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Ugly Soccer Match Becomes Much Better After Dog Invades The Pitch
Macedonian club Vardar hosted Norway’s Rosenborg in blah blah blah oh wow, look at this cute doggy that interrupted the game!...
Nick Young Finds The Outer Limit Of The Pump Fake
Nick Young’s shooting form is just a bit outside the realm of what most would dub conventional, to say nothing of the times and places that he chooses to take his shots. He has a high release point, though he attains that altitude by jerking his body over to the left and casting the ball out relativ...
Beyoncé Makes Surprise Appearance To Present Colin Kaepernick With <i>Sports Illustrated</i> Award
Beyoncé showed up at tonight’s Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year Ceremony to present Colin Kaepernick with the Muhammad Ali Legacy Award, given annually to an athlete who uses sports as a platform to change the world....
Bad Quarterback Performance Of The Week: Trevor Siemian Is Just Kinda ... There
Welcome to Bad Quarterback Performance Of The Week, a recurring feature in which we celebrate the worst quarterback play the NFL has to offer....
Thomas The Tank Engine Can Pull Some Gnarly Tricks<em></em>
Thomas the Tank Engine, as a children’s book and TV series, may be vaguely authoritarian, but as a toy, it’s weirdly entertaining. Watch in awe (or at least with surprisingly strong interest) as the locomotive does totally sick tricks like a 50-50 grind, or a barrel roll onto a parallel track. ...
Robbie Gould Clowned The Bears
Kicker Robbie Gould’s 11-year tenure with the Bears came to an unceremonious end when the team released him a week before the 2016 season started. GM Ryan Pace believed that Connor Barth was better and more affordable than Gould, though Barth was cut last month for Cairo Santos. On Sunday, Gould, t...
LeBron James Has Realized The Limits Of Human Empathy
Today LeBron James spoke briefly about the grim saga of Derrick Rose, whose desiccated body drifted back to Cleveland this morning. LeBron’s comment was unremarkable in Rose-related insight, which it seemed explicitly crafted to avoid. But it was amusing in its insight on the human condition. In the...
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Even Bill Belichick Knew Gronk's Late Hit Was "Bullshit" [Update]
Rob Gronkowski, a palooka with a new mean streak, somehow avoided an ejection after he crushed Bills cornerback Tre’Davious White well after the play was over. (White had to leave the game and be evaluated for a concussion.) ...
Derrick Rose Returns From Self-Exile To Play Basketball Poorly Sometimes<em></em>
Guard Derrick Rose, who abruptly left the Cavaliers back on Nov. 24 to, like, go sit on a boardwalk and watch happy couples stroll by and stare at his reflection in a rainy window while a mopey Stan Bush track plays in the background, has returned to Cleveland, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowksi...
Grody Sweat Monster Patrick Ewing Was Also A Germophobe
Patrick Ewing, a walking and dunking sweat fountain during his playing days, was apparently also a big-time germophobe, according to this cool series of stories from former NBA trainer Timmy Walsh, via Stefan Bondy of the New York Daily News....
Here's Some Stuff Enes Kanter Is Doing
It feels as though the Thunder will eventually sort out their issues, but for now they are 8-12 and Carmelo Anthony is off giving quavering interviews about anger. Meanwhile, New York might be permitted to believe that it won a trade for once. ...
Marat Safin, Go Coach Your Son Nick Kyrgios
Marat Safin, who won two majors and hit world No. 1 despite the challenges of playing tennis with lit sticks of dynamite strapped to his head, spoke out about the state of the men’s tour on Thursday. It was refreshing, and typically Safin in its overt frankness. Safin took the unspoken undertone of ...
Kristaps Porzingis Perpetuates Misconception About Lizards
Here is a quote from Kristaps Porzingis’s postgame comments last night, in response to a question about when he might return from his ankle sprain, courtesy of ESPN: “I hope it’s next game.... They call me ‘the lizard’ because I recover so quickly from things. So hopefully it’s nothing too big. I’m ...
Miles Bridges Dunks Over His Own Poor Teammate
Being dunked on, in any capacity, is humiliating; being posterized so fiercely that you fall on your ass is even more so. And being posterized that fiercely by your own teammate? Nick Ward suffered quite the ego bruising tonight at the hands of Michigan State teammate Miles Bridges during tonight’s ...
Rick Pitino Files $35 Million Suit Against Louisville For Breach Of Contract
After getting fired by the University of Louisville in October, Rick Pitino has filed a lawsuit in federal court accusing the University of breach of contract. Pitino is asking for damages of over $35 million, which he says is the full remaining unpaid amount on his contract that ran until 2026....
Here's The Weird Song James Dolan Wrote For The Deadspin Awards
Our own Dave McKenna wrote a profile of James Dolan last year, and so he has Dolan’s contact information. Half-jokingly, we told McKenna to reach out to Dolan and ask if he wanted to participate in this year’s Deadspin Awards. Much to our bewilderment, we got this:...
Kristaps Porzingis Helped Off After Ankle Sprain But Should Be Okay, Thank God
The Knicks suffered some bad luck early tonight against the Heat, as Kristaps Porzingis was helped off after going down with what looked like a pretty nasty ankle sprain. Thankfully, x-rays were negative and he should be available to return....
Report: Florida State Football Players Were Suspects In Frat Turtle's Gruesome Death
Florida State kicker Ricky Aguayo and tight end Ryan Izzo appear to have been involved in some type of feud with a frat at the school, and somehow, this resulted in the death of a different frat’s pet turtle, named “Turntle.”...
Enes Kanter Celebrated LeBron James's Ejection By Getting Spicy Online<em></em>
Last night, LeBron James was ejected from a game for the first time in his 15-year NBA career. James claimed he’d reacted because James Johnson had fouled him “all the way up the court.” Referee Kane Fitzgerald explained he ejected LeBron because of a series of transgressions, including LeBron charg...
Bad Quarterback Performance Of The Week: Joe Flacco Is Bad Football
Welcome to Bad Quarterback Performance Of The Week, a recurring feature in which we celebrate the worst quarterback play the NFL has to offer....