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Team USA Did Some Cool Dunks Tonight
The best highlight that the future gold medal-winning basketball dudes of Team USA produced this week was DeMarcus Cousins mocking Draymond Green for broadcasting his dong to the masses. However, they smoked Nigeria by 44 points in a tune-up game tonight, and in the process, dunked the ball a lot....
The Olympics Are For Humans, Not Horses
What is the purpose of the Olympics? For the few thousand bureaucrats who divvy up the Games, give out contracts, and get kickass bribes, it is to enrich themselves. For everyone outside of the corruption apparatus of the Olympics, they are an exhibit of the best sportspeople, playing their sports. ...
All The Olympic Sports Should Be Outdoors
“Indoors” does not care what the season is. Seasons do not exist indoors. That is the whole reason we have indoors. When you stick a seasonal specifier like “Summer” or “Winter” in front of your event, your event has to take place in that actual season, which is outdoors. That is science. Therefore ...
Rio's Water Is Still Full Of Filth And Viruses
The Summer Olympics begin in four days in Rio de Janeiro, and the city’s waterways are still so dirty that one expert is recommending that anyone who visits the city should avoid putting their head under water....
Staying In Rio Presents Some Challenges
In the coming weeks we’ll be hearing plenty from the Olympic athletes about their Rio accommodations. (The Australians, who declared their rooms “uninhabitable” due to leaks and exposed wiring, must be feeling great after they were not alerted to an emergency evacuation on Friday due to a small fire...
Report: The Olympics Opening Ceremony Features Gisele Bündchen Getting Assaulted<em></em>
That supermodel Gisele would have a role in this week’s Olympics opening ceremony was a given, and previous reports indicated the Brazilian supermodel would have a “sexy starring role.” But reports from witnesses of Sunday’s opening ceremony dress rehearsal explained to Brazil’s UOL that Tom Brady’s...
Draymond Green: Dick Pics "Will Help Propel Me To The Next Level As A Basketball Player"<em></em>
After initially claiming he’d been hacked, Golden State Warriors groin-assaulter Draymond Green today confessed to, and apologized for, having inadvertently sent out a dick pic on Snapchat. ...
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NBA Star Draymond Green Sends Out Dick Pic On Snapchat, Apologizes [NSFW]<em></em>
Draymond Green’s long summer of cock and balls-related controversy—he kneed Steven Adams in the dick, swiped at LeBron’s dick, and acted like a dick—continues unabated. Earlier today, amidst pictures of Melo sleeping and general Team USA shenanigans, an artfully crafted dick pic showed up on Green’s...
Australian Olympic Delegation Robbed During Fire At Athletes' Village
Olympic athletes continue to be victimized by crime and poor facilities—simultaneously, it would seem, as the Australian delegation returned to their lodgings after a fire to discover they’d been robbed....
Strong Winds Destroy Main Ramp At Olympic Sailing Venue
Olympic venues continue to demonstrate their shoddy, dangerous nature as tonight we learned the main ramp of the Olympic sailing venue at Marina da Glória was torn to pieces by wind and three-meter-high waves....
"Impressed" Is Perhaps Not The Right Word
(Your daily update on the Olympic athletes’ village, from SwimSwam.)...
Chinese Hurdler Vomited On, Robbed Of Luggage On First Day In Rio
Chinese athlete Shi Dongpeng fell victim to a gastrointestinal grift earlier this week shortly after arriving in Rio de Janeiro to compete in the 110-meter hurdles event, according to Inside the Games:...
Hockey Team's Logo Was So Bad, They Changed The Whole Damn Team Name
Yesterday, we predicted that the Lake Erie Warriors, a junior club in the brand-new NCPHL, would apologize and change its logo. It happened fast. What we didn’t predict was that the logo would so thoroughly salt the earth and pollute the groundwater that the only solution would be to rebrand altoget...
Craig Sager Will Miss The Olympics To Undergo Leukemia Treatment
Craig Sager has worked the Olympic basketball sidelines at every Games since the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. Sager is an employee of Turner Sports, but he’s crossed the aisle to NBC every four summers, and he was planning to do so again in Rio as recently as April. Sadly, he announced this after...
And Now, The Annual Running Of The Patriots Fans
NFL training camps are starting, and that means it’s time to enjoy one of the finest traditions in sports: Patriots fans storming the field on the first day of camp like a bunch of goobers....
Hey, Come Look At This Hockey Team's Logo Before They Apologize And Change It
The National College Prospects Hockey League, a pretty low-level junior league, begins play this year, and below you’ll find the logo for the Lake Erie Warriors....