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Odubel Herrera Is One Man Who Is Ready For The Offseason
The big play from Friday night’s Nationals-Phillies game came when Washington’s Michael A. Taylor roped a liner to center with the bases loaded, and wound up with the rare inside-the-park grand slam. This was great fun to watch:...

Iowa Cubs Player Is Exceptionally Talented At Being A Weirdo On-Camera
Iowa Cubs catcher Taylor Davis has an innate talent for finding the cameras and staring into the lens until it becomes uncomfortable, so the team celebrated that skill with a two-minute compilation....

Stick It To The Man, Andrew Wiggins
Earlier this week, Andrew Wiggins of the Minnesota Timberwolves filed paperwork to sever his relationship with agent Bill Duffy and BDA Sports. This is notable, in part, because Duffy had just wrapped up negotiations on a max extension for Wiggins to stay in Minnesota, reportedly a five-year, $148 m...

Michael A. Taylor Is Finally Hitting Like A Major Leaguer For The Nats
Michael A. Taylor of the Nationals spent Saturday pounding the bejeezus out of Cincinnati pitchers, to the tune of four hits, a double, two dingers, and four RBI, in a game the Nationals won by 15 runs....

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Although none of us will ever be in the same supreme physical shape as professional darts players, we can still watch them with envy. Why aren’t they aiming for the bullseye? Is that a referee or the town crier? Is anyone in the crowd driving home?...

Contracts That Void Themselves, And Other Ways NFL Teams Are Beating The Players
NFL teams use all sorts of contractual techniques to limit the earning power of players, from injury splits to per-game roster bonuses to an abundance of one-year “prove it” deals. But there’s nothing quite as breathtaking as NFL contracts that automatically void—contract language that literally mak...

After All That, Tyrod Taylor Signed A New Deal With Buffalo
The Buffalo Bills announced today that the team has agreed to a new deal with quarterback Tyrod Taylor. It was a bit of an unexpected announcement, seeing as how the Bills spent the tail end of last season doing everything in their power to set themselves up to release Taylor....

Taylor Fritz Struggles To Get Moth Off Court; Ball Girl Finds The Solution On The Bottom Of Her Foot
Taylor Fritz’s match against Adrian Mannarino tonight in Acapulco suffered a brief delay as the 112th-ranked American tried to humanely shoo a bothersome moth from the court during a second-set tiebreaker. A nearby ball girl took matters into her own hands...er, feet. Er, foot....

Tyrod Taylor Might Be Calling The Bills' Bluff
As fucked as it already was, the Tyrod Taylor situation has gotten a whole hell of a lot messier....

Hmm, Why Is Tyrod Taylor Missing From These Bills' Season Highlights?
To get pumped for this weekend’s season finale, the Buffalo Bills have released a nice little highlight video of the year. In more than a minute of footage featuring action from multiple players on both sides of the ball, there is not so much as a passing glance at quarterback Tyrod Taylor....

Looks Like That's About It For Tyrod Taylor In Buffalo
The Bills made obvious their lack of commitment to QB Tyrod Taylor when they announced he would be benched for Sunday’s season finale, a clear move to protect him from a serious injury which would lock them into $27.5 million guaranteed next season. Taylor appears to be making his intentions known, ...

Bills Interim Coach Says Tyrod Taylor's Benching Was A "Business Decision"
The Buffalo Bills are heading into Week 17 with interim coach Anthony Lynn on the sideline and backup quarterback E.J. Manuel starting under center. It does not appear that the former had anything to do with putting the latter into the starting lineup....

Fred Taylor Says Team Doctors Overlooked His Injuries, Allowed Him To Play Hurt
Former Jaguars running back Fred Taylor retired from the NFL in 2010, bringing an end to an impressive 13-year career that was nevertheless marred by injuries. Today, Taylor is claiming that he unknowingly played hurt throughout his career due to the negligence of his team’s doctors:...

Taylor Swift Sends Terrible Gifts To Her Friends
One thing we know to be true about Taylor Swift is that she is frequently photographed with other people. The Instagram personality, who is also a musician, refers to the people in these photographs her “friends.” She has many of them! More friends than you and me, and everyone we know combined. She...

Police Investigate Possible Rat Urine Poisoning By Crime Syndicate At Wimbledon
In a story I can’t believe is playing out somewhere besides the Olympics, Scotland Yard is investigating whether or not British tennis player Gabriella Taylor was poisoned with bacteria from rat urine by an organized crime syndicate at Wimbledon, per The Daily Telegraph. Taylor was the furthest-adva...

Vikings Backup QB Out Three Months After Reportedly Trying To Kick His Friend's Locked Door In
Professional athletes are just like us, in that they occasionally find creative, dumb ways to hurt themselves. They’ve picked up injuries stepping on cacti, celebrating a win, and trying to rescue pizzas. Today, we can add “trying to kick a door down after getting locked out” to this sad list. ...

Oilers Trade Taylor Hall To Devils
The Edmonton Oilers are trading Taylor Hall to the New Jersey Devils in exchange for defenseman Adam Larsson. TSN broke the trade, and both teams have made it official....

Baylor Player Jumps To Defend Art Briles, Attempts To Tweet Through It
Baylor junior linebacker Taylor Young is not taking Art Briles’s firing very well. The football player defended his former head coach and even admitted that he was blindly doing so, because college football is all about following the leader....

A "Vodka Diet Coke" Is Not A Cocktail
Earlier today, during an interview game of “73 Questions,” a faceless reporter from Vogue asked famous robot Taylor Swift what her favorite cocktail is. The Diet Coke brand ambassador said it’s a “vodka Diet Coke,” which is a drink that can indeed exist by way of mixing the ingredients found in its ...

Alabama's Jimmie Taylor Discovers New Way To Box Out
Kentucky won today’s SEC basketball battle in Tuscaloosa today 77-61, but it was the Crimson Tide that contributed to the college basketball corpus of literature as forward Jimmie Taylor introduced a new way of boxing out defenders to secure the offensive rebound. Despite this innovation, Taylor was...