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The Thunder Are Locking Up What They Have
The Oklahoma City Thunder still have to figure out how to be a consistent playoff contender without Kevin Durant anchoring the roster, but they made two moves today that have given the future (the near future, at least) a more defined shape....
Russell Westbrook Explodes With NBA's First 50-Point Triple-Double In 40 Years
After a week of fielding repeated questions about Kevin Durant (and deflecting them with everything from details of his nightly routine to a simple “That’s cute”) Russell Westbrook went off Friday night....
Steven Adams Was Too Busy Watching Dope Anime To See The Warriors Get Crushed
Given the ass-kicking that former Thunder star Kevin Durant suffered in his first game with the Warriors, it’s not unreasonable for reporters to be curious about what Durant’s former teammates thought of the game. Unfortunately for them, Steven Adams was too busy watching anime to cook up any juicy ...
CBS's Brian Jones Rants Against Targeting Rule
Brian Jones failed out of the NFL due to injury—he even filed, and lost, a lawsuit over it—but don’t tell him that the sport of football needs rules to protect players’ long-term health. The CBS college football analyst alternately demanded players grow eyes in the back of their head or barked “KEEP...
A Tuscaloosa <i>College GameDay</i> Sign Roundup
ESPN’s weekly native advertising broadcast known as College GameDay set its temporary roots in Tuscaloosa today for the big aTm-Bama game. People brought signs, yes, and they also had signs in Lexington where SEC Nation was broadcasting its superior program....
Russell Westbrook's Tired Of Talking About Kevin Durant
It feels like every time Kevin Durant talks about his new gig with the Golden State Warriors, someone runs those quotes over to Oklahoma City and throws them at Russell Westbrook, hoping that he’ll sniff around, find a part he likes, and sink his teeth into it. Westbrook’s had enough of the cycle, b...
Kevin Durant On Golden State Warriors: "They Didn't Get The Job Done ... I'm Glad They Lost"
Newly minted Golden State Warrior Kevin Durant saw his former team blow a 3-1 lead in the Conference Finals, then watched his new team blow a 3-1 lead in the NBA Finals. When asked if it mattered to him that the Warriors lost, he gave a long answer about how much fun they appeared to be having and s...
Abdi Abdirahman Still Wins The Party
Abdi Abdirahman said he is “way more relaxed” at 39 than he was when he was younger, causing me to experience a mutifying, brow-furrowing dissonance....
Where Did Alabama Linebacker Tim Williams Get That Weed? He Got It From, Uh, Brandon Chicken
Alabama starting outside linebacker Tim Williams was arrested early Thursday morning for possessing a firearm without a permit. Were it not for the existence of Williams’s totally real and not-at-all imaginary friend, Brandon Chicken, he might have been hit with a drug charge, too....
Even Stormfront Thinks Hillary Clinton Won The Debate
Since being founded by a former Ku Klux Klan leader in 1996, Stormfront has been the internet’s premier destination for white nationalist and neo-Nazi keyboard warriors everywhere. And even they think Hillary Clinton won the debate tonight. ...
Fight Breaks Out At Senators Practice After Patrick Sieloff Hits Clarke MacArthur
Bobby Ryan fought teammate Patrick Sieloff at today’s Ottawa Senators scrimmage after Sieloff laid a hit on winger Clarke MacArthur....
Nathan MacKinnon's Filthy Goal Wins It In OT For Team North America
You were watching like I said, right? Then you saw a hell of a 3-on-3 overtime, decided on a sequence that saw John Gibson stop Daniel Sedin, Johnny Gaudreau hustle to the loose puck and feed Nathan MacKinnon, who then absolutely flummoxed Henrik Lundqvist for the winner:...
Robert Swift Says He's Clean And Attempting A Professional Basketball Comeback
Last we checked in with former Seattle SuperSonics lottery pick Robert Swift, he was addicted to heroin, getting arrested for armed robbery, and having police raid a house in which he was living and finding, among other things, a grenade launcher. It’s been 20 months since then, and from the picture...
The Time Norm Macdonald Bombed So Hard On <i>Star Search </i>That Even Ed McMahon Didn't Laugh
The following is excerpted from Norm Macdonald’s new book Based On A True Story: A Memoir. It is out now from Spiegel & Grau, and it is very, very funny....
"What A Whiff By The Officials!" Ole Miss Takes 24-3 Lead On Alabama Thanks To Refs
Two missed calls by the officials allowed Ole Miss to take a three-touchdown lead on Alabama on a play that featured a missed targeting call and an improperly applied unnecessary roughness call....
Ryan Newman Rips Into "Old, Bipolar" Tony Stewart After Wreck
Ryan Newman blasted Tony Stewart for being “old,” “bipolar,” and suffering from “anger issues” after a wreck tonight in Richmond that knocked him out of the race and led to a lengthy red flag stoppage....
We're Simulating USC-Alabama In <i>NCAA '97</i> Using Updated Rosters
Sim season is here again. We took the Sega Genesis version of EA Sports’s NCAA game from 20 years ago, updated the rosters, and are running a CPU vs CPU sim of this weekend’s big game on Facebook Live:...