pre-game ceremony was as emotion-filled as you might expect as players from both teams entered the stadium in “Orlando United” shirt...
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Cristiano Ronaldo Botches Penalty Kick, Takes Selfie With Idiot On The Field
Portugal only managed a draw against Austria today in Paris after Cristiano Ronaldo missed a late penalty kick; the Real Madrid superstar then was confronted after the game by an Idiot On The Field who demanded—and apparently got—a selfie with the three-time world player of the year:...
The Cardinals Lost Their 31st Game
St. Louis managed just three hits and squandered a marvelous Michael Wacha performance in losing to the Texas Rangers last night, 1-0....
Rays' Orlando Pride Night Is Most-Attended Game In Ten Years
The Rays dedicated last night’s Pride Night in St. Petersburg to victims and survivors of the Pulse shooting in Orlando, and the team’s pledge to donate all proceeds to charity resulted in a paid attendance of 40,135—the most to attend a regular season game since the 2006 home opener....
Baylor Settles With Art Briles To Avoid Wrongful Termination Suit
Baylor University has reached a settlement with former head football coach Art Briles, according to a school regent, a move that heads off Briles’s potential wrongful termination suit that would have exposed thousands of internal records about the college’s investigation of its handling of sexual as...
Vin Scully Has Strong Feelings About Socialism
Tell us how you really feel, Vin!...