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What The Hell Is Jose Bautista On About?
The Toronto Blue Jays are down 2-0 in the ALCS after scoring just one run on 10 hits through 18 innings. If you were to ask any baseball fan with two eyes why that is, they’d tell you it’s because the Jays have been dominated by the Indians’ pitchers, particularly Andrew Miller and the rest of the ...

Baseball Genius Javier Baez Turns Soft Line Drive Into Two Outs
Javier Baez’s incredible heads-up baseball has been the biggest storyline of the Cubs’ narratively overwrought postseason. And with his team trailing 1-0 in Game 2 on Sunday night, he made a brilliant snap decision to bail them out of a two-on, one-out jam....

Bears Fan And Jaguars Fans Fight To Defend The Honor Of Their Terrible Teams
A Bears fan has no ground to start talking shit, especially right after losing at home to the Jaguars. He should especially avoid repeatedly yelling “Go fuck yourself” to any Jaguars fans that he sees....

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Cubs Take 3-0 Lead On Javier Báez Steal Of Home
The Cubs continued rolling tonight in Game 1 of the NLCS as Javier Báez drove in Jason Heyward with a double and then stole home in a less-than-graceful manner. It’s 3-0, and it’s still the third inning....

Report: Chris Broussard Is Leaving ESPN For Fox Sports
ESPN basketball analyst Chris Broussard is finalizing a deal to decamp for Fox Sports, according to Sporting News’s Mike McCarthy, where he is likely to pair with former NBAer Jim Jackson on FS1. McCarthy previously reported that Broussard’s ESPN contract was expiring in mid-September, and I have be...

The NFL Has No Idea How To Treat Its Stars
Drew Magary’s Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo runs every Thursday during the NFL season. Email Drew here. Buy his book here....

Hue Jackson Has Turned To Art Briles For Answers
Hue Jackson’s first season as head coach of the Cleveland Browns is not going so well. The team is off to an 0-5 start, and while other teams in the league are enjoying success behind talented rookie quarterbacks that the Browns failed to draft, the Browns’ quarterback situation remains a a game of ...

Jack Eichel Leaves Practice With Nasty-Looking Injury
The NHL season starts tonight, and it looks like Buffalo will enter it without their franchise player. Jack Eichel suffered an injury to what looked like his left knee or ankle in this morning’s practice and had to be helped off. [Update: Sabres coach Dan Bylsma confirmed it was the ankle.]...

Javy Baez Only Makes Spectacular Plays
The Giants finally remembered how to play offense and hit the baseball tonight, but Cubs second baseman Javy Baez is doing everything he can to shut them down. Baez only plays baseball at one million miles per hour, and he attacks approaching grounders like Jim Harbaugh attacks glasses of milk. ...

Gregg Popovich Lovingly Booted Boban Marjanovic Away From The Spurs
The Pistons have signed three former Spurs players in the past two offseasons. Aron Baynes signed in 2015, and Ray McCallum (most recently of the Grizzlies) joined the team this year. Additionally, 7-foot-3 Serbian Hulk Boban Marjanovic signed a three-year, $21 million deal with the Pistons in July....

Blue Jays Play-By-Play Guy Won't Call Cleveland's Team "Indians"
It is news to me that Jerry Howarth, the radio play-by-play voice of the Blue Jays since 1981, does not use the name “Indians” when calling baseball games out of respect to Native people. But it’s not new news—Howarth has observed this practice for more than 20 years....

Hitters Still Can't Touch Madison Bumgarner But A Pitcher Just Knocked One Of His Balls To Fiji
If failure is success in Silicon Valley, then Madison Bumgarner is a champion tonight. The Giants ace, last seen choking the life out of the Mets, is laying an egg in an must-win against the Cubs. He came into the game with a streak of 23 straight scoreless innings in elimination games, but managed ...

The Bears Don't Know What They're Doing With Their Quarterbacks Either
The Chicago Bears have the following quarterbacks on their roster: Brian Hoyer, Matt Barkley, and Jay Cutler. Two of those dudes are bad. The other has an injured thumb and the disposition of a disgruntled tabby cat. Not the most enviable position to be in, but let’s see how john Fox plans to figure...

The Blue Jays Will No Longer Serve Canned Beer To Their Rude Fans
Blue Jays fans are quickly earning themselves a reputation for being beer-tossing goons, and so the team is taking steps to prevent another scenario in which an opposing outfielder is nearly brained by a flying can....

Blue Jays Sweep Rangers With Extra-Inning Walk-Off
The Blue Jays are headed back to the ALCS for the second straight year after completing a sweep of the Rangers with a 7-6 win on Sunday night. It was their first postseason sweep in franchise history....

Washington Gets First Punt Return Touchdown Since 2008, Misses Extra Point
Washington wide receiver Jamison Crowder scored a touchdown after an 85-yard punt return against the Ravens, but naturally, the team couldn’t pull off a dazzling highlight without screwing something up....

Francisco Liriano Hospitalized After Taking A Liner To The Head
Jays reliever Francisco Liriano left the team’s win against the Rangers in the eighth inning after taking a liner from Carlos Gomez to the neck....

Nick Kyrgios Likes To Look Cool As He Makes His Opponents Look Silly<em></em>
Nick Kyrgios is the bold bad boy in a sport where it’s frowned upon for fans to make noises during play. Tremble as you realize that this youngster, well ... he truly might not give a damn....

The Blue Jays Clanged A Bushel Of Dongers Off Yu Darvish
Yu Darvish is in the process of serving up a plate of nice tasty meatballs for Blue Jays hitters to feast on. Troy Tulowitzki first took Darvish deep in the second inning for a pair of runs, after which the Rangers managed to claw one back to make it a one-run game. So Toronto responded by pinging t...