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Matt Barnes Hits Unlikely Game-Winning, Half-Court Shot
Memphis Grizzlies coach Dave Joeger wanted to call a timeout here, as evidenced by the frantic tapping of his shoulders as Matt Barnes drove up the court. But Matt Barnes thrives on chaos, and doesn’t even need to use his couple of additional seconds to get closer to the basket. Nah, pulling up from...

Vince Carter Celebrates Buzzer-Beater By Slapping The Hell Out Of Courtney Lee
You probably missed the Suns-Grizzlies game while watching football yesterday, and that’s totally fine, but you should check out the buzzer-beating alley-oop that won the game for the Grizzlies. It was a crazy play. It was so crazy, in fact, that it inspired Vince Carter to do some slappin’....

Grizzlies Beat Suns On Buzzer-Beating Reverse Alley-Oop
As game-winners go, a 180 reverse alley-oop over and around a pair of defenders at home on a Sunday where your local NFL team scored 42 points and won is about as good as it gets. That’s what happened for the Grizzlies today....

Vince Carter Nails Buzzer-Beater From Three-Quarter-Court
Vince Carter has played a mere 101 minutes this year and has only hit seven threes, but this one should count double. The Grizzlies lost, but the Hawks didn’t hit any shots nearly as cool as this. ...

All Of Wembley Stadium Joins In Singing Of French National Anthem
Ahead of the France national team’s first match since the attacks in Paris just four days ago, a French-heavy crowd in London’s Wembley Stadium joined together in singing France’s national anthem, “La Marseillaise.”...
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Germany-Netherlands Soccer Match Canceled Over Bomb Scare [Updating]
Germany were scheduled to host the Netherlands in an international friendly later today, but the match has since been canceled after authorities noticed a suspicious-looking piece of luggage inside the stadium. And it’s looking like that might not be the end of it....
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The German National Team Slept In The Stade de France Stadium Last Night After The Paris Attacks [UPDATE]
Last night, the Paris attacks touched the Stade de France during a game between Germany and France. At least two bombs went off right outside the stadium full of 80,000 people, which you could hear on the game’s broadcast. French president Francois Hollande was in attendance and was forced to evacua...

How To Play The Toughest Position In Sports
The following is excerpted from Take Your Eye Off the Puck: How to Watch Hockey By Knowing Where to Look, by Greg Wyshynski, out now from Triumph Books....

Montana Beat Idaho State On A Blown Field Goal Snap
Lost in the series of high-stakes, last second crazy finishes last night–the Michigan State stunner and the backwards Hail Mary that Arkansas pulled off–there was another, admittedly less important wild ending in college football. The Idaho State Bengals were hosting the Montana Grizzlies in Big Sky...

Sad Jeb Bush Is Just Sitting Up At Night, Waiting To Chat About Football With You
Jeb Bush, the former frontrunner for the Republican Presidential nomination, may have finally hit rock bottom. Fresh off his piss-baby performance at the last debate, Jeb has now transformed into your sad uncle who just wishes that he heard from the kids more often....

Warriors Top Grizz, 119 To—Wait, I'm Pretty Sure This Is A Video Game Score
There’s been a terrible mistake. The AP, ESPN, even the NBA itself—they’re all recording the final score of last night’s Warriors-Grizzlies game as a 119-69 win for the Warriors, but clearly that is the score of some kid’s video game. I mean, ha ha, 119-69, get the fuck outta here, who would even be...

Report: Former Phillies GM Ruben Amaro To Be Red Sox First-Base Coach
We have ourselves a reverse Jim Tomsula situation: man leaves prominent position for a job he’s wildly overqualified for. Ruben Amaro was the Phillies GM up until last month, when the team declined to renew his contract. Now, according to a report from ESPN, Amaro will be taking over a position as t...

English Fourth Division Goalie Scores Nonchalant Goal
Stevenage FC beat Wycombe Wanderers (there is no way this is a real team name) 2-1 yesterday. Finnish keeper Jesse Joronen scored the opener with this little scoop kick that bounced in. ...

Report: Matt Barnes Drove To Los Angeles To Fight Derek Fisher For Dating His Estranged Wife
Grizzlies forward Matt Barnes drove to his estranged wife’s Los Angeles home last Saturday when he learned that former Lakers teammate and current Knicks coach Derek Fisher was seeing her, according to the New York Post....

Nationals Cannot Stop Beating Selves, Allow Inside-The-Park Grand Slam
The Nationals really have no one to blame but themselves for probably losing their way out of a chance at the playoffs, and this play from tonight’s game against the 57-96 Phillies is a great example. Here’s Aaron Altherr driving home all three baserunners and himself thanks to a misplayed ball by M...

Kevin From <i>The League</i> Admits He Made Up Story About Narrowly Escaping 9/11
Steve Rannazzisi, whom you may know from The League, those Buffalo Wild Wing commercials, or—well, just those two things—has an old chestnut he’s always used to explain how he got into comedy: the Long Island-born actor cites 9/11 as the impetus for his move to Los Angeles. Rannazzisi says he was wo...

The Phillies have effectively fired Ruben Amaro Jr. as GM after seven seasons. His early moves were understandable—the team was still good enough that future-mortgaging moves to keep their window open were defensible—but he’s had more than enough time since then to rebuild and restock, and hasn’t su...

This Is Why Teams Put Up With David Luiz, The Defender Who Doesn't Defend
In most minds, at least in the English-speaking world, David Luiz is more of a punchline than a real player with strengths and weaknesses like any other....

Montana Upsets Top-Ranked North Dakota State In Bonkers College Football Kickoff
Bob Stitt earned the Montana head coaching job by demonstrating an innovating offense at D-II Colorado School of Mines, and in his first game at the helm of the Grizzlies he managed the simple task of knocking off North Dakota State—NCAA Division I champions each of the past four seasons....

Larry Bowa Is Ejected, Drops F-Bombs, Threatens Daniel Murphy With A Beaning
Phillies bench coach Larry Bowa was ejected in the seventh inning of tonight’s 6-5 loss to the Mets, and made sure to get his money’s worth as he threw a couple of F-bombs Daniel Murphy’s way and threatened him with a beaning....