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Steph Curry Made Rudy Gobert Look Like A Bewildered Child
You can’t double team Steph Curry on the perimeter. If you go under the screen against him, you are allowing maybe the greatest shooter of all time an open look. You can switch a big guy onto him, but that means Steph gets to go at a larger, slower defender. Maybe it’s not that bad if that big guy i...
Gymnast Writes Open Letters To Michigan State Leaders Who Claim Sexual Abuse Couldn't Be Prevented<em></em><em></em>
In response to the outward finger-pointing taking place at Michigan State over its years of downplaying and ignoring concerns voiced about disgraced doctor Larry Nassar, one of the first gymnasts to come forward saying Nassar sexually abused her has penned a pair of open letters to university presid...
The Warriors Seem More Worried About How Boring Utah Is Than The Jazz<em></em>
The Warriors recently put the finishing touches on a sweep of the Portland Trail Blazers, and they had to wait almost a full week to find out whether they’d be playing the Clippers or the Jazz in the second round. A Warriors-Jazz series is a much more interesting prospect, because even if the Clippe...
The House From WWE’s House Of Horrors Match Is For Sale For Just $36,000
Last night, the WWE held its first ever “House of Horrors match.” It did not go over well....
Is Gordon Hayward Good Enough To Give The Warriors Some Trouble?
Quietly, the Utah Jazz—the nominally starless, “quirky” squad, the basketblogger’s catnip—has birthed a star of its own. Despite a bout of food poisoning, Gordon Hayward led the Jazz past the Clippers in seven games, averaging 23.7 points and 7.1 rebounds per game, including a 40-point torrent in Ga...
The U.S. Gymnastics System Wanted More Medals, And Created A Culture Of Abuse To Get Them
Seventeen years ago, the U.S. women’s gymnastics team placed fourth at the Sydney Olympics, finishing behind Romania, Russia, and China. Coming four years after the gold medal from the Magnificent Seven, this placement was seen—both inside and outside the sport, by the press and by coaches like the ...
The Raiders Placed A Bet On Gareon Conley
The Raiders took Ohio State CB Gareon Conley with the 24th pick of last night NFL Draft, much lower than he was expected to go a week ago, and much higher than many teams were willing to take him. Conley is the subject of a rape investigation in Cleveland, and it’s pretty exhausting that, yet again,...
Nobody's Buying Under Armour's Steph Curry Signature Shoes
Steph Curry’s shoes aren’t selling, and Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank tried to explain that with a heavy dose of corporate speak in an earnings call today, where the company reported its first-ever losing quarter:...
Former Penn State Hockey Player Cited For Peeing On Two People In Primanti Bros. Bathroom
Former Penn State goaltender and recent ECHL player Matthew Skoff was issued a non-traffic citation by State College police on Apr. 21 for allegedly urinating on two people in the bathroom of a Primanti Bros. ...
Hilariously Rich University Presidents Don't Think College Athletes Should Be Paid
Ohio State University president Michael Drake and Stanford University president Marc Tessier-Lavigne have joined that dipshit from Notre Dame and that dipshit from Texas as the latest university presidents to say that college athletes should not be paid. Young people should not be paid for their rev...
Kevin Durant Enjoys Meme Featuring Kevin Durant
The NBA playoffs’ best and most versatile GIF has been validated by Kevin Durant, one of its co-stars, according to a recent episode of Still KD. It’s a funny, slightly surreal little reminder of how celebrities can turn around and delight in their own cultural influence, relishing the memes they l...
Holy Shit, That Warriors First Quarter
When the Warriors are hot, there’s nothing you can do. No other team so gleefully tosses their opponents in the trash and sets that trash on fire as the Warriors, and no Warriors run this playoffs has been as violent or as thorough as the incredible first quarter they put together tonight in Portlan...
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Warriors Coach Steve Kerr Out Indefinitely With Illness [Update]
After sitting out last night’s Game 3 against Portland, Steve Kerr will miss the rest of the series and potentially longer, according to Marcus Thompson of the San Jose Mercury News....
The Warriors Got The Blazers' Hopes Up, And Then They Killed Them In Four Minutes
Exactly halfway through the third quarter against the Trail Blazers last night, the Warriors were down by 14 points. After four more minutes of play, they had a two-point lead, and from there, they didn’t look back. ...
Michigan State's Auston Robertson Charged With Criminal Sexual Conduct
Spartans defensive lineman Auston Robertson has been charged with third-degree criminal sexual conduct, Ingham County prosecutors announced today. Prosecutors didn’t say much else about the charge, but a police detective testified in court today and discussed details of the case. Here’s some of what...
Hell Yeah, We Got The JaVale McGee Game
The journey from “cheap Shaq punchline” to “competent role player on contender” continues straight through the playoffs, as JaVale McGee gave us the purest 13 minutes he might ever produce: 15 points (on 7-of-7 shooting!), five rebounds, and four blocks. Good for him, and for any sap watching, becau...
11 Alcorn State Football Players Arrested After Massive Cafeteria Brawl
Eleven football players at Alcorn State have been arrested for their roles in a sprawling fight that broke out in a school cafeteria on April 10, according to the Jackson Clarion-Ledger. Police told the paper more arrests are expected to be made on Thursday. The fight was filmed by multiple students...
Mike Gundy Remains Hilariously Attached To An Alternate History Of OSU's Season
Oklahoma State suffered one of the cruelest and most controversial losses of the college football season last September, when Central Michigan won on the final play with a wild hook-and-ladder lateral hail mary play....
Newly Employed Chris Jans Talks About Being Fired For Slapping A Woman's Ass
New Mexico State has hired Chris Jans to be the new men’s basketball coach. Jans’s last head coaching gig was at Bowling Green, before he was abruptly fired in April of 2015 for harassing women at a bar....
HB2 Is Over, But The North Carolina Legislature Continues To March Backwards<em></em>
Since the start of the year, members of the North Carolina House have caused several small public-relations crises by way of historically inaccurate and bigoted Facebook posts, which pair nicely with a swath of proposed bills that would grant the state the right to secede, outlaw gay marriage, block...