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Texas Attorney General Declares Daily Fantasy Illegal Gambling, And The End Is Nigh

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued an opinion today that daily fantasy sports constitutes illegal gambling under Texas law. “It is prohibited gambling in Texas if you bet on the performance of a participant in a sporting event and the house takes a cut,” he said in a statement. “Paid daily ‘fa...

Philly Radio Dipshit Calls Jason Kelce A "House Negro"

Sports radio is full of terrible morons who use their short tempers to draw out a two-minute topic into a 10-minute segment. (Examples can be found here, here, here, and here.) The only acceptable sports radio is Mike Francesa taking 40 minutes to name all the stops on the 7 train, and presumably th...

Chili Bowl Heckler Who Pushed & Shoved With Tony Stewart Is A Cop

The reportedly drunk heckler who drew Tony Stewart’s ire at the Chili Bowl nationals last night, prompting the NASCAR star to angrily confront him in the stands is a Tulsa County sheriff’s deputy according to an update today by the Tulsa World....

Videos Appear To Show Tony Stewart Getting In Face Of Heckler

Multiple videos have turned up showing a guy arguing with NASCAR star Tony Stewart in the stands at the Chili Bowl. Witnesses on Twitter say the gent flipped Stewart off; we only know it’s smart to avoid confrontation with “Smoke” at a dirt track....

Ohio State Forces Overtime With Last-Second Goal Off The Draw

Ohio State came back to beat Michigan at home tonight after nine rounds of penalty shots that only happened because Anthony Greco forced overtime by scoring the tying goal with seven seconds remaining—off the faceoff....

Kenny Florian Plagiarizes For UFC Article; Fox Sports Calls It An "Oversight" [UPDATE: Florian Suspended]

Fox Sports is, as a whole, garbage, so it’s hardly surprising to learn that the UFC partner’s preview of this weekend’s Fight Night bout between TJ Dillashaw and Dominick Cruz contained material stolen word-for-word from another fight writer....

Jon Chait Can't Stop Wringing His Hands Over Paying College Athletes

New York Magazine’s Jonathan Chait, who has been humping the increasingly ridiculous argument that college athletes should not be paid for years, is running out of ideas....

Full-Court Inbounds Hits Rim And Bounces To Teammate, Who Makes Game-Tying Shot

Down two with just 1.7 seconds left against Oswego State and inbounding from under their opponent’s basket, the D3 Brockport Golden Eagles needed some Grant Hill to Christian Laettner shit to even make it to overtime. That’s not exactly what happened, but somehow the ball Rube Goldberg Machine’d its...

Rams And Chargers Fans!  Let Us Help You Say Goodbye To Your Owners

Congratulations, Rams and Chargers fans! Your favorite teams have just abandoned you in favor of playing football at sunny and beautiful LAX International Airport. What a thrill! This brings to an end a sometimes contentious process that will, at long last, leave you in the dust and enrichen owners ...

Peter King Sounds New Depths Of Stoogery With Open Letter To NFL Players

For all the danger they purport to identify in the world, conspiracy theories, at bottom, are comforting. They’re orderly and symmetrical and closed, like a square dance, matching participants 1:1 to malign intents and thus to culpability. Either you are in the conspiracy by cynical choice and sinis...

Neil Everett Is Struggling A Bit

Can’t a SportsCenter anchor get a bottle of water? Everett eventually came back after the above segment, still sounding like “Macho Man” Randy Savage....

Damian Lillard Went Nuclear On The Thunder

The Portland Trail Blazers were losing to the Oklahoma City Thunder by a score of 103-95 with just over three minutes left to play last night. The Blazers won the game 115-110, because Damian Lillard lost his mind....

Is EA Sports' <i>NCAA Football</i> Game Making A Comeback? [UPDATES]

EA Sports has not released an edition of its popular NCAA Football game after litigation between former players and the NCAA led to a $60 million settlement to pay players whose likenesses had been represented in the series. EA’s announcement of the game’s death came in 2013; today, on its Facebook ...

Supercross Racers Get In A Fight Right In The Middle Of A Race

Motorcycles and dudes were swirling all around these two supercross men, but that didn’t stop them (well really one of them) from catching some hands. When you’re steady cutting off your competitor, that’s what you get, man....

"Pacman" Jones Is Mad, You Guys

From his since-deleted Instagram post, here is Adam “Pacman” Jones telling us what he really thinks about the officials, and Joey Porter....

Kendall Marshall's Dad Thinks The Sixers Are Racist And A Joke

Veteran point guard Kendall Marshall recently joined the Philadelphia 76ers’ active roster after recovering from an offseason knee surgery. At the time of Marshall’s return, GM Sam Hinkie put forward a theory that the team would have gotten off to a much better start had Marshall’s steady hand been ...

Tim Frazier's Desperation Assist To Noah Vonleh Is Incredible

It happened on New Year’s Eve, so most people missed this tremendous play from Portland’s Tim Frazier, who leapt out of bounds to save an airball and ended up being the front end of a Noah Vonleh alley-oop slam. It’s a play so impressive, even the visiting announcers from Utah had to respect it:...

Reports: ESPN College Football Playoff Game Ratings Went Into Toilet [UPDATES]

Three months of annoying, Kimmel-led promos and awkward corporate tie-ins weren’t enough to keep ESPN’s college football playoff semifinal TV ratings from plummeting on a New Year’s Eve, the traditions of which have never featured watching college football at home....

ESPN Promo For Cotton Bowl Semifinal Features Michigan, Not Michigan State

ESPN has gone all-in on its Latin American programming strategy, with today’s college football semifinals airing on ESPN Deportes, a Deportes simulcast on ESPN2, and on the main ESPN in Mexico. Unfortunately, some confusion still reigns as you can see in this promo that ran on Deportes (and ESPN2) d...

“I’ve sat for months on end waiting for any assignment while I watched other Fox reporters working almost daily throughout the last year. It feels punitive, as if I did something wrong. I didn’t.” Colleen Dominguez writes about her age and gender discrimination lawsuit against Fox Sports. [San Diego...