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Grant Hart, 1961-2017
So there’s never going to be a Hüsker Dü reunion after all. Grant Hart is dead....

Kevin Durant Has Never Been Less Mad, And He Has The Shoes To Prove It
Kevin Durant earned himself a lot of haters last offseason when he left the Oklahoma City Thunder and joined the Golden State Warriors. Now he’s an NBA champion and a Finals MVP, so he’s definitely not still sore about all those mean things people said about him. He’s definitely not still mad about ...

Alexi Lalas Berates The Entire USMNT
Most domestic TV coverage of the USMNT is frustratingly friendly to the national team, and it’s rare to hear much cutting criticism, even when the team is playing like shit (which it is right now). Sunday night, however, one of the team’s biggest TV cheerleaders turned all his energy back on the squ...

This <i>First Take</i> Segment Is Really Something
A fun game to play with this bar fight of a First Take segment is to pause it at any point during its seven-minute runtime and giggle to yourself at the marvelous facial expressions of hosts Stephen A. Smith, Will Cain, and Max Kellerman. The three dudes are never not incredulous, aghast, or enraged...

Kevin Durant Says He Will Not Visit White House: "I Don't Respect Who's In Office Right Now"<em></em><em></em>
Kevin Durant said today that he will not visit the White House if invited, noting that he does not agree with or respect President Donald Trump....

Why Only The NFL Doesn't Guarantee Contracts
In November 2010, Donovan McNabb signed a blockbuster contract extension. A six-time Pro Bowler with the Eagles, McNabb had been traded to Washington that spring. His new deal was completed just days before his 34th birthday, and the widely reported terms—five years, $78 million, with incentives tha...

Sunderland's Darron Gibson Shits On Teammates In Drunken Bar Rant
Recently relegated Sunderland got their asses handed to them in a friendly against Celtic on Saturday, losing by a score of 5-0. After the match, some Sunderland fans happened upon Darron Gibson at a bar. Confronted by the fans’ frustrations, the Northern Irish midfielder is caught on video going on...

Kansas State Lineman Scott Frantz Comes Out As Gay
Kansas State starting left guard Scott Frantz became just the second current openly gay FBS football player Thursday morning, after coming out to ESPN’s Holly Rowe in a recent interview....

Peyton Manning Mocks Kevin Durant And Russell Westbrook For Your Enjoyment
At tonight’s sports awards show, host Peyton Manning took a soft jab at Kevin Durant’s front-running, then followed up with an appeal to KD’s former teammate Russell Westbrook. Each NBA star sold the gag with some pretty solid deadpan glares....

Are You The Smelly Guy At Your Gym?<em></em>
It doesn’t have to be this way....

Kevin Durant Takes Even More Of A Pay Cut To Stay With Golden State
Kevin Durant was already working on a below-market-value contract, but on Monday, the reigning Finals MVP and unrestricted free agent signed a new deal that will pay him nearly $9 million less per year than he could have received with a max contract. This was Durant’s best move to ensure the Warrior...

Report: Michigan WR Grant Perry Cuts Plea Deal, Gets Sexual Assault Charges Dropped
Michigan receiver Grant Perry pleaded guilty to one count of resisting a police officer and one misdemeanor count of assault and battery Wednesday, according to the Lansing State Journal. ...

Kevin Durant Defeated By Beer
Kevin Durant is now a world champion and a Finals MVP. He is also someone who does not appear to understand the proper way to crack some cold ones and get rowdy with the boys....

Kevin Durant Did What He Came To Do
A basketball team with the two best shooters in the world, the best pure scorer in the world, and the most versatile and fearsome defender in the world just won the NBA Finals. They did it while absorbing some of LeBron James’s best punches, and as awe-inspiring as a 16-1 romp through the playoffs m...

Kevin Durant Made No Sense While Denying A Report About Him And Draymond Green
One day before Game 4 of the NBA Finals, ESPN’s Zach Lowe published an article about how the Golden State Warriors moved on from blowing a 3-1 lead in last year’s Finals. The piece specifically focused on Draymond Green’s Game 5 suspension and how the Warriors chose to stand behind Green rather than...

Kevin Durant Was Built For This All Along
Barring a monumental collapse so great that it blots out all rational sports discourse for a decade, the Golden State Warriors are going to win the NBA Finals running away. For most of the group, this will be their second title, a slice of redemption after last season’s fabled 3-1 chokejob....

The Warriors Deserve Your Awe
I won’t argue that the first two games of these NBA Finals were great television, or that last night’s Game 3, which was thrilling and spectacularly played and felt like a Game 7 from the perspective of someone rooting for the Cavs, did a whole lot to salvage this series. The Warriors are now up 3-0...

Michigan Wide Receiver Grant Perry Back With Team With Criminal Sexual Conduct Case Pending
Six months after Michigan said that Grant Perry would be “indefinitely suspended” while awaiting trial on charges of criminal sexual conduct and assaulting a police officer, the wide receiver is back with the team....

The Cavs Were Scared Enough Of Steph Curry That They Let Kevin Durant Destroy Them
The Cavs, who have to play perfect basketball to beat the Warriors, did not play perfect basketball last night in Game 1, so they did not beat the Warriors. They turned over the rock 20 times and ceded 27 fast break points, which is not all that shocking given their piss-poor transition defense duri...

No Mistakes Allowed
Close one eye and squint with the other, and last night’s Game 1 box score starts to look like a positive one for the Cavaliers: The Warriors only had two players score in double figures; Klay Thompson and Draymond Green combined to shoot 6-of-28; LeBron James and Kyrie Irving did their thing. Open ...