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Dumb Column: Sacramento Shouldn't Pay For MLS Stadium, But Maybe Sacramento Could Pay For MLS Stadium<em></em>
There’s one MLS expansion slot left, and it’ll soon be awarded to Cincinnati, Sacramento, or Detroit. Sacramento once looked like a lock to get an expansion spot, but it’s now rather uncertain, likely because Sacramento’s ownership group isn’t as flamboyantly wealthy as their competitors....
WNBA's Layshia Clarendon Sues Cal, Says She Was Sexually Assaulted By School Employee
Layshia Clarendon of the WNBA’s Atlanta Dream filed a lawsuit against the University of California yesterday, claiming that she was sexually assaulted by a school employee when she was a student at Berkeley. The suit was originally reported by ESPN. ...
Reporter Knows Nothing About Daria Gavrilova, Asks Her Questions Anyway<em></em>
Before her second-round match against Elise Mertens in the Australian Open, No. 23 Daria Gavrilova fielded questions from reporters and apparently some guy who stumbled into the press room. ...
More Women Address Larry Nassar's Sexual Abuse At Day Two Of His Sentencing
Twenty-one more women spoke on Wednesday at day two of Larry Nassar’s sentencing hearing. The former U.S.A. gymnastics and Michigan State University doctor has pled guilty to decades of sexual abuse on women and young girls in his care, and the court has now heard 50 total victim-impact statements o...
North Korea And South Korea Agree To Form Joint Olympic Hockey Team
North Korea and South Korea have agreed to form a joint Olympic women’s hockey team and march together during the opening ceremonies next month in Pyeongchang, according to the Associated Press. ...
Thirty Years After <i>Cool Runnings</i>, Jamaican Women Qualify For Olympic Bobsled
Thirty years after a team of Jamaican bobsledders inspired a Disney movie with their unlikely appearance at the Calgary Winter Olympics, the country will send its first female bobsled team to compete in Pyeongchang....
Women Describe Larry Nassar's Decades Of Sexual Abuse At First Day Of His Sentencing
More than two dozen women who said they were sexually abused by Larry Nassar, dating back to the early 1990s, gave victim-impact statements today in a Ingham County, Mich., courtroom. The statements were read ahead of Nassar’s sentence on 10 counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct. Together, ...
No. 1 Simona Halep Practically Twisted Her Ankle Off And Still Won
On Day One of the Australian Open, top-seeded Simona Halep stretched for a ball in the second set of her match against 17-year-old Destanee Aiava and rolled her ankle over... and over, and then somehow over even more until her foot was roughly perpendicular with her lower leg. The video is above, bu...
De'Aaron Fox Goes Coast-To-Coast In 4.4 Seconds
In this highlight, De’Aaron Fox receives the inbounds pass under his own basket with 13.3 remaining in the first half. With 8.9 seconds to play, he has already dunked it....
What's Up With Sloane Stephens?
Last summer Sloane Stephens won the U.S. Open for her first Grand Slam title. Since then, she’s lost every single match she’s played....
Hockey Is For Dancing
Thursday was the all-star game for Russia’s Women’s Hockey League, held in Astana, Kazakhstan. In a move that the NHL should absolutely steal, the second intermission was given over to a dance-off. First, the East team, with an on-ice routine set to a Kazakh hit:...
Floyd Mayweather Offers The Most Predictable Take On "Me Too" Movement<em></em>
Floyd Mayweather, a moron and serial domestic abuser, is hanging around the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas hawking some sort of virtual reality boxing setup, which he says—oh God, who cares. Men’s Health interviewed the semi-retired boxer and he somehow stayed on topic for most of it, dodging a ...
Marion Bartoli On Returning To Tennis: "I Need To Prove To Myself That I'm Alive"
Nearly five years after winning Wimbledon in 2013 and announcing her retirement, Marion Bartoli—whose drastic weight loss last year sparked concern and social media bullying—is returning to professional tennis. She announced her comeback last month, and in an interview with L’Equipe published yester...
May All Your Failures End Up As Serendipitously As This Soccer Coach's Attempt To Lean Against A Fence
I don’t think I’ve ever done anything on purpose with the poise and commitment that Marius Sumudica, manager of the Turkish soccer team Kayserispor, brings to playing off this accidental fall so that it looks like he intended all along to lower himself into a metal hammock. Seems comfy. ...
What Weird New Behavior Will Donald Trump Display At The National Championship Game?<em></em>
A year and change into his first term in office, it’s still honestly kind of hard to tell why Donald Trump ran for president. At this point, we know enough about him to assume both 1) that it had nothing to do with any of the reasons he offered on the campaign trail and 2) that it’s probably somethi...
Put Alex Jones In The Booth For <i>Monday Night Football</i>, Cowards
When ESPN made Rush Limbaugh a part of their Sunday NFL Countdown flagship back in 2003, the country was a different place. Everything that is currently bad and dumb about these United States was already very much in evidence, if maybe not quite in its current state of roaring psychedelic metastasis...
Former Assistant Says Rich Rodriguez Grabbed His Penis In Front Of Her, Was Nicknamed "The Predator"
Former Arizona football coach Rich Rodriguez serially harassed his assistant, including grabbing his penis in front of her, trying to kiss her, telling her “I love you” in a text message, and making her cover for his extramarital affair, according to a notice of claim she filed last month with the s...
Christian Pulisic Rings In The New Year With A Powerful And Absolutely Legit Slam Dunk
Christian Pulisic—the wonderteen, the nation’s best and most favored soccer man, an elite athlete blessed with speed and agility and hops we don’t normally associate with slight, diminutive whiteboys—had himself a (mostly) great 2017. To commemorate his metaphorical ascent to the heights of the spor...
Bruce Arians Retires After Five Seasons With Cardinals
Arizona head coach Bruce Arians is retiring after five seasons at the helm of the Cardinals and after 42 total years as a football coach. ...