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<i>Boston Globe</i> Columnist Gets Three-Month Unpaid Suspension For Marathon Bombing Story Fabrications

The Boston Globe has concluded its reviews of columnist Kevin Cullen’s work and will suspend him for three months without pay, after WEEI radio host Kirk Minihane scrutinized Cullen’s column on the anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombings and found several inconsistencies....

Barry Trotz Is Stepping Down As Capitals Coach

In news that comes as a pretty huge surprise, Washington Capitals head coach Barry Trotz is resigning—not re-signing, but resigning—just 11 days after winning the Stanley Cup. He’s apparently got two pretty good reasons....

The Sacramento Kings are going to find a way to waste the second overall pick on Thursday. Perhaps to mark the occasion, the Sacramento Bee just published an extensive look at the disaster that unfolded the last time the Kings picked in the top two and chose “Out Of Service” Pervis Ellison with the ...

Ronda Rousey Looked Great In Her First Singles Wrestling Match

Ronda Rousey the character has some problems. She smiles too much. She can’t act. Her second feud started at the NBC upfronts. But last night, in her first singles match, Ronda Rousey the wrestler looked like she’s going to be pretty damn good....

Yes, That Video Of Obama That Mike Leach Tweeted Is Very Fake [Update]

Mike Leach might’ve officially lost it....

The Nationals Offense Is Junk, But They're Mighty Fun On The Bases

The Nationals are depressing. After another disappointing loss Sunday afternoon they’re a ho-hum 37-31, having just been swept by the crummy and forgettable Toronto Blue Jays. They can’t hit the damn ball: they’re 10th in the National League in runs; they’re a miserable 11th in on-base percentage; n...

The Kings Are Going To Screw This Up Somehow

Any and all pre-draft player prognostication must come with the caveat that no one actually knows anything, at this point. DeAndre Ayton might turn out to be Michael Olowokandi 2.0; Marvin Bagley III could wind up being another Justise Winslow; It’s not impossible that Luka Dončić is in fact Mario H...

Javier Fortuna<em></em> Falls Out Of Ring, Is Removed On Stretcher By Paramedics; Opponent Says "He Was Looking For An Excuse"

Dominican super lightweight Javier Fortuna left his bout in Texas tonight against Adrian Granados on a stretcher after tumbling out of the ring and appearing to hit his neck or head on something ringside. Curiously, (skeptical?) Showtime commentators immediately started speculating about rematch pos...

USGA Says It "Deeply Regrets" Violent Sex Commentary On U.S. Open Broadcast

The USGA is apologizing for Fox Sports’s U.S. Open broadcast yesterday, which featured two men talking about violent sex:...

Tough-As-Nails Racehorse Falls, Nearly Dumps Jockey, Recovers, Wins

This happened at something called the ITM Frame and Truss Maiden Steeplechase, in New Zealand. What we’ve got here is a horse falling over on a jump, nearly dumping its jockey, improbably recovering, then blazing back from the dead to win the whole damn race:...

Talking To Davey Johnson About Numbers, Players, And What Managers Actually Do

There’s a thing that happens to old ballplayers, a strange and salty suspension that leaves their approach to the game frozen at precisely the moment they left it and tends to lead them to spend the rest of their days grousing spicily about everything that happened since. That never happened to Dave...

Fox U.S. Open Broadcast Features Two Dudes Talkin' About Fuckin'

“We were fucking so hard and I head-butted her in the head.”...

Kawhi Leonard Wants To Leave San Antonio And Play For The Lakers

This afternoon, more or less every basketball reporter simultaneously reported that Kawhi Leonard wanted out of San Antonio. The coordination of reports from Jabari Young, Chris Haynes, and Shams Charania suggests that the “league sources” behind this know what they’re talking about, and want everyo...

You Can’t Bet On Rutgers To Win The National Title: The First Day Of Sports Gambling In New Jersey

I almost didn’t get to place a bet that ended up winning me $100....

Dwight Howard Shares Story Of Stan Van Gundy Owning The Hell Out Of Marcin Gortat

Marcin Gortat is a fine NBA player. He’s been one of the NBA’s best screeners for about a decade; before a relatively recent age-related decline in athleticism he was an underrated defender and rim protector; he’s a wizard at timing his movement towards the hoop to preserve and maximize the narrow p...

The Sad History Of The Skins' Bogus Season Ticket Waiting List

In the least surprising bombshell you’ll read about this week, the Skins have admitted that nobody’s actually waiting for season tickets, despite an alleged waiting list that owner Dan Snyder used to claim had 200,000 people....

Court Records: WWE Doctor Who Sued CM Punk Had Sexual Relationship With Wrestler Patient

Last week, the biggest story in pro wrestling was the civil trial victory of CM Punk (real name Phil Brooks) and Colt Cabana (real name Scott Colton) over WWE ringside physician Dr. Chris Amann, who was suing them for defamation. When Punk left WWE in 2014, he aired all of his grievances, especially...

The Mets Screwed Up A Chance At Greatness Because They Couldn't Stop Being The Mets

When the Mets stuck Jacob deGrom with his second loss of the season on Wednesday afternoon, it was their 10th defeat in 11 games. DeGrom, who has been the best starting pitcher in the National League, allowed just one earned run and struck out seven over seven innings. The Mets didn’t get a hit off ...

Juan Soto Is 19 And Crushing It

Juan Soto is a boy with a man’s bat. With his two–home run night in the Bronx on Thursday, the 19-year-old Nationals outfielder became the fifth youngest player in baseball’s live-ball era with a multi-homer game, and the list (Danny Murphy, Mel Ott, Ken Griffey Jr., Andruw Jones) puts him in some p...

Michael Wilbon: LeBron Should Play For The Wizards So He Can Be Like Jeff Bezos<em></em>

Michael Wilbon, a grumbly shithead who’s spent the better part of this millennium actively torching his own hard-won relevance, has now weighed in on LeBron James’s impending free agency. You may be surprised to learn that Wilbon—who has made it clear multiple times that he thinks D.C. is a “terribl...