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ATP roundup: Alexander Shevchenko earns upset in Geneva
Alexander Shevchenko of Kazakhstan eliminated No. 7 seed Fabian Marozsan of Hungary 6-4, 7-6 (4) in opening-round action at the Gonet Geneva Open on Monday in Switzerland.,Shevchenko led the second set 5-2 when Marozsan charged back. The Hungarian saved a match point in the 10th game before tying th...
MLB roundup: Padres rout Braves as Yu Darvish earns 200th pro win
Yu Darvish pitched seven shutout innings, extending his scoreless streak to 25 innings, and earned his 200th professional victory on Sunday as the visiting San Diego Padres hammered the Atlanta Braves 9-1.,he 107th win in the major leagues for Darvish, who won 93 times in Japan. Hiroki Huroda (203) ...
UFL roundup: Battlehawks score late to hold off Defenders
Wayne Gallman II scored the go-ahead touchdown from 1 yard out with two minutes to play and the host St. Louis Battlehawks fended off the DC Defenders 26-21 on Sunday.,Gallman rushed for 35 yards and two scores while quarterback Manny Wilkins led St. Louis (6-2) with 79 rushing yards to go with 126 ...
Battlehawks score late to hold off Defenders
Wayne Gallman II scored the go-ahead touchdown from 1 yard out with two minutes to play and the host St. Louis Battlehawks fended off the DC Defenders 26-21 on Sunday.,Gallman rushed for 35 yards and two scores while quarterback Manny Wilkins led St. Louis (6-2) with 79 rushing yards to go with 126 ...
WTA roundup: Anhelina Kalinina scores upset in Strasbourg
Anhelina Kalinina of Ukraine upset No. 8 seed Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of Russia 6-3, 3-6, 6-4 on the first day of the Internationaux de Strasbourg on Sunday in France.,Kalinina won 65.5 percent of her first-service points (38 of 58) and nearly half her first-return points (27 of 55) in the two-hour...
MLB roundup: Marlins score 4 in 9th, sink Mets in 10th
After scoring four runs in the ninth inning to tie the score, the host Miami Marlins defeated the New York Mets 10-9 on Otto Lopez's walk-off RBI single in the 10th on Saturday. ,Trailing 9-5 entering the ninth against two-time All-Star closer Edwin Diaz, the Marlins got an RBI single from Jazz Chis...
MLB roundup: Paul Skenes strikes out 11 in Pirates' win
Paul Skenes fanned 11 across six no-hit innings as the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the host Chicago Cubs 9-3 on Friday afternoon.,Skenes (1-0) earned his first career win while making his second major league start. He struck out the first seven batters he faced and was perfect until walking Michael Busc...
MLB roundup: Elly De La Cruz leads Reds past Dodgers
Elly De La Cruz stole a career-high four bases and matched a career best with four hits as the visiting Cincinnati Reds rolled to a 7-2 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Thursday in the opener of a four-game series.,Will Benson hit a leadoff home run and seven pitchers combined to give up two ...
MLB roundup: Yankees finish sweep of Twins
Clarke Schmidt did not allow a run over a career-high eight innings and the New York Yankees scored three times in the first inning to complete a three-game sweep of the Minnesota Twins with a 5-0 victory on Thursday in Minneapolis.,New York won for the fourth straight outing and the 10th time in 12...
MLB roundup: Phillies' Aaron Nola blanks Mets
Aaron Nola retired the first 15 batters he faced on his way to a dominant four-hitter, leading the Philadelphia Phillies to a 4-0 win over the host New York Mets on Tuesday.,The Phillies won for the 22nd time in 27 games and became the first team in the majors to reach 30 victories this season. Nola...
MLB roundup: Guardians blank slumping Rangers
Jose Ramirez went 2-for-3 with four RBIs and five Cleveland pitchers combined for a four-hitter as the Guardians handed the slumping Texas Rangers a fourth straight loss, prevailing 7-0 on Monday night in Arlington, Texas.,Ramirez had a pair of two-run singles, walked twice and stole two bases, and ...
Cowboys defense nonexistent like Trump’s COVID protocols, Ramsey and Tate try to 2-piece each other, and the NFC East is a joke
COVID-19 was the story for the league this week as multiple positive tests forced teams to shut down facilities and games to be postponed. ...
The Two Faces of Shad Khan
Jacksonville Jaguars owner Shad Khan, wrote an op-ed on the team’s site today urging readers not to “waste” this cultural moment to be active. He wrote about racism in America, his own lived experience as a Muslim immigrant, and his desire to “level the playing field” across the nation....
“Save the Bullshit”: Roger Goodell and Jed York Insult Kaepernick with Fake Concern for George Floyd
After Texans wide receiver Kenny Stills read NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell’s statement yesterday on the death of George Floyd, he could only muster up three words: ...
Coaches And Leagues Expose Themselves With Hollow Words
People are so predictable. Especially the fake ones....
Christmas Watch: We Look Back On Christmas
Some would have you believe that Christmas is over. But is it? Yes. But how was it? ...
Women > Winning: Your FSU-Clemson <em>GameDay</em> Sign Roundup
GameDay finds itself in Tallahassee for tonight's marquee ACC matchup (if such a thing can exist) between Florida State and Clemson. FSU fans took the opportunity to sound off a variety of issues, but of course the plurality of the signs were about Jameis Winston. Some of them expressed support for ...
Here Is Your Memorial Day Menu
So it's Memorial Day, a day designated by the federal government for inching glacially northward on I-95 with ten trillion other weekend beachgoers, cursing the day this humid blue turd congealed out of space-garbage in the orbit of a giant ignited fart, secretly desperate to return to the climate-c...
Deadspin 2013: The Meanest Things We Said About People
Like we do every year, we called a lot of people a lot of really mean names in 2013. Here's a collection of many of the mean things we called people this year....
Gaybashing Abounds: Your Alabama-Auburn <i>GameDay</i> Sign Roundup
The Iron Bowl, Alabama's annual tree-murderer-and-RV showcase kicks off this afternoon and College GameDay is right in the middle of it at Jordan-Hare Stadium. Our first sign is another tribute to the ingenuity of lunkheads and the hapless ESPN producers powerless to stop them. "Jesse Palmer's Queer...