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Let Us Look At Photos Of The Giants And Nationals Punching Each Other
Basebrawls are great when no one gets hurt. Yesterday’s Giants-Nationals throwdown—thanks to Hunter Strickland having a redder ass than a baboon—was a good one, with actual punches landed and enough flying hair to make you wonder if this wasn’t viral shampoo advertising. Let’s relive....
What's Hunter Strickland's Deal?
It’s not a hard and fast rule, but you can usually tell just how selfish and stupid a pitcher’s decision to throw at a batter is by looking at his catcher. Go back to yesterday’s boxing match between Bryce Harper and Hunter Strickland, and notice how Buster Posey had no desire to step out from behin...
Mike Trout Is Headed To The DL For The First Time In His Career
Mike Trout left Sunday’s game against the Marlins after he appeared to sprain his thumb on a headfirst slide. The extent of the injury was unclear at the time, but an MRI today showed that the Angels outfielder has a torn ligament in his left thumb. The 25-year-old will go to the disabled list for t...
Multiple Ejections After Massive Brawl Between Giants And Nationals
Hunter Strickland drilled Bryce Harper with an eighth-inning pitch that sparked a brouhaha between the Giants and Nationals today in San Francisco....
Magic Johnson Says Brandon Ingram Is His Team's Only Untouchable Player
The Lakers are at a fascinating juncture. They are not quite good enough to compete for a playoff spot, but they’re also done bottoming out and their core of young players is relatively established. They have the second pick in the upcoming draft, and seeing as this will be the third straight year t...
Bruce Bochy Was Steamed About A Game-Ending Strike Call
The Giants-Cubs series in Chicago ended last night when Joe Panik struck out looking on a breaking ball on the outside corner. The Cubs were up 5-4 and the Giants were threatening with a man on second and two outs. Panik held on for a 3-2 count through six pitches, but Wade Davis finally got him wit...
Here's A Shitty Way To Lose A Shutout
Clayton Kershaw, who is 7-2 with a 2.04 ERA and remains the best pitcher in the league, had his best start of the season last night. He pitched nine innings against the Cardinals, allowed three hits and just one run, and struck out 10 batters in just 104 pitches. It was a marvelous outing, and it en...
Yasiel Puig, Joc Pederson Destroy Each Other In Nasty Collision
Yasiel Puig caught a dangerous fly ball from Yadier Molina to end the 10th inning tonight, but he paid for it dearly. A few innings after Pederson and Cody Bellinger ran into each other, Puig took out Pederson with a nasty elbow to the face while also taking a shot himself. Both men lay on the grass...
Kyle Schwarber Sent This Johnny Cueto Pitch To Hell
Kyle Schwarber is a big dude who smacks big home runs, and tonight, he painted his masterpiece. Johnny Cueto sailed in a 90 MPH pitch and Schwarber got every bit of it, sending it 470 feet to right field. According to Statcast, it’s the longest cuadrangular of Schwarber’s career....
The 2021 Super Bowl Will Move To Tampa Thanks To L.A.'s Stadium Construction Delay
After massive rainfall delayed the construction of the Los Angeles NFL stadium by one year, NFL owners voted today to give the 2021 Super Bowl to Tampa Bay and push L.A.’s Super Bowl back to 2022....
Rogue Drone Attacks Crowd At San Diego Padres Game
A drone—or, if you wish, a fancy RC helicopter with a camera—flew into the San Diego Padres’ park on Sunday afternoon. It got the attention of the announcers. It also got the attention of the fans....
Manu Ginobili Never Slowed Down
The Spurs got wrecked tonight, as most everyone expected they would. Golden State is headed to the Finals, and Manu Ginobili looks like he is probably going to hang ‘em up. While the Argentinian legend has yet to make a formal announcement about his plans, he has hinted that he would probably retire...
Steph Curry Calls Out Dewayne Dedmon For "Dirty Play"
The Golden State Warriors won Game 3 this weekend to set up a potential sweep against the San Antonio Spurs. The outcome of this series hasn’t been in doubt since Kawhi Leonard limped out of Game 1 with an ankle injury, but it’s seen more controversy than most uneven playoff matchups....
An Attempt At Untangling The Legend Of Madison Bumgarner Dating A Girl Named Madison Bumgarner
Madison Bumgarner, the larger-than-life ace of the San Francisco Giants, carries the backstory of the hero in a tall tale. He began chewing tobacco in the fifth grade; he got married in blue jeans; he chopped up a rattlesnake with an axe and saved the two baby bunnies he found inside. But one story ...
Zaza Pachulia Partially Blames Gregg Popovich For Spurs Fans Threatening His Children
The Spurs were probably not going to win the West, no matter what. But they definitely were not going to win the West after Kawhi Leonard sprained his ankle in Game 1 when he landed on a closing-out Zaza Pachulia. Leonard tried to gut it out for a couple of minutes; he hasn’t played since, and is qu...
The NBA Finals Begin June 1
Kawhi Leonard sat on the sidelines last night, his ankle injury keeping him out indefinitely. David Lee left the game in a wheelchair thanks to a partially torn tendon in his knee. JaVale McGee scored 16 points in the first half while LaMarcus Aldridge scored six. ...
Marlins, Dodgers Benches Clear
A late, uninteresting Marlins-Dodgers game got fiery after Ross Stripling threw behind Giancarlo Stanton, got ejected, and sparked a fight that saw former L.A. and current Miami skipper Don Mattingly front and center....
The Full-Court Pressure Of The Somali-American Sportswoman
Most Twin Cities high school cross country and track teams have Somali students on the roster. Some of these prep runners have gone on to successful college and even professional running careers, like former Minneapolis South runner Hassan Mead, who represented the U.S. at the Rio Olympics....
What Exactly Is Going On With Colin Kaepernick?
Folks, the NFL never sleeps. Even now, in the dog days of mid-May, as the league’s news cycle yawns and feels its eyelids getting heavy, the continued unemployment of Colin Kaepernick is there to slap everyone awake again. There’s been a lot of this and a lot of that said and written about Kaepernic...