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Wisconsin Basketball Coach Bo Ryan Announces Immediate Retirement
Longtime Wisconsin’s men’s basketball coach Bo Ryan just announced his retirement, in a heartfelt press conference after his team’s victory over Texas A&M-Corpus Christi. The retirement is effective immediately. Ryan said that he and Wisconsin AD Barry Alvarez decided the end of the semester—tonight...
Rajon Rondo's Statement Looks A Lot Like Kobe Bryant's Statement
The NBA suspended Sacramento Kings guard Rajon Rondo for one game without pay after he called referee Bill Kennedy a “faggot” in a Dec. 3 game. (Kennedy publicly came out after the incident.) Rondo tweeted a statement, which wasn’t actually an apology, but the weirdest part is that his statement rea...
NBA Ref Bill Kennedy Announces He's Gay, Days After Rajon Rondo's Suspension For Calling Him A "Faggot"
NBA official Bill Kennedy reveals he is gay, in a statement to Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo Sports. Kennedy’s announcement comes soon after Kings guard Rajon Rondo was suspended for an incident between the two in a game earlier this month....
Rajon Rondo Is Back To Being A Great NBA Oddball
One of the more depressing things to happen last NBA season was the disappearance of Rajon Rondo, who began the season as a bad fit on a young Celtics team and accelerated toward oblivion after a midseason trade to the Mavericks. Rondo was so out of sorts last season that it was hard not to wonder i...
You May Be Invested In Guns And Not Know It
Do you have a 401k? Yes? Congrats! Investing in a 401k is a commonly used way to save for whatever the future brings when you’re old—it’s a retirement investment plan that you’re able to sign up for through your employer. That said, according to today’s New York Times, your 401k provider might also ...
Referee Screams Profanity At James Neal After Whistling Him For Embellishment
Nashville Predators forward James Neal appeared to go down from little to no contact in the second period against the Bruins tonight, causing a referee to whistle for embellishment and then scream at him. “Fuck you, you’re getting a fucking embellishment” is what it sounds like on this end. To compl...
Teddy Bears Everywhere
The WHL’s Calgary Hitmen might have the most impressive teddy bear tosses, and this year is no different. When Jordy Stallard scored the team’s first goal of the game Sunday, fans chucked their bears onto the ice. Look at all that plush....
A Completely Dumb And Unnecessary Argument About Sex Scenes
Batman v Superman is coming out soon, and the man in charge of this fiasco was also the architect of arguably the worst sex scene in movie history. But what makes a sex scene terrible, apart from the tragic decision to include a Leonard Cohen song? And can a sex scene ever REALLY be bad so long as i...
Report: Swiss Authorities Raid Same Hotel As Last Time, Arrest More FIFA Officials (UPDATED)
Remember six months ago, when Swiss authorities raided a luxury hotel in Zurich to arrest a number of FIFA officials, on behalf of the U.S. Justice Department? Luckily for those of us who want to see the incompetent and corrupt world soccer organization brought to its knees, it’s happening again!...
Kobe Bryant Is Utterly Shameless And I Love Him
On Sunday, Players’ Tribune editorial director Kobe Bryant announced on his website that he is retiring at the end of the NBA season. Last night, Bryant traveled to his hometown of Philadelphia for his second job, and the 2-14 Los Angeles Lakers played the 0-18 76ers in Philly for what is likely the...
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Why Did Navy QB Keenan Reynolds Disappear From ESPN's Heisman Fan Vote? [Update]
Navy quarterback Keenan Reynolds has been crucial to the program’s success this season. The 9-2 team’s spread option offense relies on his abilities to pass and run. When Nissan and ESPN partnered up to allow the fans to determine one Heisman vote, Reynolds received a lot of support. But, for some r...
Kobe Bryant Announces Retirement Via Poem
Kobe Bryant—who at 37 is shooting just 32% on 17 shots per game and looks to be a very empty shell of his former self—announced his retirement tonight, in the form of a love poem to basketball on The Players’ Tribune. An excerpt:...
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Check Out The Box Score Of A College Basketball Game That Had A 91-1 Final Score [UPDATE]
The Siena Heights women’s team took on Great Lakes Christian today in Adrian, Mich., and the NAIA squad won out over their NCCAA opponents to the tune of 91-1—shutting the visitors out entirely for the final three periods. Here is the head-exploding box score for this 90-point blowout:...
The Ultimate Jason "White Chocolate" Williams Highlight Reel Is Finally Here
There is no shortage of White Chocolate highlights on the internet, but this latest reel was put together by the NBA, meaning it’s full of high quality video and more than a few plays you’ve probably never seen before....
Shit-Talking Commentator Gets A Red Card
You don’t really need a translation of these commentators’ remarks to understand why the referee in a Costa Rican second division match jogged over to the sideline and kicked one of them out. The audible exasperation with which they use words like “malísimo,” “terrible,” and “ridículo” makes it all ...
Supremely Fed Up DeMarcus Cousins Is Now Taking It Out On His Opponents
In a now annual tradition, the relationship between DeMarcus Cousins and his coach is deteriorating. There were reports earlier in the week that George Karl was on the chopping block, but it now appears that the two are committed to trying to patch things up. That being said, these are the Kings and...
Hey, Cool, DeMarcus Cousins Shoots Threes Now
One of the fun things about the beginning of the NBA season is taking stock of the various new wrinkles that players have added to their games. Sometimes this means marveling at Kevin Durant’s new one-legged turnaround jumper, and sometimes it means being delighted by Boogie Cousins launching threes...
Men's Rights Activists Trolled With Lines From <i>Good Will Hunting</i>
Scaachi Koul is a BuzzFeed Canada writer, and her pieces are mostly about race and gender. Beyond the garden variety garbage men bombard every woman on the internet with, Koul’s occupation and beat means she is subject to especially vile tweets, emails, and Facebook messages....
Report: George Karl Could Lose His Job By The End Of The Week
The Sacramento Kings started getting close to the edge of a bottomless pit this past offseason, but the last few days have seen them take a few more crucial steps towards oblivion. Yesterday brought us a morose DeMarcus Cousins talking about “issues in house,” and today brings word that George Karl ...
Can We Get Héctor Bellerín And Nacho Monreal To Commentate All Soccer Games Now?
Bellerín and Monreal are perfect complements here. The younger Spaniard flexes his wit (“I’ve got Peter Crouch’s younger brother next to me...”; “After all the time he [Olivier Giroud] spent doing his hair, I think he deserved it [the goal], didn’t he?”) with his hilarious 70% Cockney, 30% Spanish a...