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San Diego's Month-Old Radio Station Was Already Forced To Redo Its Whole Lineup
Farewell, 97.3 The Machine. We never knew ye....

Let's Enjoy Some Pictures Of The Day In Baseball Donnybrooks
Baseball featured one tussle in the afternoon (Padres-Rockies, after a few hit batsmen) and one in the evening (Yankees-Red Sox, after one hit batsman and one hard slide) and, as always, the resulting photographs from Getty and the Associated Press are much more engrossing than any video can be. Her...

The Rockies And Padres Had Themselves A Scuffle
The Padres and Rockies are playing a game in Colorado today, and things really went to hell in the third inning after Padres starter Luis Perdomo threw a fastball behind Nolan Arenado, sparking a benches-clearing fracas....

Report: Bill Belichick Chewed Out Gronk In Front Of Teammates For Using Tom Brady's Sketchy Guru<em></em>
However the relationship between Patriots head coach Bill Belichick and quarterback Tom Brady stands now, it’s clear that the former still takes issue with the latter’s body coach and business partner Alex Guerrero. Belichick last season reportedly banned Guerrero from the team’s sidelines and revok...

<i>Denver Post's</i> Guide To Rockies' Stadium Features Big-Ass Photo Of Phillies' Stadium
This is an unfortunate thing that happened in the pages of the Denver Post:...

"The Most Dangerous Man In College Basketball" Dodged FBI Charges By Pocketing Money Meant For Athletes<em></em>
Brad Augustine was described and profiled by Yahoo! Sports as “the most dangerous man in college basketball” just six months ago; now, that dangerous man is skating on any punishment for his alleged crimes....

Rockies Extend Vivacious, Pure, Witty, Suave, Athletic, Cordial, Bearded Strategist<em></em>
The Rockies have extended leadoff hitter Charlie Blackmon with a six-year deal, ensuring that at least one part of the team’s core will be around for the long haul. Blackmon, who was drafted by the club in 2008 and has been with them since, was otherwise set to become a free agent this winter. He wo...

It's Time For Another Entry In The Stupidly Deep Oeuvre Of Sweet Jackie Bradley, Jr. Catches
Would you like to see the empty eyes of a man who’s almost positive that he’s just fucked up, with nothing left for him to do about it? From the second inning of tonight’s Red Sox-Marlins game, here’s Chris Sale after leaving one right over the plate for Justin Bour:...

The Rams Get Richer, Trade For Brandin Cooks
The New England Patriots spent a first- and third-round pick to get Brandin Cooks from the Saints last offseason, and now they’ve dealt the receiver (along with a fourth-round pick) to the Rams in exchange for a first- and sixth-rounder. That was fast!...

The Banana Has What It Takes To Defeat Gatorade
Midway through her first-round match at the Australian Open this year, world No. 10 CoCo Vandeweghe refused to return to the court until someone brought her a banana....

This San Diego Radio Station Has Existed For A Month And Is Already A Disaster
At the beginning of March, Entercom announced the launch of 97.3 The Machine, a new San Diego-based station with talk shows and sports programming. It’s not even the end of the month, and The Machine has already been involved in a feud and a fuckup that might jeopardize its relationship with the Pad...

Clay Travis Should Trigger The SJWs And Send Us A Video Of Him Singing The Word "Nigga"
Yesterday, we posted a story about the Virginia Tech women’s lacrosse team recording a video of themselves singing along to the part in Lil Dicky’s “Freaky Friday” where Chris Brown sings the word “nigga” a bunch of times. The gag in the song is that Lil Dicky, a white rapper, has swapped bodies wit...

Why The Giants Traded JPP
Twelve months after signing him to a contract with a max length of four years and a max value of $62 million, the Giants are shipping defensive end Jason Pierre-Paul to the Buccaneers. The Schefter Machine has the terms:...

Can These Two Guys Get Their Hands On “Big Dick Nick”?
As Nick Foles delivered the performance of his life in the most important game he’d ever played, Austin Meeks and John Robinson had an idea....

The Jets Paid An Awful Lot To Draft A Quarterback, But They Didn't Really Have A Choice
That the Colts would trade out of the No. 3 spot in the NFL draft has a fairly straightforward explanation: Indianapolis is pretty confident Andrew Luck’s shoulder will be fine (at some point), and the return the Colts got from the Jets—the No. 6 pick and two second-round selections this year, plus ...

The New Tax Bill Could Unintentionally Force Sports Teams To Pay Taxes On Trades
A single word in the sweeping tax bill that House Republicans passed in December could lead to a host of unintended consequences for American pro sports teams when making trades, according to a report from Jim Tankersley in the New York Times. ...

Rafael Palmeiro, 1996
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Not Even A Laser Can Solve This Curling Conundrum
In Elite 10 curling action on Friday night, two opposing stones ended up so close to the center of the rings that the teams needed increasingly sophisticated technology to measure any difference in distance—and even then, it couldn’t solve their problem. And if what Canada’s Sportsnet calls “the mos...

My Day Among The Radford Faithful, Who Truly Believed
PITTSBURGH—The noise came from all around me....

Joe Theismann On The Skins Re-Signing Kirk Cousins: "It Would've Been A Big Nut To Swallow"
Quarterback Kirk Cousins and the Skins had been at a contract impasse for quite some time, but that ended today with Cousins signing with the Vikings for a reported three years and $84 million. Former Washington QB Joe Theismann went on D.C. sports radio to discuss why the team let Cousins walk, and...