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Old Man Beef Sizzles Between Buck Showalter And Nats GM Mike Rizzo
Thursday night the Nationals faced the Orioles in a makeup of a May 11 date that was postponed and rescheduled after a day of shitty rain. That was a shitty, rainy week in DC—Washington’s next game, a series opener against the Phillies on May 12, was also rained out....
It Takes A Village To Beat The Warriors
After charring the bones of the Cavaliers during the first three games of the NBA Finals and every other playoff opponent before them, the Golden State Warriors finally lost. The dream of 4-4-4-4 is dead and the Warriors now hold the most dangerous lead in sports. ...
This Is Not An Ideal Way To End Your NASCAR Race
Timothy Peters found his Chevy upside down a lap away from finishing tonight’s NASCAR truck series race at Texas Motor Speedway. Despite rolling his vehicle, he walked away from the wreck....
Sweden Beat France On 50-Meter Goal With Seconds Remaining
Ola Toivonen took advantage of a Hugo Lloris blunder as the Swedish striker (who plays in Ligue 1) hammered in a strike from midfield while the French keeper scrambled, and failed, to stop it as the clock expired on stoppage time at Friends Arena in Stockholm....
Olivier Giroud Golazo Gives France Short-Lived Lead
Olivier Giroud is no stranger to magnificent goals, and his half-volley bender to put his France side up 1-0 on Sweden today ranks up there with the best of them. (Perhaps in shock, the Frenchmen surrendered a Jimmy Durmaz equalizer minutes later.)...
Christian Pulisic Is Restoring My Faith In U.S. Soccer
There was, I must admit, a moment there before the start of last night’s crucial USA vs. Trinidad and Tobago World Cup qualifier when I thought it would be better if the U.S. blew the match and the next couple and wound up missing out on next summer’s World Cup....
Japan’s Most Ridiculous Wrestling Promotion Hits Somewhere Near The Big Time
Last week, Dramatic Dream Team, the largest independent pro wrestling promotion in Japan, pulled off one of its most ambitious events ever. Sanshiro Takagi, DDT’s promoter and one of its top stars, headlined the Tokyo Dome against New Japan Pro Wrestling star Minoru Suzuki. However, there were two k...
U.S. Beat Trinidad & Tobago Thanks To Pair Of Christian Pulisic Goals
A pair of gorgeous second-half goals by America’s Wonderteen gave the U.S. a 2-0 World Cup qualifier win tonight in Denver over Trinidad and Tobago....
Massachusetts Soccer Club Gets In Bed With New Sponsor
The internet is nothing if not full of men sending desperate tweets to members of the porn industry....
Kyrie Irving Stole The Show Before He Blew The Game
Yes, the last real possession of this game was very bad....
Champion Boxer And UFC Vet Among Those Arrested By FBI In Organized Crime Sting
Georgian boxer Avtandil Khurtsidze was supposed to fight Englishman Billy Joe Saunders next month for the WBO middleweight title, but he can’t make the fight anymore. He just got arrested in connection with an FBI sting on an alleged Russian/Georgian organized crime syndicate. ...
Every Group Text Has A Channing Frye
Within this fun Jackie MacMullan story about NBA “glue guys” is an important truth: A law of group chat threads states that there will always be one person who will catch the most shit. The article focuses on Channing Frye’s role in improving the camaraderie among the Cleveland Cavaliers, and in thi...
Saudi National Team Declines To Participate In Pregame Moment Of Silence For London Attacks
The Saudi Arabian national soccer team, in Australia today for a World Cup qualifying match, did not observe the pregame moment of silence the Australian soccer federation put together to commemorate the victims of last weekend’s terrorist attacks in London. Here’s video of the moment:...
Kyrie Irving Dribbled Away LeBron James's Moment
With under a minute to play in last night’s Game 3 of the NBA Finals and the Cleveland Cavaliers leading 113-111, Golden State’s Kevin Durant calmly stepped into and nailed a long three-pointer right over LeBron James’s outstretched hand. It gave the Warriors a one-point lead, and left the Cavaliers...
Brian Burke To Calgary: Nice Hockey Team You Got Here, Shame If Something Happened To It
It’s remarkable that one of the most blatant threats to leave a city somehow begins with the words “we’re not going to make the threat to leave”:...
Let Us All Marvel At Andrés<em></em> Blanco’s 70 MPH Fastballs
The Phillies, already the worst team in baseball so far this year, trailed 12-0 in the bottom of the eighth last night. So why not bring in an infielder to pitch? Utility man Andrés Blanco toed the rubber for the first time in the majors....
This Is The Fastest 100-Meter Dash In NCAA History
The Tennessee Volunteers’ Christian Coleman is in top form as his collegiate season comes to a close. The runner-up in both the 100m and 200m last year, Coleman completely destroyed tonight’s semifinal heat at the NCAA Championships, and then some. But his time was off the charts: a wind-legal 9.82 ...
Cal Is Fucked Because Of Its Stupid Stadium Deal
The University of California-Berkeley first built Memorial Stadium atop their campus in 1923 as a tribute to those who died fighting World War I. It’s one of the most beautiful college football stadiums in the country, a gem perched in the Berkeley Hills that overlooks the East Bay, San Francisco, a...
Max Scherzer Is An Intense Weirdo
Max Scherzer, like all pitchers, goalies, kickers, and other solitary sportsmen, is a lunatic. Sometimes he’s growling at his coaches. Sometimes it’s at no one in particular. Scherzer was on one last night, striking out 14 over seven innings as the Nationals beat the Dodgers 2-1. And if you are both...
Study: The Median Age Of TV Wrestling Viewers Has Nearly Doubled Since 2000
Pro wrestling isn’t kids’ stuff. In fact, it’s viewed on television by an audience that’s much older than you might think....