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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....
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
Miami's Big Three Bests San Antonio's Big One-And-Three-Quarters
For much of the playoffs the question had been whether LeBron James could just get some help from his teammates. By the time Game 3 of the Finals rolled around, it began to look like LeBron was fading. But in Game 4, LeBron, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh finally put a game together in the playoffs to l...
The Spurs Just Beat The Motherfucking Brakes Off The Miami Heat
This is an article about Tracy McGrady....
Rogen's Heroes: <em>This Is the End</em>, Reviewed.
When they're not performing, actors are basically worthless human beings. Or so goes the central joke in This Is the End, and it turns out that you can make a really funny movie based almost entirely on that joke. Written and directed by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg and based on their short Jay and...
There's No Limit To The Ways In Which LeBron Can Hurt His Opponents
If there was ever a moment to be afraid that the moronic lowing of "LeBron isn't clutch!" was going to be heard once again, it was during the first half of Game 2 between the Spurs and Heat. James played tentatively throughout the half, finishing with four points, four assists, and one rebound on 2-...
Why, Yes, We Have Jim Ross Calling LeBron's Block On Tiago Splitter
We aim to please....
LeBron's Latest Stunner Was This Demolition Of Tiago Splitter
The Heat made easy work of San Antonio tonight, taking advantage of an off-night by the Spurs' stars to cruise to a Game 2 victory. Yet all anybody wants to talk about is this apocalyptic block by LeBron James....
Mark Cuban Is Throwing A Pile Of Flopping Money At A Study
Tired of watching NBA players flop around, Mark Cuban is going to fund a flopping study. One of his companies is providing $100,000 to a medical center in Texas, to support 18 flopping months of motion-capture research. "The research findings could conceivably contribute to video reviews of flopping...
US Soccer Overcomes Late Defensive Lapse To Best Jamaica In Thriller
Last night, US men's soccer traveled to Jamaica to take on the hosts in CONCACAF World Cup qualifying. It was their fourth game in the final Hexagonal round, where all six clubs play the others home and away. After 10 games, the top three teams advance to next year's World Cup in Brazil, while the f...
How Big Brown's People Nearly Pulled Off Horse Racing's Biggest Scam
As 95-degree temperatures baked a crowd of nearly 100,000 at the 2008 Belmont Stakes—the hottest June 7 on record—the only person who seemed unfazed was Richard Dutrow Jr., the trainer of Big Brown, an undefeated colt just 12 furlongs from the first Triple Crown in three decades. With history agains...
Shane Battier Says Getting Benched Was Like Eating A "Turd Sandwich"
Hey, Shane Battier, how did it feel to spend all of Game 7 of the Eastern Conference finals on the bench?...
Shane Battier Was Reduced To Toweling Off LeBron James Last Night
During the regular season, Shane Battier was a key cog in the Miami Heat's small-ball offense. His willingness to guard bigger power forwards and his ability to cause matchup problems on the offensive end with his three-point shooting were big factors in the Heat's success. But his inability to gua...