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Report: These Anonymous Twitter Accounts Love To Defend 76ers GM Bryan Colangelo's Honor And Shirt Collars

In a report for The Ringer, Ben Detrick has presented compelling evidence that Philadelphia 76ers president of basketball operations Bryan Colangelo has a set of anonymous Twitter accounts, which he’s used to criticize his own players, slam former team GM Sam Hinkie, give out his players’ private me...

Joel Embiid Keeps Showing Up At My Neighborhood Playground To Dunk On Civilians

There was a time when Seger Park had some of the best basketball courts in Philadelphia. They were easily accessible—they’re in Center City and just a short walk from both of Philadelphia’s subway lines—and they attracted good players from around the city. (You could see Prep Charter’s Rodney Green ...

Joey Votto "Terribly Ashamed" Of Saying Semi-Rude Things About Canada

Reds first baseman Joey Votto is a fantastic baseball player, a charmingly prickly dude, and a Canadian. Those last two things converged recently to produce one of his more memorable quotes, in which he explained that he really doesn’t give a shit about Canada....

The Philadelphia 76ers Should Blow Up The Team And Not Worry About The Short-Term Consequences

After half a decade under head coach Brett Brown and four years and two contracts into the career of star center Joel Embiid—the team’s only All-Star—the Philadelphia 76ers and their fans face a moment of reckoning. It’s a painful one, but it won’t get any less painful if we ignore it. The facts are...

Celtics Take 3-0 Series Lead After Sixers Choke Repeatedly 

It’s not that the Sixers are dumb. They’re not. They are, in fact, quite tough and disciplined. But it is also true that their best players are children, and they are playing a series against one of the very sharpest, most wisely and meticulously coached NBA teams you will ever see. And the conseque...

Holy Shit, Joel Embiid Dunked Aron Baynes Off The Face Of The Earth

Aron Baynes has to retire now, those are the rules....

Pour One Out For Joe Prunty, Who Turned A Bunch Of Shit Into A Pile Of Shit

Here’s a pretty remarkable stat: the Bucks used 16 different lineups Saturday night, in their Game 7 loss to the Boston Celtics; the five most used lineups of the bunch played about 35 minutes, and finished plus-11; the other 11 lineups played a total of just over 13 minutes, and were outscored by a...

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Is Joel Embiid's Mask More Superhero Or Supervillain?  

After missing a few weeks with a concussion and an orbital fracture, Joel Embiid is finally back on the floor for tonight’s Game 3 against the Heat—with a pretty sick mask, goggles included. Constructing the thing was apparently quite the project......

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How Joey Janela's Spring Break Became Pro Wrestling's Biggest Viral Success Story

WrestleMania weekend, in its current form, only dates back to 2014. That was when, after having tried to work together the prior year, the Wrestlecon autograph show and the WWN family of independent promotions began running competing sets of shows in WrestleMania’s host city. One building would host...

Joel Embiid Is Not Happy After Tonight's Sixers Loss 

Joel Embiid cleared concussion protocol yesterday—nearly three weeks after he initially landed in said protocol by smacking heads with teammate Markelle Fultz and fracturing his orbital bone—but the Sixers center was still on the bench for tonight’s Game 2 against the Heat. He’s apparently not too t...

Joel Embiid Moves One Big Step Closer To Returning To Action

For a while during the first half of Saturday’s Game 1 it looked like the Miami Heat might be able to capitalize on the absence of Joel Embiid, who has been in the NBA’s concussion protocol since March 28. Miami had a six-point lead after the first quarter; their lead in the first half grew to as la...

Winnipeg's Been Waiting A Long Time For This

It had been 22 years since a Winnipeg Jets team won a playoff game, and that wasn’t even these Winnipeg Jets. That was a different franchise altogether; it’s in Arizona now. This Jets franchise, including its time in Atlanta, had never won a playoff game. But before a crazy, popcorn-erupting, whited...

Joey Votto Performs A Public Service, Robs Eagles Fan Of Happiness

Reds first baseman Joey Votto, who loves to punk and clown doofuses, performed a good deed during Monday’s Reds-Phillies game when he snatched up the remaining dignity of a guy in an Eagles jersey....

This Was The Most Batshit Part Of <i>Paterno</i>

HBO’s Paterno, an excuse for Al Pacino to put on makeup and shuffle around in what were essentially pajamas, premiered Saturday. The movie covered when the Jerry Sandusky scandal broke, and the leadup to Penn State firing football coach Joe Paterno. The Paterno family called the movie “a fictionali...

Joel Embiid’s Orbital Bone Might Be Messed Up [UPDATE: He Needs Surgery]

The Sixers are on a long winning streak; Joel Embiid has been a star all season; Ben Simmons is playing great; and Markelle Fultz is back in the lineup after missing 68 games. Of course, this means something bad has to happen....

Markelle Fultz Smacked Heads With Joel Embiid And Sent Him To The Locker Room [Update]

Sixers rookie Markelle Fultz is currently trying to transition from being an injured dude with a busted shot to an actual real-life basketball player, but it’s been a bumpy road, and it hit another hitch in the Philly game tonight....

Terry Funk Scouts The Budding Brawl Between “Two Assholes” Trump And Biden

So Donald Trump and Joe Biden are cutting promos again....

Joe Thomas Roasted Everyone During His Retirement Press Conference

Former Browns tackle Joe Thomas, who rules, is finally free of the Sadness Factory after 11 seasons. Yesterday, he held a press conference to make his retirement official, and spent a portion of it playfully roasting various characters from the Browns’ depressing universe....