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Glove-Aided Dinger Helps Red Sox Stave Off Elimination
The Red Sox-Astros series was looking like a real turd heading into Game 3, with the Astros having outscored the Red Sox 16-4 in a pair of lopsided games in Houston. The Red Sox responded Sunday afternoon at Fenway with some overdue offense and managed to push the series to a Game 4....
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Odell Beckham Jr. Carted Off Field After Painful-Looking Leg Injury [Updates]
Giants superstar wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. suffered what looked like a nasty left leg injury late in today’s game against the Chargers. He was carted off the field in visible anguish....

Boxing Manager Melts Down At Press Conference: "I Fuck Your Wife! In Your Bed!"
Chris Eubank Jr. and Avni Yildirim will fight this weekend at 168 pounds, but the best fight of the event took place this morning, when Yildirim’s manager went ballistic. Ahmet Öner got into it with a member of Eubank’s camp and repeatedly yelled at him. He then threatened to fight him, sat down, th...

Odell Beckham Jr. Celebrates A Pair Of Touchdowns By Peeing And Protesting
Odell Beckham made a nice fourth-quarter catch in the end zone to give the Giants their first points of the day against the Eagles. Then he got down on all fours, lifted his leg, and pretended to pee....

Memphis Linebacker JJ Russell Carted Off Field After Huge Hit On Kickoff
Kickoffs remain football’s most dangerous play, and today’s UCLA-Memphis game ground to a halt after backup Tigers linebacker JJ Russell appeared to lose consciousness following a crushing blow delivered by an opposing blocker on a kickoff late in the first half. ...

Boxer's Dreadful Little Son Punches Opponent In The Dick At Weigh-In
Boxers will usually preen and maybe even scuffle with each other at weigh-ins to scare up interest for their match, but when has a fighter’s small child ever punched his rival in the penis? ...

Asshole Rushes To Asshole's Defense
We haven’t heard from world-class shitbag Floyd Mayweather Jr. that much since he beat Conor McGregor in an extravagant fake boxing match and thank God, because he’s an evil moron. His latest extended interview with Hollywood Unlocked does a lot to cement that notion, and if you want to hear about w...

Hank Williams Jr. Is Back On <i>MNF </i>Tonight, So We Wrote His New Theme For Him
Six years ago, ESPN parted ways with country singer and sentient pickup truck Hank Williams Jr. after Hank compared President Obama to Hitler. This caused Hank to fire back in a “No I’m firing YOU” letter that eerily presaged the current political hellscape in which we all now reside....

Remember When Hank Williams Jr. Called In A Military Strike On The United States?
When I was a little kid, my parents got me a Monday Night Football video game for the PC. It was no Tecmo Bowl, but it was great. What I liked even more about it was what it came with: A 45-minute VHS tape about the then-20-year history of MNF. I must’ve watched that tape 100 times....

Four Days In The Squall Of A Superfight<em></em>
LAS VEGAS, Nev.—“Man, I’m usually in a suit, but it’s too fucking hot today,” a scalper told me a few hours before the big fight. It truly was too fucking hot. A police dog had to wear booties to protect his feet. This particular scalper was forced halfway inside, working the buffer area between the...

Report: Floyd Mayweather Jr. Tried To Bet $400,000 In Cash On Himself
Floyd Mayweather went into the M Casino sportsbook Saturday afternoon and tried to plunk down $400,000 in cash on at least one bet on himself, according to this ESPN report....

Floyd Mayweather, Jr. Works The Marks Again<em></em>
“In the end,” tweeted the Times’s sports Twitter account, in the aftermath of Floyd Mayweather, Jr.’s 10th-round TKO of UFC star Conor McGregor,“McGregor didn’t have enough stamina to beat the world’s best boxer.”...

Guy Jumps In Front of Stephen A. Smith, Yells “Fuck The Mayweathers” On ESPN2
Now here’s some solid fight analysis: As Stephen A. Smith talked about how Floyd would’ve won tonight’s fight more easily if he were younger, a man in a Boston Celtics cap jumped in front of him and yelled, “Fuck the Mayweathers!” Of course....

Floyd Mayweather, Jr. Finishes Conor McGregor With Tenth-Round TKO
The Big Dumb Super Fight of the century ended in a rather predictable manner after a somewhat surprising start. Conor McGregor took a few rounds off of Floyd Mayweather, Jr., who was content to play matador for the purpose of dramatic tension. McGregor landed the odd jab, but nothing really heavy la...

For The Love Of God, Do Not Pay For The Mayweather-McGregor Fight
There’s a fascinating boxing match on TV tonight between a faded, formerly great champion and a younger brawler with limited skills, but enough about the Cotto-Kamegai match on HBO. Instead of watching a real fight, millions will tune in for a glorified staring match between a middle-aged, retired, ...

Las Vegas Swells Before A Fight
LAS VEGAS, Nev.—“This man needs no introduction,” said Leonard Ellerbe, longtime member of Floyd Mayweather Jr.’s inner circle, before giving a very long introduction, listing off a bill of stats, records, and bona fides of the greatest active boxer. He really didn’t need an introduction, because at...

Conor McGregor Is Somehow Defending The Lineal WWE Brawl For All Title
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. is boxing Conor McGregor this weekend, and the whole thing is completely awesome. While the traditionalist fight press sees this simply as a capitalist exercise with an inevitable result and no titles on the line, that’s not exactly the case—at least not officially, that is....

What Will The Fight At The End Of The Mayweather Vs. McGregor Circus Look Like?
Everything about the leadup to Conor McGregor’s matchup with Floyd Mayweather this Saturday has been absurd. We had McGregor in a suit adorned with “Fuck You” in a vertical pinstripe pattern; dollar bills raining down from the heavens; confrontations between McGregor’s and Mayweather’s enormous secu...

