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Hall Of Fame Voter Who Wants To Fight Curt Schilling Gives Up Hall Of Fame Vote
God, it’s “Get worked up about shitty Hall of Fame takes” season again. Every year I go in feeling optimistic—Oh, maybe my guy will get in this year!—and by mid-December I’d rather pull out my fingernails one by one than look at yet another goddamn ballot with two bewildering selections on it. ...
DeMarcus Cousins Is On The Sacramento Kings
DeMarcus Cousins is on the Sacramento Kings. He is not on the Boston Celtics. His time on the Boston Celtics has not gone well or poorly, because he has not had any time on the Boston Celtics, because all of his time has been on the Sacramento Kings. (Also he is not on any other teams, except for th...
Jeurys Familia Will Not Face Criminal Charges In Domestic Violence Case<em></em>
Prosecutors in Fort Lee, New Jersey dropped assault charges against New York Mets closer Jeurys Familia today. He appeared in court alongside his wife, who had previously requested that the case be dismissed....
Cycling Mastermind Refuses To Reveal Contents Of Mystery Bag<em></em>
David Brailsford is the general manager and coach of Team Sky, the British giant that is currently as dominant as the Lance Armstrong-era USPS teams were a decade ago, and he’s got some explaining to do. Team Sky has taken four of the last five Tours de France, all while maintaining a militant anti-...
Louisville AD Says Cardinals Received Plays From Wake Forest Radio Announcer Before Football Game
One day after Wake Forest fired and banned football radio announcer Tommy Elrod for sharing game prep materials with the team’s opponents for at least two years, Louisville athletic director Tom Jurich said that the Cardinals had received information from Elrod this season, before their Nov. 12 game...
Jim Harbaugh On NFL Rumors: "Lies Made Up By Our Enemies"
Milk-powered UM coach Jim Harbaugh accepted the Wolverines job in 2015 and has already racked up as many ten-win seasons in his tenure as his predecessors did over the previous 11 years. He’s the best Michigan coach in a long time, and given his success at both the professional and college levels, h...
Wake Forest Radio Announcer Fired For Giving Game Prep Materials To Opponents
Wake Forest announced that football radio announcer Tommy Elrod—a former player and coach at the school—was fired from his position and banned from athletic facilities, after it was discovered that Elrod has been giving or attempting to give game prep materials to opposing teams for at least two yea...
Nike Joins The Quest For A Sub Two-Hour Marathon
In a brilliant height-of-the-Christmas-sales-season marketing move, Nike announced via two breathless press releases, in Runner’s World and Wired, that they are entering the sub two-hour marathon game. ...
Bills Fan Destroys Table, His Own Leg<em></em>
If you’re going to jump through a rickety piece of furniture—a bad idea to begin with, but for the sake of this hypothetical, go with it—you should not launch feet-first, because unlike a butt or belly, your legs and feet will not properly absorb the impact when flesh meets table, and those parts of...
Nine Elements Of The LeBron <i>SI </i>Cover Meant To Distract You From His Hairline, Ranked
1. Safety pin on the lapel...
Report: Two Louisville Football Players, One Student Shot At Heisman Party
Two Louisville football players, James Hearns and and Henry Famurewa, and an unidentified female student were shot early Sunday morning at an off-campus party celebrating Louisville quarterback Lamar Jackson’s Heisman Trophy victory. The shooting took place around 2:00 a.m. in the Retreat apartment ...
Jaguars Junction: Week 14
What makes a “world class city?” Let’s check the list. ...
Cardell Hayes Found Guilty Of Manslaughter For Killing Will Smith
After five hours of deliberations, a New Orleans jury has convicted Cardell Hayes of manslaughter and attempted manslaughter after a shooting in April that left former Saints star Will Smith dead and Smith’s wife Racquel Smith hospitalized....
Ryan Tannehill Leaves Game With Knee Injury, May Have Torn ACL
After leaving today’s Dolphins-Cardinals game with a knee injury, quarterback Ryan Tannehill could be out for the rest of the year and possibly into next season. A hit from defensive end Calais Campbell knocked Tannehill down and sent him out of the game in the third quarter:...
Deshazor Everett Lays Out Darren Sproles Before He Can Even Catch The Punt
Eagles running back and return man Darren Sproles didn’t appear to signal for a fair catch on a punt in the fourth quarter, but he wasn’t even able to attempt to field the ball, as Skins cornerback Deshazor Everett ran him over. ...
Louisville Quarterback Lamar Jackson Wins Heisman Trophy<em></em><em></em>
The 6-foot-3, 205-pound sophomore made history as the first player from Louisville to win the trophy and the youngest ever at 19 years, 352 days. Although his team lost its last two regular season games, Jackson set an ACC record with 51 total touchdowns this year....
Goddamn, Grayson Allen
The ever-annoying Grayson Allen gave UNLV a new reason to be annoyed with him in the first half of Saturday’s game, with an absolutely ridiculous one-handed dunk that sent him flying....
NFL: Supporting Kanye West Does Not Qualify As A Charitable Cause
For one game only, the NFL allowed players the freedom to express support for charities in the “My Cause, My Cleats” campaign last week. Many players chose organizations with a personal connection (Brandon Marshall and Project Borderline for borderline personality disorder, Ryan Shazier and the Nati...
Don't Burn Your Mouth On This Piping Hot Hockey Beef
Edmonton Oilers center Connor McDavid missed a couple of months last season when he slid into the boards with Philadelphia Flyers defenseman Brandon Manning in a Nov. 3, 2015 game, and broke his clavicle. At the time, McDavid didn’t blame Manning for the injury, but in last night’s game, the Oilers ...