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Here's What ESPN Employees Are Saying About The Jemele Hill Situation On Their Private Message Board [Update]
ESPN spent this week caving to the most cynically motivated people on the fringes of sports media and their manufactured outrage at SportsCenter anchor Jemele Hill’s accurate comments about the president. Thus the network finds itself in the midst of a culture war that’s activated every reactionary ...

The White House And Fucking Tucker Carlson And That <i>Dilbert</i> Shithead And All The Rest Of Them Won't Stop Talking About "MSESPN," They Won't Stop, They Will Never Stop, And The Sweet Release Of The Void Is Calling
Here’s what the president was thinking about this morning:...

Boxer's Dreadful Little Son Punches Opponent In The Dick At Weigh-In
Boxers will usually preen and maybe even scuffle with each other at weigh-ins to scare up interest for their match, but when has a fighter’s small child ever punched his rival in the penis? ...

Steubenville Rapist Ma'lik Richmond Sues Youngstown State After Being Kicked Off Football Team, Cites "Anti-Male Bias"
After being told that he could not play on the Youngstown State football team this season, Ma’lik Richmond—who was found guilty of rape in juvenile court as a high schooler in the 2013 Steubenville, Ohio, case—is suing the university....
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Report: ESPN Tried To Sub Out Jemele Hill For Last Night's <i>SportsCenter </i>[Update]
Though ESPN anchor Jemele Hill received a lot of shit for her correct diagnosis of Donald Trump, she appeared on Wednesday’s SportsCenter with Michael Smith as usual. Later in the night, she and the network issued statements to give the notion that they were on good terms. But a new report suggests ...

ESPN Puts A Band-Aid On The Hand It Cut Off
ESPN’s initial approach to handling SportsCenter host Jemele Hill’s remarks on Donald Trump was supposed to placate both sides, and ended up placating neither. Then the White House called describing the president accurately a “fireable offense.” The network tried a second take Wednesday night, whic...

Rhys Hoskins Remains Ridiculous
Rhys Hoskins now has 33 major-league games under his belt—more than 140 plate appearances—which means that Rhys Hoskins has had a little time to back away from his freakishly hot start and begin looking more like the ordinary prospect people thought he was. But he hasn’t....

Brett Phillips Shows Why 8-2 Double Plays Are The Best Double Plays
Young Brewers outfielder Brett Maverick Phillips, best known for his wonderful laugh, started a brilliant unorthodox double play in Milwaukee tonight. Phillips’s powerful right arm took away a sacrifice fly and protected an early lead against the Pirates....

Jürgen Klopp Left Extremely Confused By Bizarre Beef Between Him And Sevilla Coaches
I should admit up front that the following beef between Liverpool manager Jürgen Klopp and his coaching counterparts on Sevilla’s bench doesn’t make total sense, but the strange, match-long affair does involve Sevilla’s manager twice playing keepaway with a Liverpool player, him getting sent off for...

How Blake Bortles Spent Irma
Go ahead and picture it......

Good Job, ESPN
During today’s White House press briefing, press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was asked to comment on SportsCenter host Jemele Hill’s recent tweets about Donald Trump, in which she described the President and his policies as white supremacist. Hill was publicly reprimanded by ESPN for her tweets...

Vikings Hire Teen Consultant To Teach Them How To Be Cool
What’s up YouTubers—you know who’s “on fleek” right now? The Minnesota Vikings are, or will be. The team has hired Jonah Stillman as a “Gen Z advisor.”...

Serena Williams Shares Baby Video, Says Newborn Daughter Already Has One Grand Slam Title
A little less than two weeks after Serena Williams gave birth to a baby girl with her fiancé Alexis Ohanian, she posted a photo of her daughter, Alexis Olympia Ohanian, Jr., to Instagram....

ESPN Issues Craven Apology For Jemele Hill's Accurate Descriptions Of Donald Trump
ESPN SportsCenter host Jemele Hill called Donald Trump a bigot and white supremacist on Twitter Monday night, and the backlash to these pretty standard and well-founded opinions compelled the network to give Hill a talking-to and to release a statement....

Welington Castillo Taken To Hospital After Getting Hit In The Dick And Balls
Orioles catcher Welington Castillo’s game against the Blue Jays began and ended in the first inning. That’s because Toronto catcher Miguel Montero inadvertently created a little backstop-on-backstop violence with a foul tip that hit Castillo right where he least wanted to be hit....

Hank Williams Jr. Is Back On <i>MNF </i>Tonight, So We Wrote His New Theme For Him
Six years ago, ESPN parted ways with country singer and sentient pickup truck Hank Williams Jr. after Hank compared President Obama to Hitler. This caused Hank to fire back in a “No I’m firing YOU” letter that eerily presaged the current political hellscape in which we all now reside....

Remember When Hank Williams Jr. Called In A Military Strike On The United States?
When I was a little kid, my parents got me a Monday Night Football video game for the PC. It was no Tecmo Bowl, but it was great. What I liked even more about it was what it came with: A 45-minute VHS tape about the then-20-year history of MNF. I must’ve watched that tape 100 times....

A Quick Check On How Bills Fans Are Starting The Season
With a gaudy 1-0 record, Buffalo is all alone in first place in the AFC East. But much more importantly than that, let’s check in with Bills fans:...

Mark Hamill Was A Wolves Fan, But Now He’s Also A Wolves Fan
Mark Hamill is fairly active on Twitter, and the other day someone asked him if he liked Wolves. He faved the tweet. A fan podcast hosted by fans of Wolverhampton FC, the soccer club in question nicknamed Wolves, noted that interaction and wondered if Hamill was indeed a fan of the team....