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Which Was Longer: James Harden's Staredown Or Tom Brady's Kiss With His Son?

Everyone had a hearty chuckle (or gasped in horror) as James Harden extracted Wesley Johnson’s soul with a crossover last night, but The Outline’s Jeremy Gordon had an offhand joke that made us think. He said Harden’s staredown of Johnson was longer than Tom Brady’s definitely normal lips-on-lips ki...

For Reporters, The NFL Combine Can Be One Awkward Feeding Frenzy

INDIANAPOLIS — “This is already a degrading experience.”...

Ronda Rousey's WWE Future Is Starting To Take Shape<em></em>

It’s tough to know what to expect from Ronda Rousey in WWE, but most observers weren’t expecting much going into last weekend. Yes, she’s an Olympic medalist and past MMA champion with a long history as a wrestling fan and great respect for what the grind of pro wrestling entails. On the other hand...

Report: Gronk Feel Like Pawn In Game Of Life

Although Rob Gronkowski goes about his everyday life like an ageless high schooler, he’ll be 29 in May and has had a bunch of surgeries to his back and limbs. Add in his marketability and the fact that he’s already sealed up a Hall of Fame spot whenever he walks away from the NFL, and it’s not compl...

Thank You, Colin

Peterborough United Desperately Sweeps To End Snow Delay

Snow days were great, and if you have the opportunity to get one as an adult, you should absolutely take it. But props to third-tier English soccer team Peterborough United for powering through and doing the absolute most they could do to avoid going home early on account of the late-February flurri...

Lonzo Ball Lost A Shooting Contest To Bow Wow

If you are a professional basketball player there is one thing you have to understand: Even though losing a casual shooting contest to a non-professional basketball player is not an objectively big deal, it is something you absolutely cannot allow to happen. Why? Because when it does happen, you hav...

Report: Roger Goodell's Going To Stick It To Jerry Jones With Some Vague Fine

Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones’s reported bitching and moaning about Roger Goodell’s actions over the last season has earned him a dose of NFL justice, which is regular justice that comes with an even more hollow feeling. Ken Belson of the New York Times reports the NFL commissioner will fine Jone...

Mississippi State Is Ready

For the first time since Pat Summitt stalked the sidelines, an SEC program has run the table throughout the regular-season conference slate, with Mississippi State completing its 16-0 run Sunday evening....

Nice And Good Isn't Enough To Be A Story At The Olympics

Parents are an Olympic reporter’s gold mine, or anyway something like a lifeline. They are not what anyone would term an unbiased source, of course, but they can tell you what’s human about the superhuman athlete they’ve raised and shed light on their athlete’s otherwise invisible life away from co...

Tim Tebow Walks On Water Sprinkler, Sprains Ankle

Tim Tebow, who is still playing baseball and apparently a threat to rise to the majors one day, has hurt himself:...

Ester Ledecká Wins Snowboard Parallel Giant Slalom, Is First Winter Olympian To Win Two Different Sports At Same Olympics

Ester Ledecká, who basically won Super-G in alpine skiing by accident on a pair of borrowed skis, claimed gold in her primary event as the Czech sailed to the finish of the snowboard parallel giant slalom well ahead of silver medalist Selina Joerg....

Well That Was A Bizarre Press Conference From Mirai Nagasu

Of all the parties involved in the U.S. women’s figure skating collapse yesterday, Mirai Nagasu had perhaps the most baffling performance. Nagasu was considered a dark horse candidate to sneak in for bronze after delivering a big free skate performance in the team event, but she didn’t even attempt ...

Ultras Start Fireworks Fight Before Europa League Game [Update]

Spartak Moscow traveled to Bilbao to play Athletic in the Europa League’s Round of 32, and as is typially the case whenever large groups of Russian soccer hooligans travel to European games, some shit went down. ...

WWE's Two-Hour Gauntlet Worked Because Long Wrestling Matches Are Dying Off

You may have heard that this week’s edition of Monday Night Raw featured the longest match in WWE history, a seven-man gauntlet match that lasted roughly two hours and took up the first two-thirds of the show. There was little logic behind the bout being made in-canon, especially just six days befor...

Scott Moir Says He Respects Ice Dancing Too Much To Fuck

Here is a brief video of Scott Moir speaking at a press conference. Moir and his skating partner Tessa Virtue are two-time Olympic gold medalists in ice dancing. Moir has said that they’re retiring after these Olympics—“I think it’s a nice end to our Olympic career”—but they also “retired” after Soc...

Bode Miller Is The Worst Sports Commentator Who Ever Lived

Here is my impression of Bode Miller, alpine skiing analyst for NBC’s Winter Olympics coverage, watching Neil Armstrong take humankind’s first step onto the surface of the Moon:...

Sure, Fine, It's "Dunk On Bill Polian" Week

It’s February and there are no sports going on right now except for hockey and various Olympic events that Americans are eating shit in. If not for these circumstances, it’s likely nobody would care too much about what Bill Polian is saying on TV. But we don’t have anything better to do, so let’s ro...

<i>Raw</i> Opened With A Match That Lasted Two Hours And It Ruled

WWE Raw is repetitive. It’s three hours long and sometimes a slog to get through. And when Roman Reigns walked out to start the show last night, it seemed like we’d be getting another 20-minute opening promo segment....

Cassie Sharpe Wins Ski Halfpipe Gold After Defending Champ Maddie Bowman's Devastating Crash

American Maddie Bowman will not repeat as ski halfpipe gold medalist after crashing on all three of her runs in tonight’s final round, the final time of which left the 2014 champion crumpled on the ground with a busted helmet....