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Braying Shitheel Mike Lupica Pens Worst Possible Column About Kevin Durant
It’s the question on America’s mind: After Kevin Durant abandoned Oklahoma City to join forces with the Golden State Warriors and their garbage fans, who would blurt out the shittiest, most predictably obnoxious, pseudo-macho take possible? Would it be Stephen A. Smith, who previously threatened Dur...

Report: Donald Trump Cobbles Together A Cast Of Sports Dickheads For GOP Convention<em></em>
Donald Trump, a pile of faux-leather designer handbag knockoffs, has compiled a murderers’ row of sports figures for next month’s Republican National Convention in Cleveland. Bloomberg Politics reports that Mike Tyson, Mike Ditka, Bobby Knight, and NASCAR CEO Brian France have all chosen to shed wha...

J.J. Watt Made Mike Florio Mad Online
Look, J.J. Watt’s bona fides as a social media user are well established. The man loves to do posts. Here’s a supportive, humblebragging, altogether innocuous tweet from the workout enthusiast, before the USMNT went to their dooms at his home stadium in Houston....

Juan Uribe Carted Off After Taking A Ground Ball To His Testicles
Cleveland Indians third baseman Juan Uribe was carted off the field in the fourth inning of Sunday’s game against the Los Angeles Angels after Mike Trout’s ground ball bounced into his testicles....


Umpire Mike DiMuro Forced To Leave Game After Taking Foul Tip In The Face
Mike DiMuro left today’s Red Sox-Blue Jays game and underwent a concussion protocol after a second-inning foul tip drilled the veteran umpire square in the face....

Bryce Harper Finally Got A Pitch To Swing At And He Dinged A Huge Dang Dong
Look, Bryce Harper has been sort of grumpy fella lately, on account of everyone is walking him and pitching around him like he’s Babe Ruth or something. Not so much tonight. Mike Leake hung a pitch against Harper this evening so he sent it to the third deck. ...

The Houston Rockets Have Reportedly Hired Mike D'Antoni
According to multiple reports, the Houston Rockets will hire Mike D’Antoni to be their new head coach....

Mike Francesa Is Very Annoyed That <i>Sports Illustrated</i> Put Lionel Messi On Its Cover
If Mike Francesa’s visceral disdain for soccer didn’t come through clear enough when he stumbled his way through a simple MLS ad read last week, today’s rant aimed at SI for their decision to dedicate the mag’s cover to Lionel Messi and a big portion of its coverage (specifically, as Mike discovers:...

This Water Bottle Flip Is The Best Damn Thing I've Seen In A Long Long Time
Might want to put down a tarp now, because your shit is going to fly everywhere after you watch this:...

It's Matt Murray Or Bust
On his very last day as a 21-year-old, on the very first shot he saw, Matt Murray allowed a goal. Then he got an early birthday present: a coach’s challenge showed Jonathan Drouin had been offside by the merest fraction of a second. It was back to 0-0, and Murray got down to business....

LSU Mascot Mike The Tiger Diagnosed With Inoperable Form Of Cancer
LSU’s live tiger mascot, Mike the Tiger, has a rare and inoperable form of cancer, and will soon undergo a treatment of radiation therapy that has never before been used on a tiger, reports The Advocate. A tumor was discovered next to Mike’s eye by a student trainer, and a CT scan confirmed it was s...

The Time RGIII Called A Meeting And Told His Coaches How To Coach
Over at The Undefeated, Jason Reid takes a long look at a complex question—why did Robert Griffin III fail in Washington?—and, somewhat disappointingly, operates under the theory that there can be a simple answer. Despite that, it’s a very worthwhile read as both a broad chronicle of a bizarre four ...

Mike Francesa Is Very Confused By Basically Everything Related To MLS
Here is a non-comprehensive list of the things Mike Francesa exhibits serious confusion about during what should’ve been a short promo advertising tickets to an NYCFC-NY Red Bulls game: that NYCFC and the Red Bulls are in fact two separate teams; the correct pronunciation of international superstar ...

Sick Of Doping? Get Off The Internet, Get Off The Couch, And Run A Race
Yes, I get it, everyone’s doping and no one cares. About doping. But there’s a huge disconnect between what is happening at the top level of the sport and what is happening in my hometown, and I would guess, other people’s hometowns too. Which is running. Competition. Running races is fun and people...

<i>Post</i> Columnist Claims Nats GM Mike Rizzo Is Worth $450 Goddamn Million, Is Wrong
Bad tweet incoming:...

Here's What Happened When We Used Snapchat's Face Swap Filter On An Episode Of <i>PTI</i>
Because we are sick in the head, we were curious what would happen if we took today’s episode of Pardon the Interruption and ran it through Snapchat’s face swap filter. The results are, as you might expect, horrifying....

Mike Fisher Goal Gives Predators Triple-OT Win Over Sharks
Nashville’s Mike Fisher scored off the rebound at 11:12 of the third overtime period to give the Predators a 4-3 win and even the series against San Jose at two games apiece. It was Fisher’s second goal of the game—though it came more than 100 minutes after his first....

NFL Network Cuts To Commercial After "Beavers" And "Bush" Leave Panelists Incapacitated
Today’s NFL Network draft coverage came to a sudden halt when, immediately after Mike Mayock’s assertion that “I’m very much a Beavers guy,” the Bears selected Deon Bush. That pick drove the network’s panelists to paralyzing laughter, and brought on a quick cut to commercial....

Report: Mike Tirico To Leave ESPN For NBC
This is pretty huge news in the world of sports broadcasting: According to SportsBusiness Daily, Mike Tirico, who has been with ESPN since 1991, has agreed on a contract to join NBC this summer....