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Lawsuit Accuses DeMarcus Cousins And Matt Barnes Of Punching And Choking Nightclub Patrons
Matt Barnes and DeMarcus Cousins got into a scuffle of some sort at a New York City club early Monday morning, prompting the NYPD to seek out the pair for questioning. A pair of people who claim that Barnes and Cousins assaulted them filed suit yesterday in a New York U.S. District Court, and demand...

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The Wizards Are Dead, Ernie Grunfeld Has Killed Them
John Wall scored 52 points last night in a mostly empty arena against the Orlando Magic, who defeated the Wizards anyway, despite not being good or playing all that well. Below is the full highlight reel, if you’re into seeing one of the NBA’s most thrilling players deliver the best scoring performa...

Report: Rashaan Salaam Died By Suicide
Police have yet to give an official cause of death for Rashaan Salaam, the former Heisman winner who was found dead in a park in Boulder, Colo. yesterday, but Salaam’s mother has told USA Today that police suspect that suicide was the cause of death....

Keeper Gives Up Four Goals In The First Half, Starts Openly Crying
Sometimes soccer can be such a mean game that you can’t help but just sit there and cry. After seeing his team’s chances of making out of the Champions League group stage die in the form of one red card and four shots hitting the back of his net in the first half, Beşiktaş keeper Fabricio couldn’t h...
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Man Who Shot And Killed Joe McKnight Arrested On Manslaughter Charge [Update]
Ronald Gasser, the man who admitted to shooting and killing former NFL player Joe McKnight in an apparent road rage incident, has been arrested on a count of manslaughter. He is being held at the Jefferson Parish Correctional Center, according to the online inmate search....

Packers Fan's Drunken Odyssey Ends After He Bungles Daring Truck Stop Escape
Wintertime in Wisconsin is a harsh season for all, including drunken criminals whose schemes may end up foiled by the unforgiving climate. Nathan Tyler Meleski knows the pain....

What The Hell Is <i>Westworld</i> Gonna Do Next Season?
Television’s best show about murderous sex robots, HBO’s Westworld, wrapped up its debut season last night in the way most prestige TV shows do. Characters died, twists were revealed, and the season ended on a somewhat ambiguous note....

Behold Everything Beautiful And Ugly About DeMarcus Cousins
The Knicks and the Kings played last night at Madison Square Garden, and at least for those of us who live in New York, it was a far more entertaining spectacle than the shit-ass game between the Giants and Steelers that it overlapped with for most of the early evening. The Knicks were victorious a...

Argentine Soccer Players, Fans Beat The Bejesus Out Of Some Refs
A referee presiding over a lower league match in Argentina this weekend seemed to have blown a foul call, which immediately resulted in a counterattack goal for away team, as you can see above. In response to this everyday mishap, some players on the home team and later a whole lot of pitch-invading...

Magic Johnson And Michael Wilbon Return To ESPN's <i>NBA Countdown</i>
Magic Johnson and Michael Wilbon will rejoin ESPN’s NBA pregame show, NBA Countdown, on a limited basis this season, the network announced today. Johnson will work the Christmas slate of games, before joining Wilbon and host Sage Steele for ABC’s nine Saturday broadcasts of the NBA. ...

Connor McDavid's Anger Shows The NHL's Concussion Protocol Working Like It Should
When a league’s concussion protocol works like it’s intended, players will get mad. There’s no way around it. Connor McDavid, the Oilers’ young star, was yanked off the ice after hitting his head in last night’s home loss to Minnesota, and he was pissed....

Report: Matt Barnes Wanted For Allegedly Choking A Woman In A Night Club
According to TMZ and the New York Post, Sacramento Kings forward Matt Barnes is wanted for questioning for allegedly choking a woman in a New York City night club early Monday morning....

Here's A Guy Scoring On A 65-Yard Volley
Universidad de Concepción beat O’Higgins 3-1 today in Chile’s Primera division, with the final goal being this stoppage-time screamer by Alejandro Camargo—a 65-yard volley that left O’Higgins keeper Miguel Pinto looking awfully foolish....

Report: Kevin Wilson Mistreated Multiple Injured Players While At Indiana
Before being forced to resign this week, Indiana football coach Kevin Wilson had mistreated multiple injured players, according to new reporting from the Indianapolis Star and ESPN. ...

Oregon To Investigate Athletic Department For Response To Reports Of Violence By Football Player Pharaoh Brown
The University of Oregon’s president has called for an investigation of “free-speech policy violations” by the school’s athletic department—two weeks after department officials threatened to pull credentials from the student newspaper for an article on reported acts of violence by a football player....

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This Is Real Madrid's Best Chance To Drive A Knife Into Barcelona's Heart
It’s El Clásico time again, which means it’s time for the sports world’s fiercest rivals, Real Madrid and Barcelona, to square off in the Most Important Soccer Game in All of Human History—or at least the biggest one since the last time the two met. While the titanic stakes of this game can sometime...

Man Who Shot And Killed Joe McKnight Released From Custody Without Charges; Investigation Ongoing
The man who shot former NFL player Joe McKnight to death in an “apparent road rage” incident in Louisiana has been released from custody with no charges filed. Jefferson Parish Sheriff Newell Normand confirmed today to reporters that deputies let 54-year-old Ronald Gasser go last night after taking ...

Marc Gasol Doesn't Need His Eyes
Marc Gasol, one of the few Grizzlies still standing, was still staring at the opposite basket when he flung this slick assist in their win over the Magic last night. He stole the ball, spotted a streaking Troy Williams out of the corner of his left eye, and didn’t bother to turn around, instead hur...