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Mark Hunt Sues Brock Lesnar, The UFC, And Dana White
UFC heavyweight Mark Hunt accused the UFC, Dana White, and Brock Lesnar of racketeering, fraud, breach of contract, and other charges in a lawsuit filed in Nevada federal court yesterday. The lawsuit seeks millions of dollars in compensatory and punitive damages....
Grayson Allen Shoves FSU Assistant Coach, Who Says It's Chill
Duke lost on the road to Florida State 88-72 Tuesday night, and keeping with what now appears to be a nightly routine, guard Grayson Allen drew the ire of a college basketball team’s fan base when yet another one of the junior’s ill-controlled appendages struck yet another human being. This time, t...
DeMarcus Cousins Asks Two Reporters If They Want Him In Sacramento
DeMarcus Cousins is constantly being asked if he wants to remain a member of the Sacramento Kings. It’s a reasonable question given his often tumultuous relationship with the franchise, but I’m sure he gets damn tired of hearing it. After last night’s game against the Pistons, Cousins came up with a...
The NFL's Relocation Dance Is Coming To A Head
The next five days are going to prove crucial for the futures of the Chargers and the Raiders, of San Diego and Las Vegas and Los Angeles, and as 18 influential NFL owners gather in New York to figure out who’s going where, the one man who can unilaterally pick up and move his team—Chargers owner De...
Steph Curry Ruthlessly Dunked On
Steph Curry tried to hang tough and get a charge call at the end of the first quarter. Instead, he flew away from James Johnson at the first hint of contact like a flea off a dog and was subsequently wrecked....
Gerald Green Kissed The Sky On This Alley-Oop
Journeyman Celtics guard Gerald Green was once an otherwise ineffective player who was only notable for winning the 2007 Slam Dunk Contest with his famous cupcake dunk. Two years after that dunk, he was playing in Russia but he’s since returned and become a perfectly serviceable backup shooting guar...
Baylor's First Ever Spell As The Nation's Top-Ranked Team Kicks Off With Blowout Loss
Then-undefeated Baylor became the #1 team in the nation for the first time in school history on Monday. A day later, the Bears got blown out by West Virginia, and I hope they enjoyed their lone day in the number one spot, because it’s almost assuredly gone after this week....
Atlanta Hawks Discipline GM For Joking About Angry Black Women At Fan Event
After an internal investigation, Atlanta Hawks GM Wes Wilcox will be formally disciplined by the team over a joke he made last month at a fan event, per ESPN. As Deadspin reported last Friday, Wilcox was fielding questions from a group of fans and tried to ease tensions by saying, as one of our sour...
Brock Lesnar Accidentally Curses Winnipeg Jets' Season By Stepping On Team Seal
Brock Lesnar is halfway through a year-long USADA doping suspension, and he’s apparently filling part of the MMA-shaped void in his life with hockey. The Winnipeg Jets had him over last night, and he promptly doomed their season by stepping on a team logo seal in the center of the locker room. I’m g...
Bike Stuck In Electric Fence Nearly Defeats Trio Of English Guys
“C’mon Paul, got your bike off that electric fence!” says a voice from behind the camera. For the next three minutes and 38 seconds, that is exactly what Paul (and his two friends) try to do....
Some Quotes From Peter King's Chris Berman Retrospective, Paraphrased
“What I believe may surprise his fans and his critics is that Boomer just about outworks everybody who people would consider his competition.” - Chris Mortensen...
Newspaper Scientists Engineer Story That Will Make Everyone Self-Righteously Angry
It’s easy to write a story that pisses off one or two demographics. But how can you piss off every demographic simultaneously—all for different reasons? At last, the New York Times may have pinpointed how to accomplish this proud feat. ...
The Latest Big Thing On The Internet Is A Turkish Chef Who Sensually Prepares Meat
Nusret Gökçe owns a chain of Nusr-Et steakhouses, with locations in Turkey and one in Dubai. Because of his unique, tender, sensual preparation of his meat—many examples can be found on his Instagram—he’s recently become something of a meme on the American internet....
Derrick Rose Says He Skipped Out On The Knicks Game To Be With His Family
“It had nothing to do with the team or basketball, but that’s the first time I ever felt like that emotionally, and I had to be with my family,” Derrick Rose told reporters today about his unexplained absence from the Knicks’ game against the Pelicans last night. He said he went back to Chicago yest...
Michigan Pulls Off The Walk-On Scholarship Surprise Pretty Well
Much like pregame soldier-family reunions or fake-out marriage proposals, the tradition of surprising walk-on athletes with full-rides has become something of an over-used social media fixture. It’s cute and fun for the people involved, and the other players always eventually jump up and down, screa...
Tennis Match Turns Into A Contest Of Who Can Retire First
Sachia Vickery (ranked No. 135) and Elise Mertens (ranked No. 127) are set to play qualifiers later this week to try and earn slots in the main draw of the Australian Open. That’s a Grand Slam, a far more alluring attraction than the Hobart International, where these two met in the second round yest...
How Sports' Idiotic War On Drugs Might've Helped Give Us President Trump<em></em>
It begins with the cyclists, of course. Just before the 1998 Tour de France, a Belgian trainer named Willy Voet was arrested while crossing the border into France because his car was filled with a tremendous amount of performance-enhancing drugs. The subsequent investigation (which became known as t...
College Athletic Directors Ready To Schmooze With Congress At Trump-Branded Hotel
Moving to Washington, D.C. and starting a PAC doesn’t make as many as waves as it used to. Luckily for college athletic directors, Donald Trump has his name on a hotel....
That Was A Very Bad Night For The Knicks
It’s been more than 12 hours since the New York Knicks lost track of Derrick Rose, and at this point all we have to go on are reports from ESPN that he went back to Chicago to deal with a “family situation” after yesterday’s morning shoot around. Things are suddenly feeling very bleak in Madison Squ...