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Here's A Great Story About Mike Lupica Being A Dickhead

Mike Lupica, whose little fingers are still, somehow, busy banging out columns for the New York Daily News and MLB.com, has a bit of a reputation for being a smug jerk to people he deems beneath him. From Shannon Hale, a well-known author of young-adult novels, comes yet another tale of Lil’ Mike be...

Mo Farah, Who Is Definitely Definitely Not A Doper, Reportedly Sued A Writer For Referencing Doping Rumors

World-beating British runner Mo Farah has spent the gold-medal winning portion of his career denying that he took performance-enhancing drugs in more than the allowed amounts or in unallowed ways. He’s had to issue those denials in part because of his association with the legendarily shady coach Alb...

Sebastian Aho Gets A Penalty For Hooking Sebastian Aho

Sebastian Aho plays for the New York Islanders. Sebastian Aho plays for the Carolina Hurricanes. Yes, there are two players named Sebastian Aho in the NHL, in what appears to be hockey’s useless but mildly interesting equivalent of the NFL’s “Antonio Gates played basketball in college.”...

Cavs Coach Tyronn Lue Takes Leave Of Absence, Cites Health Issues

The Cavaliers today announced Lue will be taking a leave of absence from the team. Lue, who had not previously disclosed the illness or its symptoms, said he has been suffering from chest pains, a lack of sleep “and other troubling symptoms.” Doctors, however, have reached “no conclusions as to what...

Bob Huggins Met Dan D'Antoni In A Battle For The Future Of Men's Fashion

West Virginia Governor Jim Justice appeared at Sunday night’s NCAA Tournament game between West Virginia and Marshall wearing a suit that was both deeply and intentionally unfortunate. Justice is a Marshall University graduate—his wife and daughter are, as well—and, if you’re just joining us, a West...

Patrik Laine Has A Template For Greatness

The next generation of the NHL is in good hands, with the likes of McDavid and Matthews and Patrik Laine not merely promising to be superstars in the near future, but playing like superstars now. Laine, Winnipeg’s 19-year-old winger, with a pair of goals in last night’s 4-2 win over Dallas, is now t...

Midnight Comes For UMBC, But Not Before They Thrilled Us Again

It always ends in a loss. But for the previous 135 16-seeds in the 64-team era of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament before Friday night, that loss came in the first round. The UMBC Retrievers, fresh off a dismantling of the so-called “top” team in the country, made the most of their reprieve in s...

Nevada Storms Back From 22-Point Deficit To Upset Cincinnati And Move On To Sweet 16

Just two days after Nevada’s Caleb Martin lost his damn mind in overtime to beat Texas, teammate Josh Hall floated a ball over the head of Cincinnati’s Kyle Washington to give the Wolf Pack their first and only lead of the game and send them on to the Sweet 16....

Syracuse's Defense Might Just Be Enough, Even Against Duke

Michigan State, a team that lost exactly four games all season before the NCAA tournament, is now on its way home thanks to the fact Tom Izzo could not maneuver past a zone. That it was the zone of a team that barely squeaked into the tournament makes it embarrassing; that the zone belongs to Syracu...

Oklahoma City's Wacky Corey Brewer Gambit Is ... Working?

The Raptors are great. They’re virtually a lock to finish the regular season with the best record in the Eastern Conference, and they’re the only team in the NBA’s top five in both offensive efficiency and defensive efficiency, and they’d come into Sunday having won 11 in a row, and 18 of 19, and wi...

Texas A&M Downs DePaul On Chennedy Carter's Three-Pointer With Three Seconds Remaining

Texas A&M is headed to the Spokane regional after the fourth-seeded Aggies beat five-seed DePaul on a Chennedy Carter three-pointer that came with three seconds remaining in the game....

Matt McQuaid Banks In Crazy Buzzer-Beater

Michigan State took a three-point lead into the half against Syracuse thanks to Matt McQuaid fielding his own rejected field goal attempt and heaving up a banked three at the buzzer....

Isaac Haas's Baackup Maatt Haarms Is The Good Haair Maan

The Boilermakers overcame the absence of Isaac Haas due to an elbow fracture to hang on against 10th-seed Butler Sunday afternoon, utilizing 7-foot-3 backup big man Matt Haarms as a fill-in starter. And Haarms, you may have noticed, has quite the ‘do, and it requires quite a lot of attention, even d...

Here's How Jordan Poole's Buzzer-Beating Three-Pointer Sounded On Michigan Radio

Michigan is moving on to the Sweet 16 after freshman Jordan Poole drilled a buzzer-beating three to end Houston’s season and seal his place in Wolverines lore. Brad Nessler’s call was perfectly fine for the moment, but we thought we’d share with you how it sounded to radio listeners back in Ann Arbo...

100-Year-Old Superhuman Orville Rogers Sets New World Record In Race Of Scootin' Grandpas [CORRECTED]

Look at this hightailin’ geezer! CORRECTION: While Orville is, in fact, a hightailin’ geezer, and certainly the man in green is also a hightailin’ geezer—perhaps the hightailin’-est geezer in the history of geezers—it turns out Orville is in white, in lane 2. It’s an impressive run, and he did indee...

Michigan's Miracle Victory Cost The Utter Devastation Of Houston's Devin Davis

Before Jordan Poole sank his amazing buzzer-beating three to bring Michigan from behind to beat Houston, Cougars senior Devin Davis was at the line with four seconds on the clock and his team up two points. A make would’ve meant Michigan could do no better than force overtime; two makes would’ve ice...

The Rockets Are Driving Opposing Coaches Insane

Thursday night, after his Clippers lost to the Rockets in Houston, Doc Rivers described the officiating as “a complete joke” and all but chalked up the five-point loss to a 23-8 free throw disparity between the two teams. For this act of public criticism, Rivers was fined $15,000 by the league....

The Things You Don't See On TV

U.S.A. Beats Canada In Overtime To Complete Sled Hockey Gold Medal Three-Peat

Declan Farmer’s goal with 38 seconds left in regulation forced overtime and his goal three minutes into sudden death delivered the United States its third Paralympic Games sled hockey gold medal in a row, downing Canada in Pyeongchang 2-1....

Jordan Poole's Buzzer-Beating Three-Pointer Downs Houston

Michigan is moving on to the Sweet 16 after Jordan Poole delivered a desperation shot at the buzzer to give the Wolverines a 64-63 win over Houston....