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Mets Pitcher Jenrry Mejia Becomes First Player To Receive Lifetime Ban For PED Use
Jenrry Mejia really likes taking steroids. He was suspended by MLB for 80 games when he tested positive for stanozolol last April, and was hit with a 162-game suspension three months later when he tested positive for stanozolol and boldenone. Today brings news that Mejia failed a third test, this ti...
Exactly How High Is Phil Jackson Right Now?
Here is a tweet that Knicks president Phil Jackson just sent, one day after firing head coach Derek Fisher:...
The Knicks Have Fired Derek Fisher
Well shit, man, nobody’s prepared to deal with big NBA news the morning after the Super Bowl, but here we are. According to multiple reports, Derek Fisher is out as head coach of the New York Knicks....
Hospital Fires Two Employees Who Leaked Jason Pierre-Paul's Medical Records To ESPN
For days after Giants DE Jason Pierre-Paul injured his hand in a July 4 fireworks accident, we didn’t know anything more than that. We didn’t know the extent of the injury, or the operations required, or even how many fingers he had left...until ESPN’s Adam Schefter published a picture of Pierre Pau...
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This Mark Messier Fan's Back Tattoo Is Just A Lot To Deal With
I mean, where do you even start with this?...
Documents: Mets Owners' Real Estate Fund Was $300 Million In The Hole This Past June
The owners of the New York Mets are no strangers to financial calamity. After losing $550 million in Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi scheme and paying out $80 million to settle a lawsuit claiming they were in on the scheme, Fred and Jeff Wilpon managed to keep their team by taking out loans and slashing payro...
Report: Giants’ Jay Bromley Likely Won’t Be Charged After Attempted Rape Accusation
According to reports in both of New York’s tabloids today, cops have questions about the woman who accused Giants lineman Jay Bromley of attempted rape and vehicular assault, with the Post’s police source saying Bromley is unlikely to be charged. ...
Report: Giants' Jay Bromley Accused Of Attempting To Rape A Woman And Hit Her With His Car
According to multiple reports this morning, New York Giants defensive lineman Jay Bromley is being investigated by the NYPD for attempted rape. Apparently, the 23-year-old Bromley met a 26-year-old woman on Instagram, then arranged to meet up with her at the Hyatt Herald Square Hotel early this morn...
Keeping Up With The Antetokounmpos
Last night, Giannis Antetokounmpo’s older brother Thanasis made his debut for the New York Knicks. He scored on his only shot, as the Knicks blew out the Suns at home. Thanasis has spent the year on New York’s D-League team, before getting signed to a 10-day deal on Thursday to fill out an empty Kni...
Young American Stud Matt Miazga Set To Join Chelsea And Become New King Of English Soccer
Hell yeah, now this is more like it! While it was understandable if disappointing (and disappointing exactly because it was understandable) that Jordan Morris skipped out on the chance to take his talents to the Bundesliga and instead decided to start his pro career in MLS, we are not without hope t...
Kristaps Porzingis Remains The Best
The Thunder beat the Knicks or whatever, but who cares, because Kristaps:...
Kevin Durant And Russell Westbrook Make It All So Simple
On Monday, a day after a disappointing loss to the Brooklyn Nets, Thunder forward Kevin Durant had something to say about his team’s offensive philosophy, which is routinely critiqued for being too stagnant and isolation-heavy....
Former NFL Player Tyler Sash Had CTE When He Died At Age 27
Former New York Giants safety Tyler Sash—who died in September of an accidental painkiller overdose at age 27—had stage 2 chronic traumatic encephalopathy when he died, according to researchers at Boston University. The researchers told Sash’s family that it was rare to see as severe of CTE in such ...
Lurid Confessions Of A Times Square Silver Man
During the early aughts, when I was bobbing about the murky shark tank of my mid-20s, there were several years when my income was derived entirely from standing in a silver unitard around NYC....
Three NHL Games, Two NBA Games Postponed By East Coast Blizzard
How are you planning on spending this snowbound evening? Hopefully you weren’t planning on watching the Wizards, Sixers (you definitely weren’t), or the Islanders play tonight. The NHL has postponed today’s Islanders—Flyers game as well as tomorrow’s Capitals—Penguins game. The Capitals game yesterd...
Why Prosecutors Didn't Bring Charges Against Aroldis Chapman
Prosecutors have declined to bring charges against now-Yankees pitcher Aroldis Chapman for his actions the night he was accused of choking his girlfriend and firing eight gunshots inside his garage, the Broward State Attorney’s Office announced today. The office also released a closeout memo, writte...
Knicks Win In Double-OT After Carmelo Anthony Hits Tying Three At End Of Regulation
What could possibly get the whole Internet talking about a January afternoon Sixers-Knicks game? The combination of Martin Luther King Jr. Day and a free League Pass preview. Just when we were ready to rub a Sixers win in the face of our New York-based co-workers, ‘Melo had to pull this rabbit out o...
The World Needed Another Latvian Rap Song About Kristaps Porzingis
One music video about Latvian-born New York Knicks rookie Kristaps Porzingis wasn’t enough. There’s a second one titled “Keep Calm Like Kristaps Porzingis,” which features Lamborghinis in the snow, dabs, and heavy influences from Future....