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Woman Sues Nick Young For Alleged 2011 Rape; Cops Skeptical
A California woman has filed suit in Los Angeles Superior Court alleging that in 2011 Nick Young drugged her in a California bar, brought her back to his apartment and raped her. Young was a member of the Wizards at the time of the allegations. [Update: According to TMZ, the LAPD had dismissed her c...

The Memphis Grizzlies Are Going To The Western Conference Finals
Kevin Durant had 21 points on a putrid 5-21 shooting night. Memphis led by as much as 12 with as little as three minutes left in the game. Even with the night going the way that it did, Durant still had a great look at a game-tying shot with about four seconds left in the game. He missed long....

How Can The New England Patriots Cut A Guy Because He Has Diabetes?
Kyle Love was the Patriots starting DT until he was diagnosed with diabetes within the last two weeks. Once the Patriots found out, they cut him. Not only did they cut him, but they essentially confirmed he was cut because of the diagnosis, because of the uncertainty surrounding his recovery time. H...

Craig Sager Photobombs Will Smith And Son
Sager's Gettin' Jiggy Wit It, am I right?...

George Maloof Chased Into A Closet
A person in charge of a professional sports franchise worth hundreds of millions of dollars ran away from reporters and tried to hide in a closet. That is the story you are currently reading. ...

Galatasaray To Protest Racism Against Drogba By Wearing Blackface
Galatasaray's Didier Drogba faced your typical Euro-flavor of racism during this past weekend's derby match against Fenerbahce: monkey noises, bananas on the pitch, et cetera. In response, Drogba's teammates are pledging to wear blackface in their next match as a token of solidarity toward him and f...

The Summer Game
Nice piece by Adam Sobsey over at the Paris Review on what promises to be a great documentary: Bull City Summer....

True Grit
Mark Kram Jr's heart-breaking book, Like Any Normal Day is now out in paperback. Check out this excerpt from SI.com:...

Wigan Fan Gives Zero Fucks
As we have told you here repeatedly, Wigan is going to be relegated. Today's 4-1 result (and counting) against Arsenal are making sure of that. Their supporters, well, this guy will love it in the nPower Championship....

Here's What <em>SportsCenter</em>'s Huge New Set Will Look Like
ESPN unveiled a digitized preview of what its new SportsCenter set will look like and, holy shit, it's huge. ...

Drunk Ump Passes Out On Field, Tries To Fight Medics, Is Arrested
A 49-year-old high school umpire, who witnesses say was "visibly under the influence," is in custody in an Illinois jail after he passed out on the field of a baseball game he was actively umpiring last Friday....

Dwyane Wade Sometimes Wears Clothes
From time to time, Dwyane Wade wears clothes. I think tonight was one of those nights. Maybe....

Bryce Harper Ignores Warning Track, Smashes Face Against Wall
It's called a warning track for a reason....

Bruins Win Overtime Thriller, Toronto Left Staring Into Nothingness
Patrice Bergeron scored the game-tying and game-winning goals for the Bruins. ...

New England Sports Net Switches To Toronto Feed In Ultimate Dick Move
The Bruins scored two goals inside the final two minutes of Game 7 against the Toronto Maple Leafs to tie the game and force overtime. Toronto is in the playoffs for the first time since 2004 and they rallied from down three games to one to even force this game. Toronto held the lead since Cody Fra...

Russian Youth Hockey Fight Is Insane, Full Of Flying Russian Children
I've been trying to write the first sentence of this post for a while now and it's just a lot of opening my mouth as if to offer up some kind of context, followed by quickly shaking my head. ...

We Were All, Once, The Saddest Fan
Crystal Palace dispatched Brighton & Hove Albion to end the latter's dreams of winning playoff promotion to the Premiership. We've all been there, lad....

Tiger Woods Wins Players Championship, Still Can't Celebrate Properly
We'd probably think it was unfair if Tiger was awesome at both golf and celebrating golf played well, but still, these celebrations are brutal....

