ja Page 391 - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights
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...
Alleged Beer-Throwing Blue Jays Fan Turns Himself In
Ken Pagan, the man identified by the Toronto Police Service as the dreaded beer thrower, turned himself in to police this afternoon around 7:15 p.m. Eastern Time. Per a release from the TPS, he has been arrested and charged with mischief....
Indians Slap Three Dongs In Nine Pitches
The Cleveland Indians were down a run to the Boston Red Sox in the third inning of this evening’s game. Within a nine-pitch span, they went from trailing 2-1 to leading 4-2 after Roberto Pérez, Jason Kipnis, and Francisco Lindor all slapped solo dongs to right field....
![French Announcer Absolutely Loses His Shit Calling Melvin Upton Jr.'s Big Dinger [Update]](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/aavu8g6999wrypgchkxc.jpg)
French Announcer Absolutely Loses His Shit Calling Melvin Upton Jr.'s Big Dinger [Update]
Zut alors! Le dinger!!!...
On Rites Of Passage<em></em>
Drew Magary’s Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo runs every Thursday during the NFL season. Email Drew here. Buy his book here. ...
![Here's The Guy That Toronto Police Say Threw A Beer On The Field Last Night [Update]](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/v1lhqeevjzmqv3xasddl.jpg)
Here's The Guy That Toronto Police Say Threw A Beer On The Field Last Night [Update]
It looks like a ghost was, in fact, not responsible for throwing that beer can at Hyun Soo Kim last night. This afternoon, the Toronto Police released a photo of the guy they say did it, and he looks like a henchman of ill repute. They released a short statement along with the photo:...
Letters From Death Row: James Broadnax, Texas Inmate 999549
We occasionally publish letters from death row inmates. Today we hear from James Broadnax, who was sentenced to death after being convicted for a 2008 robbery and murder in Texas....
This Is The Closest We've Gotten To Finding The Beer-Throwing Blue Jays Fan
The police have not yet identified the shithead Blue Jays fan that tossed a beer at Hyun Soo Kim last night, who the team said was able to slink off into the night before security could apprehend them. This, despite the rigorous work done by certified expert internet investigators such as myself. Wh...
Ghanaian Coach Believes Country Is Failing At Soccer Because Players Fuck Too Much
Former Ghana international-turned-manager, Malik Jabir, is not happy with the state of Ghanaian soccer. To his mind, the players are not realizing their potential though a lack of commitment to the game. And he thinks he knows why, too: players are too tempted by all the sexy Ghanaian women and wind...