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Shaq's Mom Told Him To Stop Bullying JaVale McGee
And thus ends one of the more perplexing NBA feuds, not with a verbal blowup or a throwing of the hands, but with the instigator being called off by his mommy....

You Can Quantify How Differently Democrats And Republicans See The Future
No need to just guess how different our worldview (the smart ones) is from the others (dumb, bad people). There are numbers—awful, awful numbers....

Here's How The Stars Of <i>Moonlight</i> Reacted To Learning They'd Won The Best Picture Oscar Award
The backstage Oscars feed shows the moment hosts—including ESPN’s Adnan Virk—and the stars of Moonlight realized the epic screwup that led to La La Land being initially announced as Best Picture winner. There are some fantastic shots of the shocked crowd here, too. ...
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Oscars Fuck Up Best Picture Announcement [UPDATES]
“This is not a joke.” ...

Couple Making Out During National Anthem Must Really, <i>Really</i> Love America
Here’s a couple getting after it during the national anthem that preceded last night’s Stadium Series game in Pittsburgh. Which part is more unsettling: the irreverent PDA, or the fact that he’s in a Penguins jersey and she’s wearing a Flyers one?...

Zlatan Ibrahimovic Free Kick Stunner Opens League Cup Final Scoring For Manchester United
Zlatan Ibrahimovic is back to doing Zlatan Ibrahimovic things, as he provided Manchester United a 1-0 lead in today’s League Cup final against Southampton with a free kick of absolute perfection. Give this man the serum that will let him play forever, please....

Bleacher Report Deletes Dirk Nowitzki Tweet After Mark Cuban Complains To President Of Turner
Last night, Bleacher Report tweeted out a video of Dirk Nowitzki shooting an air ball, captioned “DIRK FOREVER”:...

What A Ricochet
André Ayew’s equalizer for West Ham came after the most fortunate of rebounds....

Sutton United Uses Outfield Player In Goal Days After Backup Goalkeeper Resigned Over Sideline Pie-Eating
Sutton United has had a hell of a week. The fifth-division club’s Cinderella run through the FA Cup came to an end; the loss that knocked them out of the tournament involved their large adult backup goalkeeper Wayne Shaw eating a pie on the sidelines, which led to a gambling probe, which led to Shaw...

I Have Conquered The Meaty Cheese Dip
Recently, I had a specific hankering. A hankering for piling delicious meaty cheese dip onto tortilla chips and ramming them into my face. This is the kind of hankering a fundamentally depraved sort of person has when left alone in a home for more than a couple hours: a dark degradation into self-de...

NASCAR Truck Race Ends The Way It Started: With Huge Wreck
Stop me if you’ve heard this one: a massive wreck at the end of a NASCAR race at Daytona. It happened in tonight’s truck race—the same one that had another Big One right after the first lap....

Protesting Sells ... But Who's Buying?
Every reporter has a patter for talking to people in a crowd. I start with a nakedly aggressive challenge—usually questioning or condemning their parentage. Alternatively, if they are bigger than I am, I say “gimme a dollar” and see if they comply. It tells me they’re easily cowed....

No, Paying NCAA Athletes Won't Cost Them Money
Few things get me as angry as seeing people oppose a reform because of unrealistic concerns about imaginary unforeseen consequences. Pick a problem and propose some way to make it better, and some concern troll will immediately pop out from behind a curtain to say that there is some remote chance of...

The IAAF Seeks To Restrict The Market For African Runners<em></em>
Kenya-born Yasemin Can and Meryem Akda, competing for Turkey, won gold and silver respectively at the 2016 European Cross Country Championships in November. The Irish Independent wrote that Ireland’s Fionnuala McCormack, who finished fifth, was “denied” a medal by the naturalized Turks, and Irish ru...

Claudio Ranieri's Statement After Getting Fired Is Sad And Great
Claudio Ranieri has been fired by Leicester City, and he probably deserved it, even after accomplishing the impossible the year before. That doesn’t mean he isn’t still the best, though, as his statement in light of his firing attests:...

For 20 Years, Gymnasts Said Their Doctor Was Sexually Abusing Them—And Nothing Happened
Nineteen-ninety-six was the year the U.S. women’s gymnastics team first won team gold at the Olympics. It was also the first year that Larry Nassar acted as the team doctor at an Olympic Games. And according to Irvine-based attorney John Manly, who represents dozens of plaintiffs in a civil suit aga...

Glory Boy Cyclist Celebrates Too Early, Loses Race
Australian sprinting wunderkind Caleb Ewan appears to be the real deal, and he was in position to beat out all of the world’s best sprinters this morning at the Abu Dhabi Tour. Instead, he learned a tough lesson about celebrating after you cross the line, not before, when someone can still catch you...

Far Left Peddles Grossly Sexual Giraffe Pornography Online
Though Americans may have our political differences, we can all agree that children should not be subjected to grotesque displays of nudism and sexual organs. Correction: we cannot all agree on this, judging by the latest uproar found on the internet. ...
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Draymond Green Talks Wild Shit, Tries To Kick An Opponent, Has Very Draymond Green Game [Update]
The Chris Paul-less Clippers are doing their thing and playing the Warriors tough up in Oakland tonight. Draymond Green had a pretty horrendous first half, adding five turnovers to his three fouls. He also had five points and ended the half with a +/- of -9....