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Adam Johnson Convicted Of Sexual Activity With A Child, Faces Up To 10 Years In Prison
One year to the day after being arrested for having a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old girl, and about a month after pleading guilty to two charges related to the case, former Sunderland winger Adam Johnson has been convicted of another charge of sexual activity with a child—one of the two bro...

Everybody's Mad At The Heat For How They Got Under The Luxury Tax Threshold
After the Brooklyn Nets bought out the rest of Joe Johnson’s contract, the Miami Heat quickly moved to sign him. While Johnson will probably help the Heat out on the court, signing him barely put the Heat over the luxury tax threshold....

Gus Johnson Says Dwight Howard Told Him He Almost Ended Up In Milwaukee
Dwight Howard was much closer to being traded at the deadline than previously reported, according to a probably reliable source: Dwight Howard....

Watch John Oliver MURDERSLAY Donald Trump
Making fun of Donald Trump is remarkably easy, but that doesn’t mean it ain’t satisfying. So why not sit back and watch self-described parrot banker John Oliver comprehensively rip Trump a new moneyhole for 20 solid minutes? You won’t be disappointed. You can’t be disappointed. Sometimes the easiest...

Nets Release Joe Johnson, Who Can Still Help A Lot Of Teams
The Brooklyn Nets are a sad, burned-out husk of a team with no clear direction. Today, they did what a bad team with a bloated payroll does and bought out seven-time All-Star Joe Johnson....

Look At This Incredible, Diving Open Net Save
Bud Holloway and his St. John’s IceCaps lost 4-1 to the Binghamton senators in some hot AHL action last night, but you ask me, this here diving save to prevent an open-net goal is worth at least three goals on its own....

U Can't See Me
No, seriously, Jamie Little clearly can’t see John Cena, today’s pace car driver....

Brice Johnson's Full-Court Buzzer Beater Goes In, Fails To Beat Buzzer
If there is a perfect Deadspin highlight, it’s the extraordinary athletic play that achieves the impossible but has no impact on the game’s result. So here’s North Carolina’s Brice Johnson casually launching the ball the length of the court after the first half buzzer of the Tar Heels’ home game aga...

Christopher Bell Somehow Walks Away From Devastating Wreck On Race's Final Lap
Johnny Sauter won tonight’s NASCAR truck race at Daytona, but everyone’s eyes were on Christopher Bell’s #4 truck after it went tumbling due to a wreck on the race’s final lap....

John Wall Has A Ridiculous Handle At Hyperspeed
Once upon a time, the knock on John Wall was that he could only move at one speed: hyperspeed. He still might be the fastest player in the NBA, but a big part of his maturation into an All-Star was learning how to remain under control, while still moving faster than everybody else on the court. Toni...

Reports: Tennessee Football Player Arrested For Punching, Choking Woman
Tennessee defensive tackle Alexis Johnson—a junior college transfer who enrolled in January—was arrested Wednesday night and is currently being held in Knox County jail on a 12-hour hold, according to jail records. The Chattanooga Times Free Press obtained the arrest report, and report that Johnson ...

Scrappy Upstart Duke Upsets North Carolina, Is Probably Good Again
Twentieth-ranked Duke knocked off fifth-ranked North Carolina 74-73 in Chapel Hill, as North Carolina inexplicably couldn’t win a game they probably should’ve....

Ivan Johnson Got Banned For Life From Playing Basketball In Yet Another Country
Ivan Johnson, former Hawks power forward and one of the most intimidating NBA players in recent memory, was banned from the Phillipine Basketball Association for life this morning for, “addressing the Commissioner with profanities and showing utter disrespect for authority.” ...

5'10" John Jordan Unleashes A Pair Of Nasty Dunks To Win D-League Dunk Contest
John Jordan, who’s only an inch taller than Isaiah Thomas, is currently playing for the Toronto Raptors D-League affiliate. The Texas A&M-Corpus Christi alumnus took part in the D-League’s dunk contest this afternoon and brought the house down with two of the best dunks I’ve seen someone under 6'0" ...

John Calipari Ejected In Under Three Minutes Against South Carolina
The #22 Kentucky Wildcats are on the road down in South Carolina this morning, and it took John Calipari mere minutes to get all riled up at officials and get himself tossed. Weirdly, it was after a foul was called against the Gamecocks....

Louisiana Is Broke, And Now The Governor Is Threatening To Cancel LSU Football
Louisiana has no money. The state is currently operating with a $940 million budget deficit that is set to balloon to $2 billion in the next fiscal year. (Nola.com has a good breakdown of how the state got in such a dire position, but if you want the short answer, it’s that former governor Bobby Jin...

Prosecutors Lay Out Details In Adam Johnson's Child Sex Case
The trial of recently-cut Sunderland winger Adam Johnson on charges related to his sexual relationship with a 15-year-old girl started today, which means we’re starting to learn the details of what exactly Johnson did to get in this situation. According to the prosecution’s version of events, they a...

Sunderland Player Released After Pleading Guilty To Sexual Activity With A Child
A day after Sunderland winger Adam Johnson pleaded guilty to two charges stemming from a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old girl, the club has reportedly terminated Johnson’s contract:...

Three Flames Players Benched For—Let's Be Honest—Being Hung Over, Probably
Flames leading scorers Johnny Gaudreau and Sean Monahan, along with forward Lance Bouma, were not in the lineup for Calgary’s last night’s 4-3 win over the Leafs. There was a whole thing at practice the day before, with people showing up late, and maybe being under the weather, and the benchings wer...

Browns Deny Report That They Covered For Drunk Johnny Manziel By Putting Him In Concussion Protocol
Quarterback Johnny Manziel missed the Browns’ final game of the season after the team reported that he was in the concussion protocol. NFL reporter Mike Silver emphatically claimed today that Manziel was actually in the protocol because he showed up drunk to practice on Dec. 30—and that the Browns l...