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The Gerrit Cole Deal Sure Looks Odd For Pittsburgh

The Pirates have been playing with the burners of the hot stove for weeks now over the possibility of a Gerrit Cole trade, and now that it’s finally happened, they have surprisingly little to show for it....

Maggie Nichols Reveals That She Was A Larry Nassar Victim

Former USA Gymnastics national team member Maggie Nichols has revealed that she was sexually abused by former Team USA physician Larry Nassar, and that she was the first member of the U.S. team to alert USA Gymnastics to Nassar’s behavior....

Erik Karlsson Wasn't Ready For Andreas Athanasiou

It took just six seconds for young Red Wing upstart Andreas Athanasiou to get the winning goal in overtime against the Senators Wednesday night. And for that, he can thank the best defenseman in hockey....

There Are No Remaining Undefeateds In Men's College Basketball

Villanova, Arizona State, and TCU entered their Saturday games as the sole undefeated teams in men’s college basketball, and one after another, they all lost that honor. Tenth-ranked TCU went down in a 90-89 thriller against Trae Young and Oklahoma, the number-one ’Nova Wildcats got beat up in India...

Report: Astros Coach Rich Dauer Was Rushed From World Series Parade For Life-Saving Surgery 

Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic has a fantastically detailed story about how Astros first base coach Rich Dauer came very close to death before being rushed into emergency brain surgery from the team’s World Series championship parade last month....

The Gift That Keeps On Giving

Police Documents Detail Another Time Michigan State Failed To Stop Larry Nassar

More than two years before the serial sexual abuse of athletes by USA Gymnastic and Michigan State doctor Larry Nassar became widely known and discovered, the university failed to protect the women in his care. Police reports, originally obtained by the Lansing State Journal, show that Michigan Stat...

McKayla Maroney Accuses USA Gymnastics Of Buying Her Silence On Sexual Abuse [Update]

Olympic champion McKayla Maroney recently said that she’d been sexually abused by disgraced USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar for years, and on Wednesday she filed a lawsuit against USA Gymnastics for supposedly paying her to sign an unlawful confidentiality agreement about that abuse. Maroney late...

Lithuanian Basketball Fixer Secured Two Ball Brothers By Getting At Them On Twitter<em></em>

LiAngelo and LaMelo Ball will head across the Atlantic into the Lithuanian countryside in a few weeks, and Andrew Keh of the New York Times visited Prienai to get a sense of what they’re getting themselves into. He found a small town with Ball family fever, where the pizza joints are blaring about t...

Director Of Canada's National <em></em>Women's Gymnastics Team Charged With Sexually Abusing A Minor

The director of Canada’s national women’s gymnastics team, David Brubaker, was charged last Friday with 10 counts of sexual offenses spanning eight years, all concerning a gymnast who was younger than 16 for part of that time period. According to the Sarnia Observer, Brubaker faces one charge of inv...

Both Of Herm Edwards's Coordinators Have Left After It Was Announced They'd Stay<em></em>

When Arizona State hired Herm Edwards to coach their football team earlier this month, they planned to retain both offensive coordinator Billy Napier and defensive coordinator Phil Bennett from the previous staff. It was an unusual move, since most coaching changes involve entire staffs turning over...

Kellogg's And Procter & Gamble Drop USA Gymnastics After Sexual Abuse Scandal

According to a report from the Orange County Register, USA Gymnastics has been dropped by two of its largest corporate sponsors. Procter & Gamble has been the name sponsor of the national championships since 2013, and Kellogg’s sponsored the nationwide Tour of Gymnastics Champions. Neither opted to ...

Michigan State Can't Bury Its Role In The Largest Sex Abuse Scandal In Sports History<em></em>

This past March, Michigan State University trustee Joel Ferguson told Michigan’s WXYZ-TV that “MSU is going to look great” after an internal investigation into how the school handled sexual assault allegations against Larry Nassar. For all that we still do not know about Nassar’s crimes or the insti...

The Canucks Let The Predators Put On A Show

Sure, in any seven-goal game you’re going to see some fluke goals. Like P.K. Subban half-whiffing on a giveaway one-timer and the goalie never seeing the knuckling shot; or Subban scoring from center ice; or Filip Forsberg banging in a centering pass off a Canuck’s skate....

Hot Damn, P.K. Subban Scored From A Million Miles Away

P.K. Subban put the Predators up 3-0 in the second period of tonight’s game against the Canucks, getting his second goal of the evening by scoring from a point that just logically seems like it should be near impossible to manage. (From center ice, if you want to get all technical about it)....

Joe Smith, Baseball's One True Joe Smith, To Sign With Astros

Much is made of the fact that baseball’s history makes the sport so rich in numbers—a statistic to back up every story and an analysis to run for every situation, as broadcasters and newspaper columnists and front office nerds alike will all remind you—but that baseball’s history makes the sport so ...

Larry Nassar Receives 60 Years On Federal Child Pornography Charges

On Wednesday, 2012 Olympic champion McKayla Maroney’s attorneys released a wrenching victim impact statement that she wrote about Larry Nassar, the former MSU and USA Gymnastics doctor. Maroney, like 2012 teammates Aly Raisman and Gabby Douglas, has said that Nassar sexually molested under the guise...

McKayla Maroney Wants Larry Nassar To Spend The Rest Of His Life In Prison

Tomorrow, former USA Gymnastics and Michigan State physician Larry Nassar will be sentenced in federal court in Grand Rapids, Mich. pursuant to his guilty plea on child pornography charges. And 2012 Olympic gold medalist McKayla Maroney will be in the courtroom, watching as her former team doctor, ...

Herm Edwards Flabbergasted By Small Football Jersey

Herm Edwards hasn’t been a professional football coach since 2008, and he hasn’t worked for a college team since the 1980s. Fashions and customs have certainly changed since then, apparently to Edwards’s surprise....

Dallas Keuchel Got Hurt In The Astros’ Championship Parade

The Houston Astros confirmed earlier this week that Dallas Keuchel has a minor foot injury. The pitcher, an all-star this season who started two games in the World Series, got hurt in a curious way: He fell during the championship parade and sprained his ankle....