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Broadcaster Mike Milbury Calls P.K. Subban A "Clown" Who Deserves "Rap On The Head" For Dancing In Warmups
Before Game 2 of the Predators’ second-round series against the Blues last night, P.K. Subban was seen on camera dancing, trying out some tricks, and generally being a happily relaxed player during warmups....

Does Isaiah Thomas Carry The Ball? A Fred Hoiberg Debate
After a Game 4 loss, Bulls coach Fred Hoiberg accused refs of ignoring Isaiah Thomas’s carrying. “He had a hell of a game tonight. But when you’re allowed to discontinue your dribble on every possession, he is impossible to guard. He’s impossible to guard when you’re able to put your hand underneath...

P.K. Subban Deserves Your Love
Maybe you don’t know a ton about the Nashville Predators. That’s OK! It’s understandable. They don’t have a ton of history, and they certainly don’t get picked for a lot of national broadcasts. They underachieved in the regular season. Their top line—maybe the best of the eight teams remaining in th...
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Predators Rookie Kevin Fiala Stretchered Off Ice And Hospitalized After Scary Injury [Update]
During the first period of Game 1 of the Predators’ playoff series with the Blues, Nashville winger Kevin Fiala got squished into the boards by Blues defenseman Robert Bortuzzo. The crash was very ugly and Fiala folded up like an accordion after he hit the wall. Getting scrunched down to the ice by ...

Hilariously Rich University Presidents Don't Think College Athletes Should Be Paid
Ohio State University president Michael Drake and Stanford University president Marc Tessier-Lavigne have joined that dipshit from Notre Dame and that dipshit from Texas as the latest university presidents to say that college athletes should not be paid. Young people should not be paid for their rev...

Indiana's New Policy On Violent Athletes Is Useless And Joe Mixon Is The Proof
In a few days Joe Mixon will hear his name called, join his new NFL team, and smile as dozens of publicists set about selling the story of how football—glorious, all-American football—is giving Mixon a second chance at becoming a new and better man. There is, of course, no way of knowing if that’s t...

Pro Cyclist On A Training Ride<em></em> Beaten Up By Baseball Bat And Knife-Wielding Maniac
Yoann Offredo is an experienced French cyclist, who has raced in the professional peloton since 2006. He spent a decade with FDJ, where he finished in the top ten of a handful of classics and served as a domestique for the team’s stars. He’s racing for Belgian team Wanty Groupe-Gobert and he wrapped...

Get A Load Of The<i> Washington Post</i> Toting Water For Dan Snyder's Upcoming Stadium Scam
Nothing in this fawning Washington Post profile of Bruce Allen, team president of D.C.’s NFL franchise, would seem so much as a hair out of place in a glossy gameday program handed out by team employees inside the home stadium. To the extent it contains a thesis more complex than Bruce Allen is good...

Red Sox Flub Stupid Attempt To Follow Dumb Unwritten Rule
The Red Sox gloriously botched an attempt to stupidly retaliate at Manny Machado for a hard slide that unintentionally spiked Dustin Pedroia on Friday. Reliever Matt Barnes tried throwing a 90-mph pitch directly at Machado’s head in the eighth inning......

The Red Sox And Orioles Have A Little Beef After Manny Machado Spiked Dustin Pedroia
Things got heated between the Red Sox and Orioles after last night’s eighth inning, when Dustin Pedroia had to leave the game after being spiked by Manny Machado as he tried to turn a double play....

The Predators' Mascot Did A 👀 Tweet
Okay so the Nashville Predators upset the Chicago Blackhawks in the first round of the NHL playoffs, and Gnash, the Preds’ mascot that has an official Twitter account for some reason, is angry that nobody at ESPN predicted the upset:...

DeShone Kizer Says His Incredible, Thoroughly Detailed Bragging Was Taken Out Of Context
Former Notre Dame quarterback DeShone Kizer escaped the toilet factory in South Bend when he declared for the NFL draft. His draft prospects are currently a bit murky, but it wouldn’t be a surprise to see him selected in the first or second round. But based on Kizer’s own self-evaluation, which he s...

Yes, The Predators Are Good Enough To Do <i>That</i> To The Blackhawks
This was the postseason without “Chelsea Dagger.” The Blackhawks’ goal song never once played in these playoffs, simply because Chicago didn’t score a single goal at home. They managed just three goals in the entire series, and with last night’s 4-1 loss in Nashville, the West’s top seed were on the...

Duncan Keith Sends Viktor Arvidsson's Helmet Flying <em></em>With Brutal Check
With a 4-1 loss to the Predators tonight, the Blackhawks were swept out of the playoffs. But not before Duncan Keith could deliver an intense check that sent Viktor Arvidsson’s helmet flying before he even hit the ice:...

Former White Sox Pitches Effectively
Former Chicago White Sox ace Chris Sale pitched yet another great game today. With his four-seamer and slider in especially nasty form, he put the golden sombrero on José Bautista and struck out 13 Toronto Blue Jays in total over eight scoreless innings in a 4-1 win for the Boston Red Sox. Sale now ...

MLB Is Still Having Trouble Getting Its Clubs To Diversify
Richard Lapchick, a researcher at the University of Central Florida, publishes annual “report cards” on gender and racial diversity in several leagues, and they’ve become the go-to index of diversity in sports. This year’s release of the report card was timed to the 70th anniversary of Jackie Robins...

Mookie Betts Refuses To Strike Out
Mookie Betts, the Boston Red Sox’s star outfielder, hasn’t struck out since Sept. 12 of last year. That’s a streak of 128 plate appearances without a K—the longest since Juan Pierre’s run of 147 whiff-free plate appearances in 2004, according to the Elias Sports Bureau....

Here's The Best Sports Highlight Of The Day
If you follow the skateboarding dog scene, you’ve probably noticed that most of the world’s elite skateboarding dogs are bulldogs. World record-holding shredder Otto is an English bulldog from Peru, and he’s the same breed as Tillman, perhaps the most famous skateboarding dog of all time....

The Dynasty That Ate Itself
It was a year of mourning for the Red Wings. Their beloved owner, Mike Ilitch, died. So did Joe Louis Arena, the old barn on the Detroit River where the Wings dominated in the mid-to-late ‘90s and early aughts, winning four Stanley Cups, six Presidents’ Trophies, and making the playoffs for 25 conse...

Pekka Rinne Scrambles For Incredible Desperation Save After Puck Takes Wild Bounce
The Predators nearly ceded the weirdest goal of the playoffs in the first period against the Blackhawks, after a power-play clearance banked off a stanchion and veered towards goal. Pekka Rinne leapt in the path of this one and pawed it just wide of danger....