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Panthers Recruit Chris Pronger To Help With Their Master Plan, Whatever That Is 

A worst-case scenario for an existing team going through an expansion draft is losing one useful player. The Florida Panthers—already a bad team—lost two last night. Today, they hired Hall of Famer Chris Pronger to join their front office, prompting the question, what exactly did the Panthers sell t...

Wow The Golden Knights Are Going To Be Bad

There are two schools of thought when compiling an expansion team. One is to go get the very best players available, believing that the best way to build a foundation for a team and a fanbase is to be as competitive as you can and give fans a reason to get and stay invested. Another is to be as awfu...

The Mets Are Pissed At Yasiel Puig For Admiring His Homer

Yasiel Puig recently said having to adjust to MLB’s rules of decorum means having less fun. “They’ve wanted to change so many things about me that I feel so off,” he told ESPN. “I don’t feel like the player I was in 2013.” Puig tried to enjoy himself last night, taking his time with a home run in th...

Odubel Herrera Just Doesn't Give A Fuck, Runs All The Way Around Stop Sign

With the Phillies and Cardinals tied in the bottom of the ninth inning tonight, Freddy Galvis came to bat for Philadelphia with teammate Odubel Herrera on first base and two outs. A double to left field, with third base coach Juan Samuel giving Herrera a very clear sign to stop safely at third, woul...

Jerome Bettis: NFL Takes Advantage Of Players By Keeping Them In The Dark On Approach To Brain Injuries

The NFL has “taken advantage” of players by failing to be transparent about the risks of brain injury, Hall of Famer Jerome Bettis said today....

Behold Sicnarf Loopstok, Runner-Up Of The Carolina League Home Run Derby 

Tonight’s Carolina League Home Run Derby was, as always, the year’s premier display of lower minor league power hitting on the East Coast. Glorious! But this year’s event brought us more than dingers. This year brought us Sicnarf Loopstok....

New Yorkers! If you’re a fan of great sportswriting, be sure to go to tonight’s Varsity Letters reading series, hosted by Gelf Magazine. Sports Illustrated executive editors Jon Wertheim and Steve Cannella will be there to celebrate the late, great Frank Deford. Richard Sandomir will also be there t...

Why Did The Red Wings Expose Petr Mrazek?<em></em> 

While I’m still unenthused about the idea of the new Vegas Golden Knights actually playing their games, I’ve been giddy as hell about the drama surrounding the expansion draft. Nothing is more entertaining than watching a highly paid GM make a dumb move, and with 30 teams involved in a fairly comple...

The FTC Moves To Block The Merger Of FanDuel And DraftKings

The Federal Trade Commission, along with the Offices of the Attorneys General in the State of California and the District of Columbia, will file a complaint to block the merger of the two largest daily fantasy sports sites, DraftKings and FanDuel, according to a statement released by the FTC today. ...

For The Next Two Days, This Is The Most Powerful Man In Hockey

The list of players protected from Wednesday’s draft to stock the expansion Vegas Golden Knights is out, and conversely—and most importantly—the list of unprotected players. The Golden Knights could enter the NHL with a perfectly fine team, but from all indications, GM George McPhee won’t be satisfi...

Reports: Cristiano Ronaldo Wants To Leave Real Madrid (It's Not Going To Happen)

A transfer window isn’t a transfer window without rumors that Cristiano Ronaldo might be on the move, and despite playing the hero in Real Madrid’s historic back-to-back Champions League trophies and snatching away the league title from Barcelona and all but certainly locking up a fifth Ballon d’Or ...

Floyd Mayweather Jr. Is Fighting Conor McGregor. What The Fucking Fuck?

It’s really happening....

Draymond Green Finally Gets T-Shirt Revenge On LeBron, Gets Owned Anyway [Update]

The last time the Warriors won a title (the year before they blew a 3-1 lead in the NBA Finals), Draymond Green got tipsy at the team’s victory parade in Oakland. He mocked the Cleveland Cavaliers by rapping “Cavaliers? Nope. We won? Yupp. They suck? Yupp. We here? Yupp. They not? Nooope.”...

How Baseball Prospectus Stumbled Into Its Uncertain Future

Just before the 2016 MLB playoffs, Baseball Prospectus emailed its staff and contributors to tell them that they would not be paid for work they did in August and September until January 2017. The costs of a website redesign and the collapse of daily-fantasy ad spending, the email explained, led to ...

Russia Has A Lot To Prove At The Confederations Cup

The start of the Confederations Cup is essentially the first day of Advent before the Christmas that is the World Cup. Played in the World Cup’s host country the year before and consisting of 8 teams—the champion of each continent, the host, and the defending World Cup champs—this tournament is unim...

Indiana Lost Money Playing In Its Bowl Game

The number of postseason college football bowls has steadily ballooned from a sensible number of games featuring only the best teams in the nation to the stultifying monstrosity we have today, where 82 teams (including several with losing records) play each other in increasingly irrelevant games spr...

Russian Official Guarantees There Will Be No Racism At 2018 World Cup

In an interview with CNN, Alexey Smertin, the head of anti-racism for the Russian football union, who just two years ago denied that racism existed in Russia and said giving bananas to black players was “just for fun,” was asked how racist incidents could damage the World Cup in Russia next year. H...

Bears Linebacker Leonard Floyd On Suffering Multiple Concussions: "You Don't Think The Same"

After suffering two concussions in a five-week span, Chicago Bears linebacker Leonard Floyd had his rookie season cut short last year—with effects that have lingered well into the offseason, he says....

FIFA Will Allow Referees To Suspend Matches Due To Racism At Confederations Cup

Ahead of the Confederations Cup, which begins Saturday in Russia, FIFA has announced a “ground-breaking” procedure for limiting racism and discrimination in soccer. Referees will now be able to abandon a match entirely if fans participate in racist or discriminatory behavior....

Everest's Most Iconic Pitch, The Hillary Step, Is Gone

Climbing Mt. Everest is an arduous grind that requires months of training and the ability to function at the most inhospitable elevations our planet has to offer, but the suite of technical challenges it presents are not as difficult as nearby peaks of comparable height. It’s not, well, a hike exact...