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Jamaica Earns Country's First-Ever Women's World Cup Berth

Jamaica’s women’s national team will be going to the World Cup for the first time in the team’s history after beating Panama on penalties in the third-place game at the CONCACAF qualifying tournament. With this win, the team also becomes the first Caribbean nation ever to qualify for the Women’s Wor...

Mar Ibarra, Mexican Women's Soccer Pioneer, Found Beaten To Death

Marbella “Mar” Ibarra—one of the foremost promoters of women’s soccer in Mexico—was found dead early Monday morning in El Rosarito, Baja California, according to that state’s attorney general. Her body was found covered in a blanket, and her hands and feet were tied, El Sol de Tijuana reported. She ...

Mary Bono Steps Down As USA Gymnastics President And CEO, Defends Anti-Kaepernick Tweet

Well, that was fast. Just five days—and two of those days were weekend days—after her appointment as interim president and CEO of USA Gymnastics was announced, Mary Bono, a former Republican congresswoman from California, has announced she’s resigning from the post....

Two Games For Chokeslamming Says Nothing About Mike Matheson's Intent, But A Lot About The NHL's

Panthers defenseman Mike Matheson has been handed a two-game suspension by the NHL for this slam on Vancouver’s Elias Pettersson, who is now out indefinitely with a concussion. It was an unnecessary hit, and yes, a dirty one, but there’s no way DoPS would have punished this if it hadn’t injured a yo...

The Sacramento Kings Are Going To Be Apocalyptically Bad, But Harry Giles Will Be Fun

Another season of Sacramento Kings basketball is upon us, and you will not be surprised to learn that Year 13 of the rebuild will be yet another futile one....

Gibraltar Wins First Competitive Match In Its History

History was made at the Vazgen Sargsyan Republican Stadium in the Armenian capital on Saturday as Gibraltar won its first ever competitive match, beating Armenia 1-0. The self-governing territory was first officially recognized by UEFA in 2013 and had lost 22 competitive matches since, including all...

USA Gymnastics Appoints Interim CEO And She Has A Take On Nike And Colin Kaepernick [Update]

USA Gymnastics announced the appointment of Mary Bono as interim CEO and president of USA yesterday. Bono previously worked at Faegre Baker Daniels Consulting in Washington, DC. Before that, she was a congresswoman from California. She was first elected in 1998 to replace her husband Sonny Bono, who...

Pennsylvania Gov. Candidate: "I'm Going To Stomp All Over Your Face In Golf Spikes"

There are no circumstances under which you should feel bad for Chris Christie, but here’s the one that seems closest. Heading into the primary campaign for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, Christie had a brand that worked for him. He wasn’t a great or even terribly good governor of New J...

Simone Biles Unveils New Vault No Woman Has Ever Done Before, Remains Invincible 

Yesterday, USA Gymnastics hosted its selection camp to help choose the five-person team for the upcoming world championships in Doha. I say “help choose” because the results from this competition—or any competition for that matter—aren’t truly determinative of who will be named or not. Final team co...

When The Future Is Bright

Report: Man Conspicuously Omitted From Mavericks' Sexual Harassment Report Has Finally Been Fired

Last Friday the Dallas Morning News reported on Danny Bollinger, an 18-year Dallas Mavericks marketing employee with a history of sexual harassment allegations against him, who somehow did not appear in a 43-page independent report on the Mavericks’ workplace. ...

The USWNT Looks As Good As Ever And Is Rolling Toward The World Cup

CARY, N.C. — How are we not talking about this team all the time? Sustained dominance is easy to take for granted, sure. And as far as it has come in recent decades soccer still isn’t close to leading the sports conversation in the USA. These are answers, and they aren’t wrong, but they mostly evade...

Kings rookie Marvin Bagley III says his upcoming LP will be called Big Jreams, with “Jreams” standing for “Jesus Rules Everything Around Me.” I urge you to read this profile of Bagley and his sweet and adorable musical ambitions, on The Undefeated....

Brandon Ingram Electrifies Lakers Crowd With Uh Inbounds Defense, No Really

This should not be interpreted as proof that Brandon Ingram is Good now. He had a promising sophomore season; he’s got some defensive versatility; he’s a terror when pointed at the cup and on the move. These things will sort themselves out in the regular season. Certainly a preseason game against th...

Report: Mavericks Report Omitted Name Of Employee Who Sexually Harassed Colleagues

The investigators tasked with studying sexual harassment at the Dallas Mavericks say they interviewed 215 current and former employees and reviewed 1.6 million documents before releasing their 43-page report two weeks ago. But after all that, one name was still absent from the report, surprising som...

Roger Goodell Thanks Toilet President For Tacking Canadian Super Bowl Ad Ruling Onto Trade Agreement

You may have to squint hard to follow along on this one: The commissioner of an American sports league thanked the American president for helping to overturn a Canadian regulatory rule that forced a Canadian broadcaster to show American advertisements during the Super Bowl, which is the signature Am...

Team USA Hockey Captain Marries Canadian Rival, Bringing End To Generations Of War Between Our Great Nations

Retired Canadian forward Gillian Apps, clearly still smarting over Team USA’s historic victory over Canada in the championship game at the 2018 Olympics in Pyeongchang, has figured out a way to get that gold medal back in Canadian hands—by marrying Team USA captain Meghan Duggan. Or maybe it’s just ...

I Too Am All Fucked Up By These Dang Card Tricks

The Sacramento Kings invited magician Anna DeGuzman to media day this week to destroy the minds of various unsuspecting players. Friends, the tricks are good....

German Fans Protest Corporate Greed In Soccer With A Big "Fucking" Banner

Werder Bremen hosted Hertha Berlin today in a Bundesliga match held at a date and time that made some German soccer fans angry. In light of growing concerns about soccer officials’ greed ruining the sport fans love, some Werder fans in attendance held up a huge sign that read—well, you can see it qu...

Bad Soccer Men Try And Thankfully Fail To Beat The Hell Out Of Referee

A soccer match from earlier this month between Indonesian clubs Persegres Gresik United and Persiwa Wamena exploded into chaos when a few players who took issue with a controversial penalty call sought to communicate their dissatisfaction to the ref by beating his ass:...