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Please Get Erik Karlsson Out Of Ottawa

The Ottawa Senators were a lost cause long before last night, but I think this play from Thursday was the official end, in which Victor Hedman faces only the mildest of resistance as he skates to the net for a goal that would give his Lightning a lead they’d never relinquish. It pretty well summed u...

Canada Loses In Hockey Again

Doesn’t some language have a word for feeling joy at others’ failure?...

Who Gives A Shit?

Let’s be clear on exactly what’s happening here. Yahoo! Sports is pushing out a press release for the FBI, which is acting as the enforcement arm of the NCAA. That all feels like a bigger scandal than a spreadsheet that shows, among other things, a basketball recruit’s mom receiving “hundreds of dol...

Russell Westbrook Downs Kings With Soul-Crushing Buzzer-Beating Three

With less than two seconds remaining in tonight’s Thunder-Kings game, Sacramento got what seemed like it should be the killer play it needed to seal a trip to overtime: Vince Carter from waywayway back, and Justin Jackson redeeming him with a put-back that tied the game. ...

15-Year-Old Alina Zagitova Bests Evgenia Medvedeva By 1.31 Points To Win Gold <em></em>

Russian 15-year-old Alina Zagitova gave a stunning performance in her free skate to win gold in women’s figure skating, retaining the tiny edge that she earned over fellow Russian and two-time world champion Evgenia Medvedeva in the short program. ...

Drexel Sets Division I Record With Incredible 34-Point Comeback Win

Drexel fell behind 5-0 at the start of tonight’s game against Delaware, and for quite a while, it didn’t look like they’d be able to crawl out of that hole. With a few minutes remaining in the first half, they were down by 34, and by the break, they’d only managed to cut that to 27 points. But in th...

Roberto Luongo On Parkland Shooting: "Enough Is Enough. We Have To Take Action."

The Florida Panthers are playing their first home game since the mass shooting that killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland. The Panthers are the only major league team in Broward County, and just a short drive down the Sawgrass Expressway separates them from Parkland. B...

USA Swimming Safe Sport Director Resigns After Disclosing She Once Kissed Coach Now Accused Of Sexual Abuse

USA Swimming Safe Sport Director Susan Woessner announced her resignation today, citing an instance when she kissed former Olympic swim coach Sean Hutchison in 2007. Woessner led Safe Sport, the program tasked with investigating and addressing potential sexual and physical misconduct in the sport. E...

Allonzo Trier Declared Ineligible After Another Failed PED Test; Arizona Appeals

Arizona guard Allonzo Trier has been declared ineligible by the NCAA following a second failed drug test, after he missed 19 games last season due to testing positive for PEDs in 2016. The university is appealing the decision. ...

South Carolina Coach Sues Missouri AD For Defamation Over Fan Spitting Comments

First reported by WISTV’s Caroline Hecker, South Carolina women’s basketball coach Dawn Staley filed a defamation of character lawsuit against Missouri athletic director Jim Sterk on Thursday....

Steve Kerr Says Teens Demanding Gun Control Are "Heroic"

Reporters have quickly learned that it’s worth asking Warriors head coach Steve Kerr about politics, because he’s usually got something to say, and when he does it’s almost always worth hearing. Last week Kerr was blunt in blaming the government for inactivity on gun control that inevitably leads to...

Ultras Start Fireworks Fight Before Europa League Game [Update]

Spartak Moscow traveled to Bilbao to play Athletic in the Europa League’s Round of 32, and as is typially the case whenever large groups of Russian soccer hooligans travel to European games, some shit went down. ...

Dutch Speed Skaters Apologize For Jubilantly Tossing Giant Replica Medal At Fans

The Holland House is the place to be for the Pyeongchang Olympics if you’re Dutch. It has concerts, drunken revelry, appearances by medal-winning Dutch athletes, and possible minor head injuries. Speedskating quartet Sven Kramer, Jan Blokhuijsen, Patrick Roest, and Koen Verweij attended a party at t...

The Sports Highlight Of The Day Is This Profane Dad Being Repeatedly Startled

A California teen had the fantastic idea to spend two weeks terrorizing her dad with a confetti gun. We hope he enjoys his fame while it lasts, because Ellen DeGeneres is definitely going to fire a giant confetti cannon at him and give him a heart attack live on her show....

Chechen Warlord Ramzan Kadyrov's MMA Fight Clubs And Influence Are Moving West

On Sept. 2, 2017, several of the most dangerous men in the Chechen Republic attended a UFC Fight Night event in Rotterdam. They arrived in a fleet of Mercedes Benz vehicles, which were then parked in haphazard fashion in the back lot of the Ahoy Rotterdam convention center. From the cars emerged an...

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Veteran Of The 1972 Olympic Basketball Debacle Ranks The <i>Other</i> Olympic Scandals<em></em>

Tom McMillen has done plenty. He had an 11-year NBA career. He was a Rhodes Scholar. He was a congressman. But, 46 years later, he’s still rankled by the absolute theft of the 1972 Olympic gold medal basketball game by the USSR, one of the biggest injustices in Olympic history. ...

Report: Beef Simmering <em></em>Between The Spurs And Kawhi Leonard

We know now, thanks to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski, that Spurs doctors have medically cleared Kawhi Leonard to return from the quad injury that has kept him out all but nine games this season. So the decision to return is all Leonard’s, but head coach Gregg Popovich said yesterday the Spurs don’t expe...

Team USA's Women's Hockey Gold Was The Most Electrifying Moment Of The Olympics

GANGNEUNG, South Korea — Two years ago, Michael Schofield earned a Super Bowl ring as an offensive tackle for the Denver Broncos. Yesterday, he watched his fiancé, Kendall Coyne, take home gold with the US women’s hockey team. “It’s the best sporting event I’ve ever gone to in my whole life,” he sai...

The Ending Of USA-Canada, As Called By Descriptive Audio

We like bringing you rarely-heard calls of major sports moments, so here’s one for you: the final shots of tonight’s 3-2 shootout win that brought women’s hockey gold back to the United States after 20 years, as called by Tony Ambrogio on the descriptive audio channel for the sight-impaired. Enjoy!...