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Miguel Herrera Says Toronto Cops Assaulted His Players At Halftime<em></em>
Club América coach Miguel Herrera claimed that Toronto police assaulted his players—goalkeeper Agustín Marchesín and defender Bruno Valdez, along with assistant coach Giber Becerra—during halftime of the team’s 3-1 CONCACAF Champions League semifinal loss to Toronto FC tonight. Toronto coach Greg Va...
Nerlens Noel Probably Really Wishes He Took That $70 Million Contract
The NBA announced today that they’ve suspended Mavericks forward Nerlens Noel for five games, reportedly following a third positive test for marijuana, a drug that is legal or decriminalized in much of the country. That alone is not a big deal, but Noel’s suspension—which will see him out for the co...
Will No One Protect This Aspiring Martial Artist From Himself?<em></em><em></em>
Here are the facts: Sri Lanka recently became one of the latest countries to launch a show in Simon Cowell’s Got Talent! series, which is aptly called Sri Lanka’s Got Talent!; Sudarshana Deshappriya is someone who has Got Talent, martial arts talent to be specific; Deshappriya ran into some painful-...
Rhode Island Denies Ever Being Interested In Hiring Rick Pitino
Rick Pitino’s been out of the coaching game not even a full year, but that itch is already starting to come back. Whether anybody’s willing to scratch it is another question entirely. ...
Former Astros Coach Rich Dauer Throws Emotional First Pitch After Nearly Dying During Last Year's Championship Parade
Not everything about the Houston Astros’ pregame celebration today went exactly as planned—they probably would have preferred a little less wind for the unveiling of their World Series banner—but the first pitch was legitimately touching. Former first base coach Rich Dauer did the honors, five month...
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Patrick McCaw Leaves On Stretcher After Landing On Back [UPDATE]
Patrick McCaw left tonight’s game against Sacramento on a stretcher after the Warriors guard fell hard to the floor after being undercut by Vince Carter on a play that left Golden State coach Steve Kerr angrily cursing at the veteran Kings star....
The True Story Of The Rickey Henderson Oakland Party Basement
There is no unpleasantness quite like a bad landlord. All anyone really wants from an apartment is that it do what it is supposed to do—that the stove gets hot without bursting into flames, that the doors and windows stay closed when closed and open as required, that the pipes remain intact and that...
Why Cricket's Ball-Tampering Scandal Is Such A Big Deal
You’ve heard by now that the Australian men’s Test cricket team were caught ball-tampering in a match against South Africa. Cameron Bancroft was caught on camera scuffing the surface of the match ball with a piece of sandpaper, and tried to hide the evidence when informed that he’d been filmed in th...
<i>New York Times</i> Vows Column Includes Charming Anecdote About Groom Being Assaulted By FSU Fans
True love! It comes for all of us, if we’re lucky, and if we’re wise enough to recognize it when it does. Usually it’s identifiable only in hindsight. Go ask any happily married couple, and they’ll eagerly and wistfully tell you about the moment when they realized their partner was The One. Oh, that...
Australian Men Caught Cheating In That Sport We All Understand So Well, Which Is Cricket
We’ve got a major cricket scandal, folks. A young Australian player was caught more or less red-handed doctoring up the ball, so obviously and egregiously that his team’s captain was forced to come clean and cop to a plot among the team’s leadership. This is from a Sport 24 report:...
A Used Condom, Screaming, And Porn: There's So Much More To How Bad Harassment Was At The Dallas Mavericks
For years, one guy in the Dallas Mavericks sales department would come into the office and watch porn at his desk. Former employees don’t remember exactly how often he did it—they were trying to avoid seeing it, after all—but it was often enough that multiple people who worked with him remembered se...
Cam Ward Had A Real Bizarre Own Goal
Why score a goal yourself when you can just find a way to get the puck into the goalie’s gear and have him carry it in for you?...
Eric Reid Relents, Says He'll No Longer Protest During The Anthem If An NFL Team Signs Him
Former 49er Eric Reid, a five-year NFL vet who has yet to be signed this offseason despite ranking as one of the top available safeties, told reporters during his brother’s pro day workout at Stanford today that he’ll stop protesting during the national anthem if he’s signed by an NFL team. Via NBC ...
Why Is Charlie Ebersol Launching A Direct Rival To His Buddy Vince McMahon's XFL?
The most delightfully stupid sports story of 2018 is still extremely stupid, but it just got a lot more complicated. Vince McMahon’s nascent MAGA-adjacent XFL revival was first reported back in December, formally announced in January, and seemingly set for a February 2020 launch. It now has to deal ...
Former Mavericks Employee Who Made Harassment Claims: "I'm Still Not Sure The Mavericks Get It"
Melissa Weishaupt, who worked in the marketing and game operations department for the Dallas Mavericks from 2010 to 2014, has revealed herself as one of the women who told Sports Illustrated about the Mavericks’ culture of harassment. In a piece published in SI today, Weishaupt revealed her identity...
Sebastian Aho Gets A Penalty For Hooking Sebastian Aho
Sebastian Aho plays for the New York Islanders. Sebastian Aho plays for the Carolina Hurricanes. Yes, there are two players named Sebastian Aho in the NHL, in what appears to be hockey’s useless but mildly interesting equivalent of the NFL’s “Antonio Gates played basketball in college.”...
Nevada’s Eric Musselman On Personal Hydration And His Need To Pee: “It’s Been A Great Concern Of Mine”<em></em>
Nevada head coach Eric Musselman—the man TBS cameras caught being extremely fucking jacked about his team’s first-round win—might just be the most honest coach in this entire tournament....
Passionate Post-Game Prattle Profane
Eric Musselman’s energetic outburst after his Nevada team dispatched Texas tonight in overtime was ripped from the headlines. Our headlines, specifically, as the CBA-turned-NBA-turned-college coach dropped repeated profane ejaculations. Hey, I’d feel good too. ...
Why Richard Sherman's 49ers Contract Isn't As Bad As It Seems
After negotiating his own contract with the 49ers last week, Richard Sherman came in for some particularly heavy scrutiny:...
Free Agent Eric Reid Criticizes Owners' Reactions To His Activism
Former 49ers safety Eric Reid, one of the most prominent activist voices in the NFL last season, hasn’t been signed by a new team within the first couple days of free agency. Thursday night, Reid tweeted his disagreement with what he called a “ludicrous notion,” which appears to be the idea coming f...