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ESPN Cancels Barstool Sports TV Show After One Episode
ESPN has pulled the plug on PFT Commenter and Dan Katz’s weekly show Barstool Van Talk after just one episode. (The next episode would have been scheduled to air Wednesday morning at 1 a.m. ET.)...
The Timberwolves' Cool Youths Mushed The Thunder
When Carmelo Anthony’s high-arcing three from the left wing splashed in, to give his Oklahoma City Thunder a 113-112 fourth-quarter lead over the Timberwolves last night, it also left just under five seconds on the game clock. Time enough for Minnesota’s Andrew Wiggins to do this:...
The Steelers Upped Their Celebration Game With Some Hide-And-Seek
The Pittsburgh Steelers have been the NFL’s most reliable source of post-touchdown fun since the league relaxed its celebration rules, and after a JuJu Smith-Schuster score today, they showed off another move in their arsenal. For the enjoyment of all, Smith-Schuster and Le’Veon Bell put on a choreo...
Browns' Only Strength Also Ruined
With an injury to Joe Thomas’s triceps, the lone good thing about the Cleveland Browns came to an end. The stalwart tackle, who had played in 10,363 straight offensive snaps since debuting for Cleveland in 2007, had to leave the game after a three-yard run from Duke Johnson....
ESPN Wanted Barstool Sports, But Without The Stench
This week, ESPN premiered a new show on ESPN 2 called Barstool Van Talk, hosted by Barstool Sports personalities and Pardon My Take podcast co-hosts PFT Commenter and Dan Katz. According to sources familiar with the situation, ESPN originally did not want the Barstool Sports name and logo associated...
At Least Jaylen Brown Is Up To The Task
The Celtics’ season was proceeding as planned for a total of six minute before Gordon Hayward obliterated his ankle Tuesday night, forcing the team to reorient itself without a player who figured to have an enormous role in the team’s offense. With Hayward’s ankle now shredded like carnitas, Boston’...
TBS Sucks
I am aggravated hourly and nearly minutely by some dumb bullshit on television, but never with such consistency as come each MLB postseason, when America’s Home For Friends And Family Guy reruns TBS is mysteriously transformed into a media outlet worthy of broadcasting playoff baseball games. It’s n...
Bad Quarterback Performance Of The Week: The Browns Scrape Up Kevin Hogan
Welcome to Bad Quarterback Performance Of The Week, a recurring feature in which we celebrate the worst quarterback play the NFL has to offer....
Mike McCarthy Snaps At Reporter For Asking About Colin Kaepernick
The Packers’ quarterback situation is suddenly very dire. Aaron Rodgers is likely out for the season with a broken collarbone, and the team now has to start Brett Hundley, a former fifth-round pick with 44 career NFL pass attempts. Perhaps even more worrying is the fact that behind Hundley is Joe Ca...
Apparently DeShone Kizer Just Needed One Week Off
When Browns head coach Hue Jackson announced that he was benching rookie quarterback DeShone Kizer last week, it seemed like he had a decent plan in mind. The Browns, already 0-5 at that point, had three more games against the Texans, Titans, and Vikings before their bye week. Here was a chance for ...
Al Michaels Is Out Here Cracking Harvey Weinstein Jokes [Update]
“And let’s face it: the Giants are coming off a worse week than Harvey Weinstein, and they’re up by 14 points!” ...
"Look On Graphic For The Final Two Bullet Points"
“For the last time: anything that you put on that prompter, Dick Stockton will read.” ...
Antonio Brown Somehow Scored On This Play
Check out the still image above: Steelers receiver Antonio Brown is at about the Chiefs’ 35-yard line and is flanked by two defenders. Kansas City cornerback Phillip Gaines has just tipped the pass; safety Daniel Sorensen is there to make the tackle. And yet, Brown scored a 51-yard TD. ...
Golden Tate Scored And Dropped The People’s Elbow On The Football
Golden Tate caught a long pass from Matthew Stafford, broke a few weak tackles by the Saints, and flipped into the end zone. It was pretty cool....
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NESN Suspends Anchor For Unleashing Stream Of Insults At Woman Who Told Him No [Updated]
Alyssa Labrie first posted on Facebook privately over the weekend, saying New England Sports Network anchor Marc James exploded at her in a string of angry text messages after she said she didn’t want to get drinks with him. Labrie told me that after she heard from people saying it needed to be kno...
Barstool Sports Asked Potential Employee To Sign Away Her Right To Be Offended<em></em><em></em>
This afternoon, former Fox Sports college football host Elika Sadeghi told a story about how she recently walked away from a job offer from a sports media company because it asked her to sign an agreement acknowledging that she would willingly work in an environment where she might be exposed to “nu...
"This Is An Utter Embarrassment"
“WHAT ARE WE DOING? WHAT ARE WE DOING!???”...
How Did Jason Whitlock Do This?
Earlier today, All Takes Matter co-host Jason Whitlock sent a tweet that was genuinely mystifying:...
ESPN Supports Diverse Voices If It Can Control What They Say
Yesterday, Jemele Hill, co-host of the flagship 6 p.m. edition of SportsCenter, tweeted a very obvious and uncontroversial observation about forms of protest. As part of a broader discussion about Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones’s threats to punish any player who takes part in racial injustice prot...
ESPN Suspends Jemele Hill Two Weeks For No Good Reason
ESPN just announced that SportsCenter host Jemele Hill has been suspended two weeks for violating the company’s social media guidelines....