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That Team In The Lovely Sky Blue Caps Turned A Sweet Double Play Today
Here is a really slick, gorgeous double play from the boys in sky blue:...
Rockies Blow Eight-Run Lead, Manage Walk-Off Win Anyway
After falling behind 9-1 to the Rockies by the seventh inning, the Giants stormed back to tie the game—only to ultimately fall short, as Colorado walked off with a run in the bottom of the ninth....
Alex Honnold's Ropeless Ascent Of El Capitan Is Nerve-Wracking And Historic
Rock climbing is a brutally simple sport. Whether you’re on a bouldering wall, a granite face, or an actual mountain, the line between success and failure is plainly clear. You have to reach the top of whatever you’re attempting to summit or you’ll fall in the process....
Brock Lesnar Finally Has A Challenger
Part-timers have held a WWE championship a few times in recent years, and they necessarily haven’t defended their belts very much. The Rock ended CM Punk’s 434-day reign in January 2013, beat Punk in a rematch the next month, then lost it to John Cena at WrestleMania. That was a barnstorming tour co...
Before He Brought Down Nixon, Carl Bernstein Was A Far-Out Rock And Roll Writer
Watergate and the Beatles are multimedia evergreens....
Brock Osweiler Says There's Proof That He Doesn't Suck
Maybe Brock Osweiler will be a better quarterback for the Browns. It’s possible that the Texans’ offensive scheme didn’t make the most of his abilities, which led him to throw 15 touchdowns against 16 picks and complete 59 percent of his 510 pass attempts. (This is admittedly an incredibly generous ...
Can The Rockies Actually Keep This Up?
After splitting a four-game series with the Dodgers over the weekend, the Colorado Rockies are 24-15 and in first place in the NL West. At this point in 1997 and 2014, the Rockies were 23-16. They finished 83-79 (not bad) and 66-96 (bad), respectively, and missed the playoffs both times. A few other...
Seriously, What The Hell Happened To James Harden?
It’s so rare that a star athlete puts forward such an unbelievably bad performance in a big game that observers immediately start reaching for out-there theories to explain what they are seeing, but what are we supposed to do with this?...
James Harden Comes To Houston To Watch Rockets Take On Spurs
Kawhi Leonard didn’t play for the Spurs tonight, and it ultimately didn’t matter too much. Jonathon Simmons started in his stead and rose to the occasion, scoring 18, while LaMarcus Aldridge led the team with 34 and San Antonio cruised to an easy 114-75 win along with a Western Conference Finals ber...
The Rock Is Totally Going To Run For President Against John Cena In 2024
This excerpt in Caity Weaver’s GQ profile of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson makes me believe that within a few years, he’ll at least run for office, if not president:...
Old Man Manu Ginobili Saved The Spurs
Kawhi Leonard didn’t take the court for the Spurs’ final play of regulation. After Patty Mills inexplicably head faked James Harden with 0.4 seconds left and nailed a shot well after the buzzer, Leonard still didn’t see the court in overtime. The beating heart of the Spurs missed most of the game’s ...
Rockies Serve Cheap Swill To Appease Cubs Fans
Whenever the Cubs travel to Denver to play the Rockies, the stadium is full of Cubs fans. This is just a part of life—Cubs fans are everywhere at all times, and especially in Colorado, where fans were forced to turn to WGN for shitty Cubs baseball in the days before they had their own team—and nothi...
This Shit? I'm Still Sick Of It.
Remember that shit from the first round of the playoffs? That shit is still going on, and I still hate it....
Spurs Hang With Rockets For Less Time Than It Took To Write This Blog<em></em><em></em>
The ever-steady San Antonio Spurs were supposed to present a stiff challenge to the Rockets. Instead, they got cooked, broken down, and eaten by a ravenous Rockets team without putting up a fight....
NFL Insists On Having Draft In Front Of Museum, Obscures Museum With Foam Facade
The NFL insisted on the holding the draft at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. During talks with the league, Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney suggested the sports complex or Center City’s convention center. “They just weren’t interested,” he told the Inquirer. “They wanted the iconic steps, and I think i...
Patrick Beverley And Russell Westbrook Will Probably Hate Each Other Forever
Patrick Beverley is a highly flammable substance, and last night Russell Westbrook, down by three and going out in a blaze of glory, lit him up. Maybe for old times’ sake. They then had a funny spat that produced some historically good Russ Faces....
It Was Always Going To End This Way For Russell Westbrook
I wouldn’t blame anyone for wanting to swear off basketball forever after watching the fourth quarter of Game 5 between the Rockets and Thunder, which was defined by ill-advised foul calls and ill-advised shots, most of the latter coming from the Thunder’s star player, Russell Westbrook....
The Thunder Didn't Stand A Chance
The Houston Rockets won Game 5 over the Thunder tonight, shooting their way out of a handful of Russell Westbrook-induced holes and taking a close one, 105-99. Much like the entire series, the game was excruciating to watch and the Thunder’s brief flickers of life did little to stave off the feeling...
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Rockets Owner Leslie Alexander Looked Really Quite Mad At This Referee [Update]
The first-round series between the Rockets and Thunder is already plenty spicy on the court, and it’s only getting more contentious thanks to the involvement of both teams’ ownership groups. This weekend, the NBA said it was looking into a postgame incident between Patrick Beverley and the son of Th...
Steven Adams And Russell Westbrook Smoothly Turned A Missed Free Throw Into Three Points
Rarely does an offensive rebound off an intentionally flubbed free throw work, but Oklahoma City Thunder teammates Steven Adams and Russell Westbrook pulled it off and made the most of it....