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What If A Baseball Player Were As Dominant As LeBron?

I'd like to pretend that I'm above paying attention to the LeBron James circus, but like everyone else, I spent a lot of today just sitting around waiting on some revelatory Adrian Wojnarowski tweet, so that a question like What if someone was just as dominant as LeBron James, but he played baseball...

Did Mo Williams Warn Miami What It's Like To Get Burned By LeBron?

Tell us how you really feel, Mo?...

Watch This Botched Baseball Slide In Agonizing Slow-Mo

Baseball players: Do not slide like Lotte Giants infielder Hwang Jae-Gyun did into third base. This is not how to slide. Not only will you wreck your face, but you likely won't get to the bag in time anyway, and then you'll lay in the dirt, wondering where it all went wrong. (It all went wrong when ...

Hold On To Your Butts [Update: You Can Let Go Of Your Butts For Now]

We don't want to get too swept up in the LeBron hype. Actually, that is a lie. We are totally swept up in it and want you to be too. Just look at what's going down near LeBron's home in Bath Township, Ohio, just outside of Akron:...

Just Undo It: The LeBron James Profile That Nike Killed

This profile of LeBron James was reported and written in 2011 for Port, a new London-based men's magazine, under odd circumstances: Nike paid for the writer's travel expenses and a portion of his fee. The story that came out of the trip was not what Nike had expected—a rep was apparently "furious"—...

Cleveland Zoo Owl Betrays Her City, Predicts LeBron Will Stay In Miami

Tawny just did you dirty, Cleveland. You provide a home for her in the Cleveland Zoo, and this is how she repays you....

Harper Lee: Roll Tide!

Harper Lee, author of one of the most popular American novels ever written, was famous for not granting interviews. But Marja Mills, a former reporter and feature writer for the Chicago Tribune, became friendly with Lee and her sister, Alice Finch Lee, and was permitted to write about them. Mills's ...

Argentina's Javier Mascherano Says He Tore His Anus Against The Dutch

Javier Mascherano did not have a pleasant Wednesday. In Argentina's match against the Netherlands, not only did Mascherano take a hit to the head, but he says he suffered another painful injury while defending a shot by Arjen Robben....

All The Internet Clues That Point To LeBron Going To Cleveland

Though LeBron James has remained totally silent about his free agency plans, the tea leaves are there, if you're desperate and crazy enough to read them. ...

Red Sox Outfielder Jackie Bradley, Jr. Lays Out For A Magnificent Catch

Jackie Bradley, Jr.'s been a lackluster hitter for the Red Sox, but his play in the outfield can make up for it. (His averages will improve with time, anyway.) Bradley's fielding prowess was put on display tonight when he went a long way to rob White Sox catcher Tyler Flowers of a hit....

Argentine Player Hit In The Head, Stumbles And Falls, Stays In The Game

Argentina's Javier Mascherano couldn't even stand up after clashing heads with a Dutch player. He was taken off the pitch for only a couple moments—concussion protocol!—before returning. ...

Don't Do This To Yourself, Cleveland

No. Don't do this. You're going to jinx it....

Other Plan B's For The Cleveland Cavaliers To Consider

By trading Jarrett Jack in order to clear cap space today, the Cavs made it clear they're all-in on trying to get LeBron James. It's also being reported that if they miss out on James, their Plan B involves trying to sign Chandler Parsons or Trevor Ariza. Those are pretty sad plans! Here are some ...

LeBron James Free Agent Watch, As Sketch Comedy

I guess we have the technology to find out what these gentlemen were talking about, but every frame is a painting in the absurd. Just check out that dryish-marker-on-presentation-handouts penmanship going on there; that's top drawer comedy set design. ...

The Cavs Just Cleared Some LeBron-Sized Cap Space

So it appears that the Cavs are really going for it. LeBron's old team just swung a three-team trade that will clear $9.5 million off the Cavaliers' books, leaving them with about $24 million in cap space, and that puts them them well in position to offer LeBron a max contract at $20.7 million....

World Cup Jinx Mick Jagger Screwed The Brazilians Again

Mick Jagger has had a run of unwitting World Cup predictions as good as any octopus—only Mick's endorsement is to be avoided at all costs. Anyone he supports, loses. He was in Brazil's corner today, naturally....

Cops: Two Miami Players Admit Sex Assault On "Physically Helpless" Teen

Two Miami linebackers, Alex Figueroa and JaWand Blue, have been arrested and charged with sexual battery after admitting to raping a "mentally or physically incapacitated" 17-year-old girl in a campus dorm over the weekend....

"Dear...Hero": Dan Gilbert's Comic Sans Letter, Edited For 2014 LeBron

LeBron James is back on the free-agent market for the first time since he left his hometown Cleveland Cavaliers for the Miami Heat. Doesn't all that summer's bitterness seem so long ago now? Might James want to try playing with a star guard who has two working legs? He might, right? He hasn't said h...

Derek Jeter Tricks Jason Kipnis On Foul Pop; Yankees Turn Double Play

Oh, that Derek Jeter. So wily, even at 40....

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