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Las Vegas Is The Next City The Raiders Will Use For Leverage To Try And Get A New Stadium
For two decades Los Angeles has served as the NFL’s bogeyman, lurking just out of sight as an implicit threat to any city that refused to pay up for a new or renovated stadium. You better flash the cash, the NFL would threaten, or the Bills/Dolphins/Jaguars/Vikings/Colts are going to bolt for glamor...

Moving Away Doesn't Fix Shit
Some lady in a furry hat full-on bodied me without looking up from her phone as I was walking in the West Village a few weeks ago. I impulsively said, Bitch instead of mumbling an apology like I normally do. Was I finally shedding my obsequious Midwestern politeness after six months of living in New...

The Lakers Are Honoring Shaq With A Pretty Awesome Statue
The Los Angeles Lakers announced that they will be building a statue to honor Shaquille O’Neal, and it will be unveiled outside of their home arena some time during the 2016-2017 season. All we have to go on now is an artist’s rendering, but it’s a bad-ass looking concept:...

Sting? More Like Stink!
This morning the NBA announced that Sting will perform during halftime of next month’s All-Star Game. I guess I must have missed the part where it also announced that the game would be held in the cabin of Tina Brown’s Jaguar....

Sports Radio Host Loses His Mind When Nobody Can Answer His Dumb Trivia Question
Chris “Mad Dog” Russo was once the broadcast partner of Mike Francesa, our other favorite sports radio goober, but now he’s just a dude who yells a lot on his own radio show. “Yelling” can mean different things depending on who is doing it, and in Russo’s case it means, “Man who is clearly at the en...

NBA Teams Have Found Creative New Ways To Intentionally Foul
Because the NBA refuses to admit that intentional fouling is a real problem, its scourge is spreading. Tonight’s games featured four different players getting hacked, a new strategy that pushes the rulebook to the limit, and a refinement of the most hilarious kind of intentional foul....


King Cake Baby Is Going To Give Someone A Heart Attack
It’s King Cake Baby season again, which means the most terrifying occasional mascot in sports is back to put the fear of god into anyone who locks eyes with it....
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Ping-Pong Player Returns Service With His Dong [NSFW]
The best sports highlight of today, by a large margin, is this man using his dick to hit a ping-pong ball....

Vince Staples Is A Hilarious NBA Fashion Critic
Vince Staples is a very talented and funny rapper who also happens to be a big NBA fan. So, obviously, putting him on camera and asking him to make fun of the way NBA players dress was a great decision....

Look At Nick Saban, Dancin' Like A Clown
It’s recruiting season, which means it’s the one time of year when we get to relish self-serious millionaire coaches embarrassing themselves in order to scoop up the next crop of talented freshman. Take it away, Nick Saban!...

Von Miller Shows Off Ball He Intercepted, Jokes About It Being Deflated
Denver Broncos linebacker Von Miller sure is a lot of fun. Here he is in the locker room after the AFC Championship game, making jokes about the ball he picked off Tom Brady being a little deflated:...

Kristaps Porzingis Remains The Best
The Thunder beat the Knicks or whatever, but who cares, because Kristaps:...

Byron Scott Denies Challenging Instagram Hater To A Fight, Says He Was Hacked
Lakers head coach Byron Scott has a reputation to uphold. Not as a smart or even competent NBA coach, but as a tough-talkin’, no-nonsense, these-goddang-kids-and-their-goddang-iGoogles hard ass. This is why, if you get feisty in his Instagram mentions, you might get challenged to a fight....

Swimmers Narrowly Avoid Death By Pelican
A swim meet in St. Petersburg, Fla., was briefly interrupted by a pelican that understandably thought a big pool of water was a good place for it to hang out....

Peyton Manning Told Bill Belichick "This Might Be My Last Rodeo"
Bill Belichick declined to share what he spoke about with Peyton Manning at midfield following Denver’s elimination of New England in the AFC Championship. Now, thanks to a conveniently thrust microphone, we know some of it....

DeMarcus Cousins Went Supernova On The Hornets In One Of The Best Games Of The Season
While the entire NBA world was watching the Warriors bring a holy whooping down on the Tim Duncan-less Spurs last night, the Sacramento Kings and the Charlotte Hornets played one of the very best games of the season, a 129-128 Hornets win in double overtime. It sort of made perfect sense that they’d...

Reports: Patriots Fire OL Coach Dave DeGuglielmo After Line Is Overrun By Broncos
That Patriots have fired offensive line coach Dave DeGuglielmo, according to Ian Rapoport and confirmed by ESPN, one day after the Patriots’ offensive line was repeatedly pummeled in the AFC Championship game. The Broncos won 20-18 mostly on the strength of their pressure, as they hit Tom Brady 20 t...

"The Weed Is Good In Miami Tonight"
The Rock returned to the WWE tonight in Miami, as Dwayne Johnson took a step away from his Ballers filming to deliver an, uh, energetic performance on Raw....

Lurid Confessions Of A Times Square Silver Man
During the early aughts, when I was bobbing about the murky shark tank of my mid-20s, there were several years when my income was derived entirely from standing in a silver unitard around NYC....