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Here’s a very enjoyable look at Reds outfielder Billy Hamilton’s reaction to a reporter suggesting that he might be more productive if he were a super-sub. (“This is the stupidest thing I’ve heard in my life” is part of it.) [FanGraphs]...

Rays Doctor Fired After Sexual Abuse Allegation Avoids Criminal Charges<em></em>

Police will not seek charges against former Tampa Bay Rays physician Dr. Michael Reilly, who was fired in January after a former employee at his private practice came forward with allegations of sexual abuse. ...

Jemele Hill Denies That Chris Berman Left Her A "Racially Disparaging" Voicemail [Update]

Ex-ESPN employee Adrienne Lawrence filed a discrimination lawsuit against the company this past weekend, and her suit included the claim that Chris Berman left SportsCenter host Jemele Hill a “threatening and racially disparaging voicemail.” Hill released a statement this evening, confirming that sh...

Lawsuit Claims Chris Berman Left "Racially Disparaging" Voicemail For Jemele Hill  [Update]<em></em>

Former ESPN employee Adrienne Lawrence filed a discrimination lawsuit against the company over the weekend, in which she accuses SportsCenter anchor John Buccigross of sexual harassment. The suit also contains an eye-popping claim about longtime ESPN host Chris Berman....

Arizona Loses Its Last 2018 Basketball Recruit

One day after Sean Miller defiantly denied ESPN’s report that he’d been caught on an FBI wiretap promising to pay a recruit $100,000, point guard Brandon Williams (24/7 Sports’s 31st-ranked national prospect) announced that he’s reopening his recruitment due to the “current climate surrounding U of ...

Virginia Finishes Utterly Insane Final Second With Buzzer-Beating Three For Win Over Louisville

Down by four points with less than one second remaining, Virginia needed a wild finish to pull off a win against Louisville. They got it. ...

ESPN Retracts Correction In Sean Miller Wiretap Story, Reaffirms Original Timeline

The Arizona-ESPN saga is continuing to heat up, and shortly after Arizona’s Sean Miller vehemently castigated ESPN’s reporting, the Worldwide Leader doubled down on its initial scoop that Miller had knowingly violated NCAA rules....

Requiem For A Forgotten Globetrotter 

Originally published in the November, 1977 issue of Sport, and featured in the Library of America’s new basketball anthology, Basketball: Great Writing About America’s Game. It is reprinted here with permission....

Sean Miller Denies All Wrongdoing After ESPN Wiretap Report

At a press conference today, Arizona basketball coach Sean Miller read a defiant statement, denying that he’d done anything wrong and calling ESPN’s report about him being caught on FBI wiretaps discussing a $100,000 payment to then-recruit DeAndre Ayton “completely false and defamatory.”...

A Serena Williams Practice Is Where Discipline Meets Greatness

It’s a gray afternoon on Feb. 7 and the windows of the U.S. Cellular Center in Asheville, North Carolina are decorated with large, human-sized tennis balls. Crows pick through the trash near a sign announcing the symphony, and someone has vomited coleslaw in the mulch near a satellite truck. It is o...

Joshua Simmons's Long Journey From NBA Draft Punchline To College Hoops Nomad Is Almost Over

You’ve likely never heard of Joshua Simmons. You certainly hadn’t heard of him when he entered his name in the NBA draft. Five years ago, at 20 years old, Simmons was on the NBA’s official early entry list, despite having played just a handful of games at a junior college 30 minutes east of Greenvil...

Is There A Good Reason To Doubt ESPN's Sean Miller Report?

Last Friday, ESPN published a big piece by Mark Schlabach that revealed the FBI had recorded phone conversations between Arizona head coach Sean Miller and sports agency runner Christian Dawkins in which they devised a pay-for-play scheme....

Buzz Williams Grabs Mic To Tell Fans To "Quit Cussin'" In Win Over Duke

When Virginia Tech fans started chanting “bullshit” after an iffy foul call that sent Grayson Allen to the line, head coach Buzz Williams wasted no time in grabbing the nearest microphone—out of someone else’s hand—and telling off the crowd:  ...

Blake Bortles Gets One More Year To Prove He Doesn't Totally Suck<em></em>

Why on earth would the Jaguars sign the quarterback who has spent much of his four-year career doing shit like this—...

Mississippi State Is Ready

For the first time since Pat Summitt stalked the sidelines, an SEC program has run the table throughout the regular-season conference slate, with Mississippi State completing its 16-0 run Sunday evening....

Cavs Open Investigation After Fan Pesters Patty Mills With Racist Taunts [Update]

Spurs point guard Patty Mills was shooting two free throws in the fourth quarter of Sunday’s game in Cleveland when TV cameras picked up a fan heckling from the stands. “Hey Jamaican dog, they want their bobsledder back!” the fan yelled. “Hey Mills, Jamaica just called, they want their bobsledder ba...

Atlético Madrid Sell Yannick Carrasco In Latest Bit Of Chinese League Insanity

After a couple years’ worth of flabbergasting player transactions that sent relatively young, increasingly talented, borderline world-class players from some of the best leagues in Europe and South America to the gilded shores of China, this season felt quieter, like maybe normalcy had finally reass...

Damian Lillard Rescued His Blazers From The Lowly Suns, And Also The Suns From The Blazers

It is not an exaggeration to say that Damian Lillard’s heroics in the fourth quarter of Saturday night’s Blazers-Suns tilt rescued both teams: the Blazers are smack in the middle of the West’s dense playoff pack; meanwhile the Suns, had they won, would’ve gone from having the worst win percentage in...

A Disgusted Bill Walton On Arizona's Role In FBI Investigation: "I Wish I Were Out Riding My Bike Up A Mountain Instead Of Being Here"

ESPN basketball analyst and lifelong Pac-12 maven Bill Walton reacted in disgust when asked by Dave Pasch to respond to the news that Arizona coach Sean Miller was caught on an FBI wiretap arranging a $100,000 payment for recruiting purposes, calling the scandal an incident on par with the Malice at...

Shaq's Son Shareef O'Neal Withdraws Commitment To Arizona In Wake Of Wiretap Revelation

Dominoes are falling at Arizona as a result of the FBI investigation into recruiting violations at NCAA schools: Sean Miller might be out at Arizona—he is for sure not coaching the team tonight against Oregon—and now star recruit Shareef O’Neal is apparently withdrawing his commitment to the school:...