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Joel Embiid’s Orbital Bone Might Be Messed Up [UPDATE: He Needs Surgery]
The Sixers are on a long winning streak; Joel Embiid has been a star all season; Ben Simmons is playing great; and Markelle Fultz is back in the lineup after missing 68 games. Of course, this means something bad has to happen....
Ex-Seahawks QB Trevone Boykin Arrested After Police Viewed Video Of Alleged Assault On Girlfriend
Police arrested former TCU and Seattle Seahawks quarterback Trevone Boykin Wednesday night at his home in Mansfield, Texas, and charged him with aggravated assault against his girlfriend, Shabrika Bailey, according to reports. ...
Lionel Messi Did Not Have Fun At Spain's 6-1 Drubbing Of Argentina Today
Just a couple of months before June’s World Cup begins, a next-generation Spain squad incinerated a mostly full-strength Argentina in Madrid today, riding an Isco hat trick to a 6-1 laugher. It’s only a friendly, but still, it wasn’t good, and Argentina star Lionel Messi, missing the game with a ham...
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Seahawks Cut Trevone Boykin After Girlfriend Says He Choked Her Out, Broke Her Jaw [Update]
Shabrika Bailey, the girlfriend of former TCU and Seattle Seahawks quarterback Trevone Boykin, said in a news interview Monday that Boykin assaulted her, choked her out, and broke her jaw last Tuesday in Mansfield, Texas, over an argument about text messages....
Stormy Daniels's Lawyer Once Handed Jerry Jones His Own Ass In Open Court
Last week Jack Dickey of Sports Illustrated published a neat look at the history of Michael Avenatti, the lawyer representing porn actress Stormy Daniels in her suit against President Trump. I recommend reading it, as it’s been a strange route to this moment of sudden cultural prominence for Avenatt...
It Only Takes One Person To Raise The Volume In A Restaurant
Don’t let it be you....
Dipshit Florida Legislators’ Plan To Move To Atlantic Standard Time Will Wreak Havoc On Sports In The Sunshine State<em></em>
Florida’s heavily GOP legislature last month pushed through a bill that would move most of the state out of a daylight saving time-observing Eastern time zone and into year-round Atlantic Standard Time; Sen. Marco Rubio last week announced the plans to confirm the change in an act of Congress. This ...
Report: Zay Jones Will Not Be Charged For Vandalism Following Naked, Bloody Video
According to the Associated Press, Los Angeles county prosecutors have declined to bring charges against Buffalo Bills wide receiver Isaiah “Zay” Jones, citing “insufficient evidence” following his arrest on suspicion of felony vandalism Monday night. According to police, Jones “was said to be break...
Report: Cops Arrested Bloody, Naked Buffalo Bills Receiver Zay Jones For Vandalism
Buffalo Bills wide receiver Isaiah “Zay” Jones has been arrested on a charge of felony vandalism after breaking glass doors and windows at an apartment building in Los Angeles, according to police. It appears to get a lot weirder from there....
Rugby League Game Ends On Heroic Tackle By The Goalpost
It looked like the North Queensland Cowboys were about to pull off a come-from-behind win over the Brisbane Broncos in the National Rugby League today. Scott Bolton was about to cross the goal line for the winning try, but he was brutally tackled... by the goalpost....
Screeching Moron Formerly In Charge Of U.S. Soccer Scouting Offers Braindead Anti-Messi Take
You probably aren’t familiar with Thomas Rongen, and we really wish we didn’t feel compelled to inform you of his existence. But when a gaping asshole like this has somehow amassed real, serious power at the highest levels of U.S. Soccer, and demonstrates his gross incompetence for his position in t...
Trae Young Couldn't Carry His Whole Team
Oklahoma’s Trae Young almost certainly just played the last game of his NCAA career, and he busted his ass. Today’s 83-78 overtime loss to Rhode Island featured the entire Rams team each making important contributions, while Young put practically all of his Sooner teammates on his back....
Deep Three Sends Kevin Harlan Into Maniacal Laughing Fit
Ten-seed Oklahoma and seven-seed Rhode Island are currently locked in a close first-round matchup; so far, Rams senior guard Jared Terrell, the team’s sharpshooter and leading scorer, has struggled inside the arc, shooting just 4-of-12. But the Weymouth, Mass., native has been on fire from a mile aw...
Lionel Messi Five-Holes Thibaut Courtois Twice As Barcelona Blow Past Chelsea
We’ll probably never know whether or not Lionel Messi really could do it on cold, wet nights in Stoke, but today we’ve been given even more evidence that he is pretty good at doing it on early spring nights in and against teams from elsewhere around England....
Shaq: Put Cops Around And Inside Everything<em></em>
Someone asked Shaq, an occasional cop, what to do about school shootings. His take? Just build the school out of cops. Sure! ...
The Browns Trade A QB, Receive A QB, And Still Need A QB
The Cleveland Browns are making moves, in the same way that a dead squid writhes after being covered in soy sauce. New GM John Dorsey pulled off three whole trades today, two of them involving quarterbacks, and neither of them involving A.J. McCarron....
Oklahoma Needs To Get Out Of The Trash Heap Fast
It was only two months ago that Trae Young’s Oklahoma team was ranked fourth in the nation. With the most exciting player in the country leading the way, the Sooners improved drastically from an awful 2017 season, riding a 14-2 start that turned their freshman point guard into a national fascination...
Jerry Jones And NFL Calmly Resolve Legal Battle, To The Disappointment Of Everyone Else
The NFL machine should be napping right now, but the rich white dudes who run the league will never stop trying to swing their otherwise useless dicks. The latest drama was a spat between Roger Goodell and Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, who Goodell ordered to pay about $2 million of the NFL’s legal fees...
Dwyane Wade Comforts Marjory Stoneman Douglas Students After Harrowing Visit By Betsy DeVos
Today was Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School’s first full day of classes since the Feb. 14 shooting that left 17 people dead and many others wounded. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos stopped by to meet with students, as did Miami Heat guard Dwyane Wade. One of these visitors was more popular tha...
Marjory Stoneman Douglas QB Commits To D-III School After Hiding With Recruiters During Shooting
Marjory Stoneman Douglas football player Tyler Goodman was meeting with Nichols College assistant coach St. Clair Ryan and dean of admissions Paul Brower during last month’s shooting which killed 17 people at the high school. Goodman had not seriously considered attending Nichols, a D-III school in ...