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Bring On The Ben Simmons Point Guard Experiment<em></em>
The Philadelphia 76ers are wrapping up another losing season, one in which prized rookie Joel Embiid played just 31 games and number one overall draft pick Ben Simmons never even hit the floor. All that’s left to determine is whether Embiid will win rookie of the year on the back of just 40 percent ...

Police Are Investigating If Several Western Kentucky Football Players Beat Up A Frat Guy<em></em>
Four Western Kentucky football players are part of a police investigation into who beat up a member of the Pike fraternity on Sunday night, according to TMZ. A police report, released by Bowling Green police, doesn’t say explicitly that four football players took part in the attack but does list un...

Blazers-Timberwolves Game Canceled Due To Sweaty Hardwood
A few hours before the Timberwolves and Blazers were supposed to tip off in Minnesota, ominous reports about sweaty ice in the stadium started sprouting up. Damian Lillard and the rest of the Blazers cut their warm-ups short due to the wet floor, and Lillard later gave an interview where he called f...

Chris Stewart Punches Teammate, Corrects Situation By Punching Opponent
Hockey scrums can be a chaotic mess of limbs, so it’s understandable that the Wild’s Chris Stewart would accidentally biff teammate Zach Parise in the face during Sunday’s game. What’s better is that Stewart tried to play it off by smacking someone else....

Spring Training Is Good
One of my midlevel life regrets is that I’ve never gotten to Florida or Arizona for Spring Training, because it seems like it offers the things I like most about live baseball: Sitting outside in nice weather, eating and drinking, and just absorbing the entire sensory experience—the smells, the soun...

The American Cup Was A Competition In Search Of A Story
Back in 2013, the American Cup marked the senior debut of Simone Biles. Though she didn’t win the meet—the title went to Katelyn Ohashi, who had been a junior superstar—it was evident that Biles was about to become a force in U.S. women’s gymnastics. Even if no one watching could’ve predicted just h...

Your Goal Of The Day Comes From The Colombian League
César Carrillo gave his Jaguares side a 1-0 lead over Millonarios with a golazo from distance that brought a, uh, modestly full Estadio Jaraguay to a frenzy....
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Festus Ezeli Will Have Season-Ending Knee Surgery Involving A Cadaver Donor [UPDATED]
It’s been reported for months that Festus Ezeli would need season-ending knee surgery, but until yesterday, no date had been set or details announced. Now, the situation and timeline are clearer—Ezeli will undergo a procedure requiring a cadaver donor, and he’s spent the last several months waiting ...

Grayson Allen Graduates From Tripping People; Now Issues Elbows
Grayson Allen continues to inspire us with his unique, physical take on playing basketball....

Report: Kansas Punished Women's Basketball Player, Not Josh Jackson, For Role In Bar Argument
The Kansas City Star continues to highlight the male-first atmosphere that appears to embody Kansas athletics, reporting on Friday that women’s basketball player McKenzie Calvert was barred from Allen Fieldhouse for two days after her was car vandalized and she was accosted by a star member of the m...

WWE's Big Show: Shaq Won't Do Wrestlemania Because He Looks Like Jabba The Hutt And Is Scared To Wear Spandex
While Shaquille O’Neal and Paul “Big Show” Wight were rumored to compete against one another in next month’s Wrestlemania, it now sounds like it’s not going to happen. On his most recent podcast episode, Shaq blamed WWE for the match not taking place and said it wasn’t his fault. Big Show had a very...

U.S. Soccer Youngster Wallops In The Goal Of A Lifetime
The United States’ U-20 team is taking on El Salvador for a spot in the U-20 World Cup tonight, and they’ll be through to the tournament if they do anything besides lose by multiple goals. If they win or draw, they’ll play Honduras for the CONCACAF U-20 championship. ...

The Future Of Innovation Is Innovation: A Day At Stanford's Sports-Business Conference<em></em>
Stanford University in the springtime is immaculate. There are no clouds in the sky and none of the aerated haze of the East Bay or the fog of San Francisco. Off to the west, the Santa Cruz Mountains gently form the outer boundary of Palo Alto. As I got lost looking for the Stanford Graduate School ...

An NWSL Strike Might Be The USWNT's Best Leverage
The U.S. women’s national team is in the middle of the 2017 SheBelieves Cup, a three-game tournament held in the U.S., and the team’s only major international competition of the year. They beat Germany 1-0 on Wednesday in Pennsylvania, play England on Saturday in New Jersey, and face France in Tuesd...

Youth Basketball Coach Dramatically Rejects Own Player Who Was Shooting On The Wrong Basket
There’s nothing like hands-on coaching....

Derrick Rose Sounds Incredibly Enthused About The Return of The Triangle Offense
The triangle offense is back in New York City! This is what will save the moribund Knicks’ season, some good old fashioned archaic basketball. Have you caught the fever? Derrick Rose has:...

Andy Murray Saved His Ass With The Best, Dumbest Drop Shot
Today in poor decisions: Andy Murray, down match point at the Dubai Championships, went for this comically risky drop shot against Philipp Kohlschreiber....

Art Briles Writes Letter Explaining How He's A Great Guy Who Didn't Do Anything Wrong<em></em>
Former Baylor head football coach Art Briles, who presided over a football program that remains mired in one of the biggest sexual-assault scandals in sports history, is still very upset that people want to place any blame on him for the fact that his players allegedly committed 52 rapes over the co...

Mets Prospect Makes Incredible Nonchalant Catch Of Flying Bat
This is...maybe the coolest thing I’ve ever seen a human being do?...

Curt Schilling Accuses Rosie O'Donnell Of Spewing "Poop And Lies"
If Curt Schilling’s going to eventually run for office, he’s doing a bang-up job of following in his political idol Donald Trump’s footsteps. Last night, the former baseball pitcher got into an argument with Rosie O’Donnell....