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Geno Auriemma Bravely Defies Silly NCAA Rule By Drinking Out Of Water Bottle

Of the many stupid NCAA rules and regulations that people tend to notice in March, the insistence that public-facing people—coaches, players, even folks in the media room—drink only from NCAA-branded cups ranks pretty far up there. During yesterday’s Final Four press conference, UConn coach Geno Aur...

Report: NFL Owners’ Motivation To Win Super Bowl Comes From The Inescapable Grip Of Death

Perhaps you’ve heard this before: The Philadelphia Eagles won the Super Bowl this year. The team that forever seemed doomed to represent the City of Philadelphia perfectly—generally pretty successful, but never the best—actually won the Super Bowl for the first time....

Juan Martin Del Potro Is No Longer A Hypothetical<em></em><em></em>

Many years could have been the year of Juan Martin del Potro. So many of them weren’t....

How Many People Were Actually At WrestleMania III? A Deadspin Investigation

Thirty-one years ago, WWE (then the WWF) held the third and still the most legendary WrestleMania at the Pontiac Silverdome in Michigan, headlined by Hulk Hogan successfully defending the WWE Championship against Andre The Giant. While the two had faced off numerous times across the country from abo...

<i>New York Times</i> Op-Ed: All This Protective Netting Is Ruining My Game

As of this year, all 30 MLB teams now have protective netting that extends at least to the ends of the dugouts, a change made after a toddler suffered bleeding on the brain when struck by a line drive at Yankee Stadium last year. The netting has a pretty negligible impact on the viewing experience f...

MSU PR Firm Confirms It Monitored Nassar Victims' Social Media, But Wants To Make It Sound Less Bad

A report yesterday from the Lansing State Journal revealed that in January—the same month over 150 women gave victim-impact statements in Michigan courtrooms about Larry Nassar’s serial sexual abuse—the PR firm Weber Shandwick billed Michigan State, Nassar’s old employer, for more than $500,000. Acc...

CNN has a report today detailing how multiple gymnasts say coach John Geddert physically and verbally abused them—and how Larry Nassar used that to his advantage. [CNN] ...

The True Story Of The Rickey Henderson Oakland Party Basement

There is no unpleasantness quite like a bad landlord. All anyone really wants from an apartment is that it do what it is supposed to do—that the stove gets hot without bursting into flames, that the doors and windows stay closed when closed and open as required, that the pipes remain intact and that...

Tim Kurkjian Endearingly Reveals How Little He Knows About Music

It only took a few innings for today’s season opener between the Cubs and Marlins game to reach the “semi-bored announcers just shooting the shit” phase. Thankfully, ESPN analyst and generally delightful guy Tim Kurkjian was there to participate....

From The Grave, Dead Fabulist Pat Conroy Gives New Life To Whopper About Getting His Ass Kicked By His Dad<em></em>

Pat Conroy was full of shit....

Is There Any Way UConn Blows This?

Despite a handful of decent upsets in the earlier rounds (11-seeded Buffalo and Central Michigan in the Sweet 16, sixth-seed Oregon State beating Baylor to get to the Elite Eight), we’ve got an all one-seed women’s Final Four in Columbus this weekend—Louisville vs. Mississippi State on one side, and...

Ex-Seahawks QB Trevone Boykin Arrested After Police Viewed Video Of Alleged Assault On Girlfriend

Police arrested former TCU and Seattle Seahawks quarterback Trevone Boykin Wednesday night at his home in Mansfield, Texas, and charged him with aggravated assault against his girlfriend, Shabrika Bailey, according to reports. ...

The Phillies Need A Lefty Pitcher Who Doesn’t Mind Getting Lit Up

Even though it’s Opening Day, the Phillies are still short one left-handed pitcher....

The Guy Who Made That Hideous Ronaldo Bust Made A Better One 

Emanuel Santos, the sculptor of the creepy Cristiano Ronaldo bust that blessed the airport in Madeira, Portugal, has tried again. In a documentary directed by Kelly Naqui and published by Bleacher Report, Santos describes what it was like to be mocked by the entire world (he said it was hard, both h...

Jaylen Brown Gets Shorthanded Celtics Victory Over Jazz With Sweet Game-Winning Three

The Celtics were short-staffed against the Jazz tonight—no Kyrie, no Al Horford, no Marcus Morris, no Marcus Smart, and as always, no Gordon Hayward—but Jaylen Brown did enough to make sure that it wasn’t a problem. Ultimately leading the team in scoring with 21 points, he delivered the game-winning...

Deposition: Martha, Bela Karolyi Claim They Did Not Know About Larry Nassar's Abuse At Their Ranch

Former U.S. women’s national gymnastics team coordinator Martha Karolyi and her husband, acclaimed former coach Bela Karolyi, said in a deposition last year that they did not know about the serial sexual abuse that Dr. Larry Nassar committed on their ranch, according to court records obtained by CNN...

Report: MSU Spent Half A Million Dollars Monitoring Nassar Victims' And Journalists' Social Media Accounts 

A day after William Strampel, the former dean of the osteopathic medical school at Michigan State University and the ex-boss of disgraced sexual abuser Larry Nassar, was charged with criminal sexual conduct and willful neglect of duty, the Lansing State Journal reported that MSU spent in excess of $...

Lionel Messi Did Not Have Fun At Spain's 6-1 Drubbing Of Argentina Today

Just a couple of months before June’s World Cup begins, a next-generation Spain squad incinerated a mostly full-strength Argentina in Madrid today, riding an Isco hat trick to a 6-1 laugher. It’s only a friendly, but still, it wasn’t good, and Argentina star Lionel Messi, missing the game with a ham...

Driver Almost Runs Over Pro Cyclist, Then Attacks And Hospitalizes Him

Colombian pro cyclist Daniel Martinez was hospitalized earlier today after reportedly suffering a serious head injury in a violent confrontation with a dickhead driver. Martinez, who just took a surprising seventh place at the Volta a Catalunya, was on a training ride in Tuscany with EF Education Fi...

Seahawks Cut Trevone Boykin After Girlfriend Says He Choked Her Out, Broke Her Jaw [Update]

Shabrika Bailey, the girlfriend of former TCU and Seattle Seahawks quarterback Trevone Boykin, said in a news interview Monday that Boykin assaulted her, choked her out, and broke her jaw last Tuesday in Mansfield, Texas, over an argument about text messages....