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Spanish Forward Wants Out Of England, Says His Daughter "Looks Like She's Been Living In A Cave"
Out of favor Manchester City forward Nolito, who started only nine matches last season, wants to leave the club due to his lack of playing time, the difficulty of learning English, and because he doesn’t want his daughter turning into a sallow-faced, English-looking person....
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...
Lack Of Testosterone Limits Leads To Debate Over Transgender High School Athlete
Fifteen-year-old Cromwell High School freshman Andraya Yearwood won the girls’ 100-meter and 200-meter races at the Connecticut Class M track meet. In middle school, Yearwood competed as a boy. The transgender athlete intends to pursue hormonal treatment and sex reassignment surgery, but was able to...
Jason La Canfora Is Fed Up With All These Useless Homers<em></em>
Over the last few seasons, NFL reporter Jason La Canfora has emerged on Twitter as a particularly outspoken Baltimore Orioles fan. The Jason La Canfora Orioles Minute is an irregularly recurring feature in which we check in with La Canfora on the O’s....
The Chill And Strong Orioles Beat The Pirates<em></em>
The Baltimore Orioles beat the Pittsburgh Pirates Tuesday night 6-5 in the 10th inning on a Mark Trumbo walk-off RBI single that came after Chris Davis and Jonathan Schoop hit back-to-back home runs in the seventh, and Schoop homered again with Davis aboard to tie the game in the bottom of the ninth...
Please Enjoy This Extremely English Politician's Awkward Campaign Ad<em></em>
I’m not quite sure what to say about this campaign ad recently released by Greg Knight, a Tory MP representing East Yorkshire. Consider that Knight told the press “I never aspired to be an Alan Partridge” after it went viral; consider that he did so because, to a first approximation, every single ou...
Cam Johnson Commits To UNC, Calls Out Pittsburgh For Blocking His Transfer
Shooting guard Cam Johnson, a summa cum laude graduate of Pittsburgh, announced on Tuesday that he will be taking his talents to Chapel Hill to play for the Tar Heels during his final two years of eligibility; the question now—the question that’s been unanswered for months—is whether the Panthers wi...
Why Is Detroit's City Council Giving Away Free Money To Billionaires?
If you go to the Detroit Pistons’ website, you can buy season tickets for the 2017-18 season, their first in a brand-new arena named after a pizza company. The move to downtown Detroit, where they haven’t played since 1978, has sparked such interest that they’re ranked second among NBA teams for new...
Sidney Crosby Can't Do This Himself, But He Damn Well Tried
It’s me, the guy who thinks Sidney Crosby doesn’t get the attention or credit he deserves for his play. No wait, don’t leave!...
Pekka Rinne Is Good Again
“I don’t know what he needed to prove to anybody,” Austin Watson said of goaltender Pekka Rinne, but I think it was pretty obvious. Rinne had been awful in the first two games of the Stanley Cup final. He needed to prove he hadn’t collapsed completely—that he could, at the very least, again be the p...
Pekka Rinne And The Predators Have Tied Things Up
An action-packed second period and a few stellar saves from goalie Pekka Rinne let the Predators take Game 4 of the Stanley Cup Final by a score of 4-1....
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Justin Bieber Is An Equal Opportunity Sports Fan, Loves High-Level Sports Games
Love is infinite. One can deeply, earnestly love and appreciate many things at once; the personal love of one friend or Chinese takeout place or sports club need not lessen or prohibit the love of another. You know who understands this? Justin Bieber, who loves sports so genuinely and fully that he ...
John McEnroe Slams Margaret Court's Bigoted Comment On Number Of Lesbians In Tennis: "Who Gives A Fuck?"
John McEnroe has shared a video of himself condemning Margaret Court’s homophobic bullshit from last week, though he stopped short of joining those asking for the arena that bears her name to be given a new moniker. ...
UFC All-Timer Demetrious Johnson Mocks Bald Clown Dana White<em></em>
Demetrious “Mighty Mouse” Johnson is perhaps the greatest MMA fighter of all time, and yet he’s not a star....
This Might Be Adam Silver's Secret Twitter Account
NBA commissioner Adam Silver revealed Friday that he had a secret Twitter account. A few hours later, one Utah Jazz fan convincingly argued that he had found it....
Alex Honnold's Ropeless Ascent Of El Capitan Is Nerve-Wracking And Historic
Rock climbing is a brutally simple sport. Whether you’re on a bouldering wall, a granite face, or an actual mountain, the line between success and failure is plainly clear. You have to reach the top of whatever you’re attempting to summit or you’ll fall in the process....
Former Newcastle Midfielder Cheick Tiote Dead At 30 After Collapsing During Training
Former Cote d’Ivoire international midfielder Cheick Tiote died this morning after collapsing during a training session with his Chinese club. A spokesman for second-division side Beijing Enterprise confirmed the news to the BBC. Tiote spent the bulk of his career with Newcastle, amassing 156 appear...
P.K. Subban's Bad Breath Is The Best Kind Of Distraction
Let’s dive right into this one while proudly admitting that it’s silly, dumb, and fun. Hockey’s best player and its most marketable player now have an enjoyable mini-beef going to spice up what’s been a pretty engrossing series so far....
Eric Mangini Is Still Waiting For Bill Belichick To Be His Friend Again
It’s now been a decade since then-New York Jets head coach Eric Mangini set off Spygate by alerting the NFL to the New England Patriots videotaping opponents’ signals. And he still wants to repair his friendship with Bill Belichick, who hasn’t talked to him since. ...