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Should You Always Tell Your Partner If You Cheated?
There are few relationship questions more hotly debated than whether or not you should confess to cheating in a monogamous relationship. The main arguments for fessing up is that honesty is always the best policy, and your partner deserves to choose for themselves whether or not to stay in the relat...
Hell Yeah, Boban Marjanovic Got Himself In A Local TV Commercial
If Timofey Mozgov has taught us one thing, it’s that big, oafish centers are a perfect fit for low-budget local commercials. So we’re very pleased to see that Spurs center Boban “Not Some Sort Of Odd Thing” Marjanovic has gotten himself into the game....
Girls High School Basketball Game Ends 108-1
If there’s one thing you can always rely on high school sports to provide, it’s hilarious box scores. Today’s gift comes to us from a girls basketball game in Cleveland, Ohio, between Gilmour High and Northeast Ohio College Prep....
OHL Suspends Team Owner After He Fires Coaching Staff For The Second Time This Season
Normally the owners of OHL teams wouldn’t be of note, but Flint Firebirds owner Rolf Nilsen’s handling of his team has been so poor that the league stepped in and took control away from him....
Rio Has Given Up On Its Goal To Clean Up The Water In Time For The Olympics
When bidding to host the 2016 Summer Olympics, Rio de Janeiro promised the International Olympics Committee that it would eliminate 80 percent of the sewage found in the city’s notoriously filthy water, and would fully regenerate the lagoon in which rowing and kayaking events will be held. Now a few...
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Soccer Player Gets His Shin Snapped In Nasty Slide Tackle Collision [Kind Of Gross]
It seems like we see one of these at least once every couple months: two players converging on a ball, one going for the slide while the other keeps a foot in to scoop the ball away, and the latter coming out the other side with a flapping tibia. You probably don’t want to see this, but here’s a gif...
The Nets Finally Have A GM, And He's Got Less Than Five Hours To Make Some Trades
Well, this sure was unexpected:...
Proud Stoner Finishes Last At Olympic Marathon Trials
A day before Sunday’s Los Angeles Marathon, USATF held the Trials for the U.S. Olympic marathon team, with 105 male qualifiers looking to book their trips to Rio. At the end of the day—closer to the end than the beginning, but that’s cool—was Chris Barnicle, solidly in 105th place....
Robin van Persie Singing R. Kelly In His Luxurious Van Is What The Good Life Looks Like
Here’s Robin van Persie, proving that the tradition of tunelessly belting out your favorite songs while riding along in cars is a phenomenon that spans the globe. What he lacks in vocal quality he more than makes up for in song choice, lyrical knowledge, and commitment to really going for it. Props....
P.K. Subban Benched, Blamed For Canadiens Loss
The Canadiens have sunk like a stone, going from a historically good first month of the season to well out of the playoff picture, and with Carey Price reportedly likely done for the year with an MCL injury, there’s no reason to think they’re going to turn things around. So it’s about that time of y...
Reports: Tennessee Football Player Arrested For Punching, Choking Woman
Tennessee defensive tackle Alexis Johnson—a junior college transfer who enrolled in January—was arrested Wednesday night and is currently being held in Knox County jail on a 12-hour hold, according to jail records. The Chattanooga Times Free Press obtained the arrest report, and report that Johnson ...
Scrappy Upstart Duke Upsets North Carolina, Is Probably Good Again
Twentieth-ranked Duke knocked off fifth-ranked North Carolina 74-73 in Chapel Hill, as North Carolina inexplicably couldn’t win a game they probably should’ve....
Is A New Mexico Basketball Player Getting Death Threats, Or Not?
University of New Mexico men’s basketball coach Craig Neal asserted last week that his son, redshirt sophomore point guard Cullen Neal, was receiving death threats from Lobos fans. Via the Daily Lobo:...
Gary Bettman Upholds Dennis Wideman's Suspension, Provides Window Into NHL Investigation
NHL commissioner Gary Bettman upheld Dennis Wideman’s 20-game suspension for cross-checking a linesman from behind today, a widely expected ruling that Wideman will now appeal to a neutral arbitrator. Wideman’s primary defense, that he was concussed shortly before hitting referee Don Henderson—Widem...
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It's Been A Rough Day, So Come Look At This Cristiano Ronaldo Golazo
Real Madrid visited Italian side AS Roma today in the first leg of their Champions League Round of 16 tie and beat the home side, 2-0. The first goal was a dang thunderbastard from Cristiano Ronaldo. You should see it. You deserve to see it. Here it is:...
SB Nation Publishes, Deletes "Complete Failure" Of A Story About Convicted Rapist Cop Daniel Holtzclaw
This afternoon, SB Nation’s Longform vertical published 12,000 words on Daniel Holtzclaw, the former Oklahoma City police officer who was convicted of abusing his position of power to rape multiple women over a seven month period. It was, in many ways, a disaster of a story, and after a wide outcry ...
Mitch Kupchak Doesn't Want To Talk About Byron Scott
Byron Scott is a very bad basketball coach. That wasn’t much of a problem for the Lakers last season, when all they wanted to do was lose as many games as possible, but his ineptitude matters a lot more now that he’s responsible for the development of some key young players. It will be an even bigge...