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Alexis Sánchez Breaks Tie For Arsenal With Extra-Time Goal
Alexis Sánchez broke a 1-1 tie for Arsenal with a beautiful goal in extra-time against Manchester City in today’s semifinals of the FA Cup. With the win, Arsenal will now face Chelsea in the final....

Blake Griffin Out With Toe Injury<em></em> For Rest Of Postseason
Blake Griffin will miss the remainder of the playoffs with an injury to his big toe. The Clippers announced the news Saturday morning, after Griffin left last night’s game against the Jazz in the second quarter....

Madison Bumgarner Placed On The DL After Presumably Bitchin' Dirt Bike Accident
The Giants placed Madison Bumgarner on the disabled list with a sprained left shoulder and bruised ribs. According to Ken Rosenthal, ...

Colombian Soccer Club Accidentally Mourns Living Player With Taps, Moment Of Silence
Before the start of Independiente Santa Fe and Santos FC Copa Libertadores group stage match on Wednesday night in Bogotá, Colombian club Santa Fe intended to honor former Santos player Alexandre de Carvalho Kaneko, who recently died. Instead, they memorialized current Santos striker Ricardo Olivei...

Madison Bumgarner Is In Hell
In four starts so far this season, Madison Bumgarner is 0-3. The Giants have scored five runs with him on the mound and two of those were provided by MadBum himself in the form of a pair of opening day solo shots. That game, which the bullpen blew in the bottom of the ninth, at least went down as a ...

This Chris Wondolowski Whiff Is A Crime Against Soccer
Remember when Chris Wondolowski was presented with a golden chance to put the USMNT through against Belgium at the 2014 World Cup and proceeded to completely screw it up? This is worse. ...

Oilers' Leon <em></em>Draisaitl Tossed For Crotch Spearing As Sharks Take 6-0 Lead<em></em>
About midway though the second period of the Edmonton Oilers game against the San Jose Sharks, Oilers forward Leon Draisaitl was ejected for spearing the Sharks’ Chris Tierney right in the dick and balls. Edmonton was down 5-0 when Draisaitl lashed out....

Clippers Owner Acquires Basic Grasp Of Political Economy For $10 Million
Clippers owner Steve Ballmer is one of the richest men in the United States, with an estimated net worth north of $27 billion. He was one of the very first Microsoft employees, and he worked as the company’s CEO for 14 years before stepping down and buying the Clippers in 2014. As an ultra-rich, rec...

Grizzlies Coach Dave Fizdale Goes Scorched Earth On Refs In Postgame Rant<em></em><em></em>
The Grizzlies recovered from a huge deficit tonight against the Spurs, but eventually fell short of a comeback win, losing 96-82. Kawhi Leonard shot 19 free throws in the game while the Grizzlies shot just 15, a fact which coach Dave Fizdale was quick to note in his postgame press conference. ...

Rape Charge Against Ray McDonald Dropped
The rape charge against former San Francisco 49er and Chicago Bear Ray McDonald was dismissed today after the woman told a judge that she just wanted to put the case behind her, according to the San Jose Mercury News. The woman also reached a financial settlement with McDonald, the Mercury News repo...

Rich Hill's Blister Problem Isn't Going Away
Here now is one of the least surprising sentences in sports: Rich Hill has a blister....

Giants' Jarrett Parker Breaks Clavicle With Stellar Catch
Things didn’t look especially good for Jarrett Parker yesterday as soon as he made this great running catch at the wall against the Rockies:...

Doc Rivers Goes Off On Reporter After Game 1 Loss: "That's The Dumbest Thing I've Ever Heard"
After the Clippers lost to the Jazz on a Joe Johnson buzzer-beater, a reporter tried asking Doc Rivers about his end-of-game strategy. When asked if he should have tried running the clock down to take the last shot, Rivers did not waste time letting the reporter know that he thought the question was...

Joe Johnson Buzzer-Beater Earns Jazz Game 1 Victory
Joe Johnson’s floater as time expired erased a heroic shot by Chris Paul to tie the game and gave the fifth-seeded Utah Jazz a 97-95 Game 1 win over the Clippers in Los Angeles....

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Enjoy A Season's Worth Of Amazing Giannis Antetokounmpo Highlights
With all the heat generated by this year’s MVP race, it sometimes felt like many of the league’s other stars weren’t getting the second-half attention they probably deserved. Karl-Anthony Towns was out there crushing people every night while we argued Westbrook Vs. Harden, and, oh by the way, Gianni...

NCAA Women's Basketball All-Time Top Scorer Kelsey Plum Goes No. 1 In The WNBA Draft
Surprising absolutely no one, Kelsey Plum went to the San Antonio Stars tonight as the No. 1 overall pick in the WNBA draft....

Elvis Andrus Tricked Cameron Maybin Out Of An Extra Base With A Slick Little Fake Tag
The Rangers blew the Angels out early this afternoon, thanks to some steady work from Yu Darvish and a hail of hits from almost every batter in the lineup. Their defense was also on point, and no play was better than one Elvis Andrus made in the second inning....

Legendary Los Angeles Hiker Sam Kim Found Dead Near Mountain He Summited Almost Every Day
Mt. Baldy is the highest peak in the San Gabriel Mountains, looming 10,064 feet above Los Angeles. If you hiked Baldy over the past few years, chances are you probably ran into Seuk Doo “Sam” Kim....

The Tanking Lakers Made Metta World Peace Shoot A Ton Of Threes But They Still Won Anyway
Despite their best efforts, the Los Angeles Lakers can’t stop winning games. They entered tonight’s game against the Pelicans on a four-game winning streak, and they extended it to five with a 108-96 victory. They absolutely did not want to beat the Pelicans, as the win put them out of reach of the ...