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Jaylen Brown Somehow Walks Off Court After Landing On Head [UPDATE]

Jaylen Brown’s fingers slipped after a third-quarter dunk tonight against Minnesota and the Celtics swingman miraculously left the court under his own power after an emergency response that suggested the Celtics had seen their second devastating injury of the season. ...

Alabama's Collin Sexton Keeps The Tide Alive With A Coast-To-Coast Buzzer-Beater

Alabama is an occasionally pretty fun college basketball team with a sub-.500 conference record, and they desperately need wins in the SEC Tournament in order to get in the NCAA Tournament. Luckily for the Tide, they earned a dramatic one today against Texas A&M....

Michael Porter Jr. Is Back, And That Might Be Enough For Mizzou

On Thursday afternoon, a few but probably not too many minutes after 3:45 p.m. EST, Michael Porter Jr. is going to jog onto the court for just the second time this season. This matters because Porter is one of, if not the single most promising prospects in the upcoming NBA draft. Before the season t...

Hafþór Björnsson Is Still So Goddamn Strong<em></em>

At the same event where Russian strongman Mikhail Shivlyakov’s face turned into a bloody mess, Icelandic strongman and Game Of Thrones hulk Hafþór Björnsson took the stage and deadlifted a world-record 1,041 pounds. Björnsson’s lift came on a specially designed bar meant to accommodate four-digit li...

This Video Of Nate McLouth Speaking Spanish Is Fucking Me Up

That this post is about Nate McLouth, who hasn’t played in the majors since 2014, already indicates that the information’s a bit old, but this video’s making the rounds now and I’d never seen it before, so whatever. McLouth, then with the Baltimore Orioles, did an interview with a Spanish-speaking r...

Dwyane Wade Comforts Marjory Stoneman Douglas Students After Harrowing Visit By Betsy DeVos

Today was Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School’s first full day of classes since the Feb. 14 shooting that left 17 people dead and many others wounded. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos stopped by to meet with students, as did Miami Heat guard Dwyane Wade. One of these visitors was more popular tha...

Marjory Stoneman Douglas QB Commits To D-III School After Hiding With Recruiters During Shooting

Marjory Stoneman Douglas football player Tyler Goodman was meeting with Nichols College assistant coach St. Clair Ryan and dean of admissions Paul Brower during last month’s shooting which killed 17 people at the high school. Goodman had not seriously considered attending Nichols, a D-III school in ...

Deontay Wilder Vs. Luis Ortiz: The Things I Take Back

Just before last Saturday’s fight between Deontay Wilder and Luis Ortiz, I predicted a number of things would happen when they met. I said that Wilder would win, most likely within the first three rounds. I stated unequivocally that in a legitimate fight Ortiz would beat Wilder in any manner he chos...

Christian McCaffrey And Friends Helped Save A Hiker's Life

Christian McCaffrey and some friends went for a hike this past weekend outside of Denver, and their pleasant afternoon out nearly turned tragic after they witnessed 72-year-old Dan Smoker Sr. fall roughly 20 feet onto a rock. “I had never seen anything quite like that in my life as far as the traum...

Aldon Smith, who was cut by the Raiders on Monday, turned himself in to San Francisco police today. He’s being held on a $30,000 bond for four domestic violence-related charges....

President Trump Graciously Accepts Credit For Saving The Winter Olympics

Those anxious weeks and months leading up to the Pyeongchang Olympics seem so long ago, now. With the games themselves just recently in the past, it’s easy to forget the questions that so defined those days. In bars and around water coolers, out loud to friends and family and in an echoing loop in o...

Markelle Fultz Shooting Form Update: Shot Longer

The Sixers are almost certainly going to the playoffs, and the future looks bright for a team that was 10-72 just two seasons ago. They’ve also done this without the No. 1 overall pick whose shot is fundamentally borked....

Dolphins Owner Says All His Players Will Stand For The Anthem In 2018, Regrets It By The Next Day

Stephen Ross, the rich guy who owns the Dolphins, told the New York Daily News last night that “all of our players will be standing” for the national anthem next season. Various Dolphins players including Arian Foster, Kenny Stills, and Michael Thomas have kneeled to protest police brutality during ...

How Egypt's Strongman Is Turning Sports Into Propaganda

Imagine, if you can, the USSF and new president Carlos Cordeiro, backed by a slew of MLS owners, calling a press conference and announcing their undying loyalty to Donald Trump, and urging all American soccer fans to vote Republican in the upcoming midterm elections. While the idea may seem fantasti...

Man Caught Jerking Off In The Stands During Bundesliga Match [NSFW]

Schalke hosted Hertha Berlin in a Bundesliga match this past Saturday. The match featured one goal, one yellow card, and one Hertha fan calmly stroking his dick in front of god and everyone in the middle of the stands:...

Texans Deny Report That They Won't Sign Free Agents Who Protested During National Anthem

The Texans are refuting a Houston Chronicle report from this weekend that said the team wasn’t interested in signing free agents who’d protested during the national anthem: ...

Here’s a very enjoyable look at Reds outfielder Billy Hamilton’s reaction to a reporter suggesting that he might be more productive if he were a super-sub. (“This is the stupidest thing I’ve heard in my life” is part of it.) [FanGraphs]...

Lionel Messi Won The League All By Himself<em></em>

It helps to take a step back now, after Barcelona have all but assured themselves yet another league title by beating second-place Atlético Madrid at home yesterday, to accurately appreciate the enormity of the situation and the incomparable superiority of Lionel Messi....

Strongman's Face Starts Gushing Blood During Deadlift<em></em>

If you think that image’s gross, don’t watch the video. There’s more blood where that came from....

Perennial Quitter Tubby Smith Says NCAA Transfers "Teach Players How To Quit"

Memphis men’s basketball coach Tubby Smith, who quit his job at Texas Tech to take his current position in 2016, went off on NCAA transfer regulations following the last game of his regular season on Sunday, saying that relaxed transfer rules “teach (players) how to quit.” ...