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Caleb Ewan Is Ready To Be A Star

The first race of the road cycling season, Australia’s Tour Down Under, tends to be an imprecise predictor of future form for climbers and all-rounders. A rider who is keyed in and prepared to tackle Old Wilunga Hill at the season-opening kangaroo fest (really) will not necessarily be able to carry ...

Ricky Williams Got Stopped By Police For Taking A Walk Near His Hotel

While he was in Tyler, Tx. for an event last week, former NFL star Ricky Williams was stopped, searched, and questioned by Tyler PD. Williams says that he arrived early at his hotel in advance of the Earl Campbell Tyler Rose Award banquet and he decided to go for a walk in the woods near his hotel t...

Report: Pete Carroll Broke Disclosure Rule And It Could Cost The Seahawks A Draft Pick

Three times now, Pete Carroll has run afoul of labyrinthine NFL rules....

How "Fake News" Became Meaningless

Let’s talk about fake news. Are you excited? I am! (Actually I’m not. That claim was fake news.)...

Curt Schilling Is Convinced He Is Beefing With The Real Sidney Ponson

There are a lot of fake athlete accounts out there on Twitter, because it’s fun to pretend to be Jonathan Broxton or whatever and tweet, “just did a big wet fart.” One of these fake accounts bears the name of former MLB pitcher Sidney Ponson, and last night the owner of the account started a beef wi...

Tim Howard Also Has Bad Takes On Foreign-Born USMNT Players (UPDATE)

USA Today got ahold of Tim Howard, and for some reason he decided to criticize a number of his United States Men’s National Team teammates as lacking sufficient passion for their country:...

The Fake All-Star Team On A Bender That Inspired Ireland To Play Basketball

You can leave home again. Pete Strickland, an American who as a young man served as a Johnny Appleseed of basketball in Ireland, is going back, this time to coach the Irish national team....

Our Benevolent Shadow Government

This week, Mark Zuckerberg’s $45 billion philanthropic foundation announced it is bringing on David Plouffe and Ken Mehlman, two of America’s most prominent political operatives. It is worth reflecting on the vast, vast power being wielded by the unaccountable foundations of the rich. Let’s do it!...

The NBA Refs Union Is Going To War With Mark Cuban

Officiating an NBA game is an incredibly difficult job. You have to monitor ten players, many of whom are trying to get away with some transgression or another on any given play, and keep an eye out for a series of complicated rules violations. Meanwhile, you’re also charged with making split-second...

Philly News Station Forgets Joe Frazier's Been Dead For Five Years, Wishes Him A Happy Birthday

Joe Frazier is not going to be meeting with friends and supporters this evening at City Hall at 6:00, because, sadly, Joe Frazier has been dead since 2011. That did not stop Philadelphia news station Fox29 from reporting that Frazier was turning 73 today....

Craven Reporters Scold BuzzFeed For Reporting News<em></em>

As you’re likely aware by now, yesterday evening BuzzFeed published a dossier of allegations about Donald Trump, including the instantly unforgettable description of a hotel-room piss party with Russian prostitutes. This set the internet on fire for much of last night and dominated a bizarre press c...

Report: Derrick Rose Considered Walking Away From Basketball

Derrick Rose tried to explain away his absence from Monday night’s Knicks game by citing a “family issue,” sketching the incident in vague terms. “It had nothing to do with the team or basketball, but that’s the first time I ever felt like that emotionally, and I had to be with my family,” he told r...

Malachi "Oregon Trail" Richardson

Bike Stuck In Electric Fence Nearly Defeats Trio Of English Guys

“C’mon Paul, got your bike off that electric fence!” says a voice from behind the camera. For the next three minutes and 38 seconds, that is exactly what Paul (and his two friends) try to do....

Derrick Rose Says He Skipped Out On The Knicks Game To Be With His Family

“It had nothing to do with the team or basketball, but that’s the first time I ever felt like that emotionally, and I had to be with my family,” Derrick Rose told reporters today about his unexplained absence from the Knicks’ game against the Pelicans last night. He said he went back to Chicago yest...

That Was A Very Bad Night For The Knicks

It’s been more than 12 hours since the New York Knicks lost track of Derrick Rose, and at this point all we have to go on are reports from ESPN that he went back to Chicago to deal with a “family situation” after yesterday’s morning shoot around. Things are suddenly feeling very bleak in Madison Squ...

Derrick Rose Missed The Knicks Game And Nobody Knows Why [Update]

About half an hour before the Knicks tipped off against the Pelicans, the Knicks cryptically announced that Derrick Rose was “not with the team.”...

I Can't Stop Watching This Soccer Teen Destroy His Defender<em></em>

The name of the guy with the ball is Riccardo Orsolini, a 19-year-old who plays for Ascoli in Italy’s Serie B, and is supposedly on his way to Juventus. The name of the guy falling over doesn’t matter, because he has departed from this earth. He’s dead. RIP....

We Need To Tax The Rich But Instead We'll Do The Opposite

Economic inequality in America has been rising steadily since the Reagan era. Why? A new research paper identifies what it say is the main culprit: the fact that we’ve stopped taxing the rich. ...

Dario Saric Goes To Great Lengths To Resolve Controversy That Didn't Exist<em></em>

Sixers guard T.J. McConnell poured a drink onto teammate Dario Saric’s head during the Croatian forward’s postgame interview yesterday. Saric was surprised enough to drop a “Fuck you, man,” on live TV....