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New York Giants Avoid Using The Word "Redskins" In Their Schedule Release (UPDATE)
Here’s the New York Giants’ schedule for the 2015-16 season. Notice which two games are not like the others?...

Brett Gardner Tumbles Butt First Into The Stands To Catch A Foul Ball
The Yankees wrap up a three-game series in Toronto tonight, and they got their second out of the night with a fair bit of pizazz, as Brett Gardner went ass-over-teakettle to make this grab here....

Nearly Perfect: Understanding The Greatest (For Now) Team In NBA History
“It’s a nice number, 72-10. It rings well.” - Phil Jackson...

The Rams Had Every Reason To Make This Stupid Trade
This morning, the Los Angeles Rams shocked everyone by shipping a massive bag of picks to the Tennessee Titans in exchange for the No. 1 overall pick, with which they will almost assuredly take a quarterback. It feels like a huge mistake, one we’ll laugh about for decades, but I’m not sure that the ...

Opponent-Spearing High School Soccer Keeper Has A History Of Crushing Tackles
Remember that video from this weekend of a high school girls’ soccer goalkeeper channeling her inner middle-linebacker and football-tackling an onrushing attacker? Turns out that’s not the only time the kid has hurled her body into an unsuspecting opponent....

How To Enjoy Some Delicious Beef Tongue
With the exception of some Jewish Americans, some Latin Americans—whose food culture may often include it—and some LA supper club hipsters, diners in the United States don’t really seek out beef tongue as a dinner item. I get it: Enjoying the taste of something that some other living, breathing bein...

LeSean McCoy And Lou Williams Argued On Twitter Right After The Lakers Won
Plenty of athletes found a way to congratulate Kobe Bryant after his 60-point performance Wednesday. Bills running back LeSean McCoy praised Bryant, cracked jokes at Bryant’s former teammates hugging him after the game, and called currently active Laker Lou Williams “soft.” Williams didn’t like that...

Rockets Fans Express Their Confidence
I mean, can you really blame them?...

Noble Strongman Trevor Story Undone By His Own Dumb Stadium
The Colorado Rockies will try anything to not suck. They paid Mike Hampton something like a billion dollars, stuck their baseballs in a dang humidor, and even appealed to Jesus Christ. This year, they decided to try something new, and made the right-field fence about twice as high as it used to be. ...

The Penguins Have A Random Dude In Goal And The Rangers Might Be Doomed Anyway
Even if he never plays again, there may not be a better feel-good story in these playoffs than Jeff Zatkoff, a third-string goalie thrust into action by injury, who responded with a confident, capable start that, backed by a Patric Hornqvist hat trick, gave the Penguins about as strong a 1-0 series ...

IOC Lets Athletes And Sponsors Market During The Olympics, As Long As They Say Nothing About The Olympics
Brigham Young University professor of statistics Jared Ward finished third in February’s US Olympic Trials Marathon, filling the final spot on the Rio-bound marathon team. The married father of two is almost unknown outside the competitive running community, but has been successful enough in the las...

Well Shit, That Was A Fun Night Of Basketball
There are, obviously, rules that explicitly govern sporting events. But there are also implicit rules, too, ones that say things like You always play to win and No player is bigger than the game. Last night, Steph Curry and Kobe Bryant took turns shooting holes in those implicit rules, and it made f...

Blues Take Series Lead Over Blackhawks On Fluke Overtime Goal
You take it. It doesn’t matter how lucky or unpretty a goal is, or how little it has to do with the person credited with it, you take the score. Especially in the playoffs, especially in overtime, especially against a Blackhawks team that’s about to get Duncan Keith back. You take the 1-0 series lea...

The Desire To Be The Best Ever Is What Let The Warriors Achieve It
Seventy-three wins is unfathomable. Seventy-two wins is barely fathomable, and that’s only because the record books say the 1995-96 Chicago Bulls actually achieved it....

Kobe Bryant Ended His Career With A Perfect Kobe Game
Kobe Bryant is the patron saint of volume shooters forever and ever amen, and he really went out and Did The Shit tonight, ending his career with an insane, revelatory game in which he scored 60 points on 50 shots in a win over the Jazz. 60 points! 50 shots! What the hell man!...

Here Are The Video Tributes The Lakers Played For Kobe Bryant Inside The Arena (UPDATE)
Did you hear? A prominent NBA player is retiring!...

Who Was The Actual Best Player In The NBA Every Year During Kobe Bryant's Career?
Kobe Bryant’s career spans a remarkable amount of NBA history, from the late years of the Chicago Bulls dynasty through the rise of the Golden State Warriors. If there’s been one constant through all those years, it’s that the best player in the league has never, ever been Kobe Bryant....

Korean Announcers Lose Their Shit Over Dae-Ho Lee's 10th-Inning Walk-Off Dinger
The Mariners stopped their five-game skid in the most emphatic way possible: by walking off the winners after a big ole’ dinger in the tenth inning against a division rival. You can watch the official MLB version of Dae-Ho Lee’s home run against the Rangers if you want, but we recommend these Korean...

How A Gruesome Knee Injury Might Lead Pro Cycling To Shut Down A New Technology
Last weekend’s Paris-Roubaix was a thrilling race that semi-anonymous 37-year-old Matthew Hayman won after spending all day in the early breakaway. Neither Peter Sagan nor Fabian Cancellara had any hand in the finish of the race because they both were involved in crashes. They were the heavy favorit...
