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Antonio Brown Says Refs Threatened To Eject Him For Wearing Cool Shoes
Steelers receiver Antonio Brown has long been one of the few NFL players willing to thumb his nose (or butt, rather) at the NFL’s joy-killing rules against self expression. It seems like the league has finally had enough of Brown daring to have a good time while playing football, though, as he claim...

Some UFC Guy Tries To Diss Conor McGregor, Walks Straight Into Huge Burn
Nate Diaz came at Conor McGregor online this afternoon, and while we laud his utter disdain for the man and commitment to talk smack whenever we can, he still just did some tweets. At the UFC 205 press conference this afternoon, Some UFC Guy tried to diss McGregor to his face by claiming that he did...

Nebraska Regent Calls For Kneeling Players To Be Kicked Off Team, Then Tries To Deny It
Nebraska player Michael Rose-Ivey held a press conference yesterday and discussed the litany of slurs, threats, and condemnations he and two of his teammates had heard from fans after they kneeled during the national anthem before the Huskers’ game this weekend. Unsurprisingly, there are higher-ups ...

America's Beautiful Wonderteen, Christian Pulisic, Just Ran Through Real Madrid<em></em>
Borussia Dortmund, one of the world’s very best soccer teams, found themselves down against Real Madrid, the most famous sports team on the planet, in a Champions League match today. Looking to change the game, they turned to a goddamn American child, 18-year-old Christian Pulisic, to save the day. ...

Do You Even Know If You're Registered To Vote Yet?
The Presidential Election—and the blessed end to this interminable campaign cycle—is finally close enough to start worrying about important deadlines passing. And so, sort of in honor of National Voter Registration Day (which is a real thing that is apparently today) and mostly because the debate la...

Is Gerardo Martino The USMNT Coach-In-Waiting?
Gerardo “Tata” Martino, the Argentine coach coming off a run managing at the very pinnacle of his profession with stints at the helms of Barcelona and Argentina, has officially signed on with MLS expansion team, Atlanta United FC. This is a weird one....

Even Stormfront Thinks Hillary Clinton Won The Debate
Since being founded by a former Ku Klux Klan leader in 1996, Stormfront has been the internet’s premier destination for white nationalist and neo-Nazi keyboard warriors everywhere. And even they think Hillary Clinton won the debate tonight. ...

Howard Dean Thinks Donald Trump Might Be On Coke<em></em><em></em><em></em>
And he wouldn’t be the first....

No, Donald Trump's Camp Isn't Deleting His Stupid Climate Change Tweets
The following tweet went viral tonight; it’s a lie....

LeBron James On Police Violence: "It's A Scary-Ass Situation"
This afternoon at Cavaliers media day, LeBron James spoke for a good 90 seconds on police violence, framing the issue around the hypothetical of the police pulling his son over....

I Think Nate Silver Is Broken, Maybe?
Here are a couple tweets from politics polling seer Nate Silver, founder of ESPN math website FiveThirtyEight....

Jalen Ramsey Went And Got Himself On Steve Smith's Shit List
A familiar sight unfolded right after the conclusion of Sunday’s game between the Ravens and Jaguars. Steve Smith, never one to miss a chance to get right up in someone’s ear and talk shit, tracked down rookie corner Jalen Ramsey and, well, talked some shit....

What Will White People Say About How Trump Does In The Debate?
With hours to go before tonight’s presidential debate, one great defining question hangs over American politics: Will Donald Trump’s performance tonight allow white people to keep pretending he can possibly be president?...

Donald Trump Jr. Has Spent Years Fighting Twitter's Haters And Losers<em></em>
Twitter is full of idiots. Trolls, PC police, assholes, liberals—each one of them more infuriating than the last. And who, I ask, would be brave enough to tell these slobbering social justice warriors just how bad they really are if not for the wealthy and powerful children of celebrities? No one. T...

You Are A Fact Checker
First of all, shut the fuck up, James Taranto....

This Is A Brilliant Way To Exploit The Rulebook
It’s well-known that a kickoff out of bounds is a penalty, with the ball placed on the 40-yard line. It’s less well-known that the ball is out of bounds if it’s touched by any player who’s out of bounds, even if the ball itself is a couple of yards from the sideline. Ty Montgomery knew it....

Ryan Fitzpatrick And The Jets Were "Shitty All Around"
After Eli Manning threw the Giants’ game away, it wasn’t going to be easy for the Jets to wrest away the New York tabloids’ back pages. Well, not only does Ryan Fitzpatrick appear on both this morning, but his achievement was so singular, they were forced to go with the exact same headline: “Pick Si...

Benches Clear After Nationals' A.J. Cole Throws Behind Pirates' Jung Ho Kang
The third inning of the Nationals-Pirates game featured—in order, each resulting from the one before—a fake tag, a Bryce Harper injury and a bench-clearing brawl....
