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Novak Djokovic Survives Milos Raonic As He Pursues Top Ranking

The ATP World Tour Finals reward close attention because nearly every match is quality: the top eight players in the world do a little round robin, then a little elimination, with year-end rankings at stake. So far, no one in that elite field has beaten Novak Djokovic, who withstood Milos Raonic’s a...

It's Goff Time, Motherfuckers

Strap the fuck in, because the 4-5 Los Angeles Rams finally gave us a reason to watch their quest for 7-9. Finally, after months of dithering, Jeff Fisher has made the move. Case Keenum? Benched! First overall draft pick Jared Goff? Ready as shit....

You Never Know Which Stan Wawrinka You're Going To Get

Last we saw the third-ranked tennis player in the world, he was stumbling out of the first round in Paris, shown the door by the world No. 91. Before that, in Basel, he crumbled against No. 72 Mischa Zverev, facing visible mental collapse in the third set. And in today’s rematch of the U.S. Open sem...

This Week In Jeff Fisher Refusing To Blame His Quarterback

I’d like to apologize to you on behalf of sports if you watched yesterday’s 9-6 Rams win over the Jets, a game that seemed absolutely destined to be a tie and didn’t end up with even that novelty to recommend it. The Jets are so unwatchable that they flexed Tom Brady out of primetime, but let’s not ...

DeAndre Jordan Doesn't Want You To Have Any Ice Cream

NBA teams run all kinds of fun in-game promotions—free tacos if we score 100 points! Free pizza if we hit 15 threes!—but the best ones are those that allow for meta-contests between the fans and opposing players....

That's Not How Any Of This Works, Dan 

Julius Randle Is Getting In People's Heads

Have you been watching any Lakers games this year? Perhaps you haven’t given them much thought ever since Kobe Bryant finally fucked off and took all the schadenfreude-driven reasons to watch the Lakers with him. Well guess what, the Lakers are kind of fun now!...

The Clippers' Bench Has Somehow Gone From Terrible To Amazing

For five seasons, the Los Angeles Clippers have been the exact same team. In the regular season they win 50-something games, and in the playoffs they flame out before the Conference Finals. But things might just be different this year, because their previously worthless bench unit is dominating game...

Cam Newton Is Still Getting Destroyed, Still Not Getting Flags

Just days after announcing he was worried about his safety, Cam Newton took a pair of vicious hits that went unflagged. Sunday at the Rams, Newton was drilled twice with helmet-to-helmet hits. And according to ESPN’s Ed Werder, the league reviewed the plays and determined no rules were violated....

End Of Motorcycle Chase Features Excellent Play-By-Play Announcing

Tonight a clearly unexperienced motorcyclist led L.A.-area cops on a chase that ended when he ran into a car and took off running. That led to some wonderful commentary from the KCBS chopper man as he painted a picture with words of the gent trying, and failing, to escape. Here’s an alternate angle ...

At Least Four People Shot Near Los Angeles Polling Place [Updating]

According to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s office, at least four people were shot near a polling place in Azusa, California. Captain Jeff Scroggins told the Los Angeles Times that police were dealing with a “heavily armed” shooter and the Azusa PD warned citizens to stay away from the area. Local...

Government Alleges Collusion Kept The Dodgers Off The Air In Southern California<em></em>

Three years ago the Los Angeles Dodgers partnered with Time Warner Cable to create SportsNet LA, a regional sports network that carries Dodgers games and no other interesting programming. The deal was worth a reported $7 to $8 billion over 25 years for the team, by far baseball’s largest local telev...

Where Is Jared Goff?

Los Angeles fans waited a long time for a football team, but they can’t wait any longer for a competent quarterback. As early as the second quarter, and multiple times in the Rams’ 13-10 loss to the Panthers, the Coliseum crowd struck up the chant: “We want Goff!”...

Warriors Get Their Asses Kicked Once Again As Steph Curry's Three-Pointer Streak Ends   

For their first week of the season, the Golden State Warriors largely looked like another data point to support the theory that new superteams need some time to gel—a blowout loss to the Spurs, followed by wins over the Pelicans and Suns that were far closer than they should have been. But the last ...

I Asked The World's Foremost Ethicist If It's Okay To Have A Revolution

There is inequality everywhere. But in San Francisco, it seems to be drawn by a cartoonist with an unrefined taste for absurdity....

Chicago Cubs Are National League Champions<em></em>

The Cubs just needed to win a game. And so they did, shutting out the Dodgers 5-0 Saturday night to earn a trip to the World Series for the first time since 1945. That was so long ago (how long ago was it?!) that this marks their first ever NLCS win as the World War II-era pennant was a simple matt...

WNBA: Refs Screwed Up, Go-Ahead Basket Should Not Have Counted

With the score tied up at 71 with under two minutes left in the last game of the WNBA Finals, the Sparks recovered an offensive rebound, swung the ball around, and eventually found their star Nneka Ogwumike for a relatively easy turnaround shot. She made it, and eventually would make the game-winnin...

The Cubs Have To Win A Baseball Game

I read this the other day, a throwaway line that made me do a double take: The Cubs have never won an NLCS. Well, sure they haven’t. League championship series have only been around since 1969, and the Cubs haven’t been to a World Series since 1945. It’s a useless, obvious bit of trivia—barely a fac...

Capitals Player Daniel Winnik Lost A Chunk Of His Ear Blocking A Shot

If you don’t want to see a hockey player lose a chunk of his ear, don’t watch this video, because it features a hockey player losing a chunk of his ear. It’s not graphic, but Daniel Winnik does end it with less total ears than he started with....

Here's Bobby Valentine Lovingly Wiping Crumbs Off Tommy Lasorda's Mouth

Hall of Fame manager Tommy Lasorda recently got out of the hospital in time to attend Game 3 of the NLCS. He’s at Game 5 tonight, sitting next to Bobby Valentine, who was nice enough to assist him with a stray bit of food....