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Salvador Perez Sprains MCL Carrying Suitcase Up Steps

Royals catcher Salvador Perez will miss at least the first month of the season after spraining his medial collateral ligament while carrying a suitcase up the steps of his home....

Lame Foul Call Denies Killer LeBron Slam

In a cruel showcase of remarkable self control, LeBron James pulled back from what would have been a pulse-pounding hardcore dunk early in his game tonight against the Hornets, working the crowd into an edge-of-their-seats heat without ever allowing them release. All because of a dumb foul....

Markelle Fultz Smacked Heads With Joel Embiid And Sent Him To The Locker Room [Update]

Sixers rookie Markelle Fultz is currently trying to transition from being an injured dude with a busted shot to an actual real-life basketball player, but it’s been a bumpy road, and it hit another hitch in the Philly game tonight....

Deposition: Martha, Bela Karolyi Claim They Did Not Know About Larry Nassar's Abuse At Their Ranch

Former U.S. women’s national gymnastics team coordinator Martha Karolyi and her husband, acclaimed former coach Bela Karolyi, said in a deposition last year that they did not know about the serial sexual abuse that Dr. Larry Nassar committed on their ranch, according to court records obtained by CNN...

Why Cricket's Ball-Tampering Scandal Is Such A Big Deal

You’ve heard by now that the Australian men’s Test cricket team were caught ball-tampering in a match against South Africa. Cameron Bancroft was caught on camera scuffing the surface of the match ball with a piece of sandpaper, and tried to hide the evidence when informed that he’d been filmed in th...

Deep Space Nine Innings: A Star Trek Spinoff's Unlikely Baseball Obsession

Star Trek, the original television show, is built on Gene Roddenberry’s insanely optimistic view of the future. Someday, he and his show believed, human beings would would learn to split the atom and solve the problem of need; our better natures would take over and we would fly around the galaxy spr...

Ben Simmons Used An Air-Tight Argument To Try And Get Karl-Anthony Towns To Stay Up And Play Video Games With Him<em></em>

During a PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds streaming session last night, Sixers rookie Ben Simmons tried to convince Karl-Anthony Towns, who was logging off, to play a round with him. ...

The Kyrgios-Zverev Rivalry May Not Be So Much Fun After All

Almost one year ago to the day, Nick Kyrgios and Alexander Zverev had themselves a beautiful baby: a match-long highlight reel starring two ornery geniuses. That was a different time: Kyrgios had embarked on a focused tear through Indian Wells and Miami, playing as well as he ever has; Zverev was ab...

The Raptors' Bench Is Good Enough To Kill Playoff Dreams

The Denver Nuggets came into last night’s game against the Raptors in desperate need of a win to keep their ever-shrinking playoff hopes alive. Beating the best team in the Eastern Conference on the second night of a back-to-back isn’t the easiest proposition, but these sorts of games do present a p...

How Louisiana's Archaic Commission Rules Will Burden WrestleMania Weekend Indie Shows

Four years ago, fans watching some of the independent shows in New Orleans via internet pay-per-view during WrestleMania weekend got some strange news. Announcers mentioned that the piledriver had been banned by the Louisiana Boxing and Wrestling Commission, and so would not be seen in any of the ev...

Presenting The 2018 Name Of The Year Bracket <em></em>

To all of you who have shouted at us on Twitter, through our email address, and in my Gchat windows: Yes, we know, we’re late....

Kevin Love Commits Blocking Foul With His Face, Gets Tooth Knocked Loose

Under two minutes into the Cleveland Cavaliers’ loss to the Miami Heat last night, Kevin Love took Heat center Jordan Mickey’s elbow to the face, which knocked his tooth loose, drew blood, and sent him to the locker room. And he got called for the blocking foul....

Kings Close Arena Again Due To Protests Over Fatal Police Shooting Of Stephon Clark

Only a few thousand fans were able to make it in the arena for the Kings’ loss to the Mavericks on Tuesday night before the building’s entrances were shut down as a “public safety measure” due to the presence of protestors, who were demonstrating in response to the fatal police shooting of Sacrament...

Man Awestruck By The Sight Of Ian Rapoport

It’s not every day you get to see NFL Network talent in the flesh. Ian Rapoport’s biggest fan even got in a little salute at the end—or maybe he was mimicking a cameraman telling him to get the hell out of the shot....

<i>The Mighty Ducks </i>Is A Mediocre Movie With An Utterly Unsympathetic Protagonist

I’m not nostalgic for your favorite sports film, because I probably never saw it the first time around (unless it’s A League Of Their Own, which even I know is a goddamn masterpiece). There’s no grand explanation for this gap in my cinematic literacy; I was too young for some of the classic sports ...

Chris Mack Leaves Top-Five Team To Coach At Mid-Tier ACC Program

Mookie Betts On Fly Ball While Chatting With ESPN: “I Ain’t Getting This One, Boys”

Mookie Betts chatted with the ESPN announcing crew during the top half of the third inning in a spring training game today. Hey, it’s an exhibition game....

Driver Almost Runs Over Pro Cyclist, Then Attacks And Hospitalizes Him

Colombian pro cyclist Daniel Martinez was hospitalized earlier today after reportedly suffering a serious head injury in a violent confrontation with a dickhead driver. Martinez, who just took a surprising seventh place at the Volta a Catalunya, was on a training ride in Tuscany with EF Education Fi...

Texans Sign Brandon Weeden Because They Learned <i>Nothing</i>

The Houston Texans have signed Brandon Weeden to back up Deshaun Watson and let us for the moment set aside the silliness of a certain unemployed QB remaining unemployed—Texans owner Bob McNair was deposed earlier this month in Colin Kaepernick’s collusion grievance against the NFL, so that wasn’t a...

Seahawks Cut Trevone Boykin After Girlfriend Says He Choked Her Out, Broke Her Jaw [Update]

Shabrika Bailey, the girlfriend of former TCU and Seattle Seahawks quarterback Trevone Boykin, said in a news interview Monday that Boykin assaulted her, choked her out, and broke her jaw last Tuesday in Mansfield, Texas, over an argument about text messages....