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Here is Kristaps Porzingis's Spherical, Slightly Worrisome Personal Trainer

From the Daily News today comes a profile of Kristaps Porzingis’s flavorful “personal physician and trainer” Dr. Carlon Colker, who has no affiliation with the Knicks....

Rays Trade Away Face Of The Franchise For Bad Reasons

Various baseball insiders are reporting that the stove is hot this morning. Rays third baseman Evan Longoria has been shipped to the Giants in exchange for Denard Span and some other stuff:...

Lithuanian Basketball Fixer Secured Two Ball Brothers By Getting At Them On Twitter<em></em>

LiAngelo and LaMelo Ball will head across the Atlantic into the Lithuanian countryside in a few weeks, and Andrew Keh of the New York Times visited Prienai to get a sense of what they’re getting themselves into. He found a small town with Ball family fever, where the pizza joints are blaring about t...

Deadspin Up All Night: I Came As Dirt

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Ohio State Forced To Stop Recruiting Top Recruit After Obscure Kirk Herbstreit Photo Violation

Micah Parsons is considered one of the best high school football players in the country. The defensive end is ranked as the seventh-best overall prospect by ESPN and fourth overall by 24/7, and before today, he was considering joining Ohio State. However, Ohio State has agreed to stop recruiting Par...

The Only Solution To The Chris Froome Problem Is The One Cycling Will Never Accept

If most casual sports fans know anything about professional road cycling that extends beyond the orbit of Lance Armstrong, it’s that a bunch of the people who were in line to receive his seven tainted Tour de France titles also tested positive for performance enhancing drugs. Cycling’s reputation an...

Rio Ferdinand Still Gets Hella Hyped Watching Manchester United Play

Rio Ferdinand hasn’t played professional soccer since 2015, and he hasn’t suited up for Manchester United since the year before that, but as this clip of his exuberant celebrations while covering United’s recent thrilling win over Arsenal proves, he remains very much invested in the goings on at Old...

Here's What The Houston Texans Did Instead Of Signing Colin Kaepernick

On Oct. 29, the Houston Texans lost to the Seattle Seahawks, 41-38, a hard-fought game in which rookie QB Deshaun Watson put on an entertaining, four-touchdown, 403-yard performance. Houston was 3-4 but still sat at the edge of the playoff hunt in a weak conference, and Watson had led the offense t...

Are These Assists?

What with all the nice fat triple-doubly Ben Simmons and Lonzo Ball lines, you might be wondering what exactly makes an assist. I am. Not because I’m interested in whether home scorers are especially generous to their local stars—both players, it turns out, average more assists per 36 minutes when o...

Inside The Punishing Dictatorship That Was James Cameron's <i>Titanic</i> Set

This feature was originally published in the December, 1997 issue of Premiere magazine and appears here with permission....

Could Santa Claus Defeat Godzilla?<em></em>

I got more Star Wars takes before we get into your letters. Don’t worry, I’m not gonna spoil anything, but I watched The Force Awakens a couple times after seeing the new movie and the difference in dialogue is night and day, man. Everyone in TFA had better lines than they do in The Last Jedi. Take ...

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Timing Of Trademarks Suggests "New XFL" May Be A Response To NFL Protests

On Friday afternoon, I received a particularly surprising DM from someone whose information is normally solid, if not always reportable. The DM said that Vince McMahon is bringing back the XFL, with a press conference announcing the move on Jan. 25. The scuttlebutt was that not only had ESPN’s 30 fo...

Director Of Canada's National <em></em>Women's Gymnastics Team Charged With Sexually Abusing A Minor

The director of Canada’s national women’s gymnastics team, David Brubaker, was charged last Friday with 10 counts of sexual offenses spanning eight years, all concerning a gymnast who was younger than 16 for part of that time period. According to the Sarnia Observer, Brubaker faces one charge of inv...

Some Unabashed Gushing Over The Coolest Scene In <i>The Last Jedi</i>

I think my favorite thing about Star Wars: The Last Jedi is how successfully writer/director Rian Johnson dove into the giant toy box that is the Star Wars universe and started playing. His willingness to repudiate the franchise’s nostalgia industry—to let the past die, as Kylo Ren put it—is what I ...

Is Serena Williams Going To Play In The Australian Open Or What?

The Australian Open begins in less than a month and it’s still unclear whether defending champion Serena Williams will be playing in it. Despite eager assurances from the tournament director that the 23-time grand slam champion will indeed make her historic post-baby comeback at the tournament she w...

Police Arrest Man Suspected Of Racial Hate Crime Against Raheem Sterling [Updated]

After Manchester City’s home win over Tottenham this past weekend, the Telegraph reported that City forward Raheem Sterling had been called a “nigger” and then kicked by an unknown man when Sterling was on his way to the stadium before the game. Today, Manchester police arrested the man they suspect...

Larry Nance Jr. Obliterates Kevin Durant With A Huge Dunk

Larry Nance Jr., you’re a hero for this one....

Pacers Completely Blow It Thanks To Dumbest Possible Pass

Victor Oladipo and Kyrie Irving treated everyone to an enthralling late-game duel tonight, combining for 20 points in the final two minutes of the game and swapping huge threes down the stretch. The Pacers trailed for the first 47 minutes of the game and struggled to stop Boston in the first half (J...

Everything About The <i>Telegraph</i>'s Justin Gatlin Investigation Is Nuts

American sprinting star Justin Gatlin has five Olympic medals (including one gold), the fifth-fastest 100-meter time ever, the honor of beating Usain Bolt in his farewell race, and yet he’s still far more famous for his various doping bans than what he’s achieved on the track. Gatlin has been embroi...