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Wolfsburg Make John Brooks The Most Expensive American Player In History
This summer’s transfer window isn’t even officially open yet and we’re already seeing some crazy, record-breaking fees being thrown about. Like Paul Pogba a year ago, the source of the (arguably) biggest, most (relatively) eye-popping fee that (not quite) everyone is talking about is the record-smas...

Law Enforcement Identifies Kentucky Fans Who Threatened Elite Eight Referee
Seven Kentucky fans who harassed and threatened referee John Higgins after the team’s Elite Eight loss have been identified by law enforcement, according to the Associated Press....

Maryland Baseball Coach Gets Ejected With Explosive Rant
Maryland baseball coach John Szefc got ejected during a tie game in the eighth inning today after getting pretty heated when one of his players, outfielder Marty Costes, was struck by a pitch. As Costes turned to jog to first, however, the ump called him back—saying that he hadn’t made enough effort...

Kyle Schwarber Sent This Johnny Cueto Pitch To Hell
Kyle Schwarber is a big dude who smacks big home runs, and tonight, he painted his masterpiece. Johnny Cueto sailed in a 90 MPH pitch and Schwarber got every bit of it, sending it 470 feet to right field. According to Statcast, it’s the longest cuadrangular of Schwarber’s career....

John Terry's Questionable Substitution In His Last Chelsea Match Was Probably Fine But He Still Sucks
On Sunday, Chelsea captain and one of the most unlikeable men in sports John Terry bid farewell to his club of 22 years after he was subbed off in the 26th minute of the club’s 5-1 drubbing of Sunderland. It was an orchestrated tribute to his uniform number, and Sunderland keeper Jordan Pickford obl...

Calvin Johnson On End Of Time With Lions: "I Just Didn't Feel Like I Was Treated The Way I Should Have Been"
Calvin Johnson isn’t happy with how his relationship with the Detroit Lions ended....

ESPN To Advertisers: It's Fine! It's Fine! Everything's Fine!<em></em>
ESPN opened its annual upfront presentation to advertisers in New York earlier this week with a full brass band performing a New Orleans funeral march. It was tempting to read too much into it—ESPN poking fun with some gallows humor about its subscriber losses and recent layoffs of 100 employees—but...

Could This Single-A Catcher With One MLB At-Bat Make The All-Star Game?
All-star games are an inelegant but closest-we’re-gonna-get answer to beer-fueled debates on whether League’s Best Player could beat League’s Other Best Player in a game with the finest supporting casts available. Because the public gets to vote on the picks, the event is also very easy to fuck with...

The Lakers Narrowly Avoided Total Catastrophe At The Lottery
The Los Angeles Lakers will get the second overall pick in the 2017 NBA Draft, which is a fine return for a shit-filled season of tanking that very nearly went up in flames thanks to an inexplicable five-game winning streak at the end of the year. Not only is the team in the driver’s seat to pick Lo...

The Wizards' Bench Won Somebody A Spot In The Eastern Conference Finals
I guess if you want to pin the outcome of last night’s Game 7 on somebody—somebody other than repulsive unconscious three-bombing Canuck gorilla Kelly Olynyk—you can pin it on Scott Brooks and Ernie Grunfeld....

The Wizards Are Dead And Kelly Olynyk Killed Them
Thanks to a big night from oafish backup center guy Kelly Olynyk, the Boston Celtics took Game 7 from the Washington Wizards tonight, 115-105, and won the honor of trying to stop LeBron James and the Cavs. They will probably not fare that well, but whatever, this is their night....

Jury Deadlocks In Trial Of Guy Who Hit Kevin Johnson In The Face With Coconut Cream Pie
After Sean Thompson publicly pied Kevin Johnson, the ex-NBA superstar turned disgraced mayor of Sacramento, Thompson said he wanted his day in court. Looks like he might end up with more than he bargained for: On the fifth day of deliberations after a week-long trial, a jury in Sacramento Superior C...

Ryan Kesler Is Making Ryan Johansen So Mad
The Western Conference Finals were always going to be decided up top. Nashville, without a ton of scoring from its depth forwards, relies heavily on its top line centered by Ryan Johansen, and they’ve been ultra-hot in these playoffs. Anaheim’s shutdown line, anchored by Ryan Kesler, can certainly f...

John Wall Kills Celtics With Perfectly Placed Dagger
Down two, five seconds left, season in the balance, the charred end of a night when his team hit 20 percent of its three-point attempts, a postseason in which home teams facing elimination were 0-10, the best defender on the East’s top seed staring him in the face, ladies and gentlemen, I give you J...

Orlando TV Guy Says He Knows Who The Nude Man Humping A Shark Is
The identity of the nude man humping a shark has been partially revealed, per Orlando’s David Pingalore of CBS affiliate WKMG. The sports director appeared on Orlando Sentinel columnist Mike Bianchi’s radio show Open Mike today, and shared what he knew about the shark humper, who is allegedly a form...

The Rock Is Totally Going To Run For President Against John Cena In 2024
This excerpt in Caity Weaver’s GQ profile of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson makes me believe that within a few years, he’ll at least run for office, if not president:...

Jimmy John's Says That's Not Jimmy John Nude And Humping A Shark
On Monday, Florida football coach Jim McElwain said he was not the naked man photographed straddling a shark on a boat. Today, the Jimmy John’s sandwich chain told Deadspin that the nude shark humper also isn’t owner Jimmy John Liautaud....

John Wall Is Too Much
In his “Coach’s Corner” bit after the first quarter of last night’s Game 4 between the Celtics and the Wizards, Boston coach Brad Stevens explained to TNT’s David Aldridge how his team had shrugged off an early Washington run to end the period leading 24-20. “Even when it was 8-0 them,” he said, “we...

John Daly Wins First Tournament Since 2004
Hard-livin’, chain-smokin’ John Daly claimed his first tournament title in 13 years after winning this weekend’s Champions event at The Woodlands, Tex. by one stroke....

Always Dreaming Wins Kentucky Derby
There were no surprises in Louisville as one of the morning favorites, Todd Pletcher-trained Always Dreaming, took the 143rd Kentucky Derby with a waterlogged unofficial time of 2:03.59....