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Shaq's Mom Told Him To Stop Bullying JaVale McGee
And thus ends one of the more perplexing NBA feuds, not with a verbal blowup or a throwing of the hands, but with the instigator being called off by his mommy....
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Kevin Durant And The Warriors Are Fed Up With Shaq's Troll Act [Update]
Shaquille O’Neal and Warriors center JaVale McGee, who are perpetually beefing over McGee’s appearances on Shaqtin’ A Fool, spent the wee hours of the morning arguing on Twitter. This afternoon, the more prominent members of the Warriors came to McGee’s defense, while the team reportedly complained ...

JaVale McGee And Shaq Beef On Twitter After Shaq Roasts McGee On TV Again
Human lowlight reel JaVale McGee and Shaq have had beef for a while now. Shaq loves to make fun of the silly stuff McGee (who, it should also be said, is having a really good season with the Warriors) regularly does on the court. McGee, in contrast, hates it. Last night, the beef reached all new, m...

Shaq Looked Like He Really Wanted To Punch Charles Barkley In The Face
Last night’s edition of Inside The NBA featured a lengthy segment on the great LeBron-Barkley beef of 2017. You don’t need to watch the whole thing—unless you want to see Charles Barkley deploy the “I’m not mad, this is actually funny to me” defense unironically, which, now that I think about it, is...

Shaq Makes Fun Of JaVale McGee's Hair; McGee Compares Him To A Minstrel
Warriors center JaVale McGee and Shaquille O’Neal have a unique relationship, in that Shaq makes fun of McGee on TV, and McGee gets angry at him....

I Hope The Beef Between Meyers Leonard And DeMarcus Cousins Lasts Forever
DeMarcus Cousins dropped 55 points on Tuesday, but not before dropping a platter of hot beef on Meyers Leonard’s lap. In the decisive seconds of the fourth quarter, he spun his way into a pretty and-1, walked over to the Blazers bench and let some choice words and a mouthguard fall out of his mouth:...

The Wizards Are Dead, Ernie Grunfeld Has Killed Them
John Wall scored 52 points last night in a mostly empty arena against the Orlando Magic, who defeated the Wizards anyway, despite not being good or playing all that well. Below is the full highlight reel, if you’re into seeing one of the NBA’s most thrilling players deliver the best scoring performa...

That's Not Meyers Leonard's Name, Bulls PA Guy
The Portland Hale Blazers are playing their only game of the year in Chicago tonight, so the odd mistake of nomenclature is forgivable. Meyers Leonard was misidentified as “Miles” (perhaps it was “Myles?”) tonight and he loudly offered a correction....

The Heat Stink But At Least They Can Still Troll The Lakers<em></em>
Today the Miami Heat announced that they will be retiring Shaquille O’Neal’s jersey. This would be the most unspectacular bit of news except that the game in which the Heat have chosen to hoist Shaq’s jersey to the rafters can’t possibly have been an accident:...

Bears LB Leonard Floyd Stretchered Off The Field After Neck Injury
Chicago Bears linebacker Leonard Floyd left today’s game on a stretcher after injuring his neck on a play....

<i>SNL</i> Cold Open: Kate McKinnon, Playing Leonard Cohen's "<em></em>Hallelujah"<em></em>
Tonight’s Saturday Night Live cold open brought new meaning to the term, as longtime cast member Kate McKinnon—who, until Tuesday, presumed to be playing President Clinton for the next four years—performed a solo rendition of “Hallelujah” by Leonard Cohen, who died at 82 earlier this week....

Wizards And Caps Owner: I Suck Because D.C. Won't Pay My Bills For Me
This motherfucker. Here’s Ted Leonsis, majority owner of the Washington Capitals, the Washington Wizards, and the arena in which both those teams play their home games, D.C.’s Verizon Center, mewling to the Washington Post because he has to pay his own mortgage and building costs instead of passing ...

Hunter Pence's Dance Moves Are Somehow Less Awkward Than His Batting Stance<em></em>
San Francisco Giants outfielder Hunter Pence transformed into an eerily accurate Napoleon Dynamite for Halloween, with his fiancée Alexis Cozombolidis dressing up as his sidekick, Pedro. Pence’s costume was one of the better athlete costumes this year, up there with Paul Pierce sitting on the bench ...

Look Out!!! Look Out!!! Look Out!!!
Leonard Fournette isn’t done putting defenders in their place....

Michelle Obama Did Not Lovingly Embrace George W. Bush
You may have seen the above photo of Michelle Obama apparently hugging George W. Bush at the opening of the Smithsonian National Museum of African-American History and Culture somewhere online this weekend. It was passed around as an image that was, in the words of MSNBC.com, “so moving.”...

Leonard Williams, We Know What Happened To Your Hookah Parts
Jets defensive lineman Leonard Williams recently ordered some parts for his hookah, but he never got them. Leonard, the cops have your hookah stuff....

Deadspin 25: Leonard Fournette Is Great, But LSU Needs More From Its Quarterback
Welcome to the Deadspin 25, a college football poll that strives to be more democratic and less useless than every other preseason poll. Leading up to the college football season kickoff, we will give you previews of the 25 teams that you, the readers, voted to be most worthy of writing about. Now, ...

Heh, Look At This Striker Trick The Shit Out Of This Keeper
And the award for “The guy who feels like the biggest dummy in all of the Netherlands right now” goes to Fortuna Sittard’s Leon ter Wielen. No, you don’t get a speech....

Michael Phelps Tied A 2,168-Year-Old Olympic Record
Another two golds last night for Michael Phelps, the most decorated American Olympian ever: That makes 21 gold medals in his career, 25 medals overall, and with his win in the 200m butterfly—a particularly personal win, given his loss in that event four years ago—Phelps now has 12 individual wins to...