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McKayla Maroney Says She Was Sexually Abused For Years By Larry Nassar
Olympic champion McKayla Maroney has added her voice to the massive and growing list of women using the hashtag #MeToo to share their stories of sexual abuse and sexual harassment, and, more specifically, Maroney joins the more than 140 women who allege they were abused by Larry Nassar, team doctor ...
Aaron Judge Is A Hero Again
Aaron Judge, the Yankees’ young superstar slugger and potential MVP, had been having a pretty worthless postseason at the plate. Despite his team’s success, Judge only notched one hit in the entire ALDS, and he’s been mostly anonymous against Houston, only coming out of his shell for a home run in G...
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Olympic Champion Gymnast Tatiana Gutsu Accuses Fellow Gold Medalist Of Raping Her When She Was 15 [Update]
Early this morning, Tatiana Gutsu, the 1992 Olympic all-around champion in women’s gymnastics, took to Facebook to add her voice to the growing #MeToo campaign, where women share their stories of sexual harassment and sexual assault. Gutsu accused fellow 1992 Olympic gold medalist Vitaly Scherbo of ...
Astros Take 2-0 ALCS Lead On Carlos Correa Walkoff Double
Carlos Correa accounted for both of Houston’s runs, hitting a fourth-inning solo homer and the walkoff double that drove in José Altuve as the Astros took a 2-0 series lead on the Yankees in a game that saw Justin Verlander pitch a complete game with 13 strikeouts....
Bad Child Spared Demonization By Replay Call
Reasonable people may disagree about whether spectators should be bringing baseball gloves to professional baseball games. Is it lame? Probably not, so long as you are a child. But even if you are a child, there is one thing you for sure should not be doing at a professional baseball game: you shoul...
These 24 Seconds Are Filled With More Terror Than Whatever Scary Movie You Plan On Watching
Star North Carolina State defensive end Bradley Chubb suffered a finger injury during the Wolfpack’s game at Pitt today, but his grotesquely misshapen digit is only the start of this horrifying half-minute of video. Gah!...
N.C. State Freshman Braxton Beverly Ruled Ineligible For Going To School
After Thad Matta abruptly left Ohio State this summer, incoming freshman Braxton Beverly was granted his release by the Buckeyes and he transferred to N.C. State. The four-star point guard recruit (who once scored 70 points in a single high school game) hadn’t played for the Buckeyes or anything, an...
French Gymnast Wants To Become An MMA Fighter
MONTREAL, Canada—In Rio, Samir Ait Said, a leading gymnast for France became famous for something an elite athlete never wants to become known for—suffering a horrific injury on live TV....
The Red Sox And Astros Got Bullpen Crazy In Game 4
This afternoon’s ALDS Game 4 between the Astros and Red Sox was wild and messy, and it’ll be a difficult one to top both in terms of drama and bullpen management....
Dutch Gymnast Manages To Catch High Bar Release Move With One Hand, Wins Medal
Epke Zonderland, the 2012 Olympic champion on high bar, is nicknamed “the Flying Dutchman” for the string of consecutive release moves he performs on the high bar. Yesterday during the final event of an otherwise fall- and injury-laden world championships, Zonderland, 31, gave the audience a thrill ...
Softball Coach's Son, Accused Of Harassing Auburn Players, Violated Rules At Arizona State
Before coaching softball at Auburn—where he was accused of subjecting players to sexualized attention from his son—Clint Myers coached the same sport at Arizona State; public records released Friday to Deadspin reveal that Myers’s son, Corey, was the center of an investigation there, too, into his i...
Glove-Aided Dinger Helps Red Sox Stave Off Elimination
The Red Sox-Astros series was looking like a real turd heading into Game 3, with the Astros having outscored the Red Sox 16-4 in a pair of lopsided games in Houston. The Red Sox responded Sunday afternoon at Fenway with some overdue offense and managed to push the series to a Game 4....
Morgan Hurd Keeps U.S. Winning Streak In Women's Gymnastics Alive
MONTREAL, Canada—Fifteen minutes before the women’s all-around final, Ragan Smith, the U.S. national champion and one of the few remaining favorites left standing—after Larisa Iordache withdrew due to an Achilles tear right before preliminaries and Rebecca Andrade of Brazil went down with an ACL inj...
Is Larisa Iordache The Last Romanian Gymnast?
MONTREAL, Canada—On Wednesday afternoon, 21-year-old Larisa Iordache strode across the stage set up on the floor of the Olympic Stadium in Montreal just as she was supposed to. She presented herself to the crowd when the Romanian women’s gymnastics team was announced, acknowledged their cheers, and ...
China Is Back On Top In Men's Gymnastics
MONTREAL, Canada—There’s a new men’s world champion and he’s from China. Xiao Ruoteng succeeded the injured Kohei Uchimura as “best male gymnast in the world.”...
José Altuve Hitting Dingers Is The Best Baseball Has To Offer
At some point, José Altuve’s height should probably no longer be dwelled on, but seven years into his career, it’s still fun as hell to marvel at him being one of the best players in the baseball—and a good-as-hell candidate for the AL MVP—in tandem with his, uh, modest vertical dimensions....
José Altuve Went Dinger-Crazy
Tonight’s Game 1 of the ALDS very quickly revealed itself to be far from ideal for Boston starter Chris Sale. That started with the second batter he faced, Alex Bregman, turning a flat slider into a solo home run and continued with the third batter, José Altuve, turning a high fastball into the same...
Eduardo Nuñez Carried Off Field After Going Down Running To First Base
Red Sox DH Eduardo Nuñez had to be carried off the field by manager John Farrell and a trainer after apparently injuring his leg while beginning to run out a grounder on the first pitch of today’s ALDS Game 1 against the Astros....
This Cuban Gymnast Might Be The Next Men's World Champion
MONTREAL, Canada—Tonight a new men’s gymnastics world champion will be crowned for the first time since 2009. With six-time defending world champion Kohei Uchimura forced to withdraw from the competition with an ankle injury, the men’s field—like the Simone Biles-less women’s field—is wide open. The...
Post-Simone Biles, The U.S. Women Are Doing Alright
MONTREAL, Canada—Four years of Simone Biles-led dominance basically guaranteed gold medals to the U.S. women’s gymnastics team every time they arrived at a world championships. With the Olympic champion on hiatus from full-time training and competition, what the Americans are left with is gold medal...