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P.K. Subban: Sidney Crosby Told Me I Have Bad Breath
With Nashville on their way to a 5-1 victory during last night’s Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Finals, P.K. Subban and Sidney Crosby got into it a little—jawing at each other in the closing minutes of the third period before being separated by a referee. About the night’s gameplay, which had seen quick ...
Brandon Phillips Is Not Happy That The Reds Let Someone Else Wear No. 4
Brandon Phillips spent a decade wearing No. 4 for the Reds before the team dealt him away this winter in a transaction that was years in the making. While Cincinnati had been trying to move Phillips since 2013—very logically, as they have no shortage of middle infield prospects and he’s in his mid-t...
Coworker, Athletes Give Jason Whitlock Shit For Criticizing LeBron On Racism<em></em>
Jason Whitlock, a Fox Sports 1 employee whose purpose is to make Colin Cowherd look somehow pleasant by comparison, had quite an angle on police reports that a racist slur was spray-painted on LeBron James’s Los Angeles home. The All Takes Matter host called it a “disrespectful inconvenience” for Ja...
Bill Snyder Doubles Down On Evil Refusal To Allow Athlete To Transfer, Mouths Off About Failed Drug Tests<em></em>
Kansas State football coach Bill Snyder has offered a rambling, illogical attempt at a defense for his decision to block sophomore wide receiver Corey Sutton from transferring to another university. Days after claiming that he would “love for” Sutton to stay at Kansas State and was only blocking a t...
Broncos Safety Will Parks Charged With Misdemeanor Domestic Violence And Harassment
Broncos safety Will Parks faces misdemeanor charges of harassment and domestic violence for an incident with his ex-girlfriend, according to an arrest affidavit obtained by 9 NEWS, Denver’s NBC affiliate....
Kansas State Wide Receiver Calls Out Bill Snyder On His Transfer-Blocking Bullshit
In a series of since-deleted tweets, soon-to-be former Kansas State wide receiver Corey Sutton referred to head coach Bill Snyder as a “slave master,” the result of Snyder’s personal decision to block Sutton’s transfer request, and thus plant a giant financial roadblock in the receiver’s ability to ...
Bill Simmons Says ESPN's Biggest Mistake Was Not Having An Office In Silicon Valley
Yesterday, in an interview with CNBC’s Julia Boorstin, Bill Simmons—a man trying to position himself as a tech guru or something while his website, The Ringer, reportedly gets a piddly 357,000 unique views per month—took his former employer ESPN to task for not embracing Silicon Valley tech culture....
Evgeni Malkin And P.K. Subban Had A Sad Fight
Lost at the end of a wild Game 2 and hidden in a commercial break, was a pretty unlikely scrap between the Penguins’ Evgeni Malkin and the Predators’ P.K. Subban....
What Happened To Pekka Rinne?
The Penguins are surely doing lots of good things to be up 2-0 in the Stanley Cup Final after last night’s 4-1 win. They were the league’s highest-scoring team this year, and for brief explosions in both games in which they were generally outworked, they’ve been able to solve the Predators’ elite de...
The Penguins Crushed The Predators In One Terrifying Three-Minute Stretch
The Penguins and Predators were knotted in an ugly and contentious Game 2 for two periods, until a stunning flurry of goals turned the once-dramatic game into a blowout within a matter of minutes. Jake Guentzel scored on Pekka Rinne just 10 seconds into the third period after Rinne deflected a shot ...
Tonight's Stanley Cup Final Game 2, Simulated In NHL '94 For Sega Genesis<em></em>
Our simulation of tonight’s Stanley Cup Final matchup between Nashville and Pittsburgh is LIVE. NHL ‘94 on Sega Genesis, CPU vs CPU, with some help from NHL ‘94 expert Naples39....
The Phillies Have Had A Truly Terrible Month
The Phillies head into their game tonight at Marlins Park with a record of 6-21 in May. If you’re keeping score at home, that’s not very good. In fact, it’s atrocious....
Charges Dropped Against Catfish-Throwing Predators Fan
Pittsburgh cops are turning the arrest of Jake Waddell into a catch and release....
Wolfsburg Make John Brooks The Most Expensive American Player In History
This summer’s transfer window isn’t even officially open yet and we’re already seeing some crazy, record-breaking fees being thrown about. Like Paul Pogba a year ago, the source of the (arguably) biggest, most (relatively) eye-popping fee that (not quite) everyone is talking about is the record-smas...
Preds Fan Who Threw Catfish in Pittsburgh Calls Himself A “Dumb Redneck,” Vows To Fight Criminal Charges
Update (11:50 a.m.): Charges dropped!...
Bill Simmons Is Moving The Ringer From Medium To Vox Media's, Uh, Platform
A year after Bill Simmons launched The Ringer on Medium, he has signed a deal to move the site’s editorial operations to Vox Media, according to a press release. Vox Media will “lead sales efforts” for The Ringer, but the site will remain editorially independent....
Illinois Reaches $250,000 Settlement With Victim Of Tim Beckman's Abusive Coaching
The University of Illinois has agreed to pay Simon Cvijanovic, a former left tackle for the Illini football team, a one-time payment of $250,000 for injuries and medicals expenses Cvijanovic incurred while playing for head coach Tim Beckman, who was fired after an investigation substantiated claims ...
Preds Fan Who Threw Catfish On The Ice Charged With Possessing An Instrument Of A Crime, Disrupting A Meeting
The Penguins took a weird Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final last night, winning 5-3 despite going 37 consecutive minutes without recording a shot on goal. Also weird? A Predators fan threw a catfish on the ice, a strange tradition in Nashville that dates to 2003 but has gotten a ton of attention this ...