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Turns Out Karl-Anthony Towns Is Still Pretty Good
It’s wild to remember that this time last season the Timberwolves were cruising to 47 wins in a deeper Western Conference, headed for their first playoff appearance in 14 years. With Jimmy Butler reunited with head coach Tom Thibodeau, and Karl-Anthony Towns ascending, and Andrew Wiggins uhh making ...

Soccer Player Accused Of Slashing Opponents With Hidden Blade During Turkish Third-Division Match
A third-division soccer player in Turkey is under investigation after he was accused of attacking and cutting multiple opponents at a match over the weekend. Amed SK’s Mansur Çalar allegedly slashed players of opposing side Sakaryaspor before and during the clubs’ heated 1-1 draw on Saturday. Four p...

Soccer Player Accused Of Slashing Opponents With Hidden Blade During Turkish Third-Division Match
A third-division soccer player in Turkey is under investigation after he was accused of attacking and cutting multiple opponents at a match over the weekend. Amed SK’s Mansur Çalar allegedly slashed players of opposing side Sakaryaspor before and during the clubs’ heated 1-1 draw on Saturday. Four p...

Nevada's Jordan Caroline Punches Glass And Wolf Pack Staff Members Confront Cops In Postgame Tunnel Fracas
The student section at Utah State were understandably happy when the final buzzer went off to make their team’s 81-76 upset over No. 12 Nevada official and celebrated the occasion with an old-fashioned court storming. Unfortunately, the event might have been the impetus for something from the visiti...

Mike McCarthy Is Using His Free Time To Yell At High School Basketball Officials
Ex-Packers head coach Mike McCarthy, who was fired with four games remaining last season, can’t yell at NFL officials anymore. He’s apparently filling the void by shouting at and chasing high school basketball refs instead. And there’s video....

Mike McCarthy Is Using His Free Time To Yell At High School Basketball Officials
Ex-Packers head coach Mike McCarthy, who was fired with four games remaining last season, can’t yell at NFL officials anymore. He’s apparently filling the void by shouting at and chasing high school basketball refs instead. And there’s video....

Paying Coaches And Administrators Is Ruining College Sports
The New York Times’ opinion section published an extraordinary piece today. What’s extraordinary is not the content, which is dull and dulling and dishonest, and has been published in basically this exact form for the better part of the century. What’s extraordinary is that we now have hard evidence...

Chelsea Goalie Invented A New Way To Disrespect Maurizio<em></em> Sarri In The League Cup Final<em></em>
As the final minutes of extra time in the Carabao Cup final ticked away, the action started to reach levels that had not been seen all game. No, it wasn’t because of a goal, it was just a rare act of defiance from a player towards an out-of-favor manager whose locker room troubles manifested themsel...
![Rod Woodson Says What We're All Quietly Thinking About The AAF: "Nobody's Watching. Nobody Cares." [Update]](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/zvwkiyuuuqex6n0mlthc.png)
Rod Woodson Says What We're All Quietly Thinking About The AAF: "Nobody's Watching. Nobody Cares." [Update]
Like with any new sports league, the AAF is working through the kinks of its inaugural season in the hopes of improving as the weeks and months progress. Unfortunately, those kinks have gotten to league’s broadcasters as well....

HuffPost Fires Social Media Editor For Being Incredibly Racist On Social Media
Yesterday, HuffPost fired a recently hired, Los Angeles-based social media editor after her managers were alerted to the fact that an Instagram account belonging to the new hire was spewing racist rants online. Using a now-deleted Instagram account, Ashley Rose, who was hired earlier this month, tar...

Trevor Bauer Says He Harassed A Woman Online To Show It's Okay To "Stand Up To A Bully"
Today, Sports Illustrated’s Ben Reiter published the latest in a long line of profiles seeking to provide some insight into the mind of Cleveland Indians pitcher Trevor Bauer, a sentient Reddit comment starting off with “by your logic” that also has a 95-mph fastball (as well as a variety of other p...

Bob Costas Wants To Have It Both Ways
Bob Costas seemed to be speaking truth to power in a recent segment on ESPN’s Outside The Lines, detailing a lengthy backstory about power and influence and the NFL’s relationship with its broadcast partners. It was classic Costas: smooth, controlled, authoritative—all the trustworthy qualities that...

Steve Kerr Goes Fucking Ballistic At The Climax Of A Warriors Meltdown
In the fourth quarter of Wednesday night’s Warriors-Trail Blazers game, referee Kenny Mauer went to the replay monitor to check a hard foul from Draymond Green on a cutting Zach Collins. The game had already gotten chippy, after a huge Collins chase-down block at the other end seemed to unsettle the...

Report: Browns Owner Jimmy Haslam Is A Big Pouty Baby
Just two years into a four-year advertising deal with ESPN, Browns owner Jimmy Haslam is cutting it off, reportedly because he’s upset about a story ESPN published a few weeks ago about Haslam’s chaotic and unsuccessful ownership of the Cleveland Browns, the Sports Business Journal reported today. ...

Joel Embiid Ends Press Conference By Declaring That The Referees "Fucking Suck"
The freshly beefed-up Philadelphia 76ers faced a reeling and miserable Boston Celtics team in Philly last night, and thus had the opportunity to put a signature win on their increasingly hated rivals. Instead, they got beat 112-109 (despite the Celtics not having Kyrie Irving on the floor), and Joel...

Kevin McHale Doesn't Realize He's On Air, Calls Someone A "Dickhead"
TNT rolled right through a few quiet seconds of a dead-ball in the first half of Tuesday night’s Celtics-76ers game, leaving the Players Only broadcast crew to chat through what might normally be filled by a relevant chyron and/or the small-talk skills of a professional play-by-play announcer. It se...

Kareem Hunt Gets Another Chance From The Guy Who Drafted Him
Running back Kareem Hunt, who was cut by the Kansas City Chiefs in November after TMZ published a video of him kicking and shoving a woman at a hotel last February, has a new job with the Cleveland Browns. His old boss was willing to vouch for him....

Adam Gase Is Building A Locker Room Powder Keg With His New Coaching Hires
Adam Gase being brought on to be the head coach of the New York Jets began as an uncreative hire, but has since blossomed into one of the more entertaining storylines of the NFL offseason through his own design. When we last caught up with Gase, his hypnotic eyeballs distracted us from some of his c...

Tennis Player Tells Himself To "Focus," Is Dinged For Audible Obscenity
Two years ago, tennis player Bryden Klein earned an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty for calling tennis player Bryden Klein a “stupid person.” Even though the remark was self-directed, he was tagged with a game penalty and immediately lost the match. A worthy sequel arrived today at the ATP Challenge...

Kevin Durant Stops Ignoring The Media So That He Can Yell At The Media
Before the Golden State Warriors’ 141-102 win over the Spurs last night, it had been nine days since Kevin Durant had spoken to the media. Durant’s freeze-out coincided with the Kristaps Porzingis trade, and it was easy to conclude that he was trying to avoid being asked questions about his impendin...