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Russell Westbrook, Goddamn
The last thing Russell Westbrook needs is extra motivation, and yet—before his team sent the Dallas Mavericks out of the playoffs this evening with a 118-104 win—Mavericks owner Mark Cuban went and said that Russell Westbrook was not a superstar. So Westbrook immediately set to playing like a supers...

Tyler Collins Flips The Bird To Tigers Fans For Booing Him After He Lost A Fly Ball
The Tigers are comfortably ahead of the Oakland A’s this evening in Detroit thanks to Miguel Cabrera knocking in a pair of dingers off Kendall Graveman. In the sixth inning, Tigers center fielder Tyler Collins missed an easy fly ball by a few feet after he lost it in the lights, and Tigers fans were...

Cyclist Eats It Into The Barriers At Worst Possible Time
Marianne Vos is one of the most accomplished women in the professional peloton. The Dutch rider has won 12 World Championships and two gold medals across every discipline of cycling save mountain biking, and she’s only 28. She was in position to win a nine-up sprint at Dwars door Westhoek yesterday ...

Report: Candace Parker Left Off United States Olympic Basketball Team
Candace Parker is one of the best players in the WNBA, a two-time MVP who does cool dunks and has made the All-WNBA first or second team in every season she’s been healthy. She has also won two gold medals with the United States Olympic team, but according to a report from ESPN’s Ramona Shelburne, s...

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Six More Memes That I Swear Curt Schilling Shared To His Facebook Page
Former MLB pitcher Curt Schilling is no longer employed at ESPN, so he’s back to sharing memes on his Facebook page, and let me tell you, these memes are the cream of the crop. I don’t share these memes in an attempt to shame Schilling; he’s sufficiently shamed himself. I’m just fascinated by them....

Police Report Shows Shawn Oakman Was Accused Of Assault In 2013
Earlier this month, former Baylor Bears defensive end Shawn Oakman was charged with sexual assault after another Baylor student said he assaulted her at his Waco duplex. Today, Alex Dunlap at Orangebloods published a Waco police report that shows Oakman was the subject of an assault report back in 2...

Report: Devin Harris's Property Company Accumulated Nearly $450,000 In Fines And Back Taxes
A property company owned by Dallas Mavericks point guard Devin Harris accrued $193,636 in building code violations and at the beginning of the year owed $251,000 in back taxes on properties, according to a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel investigation. Currently, the Harris-owned Divine Momentum LLC owes...

Report: Mike Tirico To Leave ESPN For NBC
This is pretty huge news in the world of sports broadcasting: According to SportsBusiness Daily, Mike Tirico, who has been with ESPN since 1991, has agreed on a contract to join NBC this summer....

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Stephen Curry Sprains MCL, Will Miss At Least Two Weeks
Warriors point guard Stephen Curry underwent an MRI on his right knee this morning, and it revealed a Grade 1 MCL sprain. According to the team, Curry will be re-evaluated in two weeks:...

Kid Pretends To High-Five Marathoners, But They Are All Too Slow
And the winner of yesterday’s London Marathon is...this fucker:...

Gareth Bale Makes A Totally Convincing Case That He And Ronaldo Are Buds
Gareth Bale is out to set the record straight. He’s heard all the rumors that he and Cristiano Ronaldo don’t get along. He’s even seen the efforts of his agent to disabuse fans of the notion that the Bale-Ronaldo partnership is anything but jolly twisted into evidence of the exact opposite by a conn...

Donald Trump: "Leave Tom Brady Alone"
Your never-too-frequent reminder that Tom Brady considers Republican front-runner Donald Trump “a good friend of mine”...that Brady proudly displayed a Trump hat in his locker and said “that would be great” if Trump wins the presidency...that Brady does not like answering questions about his support...

Jeff Teague Saved The Hawks, Only To Murder Them
In their overtime loss to the Celtics last night, just about every member of the Atlanta Hawks besides Paul Millsap played like dogshit. One of the chief offenders was point guard Jeff Teague, who shot a dismal 4-18, and had just five assists to three turnovers. He missed almost every shot as the ga...

The Eagles Might've Really Bungled This Sam Bradford Thing
Exciting times under center in Philadelphia! Sam Bradford, the starting quarterback for exactly as long as it takes the Eagles to decide that their No. 2 overall draft pick is ready to step in, is perhaps not entirely satisfied being a stopgap. One report says he wants out....

Put Steam In Your Nose
With pollen counts spiking, you may have found your nasal passages cemented shut this weekend. The finest way to spend a day in the park is with your head all heavy with snot and your mouth dry from all the (literal) mouth-breathing. A Kleenex is meaningless at that point—no amount of nose-blowing, ...

Why Is The University Of Chicago's Wrestling Coach Supporting Alleged Child Molester Dennis Hastert?
Former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert pleaded guilty last October to one count of illegally structuring bank withdrawals, and will be sentenced to up to five years in prison by a federal judge later this week. But behind this technical-sounding crime is something truly horrific: According to th...

Thurman Thomas Reveals Concussion Effects, Says Acknowledging Risks Of Football "Doesn't Make Me Less Of A Man"
Hall of Fame Bills RB Thurman Thomas had never before spoken publicly about his concussions, or what he believes are the after-effects: mood swings, confusion, memory loss. He says a doctor told him his frontal lobe looks like “someone who has fallen off the top of a house, on to the front of his he...