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Headbuttin' College Closer Very Pleased To Have Escaped A Jam
UCF beat Miami 4-0 on Wednesday, thanks in large part to closer Bryce Tucker’s performance in the final frame. Miami managed to load the bases with nobody out in the bottom of the ninth, at which point Tucker nailed shit down by striking out the side....
Capitals Collapse, In What Is Surely Not An Omen Of Things To Come
Maybe it’s just me, but it felt easier to talk myself into the Capitals this playoffs. They’re still a very good team, the thinking went, but without the pressure of the Presidents’ Trophy—which they won the past two years—maybe they could learn from experience and surprise people by avoiding the in...
Thunder Call Out Announcer For Saying Russell Westbrook Was "Out Of His Cotton-Pickin' Mind"
During the second quarter of last night’s game against the Grizzlies, Thunder play-by-play man Brian Davis capped off a big Thunder play by declaring that Russell Westbrook “out of his cotton-pickin’ mind.”...
Russell Westbrook Gets Another Triple-Double Season With An Appropriately Nuts Statline
Russell Westbrook completed one of the greatest regular season achievements in NBA history tonight, becoming the first player ever to average a triple-double in two straight years. He didn’t make it very suspenseful either. Safe in points and assists but needing 16 boards, Westbrook went all out for...
Lawsuit: MLB Advanced Media Accused Of Contract Breach, Patent Infringement In Developing Statcast Tech
The parent company of Sportvision, the group that created the pitch-tracking system Pitchf/x, is suing MLB Advanced Media over the use of their technology in the development of Statcast. The suit—filed in district court in New York last week—accuses MLBAM of breach of contract, patent infringement, ...
Prosecutors: Aldon Smith Had A .40 BAC When He Went To Get His Ankle Monitor For Alcohol Testing
Former Raiders and 49ers linebacker Aldon Smith, who’s been indefinitely suspended from the NFL since he was charged with domestic violence in March, was put back in jail last week for violating his bail. According to San Francisco prosecutors, that violation occurred because Smith was almost incomp...
Lawsuit: Isaac Haas Knowingly Infected Woman With Chlamydia, Got "Off The Books" Medical Treatment From Purdue
A lawsuit filed on Tuesday in Indiana accuses Purdue basketball player Isaac Haas of knowingly infecting at least one woman with chlamydia. In addition to Haas, who finished up his senior season in March, the suit also names Purdue University, whose doctors allegedly did not document Haas’s medical ...
Russell Westbrook Says Shut Up About Stat-Padding
Russell Westbrook needs 16 rebounds tonight against the Grizzlies in order to average a triple-double for the second straight season, which would be an unimpeachably impressive achievement. After Carmelo Anthony joked earlier this week about Westbrook “stealing” rebounds, Westbrook spoke out against...
Here's Everything At Stake On The Last Night Of The NBA Regular Season
Tonight, anyone watching the NBA will get to see the closest possible regular-season equivalent of a play-in game when the Denver Nuggets travel to Minnesota to play the T-Wolves for the last playoff spot. Both clubs are 46-35, and Minnesota leads the season series 2-1, though a 100-96 win last week...
Kim Jong-il Liked<i> Bend It Like Beckham </i>And So Should You
With apologies to anyone who was hoping my earlier two reviews were the result of being an all-around miserable person who is incapable of enjoyment: I really liked Bend It Like Beckham!...
Donovan Mitchell Isn't Going To Let This Ben Simmons Thing Go
Red alert: The sniping between Philly’s Ben Simmons and Utah’s Donovan Mitchell over who should be the NBA Rookie of the Year has reached “Custom Hoodie” status....
Donovan Mitchell Dropped Draymond Green On His Ass
The Jazz and Warriors are playing out a pretty goofy end-of-season game in which Golden State is very much not going at 100 percent and Utah is taking advantage. No moment has been sillier, though, than Jazz rookie Donovan Mitchell making reigning defensive player of the year Draymond Green look utt...
Liverpool Better Go Win The Champions League Now
Manchester City and Liverpool are incapable of playing a boring match against each other. The presumptive Premier League champs have met Jürgen Klopp’s squad four times this year, and each time, it’s been wildly entertaining. City kicked things off with a five-goal blowout after Sadio Mané picked up...
It Took Five Years Of Complaints About Racism For Brandeis To Fire Its Basketball Coach
Last Thursday, Brandeis University fired head basketball coach Brian Meehan, citing a series of discrimination complaints from players. The firing was announced just days after Deadspin contacted Brandeis for comment on a number of specific allegations made against Meehan by a group of former player...
Madison Brengle Sues WTA For "Physical Injury, Emotional Trauma" Caused By Intravenous Doping Tests
American tennis player Madison Brengle filed a lawsuit against the WTA and ITF yesterday in Florida’s Manatee County Court, in which she claims the organizations ignored her medical condition that causes her to suffer “physical and emotional consequences” from regular doping tests that draw blood u...
Marlins Claim British Virgin Islands Citizenship In Attempt To Avoid Miami Court
If I asked you which MLB franchise is claiming foreign citizenship in a Caribbean tax haven, and is doing so in order to get out of a lawsuit, you’d have answered the Marlins before I finished asking the question, wouldn’t you?...
Pirates Closer Felipe Rivero Has Changed His Name To Felipe Vázquez
Pirates reliever Felipe Rivero has changed his name to Felipe Vázquez, matching the surname of his sister, Prescilla Vázquez....
MSU Student Says Three Basketball Players Raped Her In New Lawsuit
A lawsuit filed by a current Michigan State University student says that, in 2015, three MSU basketball players gang-raped her in an off-campus apartment. The student also says that employees at the university’s counseling center discouraged her from reporting the rape, either to police or the schoo...
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Manchester City Hit A Few Bumps On The Road To Immortality
By any conceivable criteria, this year’s Manchester City bunch should go down as one of the greatest Premier League teams of all time. In the face of the deepest, richest, savviest array of clubs from top to bottom in league history, as one member of a staggeringly competitive cadre of six superteam...