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Now Mike Florio Is Getting In Twitter Fights With NFL Mascots
Resident NBC/ProFootballTalk moron and supposed NFL maven Mike Florio took his lifelong itinerary of bad decisions to a new level last night, getting into Twitter beef with Jaguars mascot Jaxson de Ville. ...

No-Headband LeBron Is The Best LeBron
If the Heat raise another championship banner to the rafters, perhaps it'll be because LeBron James's hairline got up there first....

The Best Thing About These Finals: There Are No Goats
When Game 1 of the NBA finals ended, we expressed a hope that this series would last forever. What we've ended up with is the next best thing: seven games, with last night's overtime, instant-classic, scare-the-cat-and-wake-up-the-neighbors thriller setting up a finale on Thursday that will be the c...

The Heat Force A Game Seven By Playing Fucking Ridiculously
It looked over. The jokes and criticisms were already being generated about LeBron James and the Heat as they found themselves down five with 28 seconds to go....

Female Sprinting Star Suspended For Failed Drug Test
Jamaica's Veronica Campbell-Brown, winner of the 2004 and 2008 Olympics women's 200m and reigning world champion, reportedly failed a drug test after testing positive for a banned diuretic used as a masking agent....

The Mighty Reggie Has Stuck Out Vs. Reggie's Revenge
The Yankees and Dodgers are scheduled to play a two-game series in the Bronx starting tonight (if the weather permits). Nice job by SI.com's Jay Jaffe today recalling the 1978 World Series and Game 2's classic final out when Bob Welch whiffed Mr. October. Featured is the following take on "Casey at ...

LeBron's New Shoe Refers To Him As A Two-Time Champion
This here is a picture of the sockliner of the new LeBron X shoe, which boasts a fancy floral colorway. It's kind of weird that it says "2-time champion" because, you know, LeBron is just a one-time champion right now, and he will continue to be one for the foreseeable future if the Heat lose to the...

The Phanatic's ATV Stalled Out On Him Before Tonight's Game
Werth: You're gonna need a new tranny on this....


Danny Green Was Once The Awkward Guy At LeBron's Birthday Party
This is a three-year-old video from LeBron James's 25th birthday party. At least that's what it was until today. Now, it's a video of Danny Green, the scrub-turned-dead-eyed-marksman who has taken the NBA finals by storm, acting awkward at a club. It's also proof that life is strange....

Phil Mickelson Eagled 10 To (Momentarily) Regain The Lead At U.S. Open
It's felt like the entire field has crumpled at the same time during the final round of the U.S. Open today at Merion. Luke Donald went from hitting out of the water to hitting out of the sand. Rory McIlroy broke a club and while it looked like perpetual sad-sack Jason Dufner was going to make a pu...

Phil Jackson Compares Shaquille O'Neal to Wilt Chamberlain
Legendary basketball coach Phil Jackson made headlines last month when his book, Eleven Rings, was published. He compared Michael Jordan to Kobe Bryant in the book and concluded basically that Jordan was much better. This wasn't a surprise to anyone, but there was a lot of value in reading Jackson, ...

Jaromir Jagr's Favorite Player Is Jaromir Jagr
David Krejci and Jaromir Jagr must be so pumped to play on the same team as their favorite player growing up....

Roy Hibbert Can Never Play For Team USA, And It's All Jamaica's Fault
The United States Olympic basketball team, finding itself short on centers, wanted to add Indiana Pacers big man Roy Hibbert to its roster before the 2012 summer games. There was just one problem: Hibbert belonged to the Jamaican national team. On this week's excerpt from Slate's Hang Up and Listen ...

This Air Hockey-Playing Robot Is Here To Ruin Your Shit
Japan—of course it's Japan, home of the Messi-stopping goalkeeper robot—has found a way to win all the Dave & Buster's tickets....

Size Matters, But So Does Space: How Miami Went Small And Won Game 4
You knew the Heat's small ball lineups were making the Spurs uncomfortable when, not even six minutes into Game 4 of the NBA finals, Gregg Popovich was playing a lineup that only saw the court for a total of 12 minutes in the regular season, most recently in a desperate comeback attempt against the ...

Grand Master
Here's Rick Reilly on Jack Nicklaus' incredible performance at the 1986 Masters:...

JaVale McGee Filmed Himself Giving A Homeless Person $100
JaVale McGee: still the best....
