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Viktor Troicki Melts Down, Throws Insane Hissy Fit At Wimbledon Umpire

Tennis is allegedly a gentleman’s game, especially so at Wimbledon. There are rules against speaking during serves, and the games take place on the exquisitely manicured lawns of exclusive country clubs, in front of be-suited judges and polite crowds. However, because the game has a human judgment c...

Pirates Radio Announcer Falls Out Of His Chair, Plays It Cool

There’s a line of thinking that says an embarrassing act is only truly embarrassing if you allow it to be. I believe this is what informed Pirates radio broadcaster Bob Walk’s reaction when he fell right out of his damn chair last night....

Johnny Manziel's Father On "Druggie" Son: "I Hope He Goes To Jail"

Johnny Manziel’s father Paul told ESPN tonight that the former Browns quarterback is a “druggie” who “needs help” and that he hoped his son would go to jail....

Deadspin Awards: Worst Team

The Deadspin Awards are in July and we need our readers to decide the winners of these prestigious honors. Today, we ask you to answer a simple question to which we nonetheless hope you’ll devote some serious thought: Of all the bad sports teams, which is the worst sports team?...

RGIII Called Out For Ripping Off Cavs' Photo [Update]

Future former Cleveland Browns quarterback Robert Griffin III is already getting acclimated to Cleveland and tossing footballs into neighboring yards. This morning, he tweeted his congratulations to the Cavaliers for beating the Warriors and winning Cleveland’s first championship in 52 years, a wort...

J.R. Smith's Daughter Burns Him On National Television

Aside from a 20-pointer in Game 5, J.R. Smith hasn’t really shown up in these NBA Finals. That’s okay! His daughter is proud of him anyway. Why’s that? Because he made it this far into the season without getting kicked off the team....

The Undefeated Can't Find Anything Bad To Say About Jameis Winston

The Undefeated has published a soft-focus profile of Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Jameis Winston that is so remarkably bad that I honestly don’t understand how or why it ever saw daylight....

Bill Simmons Is Not "Cool And Edgy," <i>New York Times</i>

Sports media giant/tall Nilla wafer Bill Simmons is the subject of a short, soft profile in The New York Times today, running under the headline “Bill Simmons Prepares To Stand Up To Sports Incorporated.” It begins by describing Simmons as “cool and edgy,” moves into a comparison to Bill Maher, and ...

Peru Knock Brazil Out Of Copa América On Obvious, Uncalled Handball

Peru earned their first in-competition win over Brazil since 1975 thanks to an incredibly obvious handball that interrupted the game for several minutes and appeared to leave the referee in a state of catatonic confusion....

Sideline Reporter Gets Pretty Racist On Barstool Sports Broadcast (UPDATE)

Fox Sports Florida’s sideline reporter for Tampa Bay Rays and Orlando Magic broadcasts, Emily Austen, went on Barstool Sports’s daily Rundown show on Thursday, and proceeded to make a number of racist and anti-Semitic jokes. The Rundown, which was broadcast live on Facebook Live instead of being rec...

Enjoy This Wonderfully Awkward Moment From The Cavaliers' Press Conference

This moment, via Zach Harper, is a lot to take in:...

RGIII Says He’s Throwing Passes Into Neighbors’ Yards Because He Cares

Cleveland quarterback Robert Griffin III—that still needs a little more time to sink in—wants to prove that he can take instruction from coaches. For one example which appropriately represents the Browns’ reputation as an NFL team, Griffin had a habit in Washington of holding onto the football when ...

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UFC Restores Ariel Helwani's Credentials

MMAFighting.com reporter Ariel Helwani and his colleagues Casey Leydon and Esther Lin, who were thrown out of UFC 199 on Saturday night and banned for life after Helwani (accurately) reported that Brock Lesnar was in talks to fight at UFC 200 next month, appear to have had their credentials restored...

Blackballed MMA Reporter Admits He Was UFC's Paid Shill

MMAFighting.com’s Ariel Helwani and his colleagues Casey Leydon and Esther Lin were booted from UFC 199 on Saturday and banned from future UFC events, apparently in retaliation for Helwani having reported, a few hours before the UFC’s official announcement, that Brock Lesnar was in talks to fight at...

Apparently, The Miami Marlins Broke The News Of Muhammad Ali's Death

Two hours before Muhammad Ali’s death was announced to the world by his family, news that Ali had died was broken by none other than the Miami Marlins. No, seriously, I think. ...

Mississippi State AD Gets Roasted For Barely Punishing Star Recruit Who Beat Up A Woman

“It’s easy to make a snap decision, which is why we vetted everything we could,” says Mississippi State Athletic Director Scott Stricklin of his decision to allow five-star recruit Jeffery Simmons to join the football team with a tiny one-game suspension. That’s a bold way to lead off a press confer...

Padres Chairman Shits All Over His Own Players

The San Diego Padres are a very bad baseball team. Nobody needs to be reminded that they are bad, and honestly nobody really cares. They are the Padres! Bad is their natural state. This has not been explained to executive chairman Ron Fowler, who went on the radio to rant about the team’s 20-33 reco...

Twitter User Jim Harbaugh Roasts "Amazing" Nick Saban

There’s been a fairly mundane controversy swirling about the college football offseason regarding the legality of satellite football camps (little coaching clinics put on by schools used as a recruiting tactic) and whether or not head coaches should attend. In April, the NCAA banned satellite camps,...

Marv Albert Screwed Up A Whole Lot Of Calls In The Western Conference Finals

The worst performance of the Western Conference Finals wasn’t Russell Westbrook’s four turnovers in the final two minutes of Game 6, Shaun Livingston’s disappearing act, or the referees letting Draymond Green get away with murder. No, the worst performance of the Western Conference Finals belonged t...