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Let Us Cringe Together At A Truly Butchered Pre-Game National Anthem
Rachel Platten is a well-known pop singer. I am a crusty old shitbag, and so I have heard of roughly no one, but I understand she’s had some chart-topping hits and may have performed on, like, Good Morning America or something. At any rate, here she is performing, well, some of the national anthem a...
Here’s Mike Moustakas<em></em> Hitting A Homer In The Snow
It started snowing around the sixth inning of the Angels-Royals game last night, and by the time Mike Moustakas came to the plate in the bottom of the eighth inning it was really coming down....
The Lowest Lowlight From A Slapstick Pirates Loss Was This Three-Run Sacrifice Fly
Though there were almost no fans in attendance to see it, something extremely dumb and good happened in last night’s silly Pirates-Marlins game: with one out in the bottom of the 5th inning, with the bases loaded, Marlins second baseman Starlin Castro skied a fly ball to right field for what would n...
Cowboys Cut Dez Bryant, Who Threatens To Join NFC East Rival
After eight seasons with the Dallas Cowboys, Dez Bryant has been released, as first reported by ESPN’s Todd Archer. Bryant met with owner Jerry Jones at the team facility this morning, who said in a statement that Bryant was one of the few Cowboys he ever liked, which, sure, okay....
Looks Like Woj Got A New Word-A-Day Calendar
“... a punishment that will vanquish him from the postseason roster, league sources told ESPN.” [ESPN]...
Is This The Dumbest-Ass Shit Anyone Has Ever Written About Richie Incognito?
Stuck down at the bottom of Andy Benoit’s latest column for The MMQB is this short blurb reflecting on the retirement of offensive lineman Richie Incognito:...
How Pat Burrell Set The Home-Run Record... In A Sci-Fi Novel About Killer Prehistoric Sharks
Steve Alten grew up in Philadelphia. He went to schools—Penn State, Delaware, Temple—that Philly kids go to. And, though he lives in South Florida now, he’s still a huge Philadelphia sports fan....
Report: TV Reporter Fight At Brewers Game Started Over Photo Of Bulldog
Last Friday, Milwaukee television reporter A.J. Bayatpour was arrested on battery charges after punching out a reporter from a rival Milwaukee station at a Brewers game. According to the police report, Bayatpour, who works for FOX affiliate WITI Channel 6, “caused significant injury” to Ben Jordan, ...
Winnipeg's Been Waiting A Long Time For This
It had been 22 years since a Winnipeg Jets team won a playoff game, and that wasn’t even these Winnipeg Jets. That was a different franchise altogether; it’s in Arizona now. This Jets franchise, including its time in Atlanta, had never won a playoff game. But before a crazy, popcorn-erupting, whited...
Invisible Men, Surprise Guests, And Monsters: A WrestleMania 34 Weekend Travelogue
I have done The WrestleMania Weekend Thing once before, back in 2013, but I slept in my own bed that time. The weekend has only gotten crazier since then, and this year the confluence of a jam-packed slate of events and a return engagement in New Orleans finally wore me down. So I went to New Orlean...
ESPN Brought To Its Knees By Reply Allpocalypse
Today we can add ESPN to the fraternity of organizations that has seen its employees thrust into a reply allpocalypse. Witness now some of their journey into the hellish depths....
A 10-Year-Old Boy Is No Longer A WWE Tag Team Champion
One of the best moments of Sunday’s long WrestleMania was the Raw tag team championship match. Braun Strowman, the monster who’s been terrorizing WWE in an incredibly entertaining fashion for about a year now, picked a random (“random”) child out of the stands as his partner for the tag team title m...
Future Georgetown Hoya Mac McClung Is Not Bad
You may have heard that the valiant Duke Blue Devils did not win the 2018 NCAA men’s basketball tournament. Truly a shame for everyone. (But please, don’t be too upset, as next year’s recruiting class is truly ridiculous.) In addition to the emotional distress that I experienced due to my alma mater...
Ray Lewis Says Odell Beckham Jr. Has "Removed God From His Life"
Former NFL linebacker Ray Lewis, who now makes a living going on TV to say “God” and “greatness” as many times as possible, joined Colin Cowherd on FS1 today to dish about Odell Beckham Jr....
Home Run Balls Are Free For The Taking In Chicago Today
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Report: Bill Belichick Chewed Out Gronk In Front Of Teammates For Using Tom Brady's Sketchy Guru<em></em>
However the relationship between Patriots head coach Bill Belichick and quarterback Tom Brady stands now, it’s clear that the former still takes issue with the latter’s body coach and business partner Alex Guerrero. Belichick last season reportedly banned Guerrero from the team’s sidelines and revok...
<i>Sea Of Thieves's</i> Ocean Is Vast And Beautiful And Lifelike And It Won't Stop Putting Me To Sleep
Reviews have knocked Sea of Thieves, the big new multiplayer pirate video game for Windows and Xbox, for its lack of content, for repetitive quest structure, and for generally feeling sort of hollow and unfinished. My colleague Heather Alexandra over at Kotaku wrote that playing it “feels a bit like...
Packers' Trevor Davis Jokes About Smuggling Bomb Onto Plane, Gets Arrested
Packers wideout Trevor Davis apparently tried to test the seriousness with which airport security takes those questions about putting stuff in your luggage. Turns out they take it pretty seriously!...
A Review Of WrestleMania 34, Which May Still Be Going On
It was long....
Pavel Datsyuk Got Robbed In OT And His Superteam Is Out Of The KHL Playoffs
The two KHL teams that made up almost the entirety of Russia’s gold medal-winning Olympic roster ended their conference final battle with a Game 6 overtime classic. CSKA Moscow delivered the relative upset victory over the superteam SKA St. Petersburg in the 3-2 sudden death win....