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Randal Grichuk Pulled A Reverse Bartman On A Potential Game-Tying Homer<em></em>
With the tying Astros run at the plate in the bottom of the ninth, a long fly ball to right from George Springer was utterly robbed of dinger status by the vertical leap of Randal Grichuk. In preserving the Toronto lead, Grichuk thwarted not only the whole Houston team, but also a young Blue Jays fa...
LeBronWatch: Podcast Guest Thinks LeBron Has Narrowed It Down To Three Teams
LeBron James has until Friday to decide whether to opt in to the last year of his contract with the Cavaliers, or decline it and become an unrestricted free agent. As previous LeBronWatch entries have noted, LeBron plans to sign with the Lakers, Cavaliers, Nuggets, and Knicks next season, and he wil...
LeBronWatch: LeBron Is Definitely Headed To The Lakers Or The Club Or Maybe Both
Welcome back to LeBronWatch, your premier source for news about where LeBron James will be playing next season. LeBron has until Friday to decide whether or not to opt out of his contract, though opting in is no guarantee that he won’t still engineer a trade elsewhere. As of now, we know he’s planni...
Report: LeBron Doesn't Want To See Your Damn PowerPoint Presentation
LeBron James is a few days away from having to decide if he will pick up his $35.6 million player option and remain a member of the Cleveland Cavaliers. There’s every reason to believe that he will decline the option and become a free agent, meaning that a handful of NBA teams will once again be in ...
LeBron's 13-Year-Old Son Nearly Dunks
LeBron James Jr., a 13-year-old rising eighth-grader, nearly connected on his first attempt at an in-game dunk at the “Balling on the Beach” tournament in Miami this past weekend. Everyone in the stadium, including his father, erupted in joy and disbelief as they immediately realized the huge implic...
How Did James <em></em>Rodríguez Make This Pass?<em></em>
Colombia rebounded nicely from a 2-1 loss to Japan with a 3-0 shellacking of Poland in their second World Cup game today. The icing on top was a goal from Juan Cuadrado, but the scorer had a pretty easy job. All Cuadrado had to do is run a breakaway to the net, while it was James Rodríguez who had t...
More World Cup Games Should Be Like Japan-Senegal
Today group stage World Cup match between Japan and Senegal, which ended in a 2-2 draw, wasn’t exactly a world-class showcase of skill and talent in the way that later rounds of the tournament will be. But damned if it didn’t have a boatload of charisma, which made it infinitely more entertaining th...
New Jameis Winston Details Emerge; Convicted Ex-Vanderbilt Football Rapist Says Bucs QB Was Alone With Uber Driver
The third man who was hanging out with Jameis Winston and Ronald Darby the night in March 2016 an Uber driver says the Buccaneers quarterback groped her has been revealed, and it’s Brandon Banks—the former Vanderbilt player currently serving a 15-year sentence for his role in raping a woman in 2013....
Report: Jameis Winston Will Be Suspended Three Games For Alleged Uber Driver Groping
The NFL plans to suspend Buccaneers QB Jameis Winston for the first three games of the season for “violating the league’s personal conduct policy,” per ESPN’s Adam Schefter. This confirms ESPN Tallahassee host Jeff Cameron’s earlier report that the disciplinary action is in response to an incident i...
58 Future Jason Bateman Films
Today we read the following story of how the Jason Bateman vehicle Game Night came to pass. ...
Only Javy Báez Could Have Made This Wild Solo Double Play
Cubs second baseman and shortstop Javier Báez is a known defensive wizard who makes all sorts of cool-looking plays all the dang time, but he really showed off his skills this afternoon against the Dodgers. Kikè Hernández smacked a double to lead off the eighth inning, but got just far enough out of...
Jackie Bradley Jr. Threw The Fuck Out Of This Ball
Jackie Bradley Jr. has been having a truly nightmarish season at the plate. The kind you tell your kids about, the kind that would otherwise warrant a player riding the bench for much of the year. We’re talking about a .182/.279/.297, four-dingers-through-65-games sort of season. But his defense is ...
Let’s Remember Some Guys: Pro Wrestling Edition
My uncle introduced me to pro wrestling. I think I was seven. He clued me in on the gag right away: Guys pretended to fight, and it was hilarious....
LeBronWatch: Kawhi To The Cavs, Keeping LeBron Put
From Cleveland.com’s Terry Pluto comes a report that the Cleveland Cavaliers “are one of several teams making calls to San Antonio about Kawhi Leonard.”...
Ronda Rousey Looked Great In Her First Singles Wrestling Match
Ronda Rousey the character has some problems. She smiles too much. She can’t act. Her second feud started at the NBC upfronts. But last night, in her first singles match, Ronda Rousey the wrestler looked like she’s going to be pretty damn good....
Chicharito Earned Those Tears
Javier “Chicharito” Hernández was not the best Mexican player on the field in Sunday’s World Cup match against Germany. That honor probably belongs to goal-scorer Hirving Lozano, or any of El Tri’s defensive midfielders and center backs who spent the game stoning Germany’s attacks. Hernández was not...
Javier Fortuna<em></em> Falls Out Of Ring, Is Removed On Stretcher By Paramedics; Opponent Says "He Was Looking For An Excuse"
Dominican super lightweight Javier Fortuna left his bout in Texas tonight against Adrian Granados on a stretcher after tumbling out of the ring and appearing to hit his neck or head on something ringside. Curiously, (skeptical?) Showtime commentators immediately started speculating about rematch pos...
Beer For Herbs Calls Itself "Lebron Tears"
An undeniable spoil of victory is the unassailable right to talk mad shit about your vanquished foes, forever, no matter their prominence nor how splendidly they performed. The Warriors are very good at this, as in the case of Draymond Green using t-shirts to mock LeBron James after each of the last...
Former Blue Jay Kelly Gruber Disinvited From Canadian Baseball Hall Of Fame Festivities After Unbearably Rude, Awkward Panel Appearance
Thursday night in Toronto former Blue Jays All-Star third baseman Kelly Gruber participated in a panel discussion for PitchTalks, which describes itself as “touring, interactive baseball event.” The event was coordinated around this weekend’s Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame festivities, an event at w...