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It Is Disgusting And Unfair That Giannis Is Making Clutch Jumpers Now
Giannis Antetokounmpo put up another absurd Greek Freak line Saturday night in a Bucks road victory over the Wizards: 34 points on 17 shots, 12 rebounds, seven assists, a couple steals, and a block. That’s the third time this season he’s put up at least 34 points on better than 70 percent shooting, ...
American Defender Lays Waste To Arsenal In FA Cup First Half
Nottingham Forest’s Eric Lichaj has spent the vast majority of his career in the second tier of English soccer and the fringes of the USMNT. But in the first half of his team’s FA Cup match against Arsenal, Lichaj looked like a savior. The 29-year-old American defender scored both of his team’s goal...
Report: Jeff Triplette Will No Longer Be Available To Screw Up Football Games
NFL referee Jeff Triplette, famous for blinding Orlando Brown and bungling a 2013 replay review badly enough to trigger changes to the NFL’s replay system, was part of the officiating crew for Saturday’s AFC Wild Card game, a sloppily officiated game that drew harsh criticism from former officiating...
Is Adam Rippon’s Track Record Enough To Earn Him A Trip To The Olympics?
SAN JOSE, Calif.—Ross Miner had the crowd at the SAP Center on their feet at the end of his long program at the 2018 National Figure Skating Championships. The 26-year-old Boston native had performed to a medley of Queen songs and landed a clean quadruple salchow jump (and several other jumps, too)....
Matthew Dellavedova Ejected After Taking Down Bradley Beal
Tonight’s Bucks-Wizards game is a tight one, but Milwaukee is finishing it out without guard Matthew Dellavedova after the Australian earned a flagrant 2 ejection for demolishing Bradley Beal. He is fortunate the official punishment is all that he suffered....
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Adam Rippon Is Real And He's Spectacular
SAN JOSE, Calif.—After the Grand Prix Final last month in Nagoya, Japan, figure skater Adam Rippon, the 2016 U.S. men’s national champion, got on Twitter and defended the authenticity of his butt, as one does....
Erin Jackson Earns Olympic Speedskating Spot After Only Four Months On The Ice<em></em>
Yesterday, Erin Jackson, 25, became the first black woman to make an Olympic team for long-track speedskating. She qualified in third place with a time of 39.04 in the 500 meter event at the U.S. Speedskating Trials in Milwaukee, Wisc....
Overburdened Millennial Kristaps Porzingis Is Wearing Down
The middle part of the Eastern Conference is a muddy mess, right now. Whether there are any actual Good teams below the Cavs in the standings is an open question. Maybe the Wizards are turning it on? Maybe the Sixers will rise? Certainly early optimism about a deep field of bonafide playoff teams is...
Bradie Tennell, Mirai Nagasu, And Karen Chen Selected To Represent U.S. Figure Skating At Olympics
The United States Figure Skating Association announced Saturday morning its nominations for the 2018 U.S. Olympic figure skating team, and, unlike with its selections in 2014, stuck with the top three overall finishers from the just-completed U.S. Figure Skating National Championships:...
Ashley Wagner Is Furious
SAN JOSE, Calif.—When Ashley Wagner walked into the mixed zone after the women’s competition at the U.S. Figure Skating National Championships, practically the first words out of her mouth were, “I’m furious.”...
Deion Sanders Denies Shelving Florida Recruits At All-America Game Due To FSU Bias
Deion Sanders serves as one of the coaches at an annual high school football All-America game, though it seems that not all of his players were pleased with the (mostly ceremonial) job he did. Dual-threat quarterback Emory Jones, ranked as the fourth-best player in Georgia by ESPN, tossed just three...
Put Alex Jones In The Booth For <i>Monday Night Football</i>, Cowards
When ESPN made Rush Limbaugh a part of their Sunday NFL Countdown flagship back in 2003, the country was a different place. Everything that is currently bad and dumb about these United States was already very much in evidence, if maybe not quite in its current state of roaring psychedelic metastasis...
High-End Running Shoe Company Apparently On Quest To Destroy Itself
Brooks was a “forgettable brand on the brink of a second bankruptcy,” so CEO Jim Weber decided to focus on the basics. According to a new Bloomberg Businessweek story, Weber “scrapped almost the entire product line—no more cleats or tennis or basketball shoes, no $30 cross-trainers sold at Walmart—a...
This Figure Skater Performs To "Turn Down For What"
SAN JOSE, Calif.—Figure skater Jimmy Ma just performed his short program at the 2018 National Championships. And about two thirds of the way through his performance, the music changes to a song you wouldn’t expect to hear at a skating competition—DJ Snake’s and Lil’ Jon’s “Turn Down For What.”...
Here's The Sports Highlight Of The Day
Oh, what’s that? Your dog can sled? That’s real cute. Now get the fuck out of here, because this one can also act as its own ski lift....
The Shirtless Tongan Olympic Flag-Bearer Is Now A Cross-Country Skier
Tongan athlete Pita Taufatofua jazzed up the 2016 Olympics opening ceremony when he walked into the arena shirtless and slathered in oil. He competed in taekwondo in the summer games, and now he’s trying to qualify for this year’s Winter Olympics as a cross-country skier. ...
The Redemption Of Figure Skater Mirai Nagasu
SAN JOSE, Calif.— The judges were still calculating the scores of the previous competitor when Mirai Nagasu took to the ice for her short program at the 2018 National Championships. She zoomed around the rink, not doing much of anything, just staying warm and waiting for her turn, yet the crowd chee...
Erik Karlsson Wasn't Ready For Andreas Athanasiou
It took just six seconds for young Red Wing upstart Andreas Athanasiou to get the winning goal in overtime against the Senators Wednesday night. And for that, he can thank the best defenseman in hockey....
Kenny Omega And Chris Jericho Put On A Show
Kenny Omega is considered by many to be the best wrestler in the world. Chris Jericho is an unquestioned wrestling legend. They both showed why in Tokyo on Thursday....