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Juventus Teen's Dad Demands Club Pay Him In Farming Equipment Like They Promised
After becoming the first player born this millennium to appear in a match in one of Europe’s big five leagues last season, 17-year-old Juventus forward Moise Kean is already making hay in Serie A. Moise’s father, however, is upset at Juve for hampering his ability to make rice and corn back in Ivory...
Phil Jackson's Favorite Stooge Tries To Sell A Kristaps Porzingis Trade
Knicks fans reached a new level of panic last night when Phil Jackson, currently inhabited by an ancient Sumerian god hell-bent on destroying basketball in New York City, gave an interview in which he assured everyone that, yes, he is seriously considering trading Kristaps Porzingis, a 21-year-old, ...
The Mets Are Pissed At Yasiel Puig For Admiring His Homer
Yasiel Puig recently said having to adjust to MLB’s rules of decorum means having less fun. “They’ve wanted to change so many things about me that I feel so off,” he told ESPN. “I don’t feel like the player I was in 2013.” Puig tried to enjoy himself last night, taking his time with a home run in th...
Here Are Your 2017-18 Vegas Golden Knights
While the Vegas Golden Knights’ roster already leaked out earlier over the course of the afternoon, the NHL Awards gave the league a platform to (very, very gradually and awkwardly) announce the results of the team’s expansion draft....
The Diamondbacks Hung 10 In One Inning Against The Rockies
The Colorado Rockies are enjoying a strong start to the season, but things hit a bit of a snag in the fourth inning of Wednesday night’s game against Arizona. The team surrendered 10 runs to the D-Backs’ sluggers before managing to record three outs....
An Update On Phil Jackson's Idiot Crusade To Ruin Everything Good For The Knicks
By the hour, it looks less and less likely that the Knicks will decide to keep the best thing they have going for them—Kristaps Porzingis, the young budding star whom they want to trade away for... a draft pick in order to acquire Josh Jackson of Kansas, per the latest from Adrian Wojnarowski of Yah...
Falcon McFalconface Will Keep A's Fans Safe From Seagulls
When not dealing with opponents’ dingers flying out of the ballpark, the Oakland A’s have another big problem in the skies: seagulls....
One Day After Promising "No Reason To" Suspect Injury, Mets Place Zack Wheeler On DL
After Zack Wheeler got his tits lit on Monday night, giving up seven runs in two innings, he promised that he felt fine—it was just an issue with poor command, he said. New York Mets officials backed him up, with manager Terry Collins saying that there wasn’t any reason to think it was a sign of inj...
Boris Becker, the Hall of Fame tennis player who won six majors—including a Wimbledon by age 17—served hard enough to earn the nickname “Boom Boom,” coached Novak Djokovic for three of the most fruitful years of his career until his release in December, and once spent £20 million in divorce and pate...
Ron Jaworski Is Using Someone Else's Data Without Attribution
Until he got swept away by the recent round of layoffs, Ron Jaworski dissected Xs and Os for several of ESPN’s NFL-related programs. Those gigs gave him a prominent platform from which he could draw heavily on his knowledge as a former NFL quarterback. Jaworski still loves to boast about how much ta...
Max Scherzer Loses No-Hitter, Game, In Infuriating Fashion
Max Scherzer came very close to throwing a no-hitter while you were eating lunch. And then, with one out in the eighth inning, everything went to shit. It was a quintessential Max Scherzer game until it wasn’t, and it was yet another display of Dusty Baker’s peculiar judgment. ...
Chris Carter Is Having A Rough Time And The Yankees Are Reeling
The Yankees have lost seven straight and have ceded first place in the AL East to the Red Sox, and right now the club seems powerless to change what isn’t working....
The Next Big Thing In Cycling Could Be Poop Doping
Read one particular way, the history of cycling is a history of riders doing all they can to stretch past the natural limits of the human body. Cheating has been at the very heart of cycling since its inception and riders have tried, at various points throughout the sport’s history, strychnine, EPO,...
Report: Kawhi Leonard's Braids Intact
Yesterday a photo of an apparently braid-free Kawhi Leonard was circulated on Twitter. The Spurs star was practically unrecognizable without his trademark cornrows. Some outlets reported that the haircut did not look very good....
Sunscreen Is So God Awful Stain-y It Almost Ruins Summer
Sunscreen stains depress me, you guys. But they happen, and we need to talk about why, and what to do about them, so we did....
Bill Belichick Finds Another Way To Stick It To The Jets
There’s a straight line to be drawn from the Patriots’ signing today of David Harris, a respected veteran inside linebacker who had been unceremoniously dumped two weeks ago as part of the Jets’ roster purge. That line takes you back. It runs you through tampering charges, Darrelle Revis’s Super Bow...
Sam Hinkie Leveraged The Orbit Of The Earth To Effectuate Snow Disruption
It’s been a good week for Sixers fans. The team used just one first-rounder from its draft-pick surplus to move up to the No. 1 spot in the NBA Draft, where it will take Markelle Fultz. That gives the team a young corps of Fultz, Ben Simmons, Dario Šarić, and, of course, Joel Embiid. No one really k...
Markelle Fultz Is The Latest Star From The NBA's Feeder County<em></em>
The 2017 NBA draft will lead off with the selection of Markelle Fultz, just 10 days after Kevin Durant was named MVP of the NBA Finals. Both Fultz and Durant are from Prince George’s County, Maryland. But great as they surely are, Fultz and Durant don’t really throw the curve when it comes to gradi...
The Vegas Golden Knights' Uniforms Are Pretty OK
Last night’s unveiling ceremony gave us our first look at the uniforms for the expansion Vegas Golden Knights, and my official verdict is: Not That Bad....