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Report: FBI Wiretaps Caught Sean Miller Discussing $100,000 Payment To Recruit

ESPN reports tonight that FBI wiretaps of conversations between Sean Miller and sports agent runner Christian Dawkins caught the Arizona head coach discussing a $100,000 payment to lock up then-recruit Deandre Ayton, now a star freshman for the Wildcats....

Elise Christie's Olympics Were Another Nightmare<em></em>

Last week, British short track speed skater Elise Christie crashed out of the 500m race and finished fourth in an event she holds the world record, adding another disappointing finish to an Olympic career that’s been waylaid by an avalanche of bad luck. Christie was distraught after her fourth strai...

Gahhh Kristian Forsberg Took A Skate To The Face

The Swedish men’s hockey team beat Norway 4-0 in a preliminary round game yesterday, and it was a particularly tough night for Norway’s Kristian Forsberg, who got to live out every hockey player’s worst nightmare....

WEEI Will Shut Down For A Day To Teach Its Hosts Not To Be Hateful Shitheads

Boston radio station WEEI has had a rough go of it lately: Alex Reimer called Tom Brady’s kid a “pissant” and hasn’t been heard from since; Christian Fauria giggled as he did a racist accent of Brady’s agent Don Yee, and was suspended five days; and Kirk Minihane’s still employed. In an effort to re...

Elise Christie's Suspicious Short Track Crash Is As Frustrating As It Gets

British speed skater Elise Christie is one of the fastest women in the world on the short track, and she’s probably the most likely athlete to win a gold medal for Team GB in Pyeongchang. She owns the world record in the 500-meter, has a pair of World Championship gold medals, and has won several Eu...

WEEI Suspends Christian Fauria Five Days For Racist Don Yee Impression

There is, apparently, a line that can be crossed at oft-offensive Boston sports radio shithole WEEI, as the station suspended host Christian Fauria five days for his racist impression of NFL agent Don Yee on Friday’s show....

Boston Radio Host Christian Fauria Does Insanely Racist Impression Of NFL Agent Don Yee [Update]

On today’s edition of WEEI’s Ordway, Merloni & Fauria, the fellas discussed how Boston Herald columnist Ron Borges was pranked by a guy pretending to be NFL agent Don Yee, who represents quarterbacks Tom Brady and Jimmy Garoppolo. The prankster fooled Borges into writing an inaccurate story through ...

What Comes After Kristaps For The Knicks?

What Giannis Antetokounmpo did to the Knicks was cool as hell and involved leaping over an entire man. What Giannis’s torso did to the Knicks, due to purely incidental contact, was as ghastly as that was cool: Kristaps Porzingis landed awkwardly after dunking over him and tore his left ACL....

Kristaps Porzingis Helped Off Court After Ugly Knee Injury [UPDATED]

Kristaps Porzingis left tonight’s game against the Bucks in the second quarter after suffering an apparent knee injury while dunking on Giannis Antetokounmpo. He was helped off the court by teammates, clearly not putting much weight on his left leg after spending some time in visible pain under the ...

Warm It Up, Kristaps

Here Are All The Times Enormous Person Kristaps Porzingis Got His Jumper Blocked

Here’s a stat I’ve been thinking about ever since Chris Herring reported it over at FiveThirtyEight:...

De'Aaron Fox's Game-Winning Put-Back Makes Doug Christie Say "NYAAAHH!"<em></em>

Sacramento rookie De’Aaron Fox had an absolutely wonderful put-back slam to win the game for the Kings tonight in Miami....

Christian Yelich Freed From Miami, Joins Surprisingly Fun Brewers Club 

The hot stove is warm, baby. A week after Christian Yelich’s agent announced the outfielder’s relationship with the Marlins was “irretrievably broken,” he’s been shipped off to the Brewers in exchange for a solid haul of prospects: outfielders Lewis Brinson and Monte Harrison, second baseman Isan Di...

Bad Fans Try Distracting Skier By Throwing Snowballs

It is—with good reason—generally very difficult to smuggle anything that could be considered a legitimate or even semi-legitimate threat of violence or distraction into a major sporting event. How do bad fans get around that? They use whatever they might find waiting for them in the stands. Like, at...

Christian Coleman Breaks 20-Year-Old World Record In The 60 Meters

Christian Coleman, probably best known to most American sports fans as the guy who ran a fast 40, just ran 60 meters in 6.37 seconds. That breaks a world record that fellow American Maurice Greene set at 6.39 in February of 1998, a month before Coleman’s second birthday....

Christian Yelich's Agent Says Relationship With Marlins Is "Irretrievably Broken"

Christian Yelich is just about the last good Miami Marlins player standing, so naturally, he’d also like to escape the Derek Jeter regime’s austerity plan before the start of the season. Yelich’s agent Joe Longo spoke with ESPN’s Jerry Crasnick and made it abundantly clear that Yelich wants out imme...

Manchester United Need To Stay The Fuck Away From Our Wonderteen

The good thing about having one of the soccer world’s most coveted young attacking prospects is that the eyes of the game’s biggest clubs will be focused on the kid, each team projecting out his possibly incredible future and positioning themselves to snatch it for themselves if they so decide to ma...

Lauri Markkanen Beat Kristaps Porzingis At His Own Game

Remember the end of the last Knicks season, when Phil Jackson, having totally alienated and depressed the trade value of Carmelo Anthony, hinted that he might go full demon and undo the only good thing he’d ever done, drafting Kristaps Porzingis? Remember when he reportedly wanted to dangle him for ...

Overburdened Millennial Kristaps Porzingis Is Wearing Down

The middle part of the Eastern Conference is a muddy mess, right now. Whether there are any actual Good teams below the Cavs in the standings is an open question. Maybe the Wizards are turning it on? Maybe the Sixers will rise? Certainly early optimism about a deep field of bonafide playoff teams is...

Something's Up With Todd Haley And His Night At Tequila Cowboy

Pittsburgh police say they were summoned to North Shore bar Tequila Cowboy on New Year’s Eve because of a “minor scuffle” involving Steelers offensive coordinator Todd Haley’s wife Christine. That information only came out after the team said Tuesday that Haley was hurt in a fall but would resume h...