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Will Cain Was The Salty Butt Of The Only Good April Fools' Joke
April Fools’ jokes are always exhausting or unoriginal or impressively tone deaf, except when, every once in a while, they’re not. And this year, it was ESPN of all places that managed to pull off a genuinely good April Fools’ Day prank, mostly because the butt of the joke was ESPN’s resident idiot ...
Tre Jones Spat In The Face Of His Doubters
The way to beat Duke is to make Tre Jones take threes, or so the thinking went until the Blue Devils’ 75-73 win over Virginia Tech on Friday night. The freshman point guard, who is now shooting 26.5 percent from long range after last night, was left to do whatever he wanted at the arc when UCF almos...
Damon Jones Reveals That The Soup J.R. Smith Threw At Him Was Indeed "Hot As Hell"
These days it’s hard to believe that J.R. Smith and the Cleveland Cavaliers were ever at the center of NBA fans’ attention, but it wasn’t so long ago that this was the case. Of course I am not referring to the time LeBron James was Smith’s teammate and brought a title to Cleveland, but to the time J...
Derrick Jones Jr. Easily Could Have Dunked This Alley-Oop On A 12-Foot Rim
You have two options when you’re down over 20 points at home against one of top teams in your conference with less than three minutes remaining: you can run out the clock and mentally move on to the next game like a coward, or you can use the open floorspace and lax defense to pull off some gravity-...
Jacque Jones Found Liable In Revenge Porn Lawsuit
Former MLB outfielder and former Washington Nationals assistant hitting coach Jacque Jones was found liable last month in a San Diego civil court for distributing a private intimate photo without consent. The verdict stemmed from a lawsuit filed two years ago in which a woman going by Jane Doe said ...
Suns Fans Wait Hours For Josh Jackson But Instead Get Free Beer, Which Is Way Better
Several dozen otherwise normal adult human beings waited for several hours in a Phoenix grocery store Wednesday night for an opportunity to meet and score an autograph from utterly unremarkable Suns second-year forward Josh Jackson. The deal, arranged through the team, had it that fans who showed up...
Suns Fans Wait Hours For Josh Jackson But Instead Get Free Beer, Which Is Way Better
Several dozen otherwise normal adult human beings waited for several hours in a Phoenix grocery store Wednesday night for an opportunity to meet and score an autograph from utterly unremarkable Suns second-year forward Josh Jackson. The deal, arranged through the team, had it that fans who showed up...
Five Months Later, The Rudderless, League-Worst Suns Are Finally Interviewing For A General Manager
The Suns recently snapped a team-record and almost-season-worst* 17-game losing streak. They have won fewer than a fifth of their games this season, and once again they are the worst basketball team in the NBA. Their ongoing, endless dysfunction has finally risen to the level of “a concern for the ...
Adam "Pacman" Jones Arrested After Being Suspected Of Cheating At Casino
NFL cornerback Adam “Pacman” Jones was arrested for disorderly conduct around 3:10 a.m. this morning at the Rising Star Casino, which sits on the Indiana-Kentucky border. Dearborn County (Indiana) officials booked him on disorderly conduct charges. According to arrest records, Jones will be held wit...
Alex Jones's Feud With Joe Rogan Is Just As Stupid As It Was Inevitable<em></em>
Like two neutron stars slowly pulled together by their mutual gravity, orbiting around each other before collapsing together and obliterating everything in space around them, Alex Jones and Joe Rogan are beefing....
Jon Jones Throws A Hissy Fit After Reporter Asks About His Atypical Drug Test
Last night was the official pre-fight press conference for UFC 232, an event that was hastily moved from Las Vegas to Los Angeles after headliner Jon Jones was found to have a small trace of a banned substance in his blood. Jones, who has tested positive for performance enhancing drugs in the past, ...
Won't Someone Please Think Of Dana White?
UFC president Dana White was a bit of a shithead towards a reporter on Thursday during the press conference for the recently-relocated UFC 232. To make things easier for Jon Jones to participate in the headlining fight after an “atypical” drug test, the pay-per-view event was move from Las Vegas to ...
Duke's Daniel Jones Gets Compared To Peyton Manning, Officially Enters The Pre-Draft Hype Cycle
Duke quarterback Daniel Jones lit up the Temple Owls in the Independence Bowl today, throwing for 423 yards and five touchdowns while leading the Blue Devils to a 56-27 victory. Jones, who is exactly the kind of quarterback—a very tall white one—who tends to get football analysts and commentators in...
UFC 232 Moved From Las Vegas To Los Angeles After "Atypical" Jon Jones Drug Test
A testing abnormality from Jon Jones has forced the UFC to move Saturday’s UFC 232 PPV event from the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas to the The Forum in Los Angeles, UFC President Dana White said on SportsCenter Sunday. All fighters on the card are expected to move with Jones (22-1) and his opponent, ...
LeBron James Has No Problem Calling NFL Owners Out On Their Bullshit
LeBron James didn’t mince words when talking about the difference between NBA and NFL owners on the latest episode of his HBO show The Shop. In a conversation with Todd Gurley, Maverick Carter and Ice Cube, he called out the “slave mentality” NFL owners have towards players while referencing roster ...
Julio Jones Jacks Up Dallas' Jeff Heath To Prevent Interception
Julio Jones isn’t just an all-pro receiver who’s currently leading the league in receiving yards, he’s also a bonafide hard-hitter on the football field. Late in the first half, Matt Ryan took a shot down field for his star receiver to grab, but he overthrew the pass. Had Julio Jones’s safety instin...
Julio Jones Finally Scored A Goddamn Touchdown
It took over seven games, 59 receptions and 898 yards but Julio Jones finally scored his first touchdown of the season. Matt Ryan connected with his star receiver on a 3rd-and-two screen pass at Washington’s 35-yard line. The recently-traded HaHa Clinton-Dix almost forced Jones to fall before crossi...
The Cowboys Found Several Ways To Beat Themselves<em></em>
In the most NFC East–ass ending, the Cowboys lost Sunday to Washington on a missed game-ending field goal, which came after Dallas bungled its final drive and committed an inexplicable penalty....
Why The NFL Dumped Its Anthem Policy
NEW YORK — The NFL was really feeling itself at this week’s fall meetings in lower Manhattan. Scoring is through the roof! Games are historically close! Ratings are up! Concussions are down! It was impossible to chat up a league official without being reminded of how swell things are going, and ain’...
Chris Jones's Day Included Embarrassing Blake Bortles And Punching A Guy's Ass
The most anticipated game of the early NFL season was pretty one-sided. The undefeated Kansas City Chiefs and their high-powered offense have been dominating the supposedly impenetrable defense of the 3-1 Jacksonville Jaguars. Oddly enough, one of the more notable players of the game was not the lea...