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Lawsuit: Warriors App Secretly Allowed For Creepy, NSA-Style Tracking Of Users<em></em>
The Golden State Warriors are the team of the megalomaniacs and bloodsuckers of Silicon Valley, and they are run by a trophy-fucker who thinks he invented smallball. From their continued obfuscation of their own ridiculous luck with a teleological argument about how their success was predetermined b...
Scottish Club's Keeper Swings And Misses, Leading To Really Dumb Own Goal
Here is Aberdeen’s Joe Lewis, re-enacting that embarrassing time in elementary school when the kickball pitcher served you up a duck just waiting to be crushed, but you tried so hard to kill it that you whiffed. Unfortunately for Lewis, he did it in a decisive Europa League qualifying match, meaning...
Shut Up, Joe Lacob
The Warriors spent all season strutting around the NBA with their chests puffed out, telling anyone who would listen that they were better than the elite teams of the past, were horny for trophies, and had successfully re-engineered basketball from the circuits up to create a new, unforeseen way of ...
This Is All Joe Lacob's Fault
After the Golden State Warriors turned back into the pumpkin they were for so many decades and were blown out by the Thunder for a second straight game, it felt natural to try and seek a rational explanation, to assign credit and blame. You could credit Russell Westbrook and Kevin Durant for being t...
The Silicon Valley Guys Who Turned Around The Warriors Don't Believe In Their Ridiculous Luck
Friday night, in the third quarter of a home game against the Boston Celtics, Steph Curry started throwing up threes with no more trouble than a drunk trying to fall onto a sofa. Six for six he was, the kind of eruption that literally changes the dimensions of the game: He buried one trey from just ...
NFL Network Screwup Catches Analysts Mocking Prospect
NFL Network inadvertently aired its analysts’ off-air commentary on a quarterback prospect at the NFL combine, mocking both his singing and throwing ability while declaring him “the next former Browns quarterback.”...
My Proposals For The Billy Joel Musicology Conference
Oh, hell yes. This is a real thing, and it will be amazing....
Warriors Owner: I Did Some Fuck Stuff With The Larry O’Brien Trophy
Here’s a bone-chilling collection of words from Haute Living’s new profile of Warriors owner Joe Lacob:...
Joel Embiid Drinking Shirley Temples By The Pitcher Is Today's Great NBA Gossip
The Cauldron has a new report on the state of the Philadelphia 76ers, which features all sorts of “league sources” relaying instances of internal strife. The best part of the story concerns Joel Embiid’s alleged obsession with Shirley Temples....
We'll All Go Down Together: Billy Joel Says Goodbye To Nassau Coliseum
It’s a little after six on a sultry Tuesday evening, and the Champions sports bar nestled inside the Long Island Marriott is packed with an unusual crowd. The walls are lined with memorabilia from the New York Islanders, who up until a few days ago called the crumbling Nassau Coliseum next door home...
Joel Embiid Likely To Miss Upcoming Season After Foot Surgery
Philadelphia 76ers center Joel Embiid is likely to miss the 2015-2016 season, according to Keith Pompey of The Philadelphia Inquirer. Embiid is scheduled to have surgery in his right foot, which caused him to miss all of last season. ...
Report: Joel Embiid Could Sit Out Next Season, Too
The Philadelphia Inquirer is reporting that 76ers’ center Joel Embiid—the third pick in last year’s draft—has suffered setbacks in his recovery from surgery on his right foot and is unlikely to be ready for the start of next season, and may even miss the entire 2015-16 season....
Warriors Owner Couldn't Deal With Sitting Next To Rihanna
Photos caught Golden State Warriors owner Joe Lacob sitting next to Rihanna during Game 1 of the NBA Finals—and then, abruptly, sitting two seats away with his fiancée in between. It’s not what you think....
Joel Ward Gets Hockey Better Than Lazy Sportswriters
Alexander Ovechkin guaranteed that the Capitals will win tonight’s Game 7. What if the Rangers win? Or, more trickily, what if the Caps win and Ovechkin doesn’t appear on the scoresheet? How would that reflect upon Ovechkin, who (unfairly) has gained a reputation as a scorer who can’t score in the m...
1931 Op-Ed Eviscerates "Hypocrisy ... Utter Cowardice" Of College Sports
It's heartening to realize that the general sentiment toward the scam that is collegiate amateurism seems to have come around to the Death To The NCAA worldview. What's gone unappreciated, though, is just how long the fight to expose the fraudulent governance of amateur sports has been going on. The...
Joel Embiid: I'm Not Fat And I Do Care
Over the weekend, a report came out claiming Philadelphia 76ers center Joel Embiid was fat and unmotivated while he recovered from a foot injury. Embiid disputed those claims last night....
Report: Joel Embiid Is Fat And Doesn't Care
The main focus of this season's 76ers is their constant, intentional failure, but here's some news about one of the players they actually care about: Joel Embiid. He's reportedly flabby and not following his conditioning....
The Fat Guy Who Ran Down Devin Hester
The video above shows Devin Hester returning a missed 60-yard field goal 70-odd yards in Browns-Falcons on Sunday. It also shows 315-pound rookie left guard Joel Bitonio huffing 70-odd yards down the field in coverage to take Hester on an angle and save a touchdown. ...
We Improved A Billy Joel Song By Replacing Him With Jay-Z
We all know that Billy Joel sucks (especially lately), but as SB Nation's Spencer Hall recently noted, there's a portion of nearly every one of his songs that's really great. (You can usually blame Joel's rock-solid rhythm section of Liberty DeVitto and Doug Stegmeyer for that.) ...
Soccer Player Scores, Celebrates, Falls Into Giant Hole In The Ground
Coritiba hosted São Paulo yesterday in Brazil's Série A, and Coritiba beat that ass, defeating São Paulo, 3-1, with Coritiba forward Joel scoring two goals. But that's not why we're here. We're hear to talk about what happened after Joel scored his second goal....