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It Sounds Like The Bulls Were A Big Mess All Year

Whenever the air comes out of any high-pressure situation in the NBA, it tends to precipitate a fallout where all manner of unfavorable gossip finds its way to the surface....

Our own Hannah Keyser has a great story up at ESPNW on the women who bookended MLB’s having managed to go 70 years without a female scout; go check it out. [ESPNW]...

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Report: Montee Ball Arrested For Violating Bond Conditions

NFL free agent running back Montee Ball was arrested Saturday night in Whitewater, Wis. “on a felony bail jumping violation,” according to the Madison ABC affiliate. WKOW reports that police suspected Ball was drinking alcohol in a bar, which his bond conditions don’t allow:...

Are Aliens To Blame For Jordan Spieth's Meltdown On 12?

Jordan Spieth’s quadruple-bogey at Augusta National’s par-3 12 shocked viewers around the world and cost him the Masters. How could such an incredibly talented golfer melt down like that? We went back into the video to see exactly what happened—and found something bizarre....

Police Yet To Establish Motive For Will Smith Shooting; Suspect's Attorney Claims His Client "Not The Aggressor"

At a press conference yesterday, New Orleans police superintendent Michael Harrison released a few more details about his department’s investigation into the killing of former New Orleans Saints defensive end Will Smith, who was shot to death over the weekend, allegedly by former high school footbal...

Boy, They Sure Killed The Shit Out Of Some Racehorses In England This Week

The Grand National in Liverpool, England, is a horse racing institution nearly 200 years in the making, full of pageantry, glitz, drama, and horses getting killed. That tradition continued this week, when the fortuitously named 33-to-1 shot Rule The World emerged triumphal in the featured race—“a fa...

Will Smith's Alleged Murderer Is A Former High School Football Star [UPDATES]

Update (12:54 p.m.): The New Orleans Advocate reports Will Smith ate dinner with former New Orleans police captain Billy Ceravolo shortly before being murdered. Ceravolo was a defendant in a high-profile lawsuit filed by Cardell Hayes over the shooting death of Hayes’s father in 2005. The Advocate r...

Former Saints Defensive End Will Smith Shot To Death In New Orleans [UPDATE]

Will Smith, who played defensive end in New Orleans for ten years, is dead after a shooting in that city’s Lower Garden district according to the Times-Picayune....

Ernie Els Started The Masters With A 7-Putt, And It Was Excruciating 

You know that sickly feeling you get you’re watching a particularly violent scene in a horror movie that just goes on for way too long? That’s how watching Ernie Els seven-putt his way to a sextuple bogey on the first hole of the Masters will make you feel....

Ravens RB Terrance West Sues Hotel Where He Said He Was Robbed Twice In One Day

Ravens running back Terrance West filed a lawsuit Wednesday against a Florida hotel group, claiming that negligence allowed two women and a man to rob him in his room at the Metropole South Beach Hotel in Miami....

No Losing Team Is As Fun Or As Intriguing As The Timberwolves

It would be an overreaction to last night’s overtime victory over the Warriors to proclaim that it heralds the Timberwolves’ arrival. It was just one game, after all, and the team is still just 26-52, the fifth-worst record in the NBA. It also remains to be seen how they deal with the organizational...

Manchester City Gift-Wrap Game-Tying Goal For PSG

“So far so good for City,” the commentator remarks before the screen cuts to a replay of the goal that put Manchester City 1-0 up on Paris Saint-Germain just minutes earlier. As Kevin De Bruyne’s shot is shown hitting the back of the net again, the Parisian crowd roars. Not because of the replay, bu...

Dog Hockey Is The Best Hockey

There are no Canadian hockey teams in this year’s NHL playoffs, and I’m sure a lot of Canadian hockey fans are very sad about that. The good news is that I have a special message for my bummed-out friends in the north:...

Giancarlo Stanton Sent This Justin Verlander Pitch To Goddamn Mars

Justin Verlander didn’t allow a hit through five innings to the Miami Marlins this evening, but once Miami woke up (presumably because Barry Bonds dispensed a few pieces of sage wisdom), they really started hitting the dogpiss out of the ball. ...

Greg Hardy On Police Photos: "Pictures Are Pictures And They Can Be Made To Look Like Whatever They Want To”

Greg Hardy’s sit-down interview with Adam Schefter aired on ESPN this afternoon, and Hardy managed to cram an unbelievable amount of circuitous gobbledygook into a relatively short amount of time....

Security Guard Has Fantastic Reaction To Kris Jenkins's Buzzer-Beater

Every now and then, you see some shit so crazy that you momentarily forget where you are and what you’re supposed to be doing. We’ve all been this security guard before:...

Jim Nantz, A Tremendous Weirdo, Gave His Tie To Ryan Arcidiacono

Imagine you are Villanova guard Ryan Arcidiacono, a senior who just helped your team win one of the greatest championship games in NCAA history. You’re sweaty, you’re euphoric, and you’re covered in confetti. You want to scream and hug your teammates and find your family. You turn toward the crowd, ...

DA: LeSean McCoy Won't Be Charged In Bar Fight

Bills running back LeSean McCoy won’t be charged for his role in a fight with off-duty cops at a Philadelphia bar in early February, District Attorney Seth Williams announced today. In a release, Williams wrote that there wasn’t “enough evidence to meet the legal threshold to issue charges.” William...

Troy Smith Tells Cop He Graduated "With A Degree In Bachelors" During Traffic Stop

Troy Smith, the 2006 Heisman Trophy winner and former communications major at Ohio State, was arrested overnight Sunday on suspicion of being intoxicated behind the wheel and on certainty of being a consummate fuckup during a traffic stop....