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Reds, Padres, Mariners, Rockies Announce Plans To Expand Protective Netting
The Reds, Padres and Mariners announced today that they would be expanding protective netting at their ballparks, while the Rockies said that they were in talks to set official plans to do so. The announcements came one day after a young girl was struck by a line drive at Yankee Stadium and hospital...
Temple Football Provides Perfect Example Of How Not To Execute A Fake Field Goal
You can’t fault Temple for trying a fake field goal against USF. After all, Temple is the representation of perpetual football failure, and USF is a ranked heavy favorite. But this... this is not good. Not good for the Owls, at least; it’s excellent for us as an illustration of how to do everything ...
Nebraska Promptly Fires AD After Huskers Lose To Northern Illinois
This afternoon, Nebraska announced the abrupt firing of athletic director Shawn Eichorst, five days after the Cornhuskers lost a home game against Northern Illinois. When Chancellor Ronnie Green announced the news, he cited a lack of results, the timing of which sure makes it seem like it’s directly...
Kickboxing Superstar Gökhan Saki Is Ready To Shake Up The UFC
There’s not a ton of top-line UFC talent fighting this fall. Mighty Mouse and Tony Ferguson are both fighting for titles (sort of) in October, but David Branch just co-headlined a card, and there’s not really that many fights that grab your attention until November’s bonkers Madison Square Garden ca...
Ricky Rubio Is Grim And Gritty Now
Hey, have you seen Ricky Rubio lately? He looks a lot different than he does in the picture above, which was taken in March of 2017 and in which Rubio still looks a lot like the precocious teen he was when he entered the NBA in 2011. Say goodbye to that Ricky Rubio, because our man is hard now:...
Stephen Jackson Has "No Respect" For Kevin Durant After His Deeply Lame Twitter Behavior
Some people feel that Kevin Durant’s sneak-dissing of his former Thunder teammates and coach through the apparent attempted use of a dummy Twitter account to argue with Twitter randos shows Durant’s humanity, his normalcy, his relatability. Others, like former NBA star Stephen Jackson, have correctl...
Why Don't You Ding-Dongs Come To The Net?
Roger Federer is a generous man. He’s spent the last two decades of his life pouring every bit of his heart, mind, and soul into giving us the best tennis experience possible. All he’s ever asked of us in return is that we come to the net more....
Radio Host Don La Greca Snaps Again, This Time Over Stat Nerds
The New York Giants have had a bad start to the season. This is something that everyone, including YES Network radio host Don La Greca, can agree on. What La Greca will not countenance, however, are people who seek to mitigate the Giants’ badness by using fancy stats. For those people, La Greca has ...
Come Bask In The Glow Of Rocky Gale's Delight At His First Major-League Home Run
Rocky Gale is 29 years old. He has been in San Diego’s minor-league system since 2010, and he has spent almost all of that time in Triple-A. Other than a very brief showing as a September call-up in 2015—eleven games, only one of which he got to play more than three innings, with ten plate appearanc...
Bill James's Twitter Polls Are Melting My Brain
Sabermetrics godfather and occasional Joe Paterno apologist Bill James has spent the past many years as something of a paradox. You can be confident that he’s smart at something, but a great deal of what he says and does flies in the face of that knowledge....
Albert Haynesworth Accuses Ex-Girlfriend Brittany Jackson Of Physically Abusing Him, Using Racial Slur
Former NFL player Albert Haynesworth accused his ex-girlfriend, former basketball player Brittany Jackson, of repeatedly physically abusing him and calling him racial slurs in a string of tweets today. TMZ reported that Haynesworth tweeted in response to Jackson’s accusations that he wasn’t paying c...
NFL Brands Support Italy While Trying To Support Mexico
To nobody’s surprise, the first response two NFL teams had to a devastating natural disaster was, “How can we use this tragedy to advance our brand?” For the Tennessee Titans and the Denver Broncos, after this week’s earthquake in Mexico City (donate here), that meant defacing the Mexican flag by sl...
Copa MX Matches Postponed After Devastating Earthquake Rocks Mexico
Soccer leagues around the world held matches for their respective domestic cups today. German, Spanish, and English teams all played, and Mexico’s Copa MX was scheduled to begin its round of 16, but the devastating magnitude 7.1 earthquake that hit southeast of Mexico City has put the day’s matches ...
What Is <i>Mother! </i>About?
Here’s a question: Should you go see Mother!, the new, polarizing, bearshit-insane film written and directed by Darren Aronofsky and starring Jennifer Lawrence and Javier Bardem that everyone is talking about though apparently no one saw and the few who did see it had no idea what in God’s name was ...
Kevin Durant Says It Was "Childish" And "Idiotic" To Rip Former Coach And Teammates
Yesterday, Kevin Durant, a tall, expensive shoe who gets revenge on the haters by boasting about how you join them if you can’t beat them, got caught talking shit about his former Thunder coach and teammates on Twitter. It was mean of Durant to slag his old team by claiming he could have never won a...
Robert Griffin III And Santana Moss Are Sniping About Mike Shanahan's Firing
Former Washington wide receiver Santana Moss, who retired in 2014, went on 106.7 The Fan in Washington D.C. yesterday morning and dredged up some good gossip from the early-2010s Skins teams. Moss played with Robert Griffin III for three seasons, two of which came under coach Mike Shanahan. In their...
Bad Quarterback Performance Of The Week: Brian Hoyer Goes Short
Welcome to Bad Quarterback Performance Of The Week, a recurring feature in which we celebrate the worst quarterback play the NFL has to offer....
No Justice For Good Boys
“WHORE the ramparts, weeee watched...” Some lady was singing the national anthem. “WHORE the lan-nnddd of the freeee...” We don’t care about that. We don’t care about any of that. We only want the Grade-A violence, now. ...
Mike Francesa Goes Nuts Over James Franklin Icing The Kicker In A Blowout
In the last few seconds of Penn State’s 56-0 demolition of Georgia State on Saturday, the Panthers lined up to kick a field goal and at least get some points on the board. The 31-yard attempt went through the uprights, but Penn State coach James Franklin had called a timeout just before the ball was...