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Here's Everything That Happens In The Latest Leaked Episode Of Game Of Thrones, Which Is BananasTwo weeks ago, the fourth episode of the current season of Game of Thrones, HBO’s hit show about relatives who smooch, leaked a few days early to the delight of fans. It was a good-ass episode, and despite the leak, it scored all-time high ratings for the show....

The Entire Plot Of The Next Season Of Game Of Thrones Seems To Have LeakedHBO’s Game Of Thrones, the hit show about sibling fucking, is currently in the process of filming its seventh and kinda-sorta-not-really final full season in Spain. While most of the plot developments of the first six seasons were either matters of public record or relatively simple to discern, auth...

Whoever Leaked The NCAA Tournament Bracket, Thank YouSports fans can appreciate spectacle for spectacle’s sake—to a point. The NCAA tournament selection show is worthwhile drama, for fans of many schools the nervous culmination of a season and a chance to find out where they’re going next, and for fans of a small handful, the nailbiting tension of fin...

Vince McMahon’s Rules For WWE Announcers Allegedly Leaked

Over on Squared Circle, the subreddit for professional wrestling, a user has posted eight pages of what purports to be instructions and rules given to WWE announcers a few years ago about everything from how they should dress to specific phrases they should avoid. You can view the notes in the imgur...

The Angels Don't Want Josh Hamilton Back

No one—not even MLB, which argued for a lengthy suspension—is unhappier about Josh Hamilton unexpectedly getting off without discipline for his cocaine-and-alcohol relapse than the Angels themselves. ...

The Footage USATF Doesn't Want You To See Doesn't Show Much

Earlier this morning, USA Track & Field accidentally released 37 minutes of footage used to disqualify, then un-disqualify, Gabe Grunewald at the 2014 USA Indoor Championships in February. For a video so important, it doesn't show much....

ESPN Asks Its TV People To Stop Saying "Sucks" So Much

ESPN is a roll with these memos. Just yesterday the Worldwide Leader told its talent to be extra extra careful when talking about rape allegations ("Today's developments in the Jameis Winston investigation are likely to be emotionally charged. Please consider that ..."). Today, network brass has a n...

Bo Pelini On Nebraska Fans: "Fuck You, Fans. Fuck All Of You."

This is fun. Here we have an audiotape of Nebraska football coach Bo Pelini flipping his shit about both the media and the Cornhuskers' fans after a 2011 game. Why are we getting this now? Well, our tipster was particularly exercised by Nebraska's flameout against UCLA on Saturday, which has led to ...

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WWE Leaker Strikes Again To Spoil (Some Of) SummerSlam

For five straight pay-per-view events, a Reddit user named "Dolphins1925" revealed the results of every single WWE match before they aired. But with WWE now aware that it has sprung a leak, last night's SummerSlam was our first chance to see if he could do it again....

by Barry Petchesky|pro wrestling

|Mon Aug 19 2013

Footage From Infamous Unreleased Film The Day The Clown Cried Leaked

The Holy Grail for film fans emerged, unexpectedly, on YouTube tonight as nearly seven minutes of footage from Jerry Lewis's unrelased Nazi clown film The Day The Clown Cried found way to the video sharing website....

by Timothy Burke|holy shit

|Mon Aug 12 2013

A Redditor Has Been Leaking WWE Outcomes [Update: WWE Response]

In February on r/SquaredCircle, Reddit's pro wrestling forum, one poster kicked off a "prediction series," asking users to pick who they expected to win at that week's Elimination Chamber pay-per-view event. The winner was a user named "Dolphins1925," who posted just minutes before the start of the ...

by Barry Petchesky|wwe

|Mon Aug 19 2013

Curious How Much ESPN Executives Make? We Have Pay-Grade Charts

Want to know what a vice president of production makes at ESPN? We can give you a pretty good idea. An ESPN source sent us the company's pay-grade charts. ...

by John Koblin|espn

|Thu Jun 27 2013

Tennis Channel CEO: Comcast Battle Like "Being Raped By Brutal Captor" [UPDATE]

Two weeks ago, a federal appeals court ruled that Comcast did not have to put Tennis Channel on its basic cable service and could, instead, throw it on a more-expensive sports tier. The court overturned an FCC ruling in the process. Tennis Channel was unhappy about this. In fact, Tennis Channel CEO ...

by John Koblin|media meltdowns

|Wed Jun 12 2013

ESPN President's Memo: Support The Troops; Also, We're Firing People

Below is a memo from ESPN president John Skipper, sent companywide just before the Memorial Day weekend and forwarded to us by a Bristol tipster. "This is the only communication we've received from upper management this week that mentions the layoffs," our tipster writes. Happy Memorial Day!...

by John Koblin|espn layoffs

|Tue May 28 2013

No Steroids, No Birthday Cake: Parsing MLB's Employee Handbook

Congratulations! It's your first day working for Major League Baseball. You probably grew up a huge baseball fan, and while this isn't as good as actually playing, you're about to embark on a fun and rewarding career with MLB. But first, there's something you need to read and sign....

by Barry Petchesky|mlb

|Thu May 23 2013

ESPN Executive Asks Talent To Stop Being All Bitchcakes On Twitter [UPDATE]

ESPN sent out a memo today reminding everyone that employees' personal Twitter feeds are to be used "to serve ESPN sanctioned efforts." They're not to be used as a way to settle scores with critics and colleagues. Writes ESPN VP Laurie Orlando:...

by John Koblin|espn

|Wed Apr 10 2013

ESPN X Games Memo Asks Staffers To Work For Free And Not Make Fun Of Brazilian People

ESPN's X Games are slouching toward Foz do Iguaçu in Brazil, the first of three new international host cities, where competition begins next week and where staffers are arriving to find that their mellows have already been thoroughly harshed. It seems that money is tight in this corner of the $40 bi...

by John Koblin|leaks

|Mon Apr 08 2013

What Can You Learn From The Carolina Panthers' Leaked Financials? Ask A Sports Economist

There's still a lot to unpack in the Carolina Panthers' financial statement, which we published Thursday. That document showed the team bringing in $112 million in operating profit over a recent two-year period, one that saw owner Jerry Richardson pleading hardship on behalf of his fellow NFL plutoc...

by Tommy Craggs|Carolina panthers financials

|Mon Mar 11 2013

Leaked NFL Documents: While Owner Cried Hardship, Carolina Panthers Had $112 Million Profit Over Two Years [UPDATE]

In 2010 and 2011, as the NFL prepared for and staged a lockout of its players, Carolina Panthers owner Jerry Richardson was among the hardest of the hardliners, urging his fellow owners to "take back our league" by demanding a more management-friendly collective-bargaining agreement....

by Tommy Craggs|Nfl

|Wed Mar 13 2013

Leaked Memo: How Texas Tech Could Craft The Image Of Its New Coach And Become "The Hippest School In The Game"

A tipster sends along the following email, which was originally sent from Stephen Spiegelberg, a Texas Tech alum and proprietor of Lubbock clothing store Chrome, to Joe Parker, the deputy athletics director at Texas Tech. According to the tipster, the message was bcc'd to a few of Texas Tech's regen...

by Tom Ley|College Football

|Tue Jun 18 2013

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