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Keepers Wield More Than Just Guesswork In The Battle Against Penalty Kicks

Penalty kicks are bad. They’re dramatic and can be a fascinating experience out of context, but we don’t get to experience them out of context. We have to deal with penalties as a clumsy method of deterring fouls in the box and as a makeshift solution to tied games dragging on forever. The fact that...

Ass Team Of The Week: Eli Manning And The New York Giants Will Break You

The New York Giants have transformed into a tremendous keister this season, the size and proportions of which have been amply documented on this very website. If you’re a regular reader you already know what the deal is: Eli Manning is old and shitty now and the offensive line can’t protect him and ...

Boxer Throws Punches At His Own Cornerman After Losing Fight

Georgian boxer Levan Shonia lost bout to Spas Genov last weekend, and he was so mad about it that he attempted to resume fighting his opponent after the decision had been announced. When that didn’t work out, he turned his fury and his punches on his own cornerman....

Joe Lacob's Attempt To Hose Oakland Taxpayers Out Of $40 Million Rejected By Arbitrator

The Golden State Warriors are leaving Oracle Arena after this season, for a fresh new arena in Mission Bay and home crowds even more dominated by Silicon Valley parasites and vampires than what they see now in Oakland. If there’s any sliver of silver lining for Golden State’s Oakland fans, it’s tha...

"Evolution" Was The Night WWE's Women Deserved. It Also Kicked Ass.

WWE Evolution started with a bang and ended in a torrent of cheers on the same Sunday night, but the promotion’s first-ever all-women’s pay-per-view event began in earnest some time before that. At a match in Abu Dhabi’s Zayed Sports City Tennis Stadium last December, Alexa Bliss and Sasha Banks, bo...

Boban Marjanovic Can Ferociously Dunk By Just Kinda Leaning Back

As a general rule, garbage time is unfun to watch—just a bunch of guys scrimmaging out in the public sphere, the actual game long reduced to a formality. The large exception to that rule is named Boban. There will never be a time when 7-foot-3 center Boban Marjanovic is on a basketball court and doe...

Browns Don't Stop At Firing Hue Jackson, Shitcan Todd Haley, Too [Update]

Todd Haley must’ve thought he was safe when the Browns fired Hue Jackson today, huh? How long did that last, a little over an hour?...

The Browns Have Finally Fired Hue Jackson [Update]

According to Adam Schefter, the Cleveland Browns have put head coach Hue Jackson in the trash can. This should come as no surprise, both because the Browns have reportedly been considering firing Jackson for a while now, and also because Jackson is a comically incompetent boob who racked up a record...

The Situation In Post-LeBron Cleveland Has Become Very Grim Very Quickly

Here is some fresh news about the Cleveland Cavaliers:...

Cavaliers Quickly Put Tyronn Lue Out Of His Post-LeBron Misery

Tyronn Lue coached the Cleveland Cavaliers for six games after LeBron James left for the Lakers. He didn’t win any of them. He won’t get to coach any more of them, either....

Mike Gundy And Tom Herman Cook Up Some Beef, Then Quickly Throw It Away

The ending of Oklahoma State’s 38-35 victory over Texas on Saturday night got a little beef-y when Longhorns coach Tom Herman had to be restrained from coming at Cowboys coach Mike Gundy right there on the field. For a moment, this one had some real sizzle. But in the end, there was nothing to savor...

After Roman Reigns's "Raw" Moment, Where Is The Line In WWE?

This has been a weird week....

Mail Bombing Suspect Appears To Be Incoherently Passionate About Youth Soccer

Florida man Cesar Sayoc, Jr., 56, was arrested today in the investigation of a dozen suspected mail bombs intended for George Soros, Barack Obama, the Clintons, Joe Biden, former CIA Director John Brennan, former national intelligence chief James Clapper, former Attorney General Eric Holder, Sen. C...

Damian Lillard Scored 34 Points In A Half And Blamed It On A Heckler

Last night’s game between the Blazers and Magic went about how you would have expected it to go, with Portland winning 128-114 and Damian Lillard going off for 41 points. The Blazers were comfortably ahead for almost the entire game, and the real source of drama came from a contest within the contes...

<i>Washington Post</i> Takes Desperate Phony Britt McHenry Seriously, With Embarrassing Results

Britt McHenry—the replacement-level rabble-rouser and laid-off sports reporter most famous for getting caught on video being an entitled asshole to a towing-company employee—has, for some time, been in the process of pivoting to a career in right-wing punditry. Today, the Washington Post Magazine pi...

The Only Thing Left To Do Is Yell About The World Series

This can be said in variously Ken Burns-ian tones and with varying degrees of reverence, but October baseball really is different. There is less of it, for one thing, and the few games that remain are more meaningful and more tense, but also everyone is cold and tired and stressed out. In that sense...

The NFL Actually Fired An Official

Outside of the confusion about roughing-the-passer calls (which falls as much on the diktat from New York as on those tasked with enforcing it), it feels like NFL officiating has generally been pretty good this year—that is to say, it’s been largely unnoticeable. Which made this blatantly missed fal...

WWE Is Officially Going Ahead With Its Creepy Saudi Propaganda Spectacular

After days of rumors and weeks of faintly nauseated speculation, World Wrestling Entertainment announced on Thursday that the next show in their partnership with Saudi Arabia, next Friday’s Crown Jewel event in Riyadh, will take place as scheduled. The announcement came as part of guidance for their...

Everson Griffen Back With The Vikings After Mental Health Evaluation: "I'm Taking It One Day At A Time"

Five weeks after Minnesota Vikings defensive lineman Everson Griffen jumped out of an ambulance on the way to a mental-health evaluation following weeks of erratic behavior that included threatening to shoot someone at a hotel in Minneapolis, he is back with the team, and addressed reporters after p...

Markieff Morris has been fined $15,000 for unsportsmanlike conduct by the NBA, for tugging on Seth Curry’s shorts during the final moments of regulation in Tuesday night’s Wizards-Blazers game. ...