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LeBron, NOOOOO
In the third quarter of Game 4 of the Eastern Conference Finals, Kevin Love heaved an incredible outlet pass the length of the court to a waiting LeBron James, who reared back for dunk, ready to shatter the backboard, and then doinged it off the rim....

Report: New Mexico AD Paid For $64,949 Golf Trip To Scotland<i> </i>With Public Funds
KRQE published a report Tuesday exposing New Mexico athletic director Paul Krebs and a group of New Mexico executives for spending $64,949 of public funds to pay for a 2015 golfing trip to Scotland, complete with luxury hotel arrangements and reservations to play at high-end golf courses like St. A...


Joey Votto Heckles Heckler
Reds first baseman Joey Votto, who every now and then participates in the clowning of a lunkhead, engaged in repartee with an Indians fan at Monday’s game in Cincinnati....

The Boston Celtics Have A Moral Obligation To Get The Fuck Out
The conference finals have been crud. In the West, what should have been the Golden State Warriors’ first true test became a joyless, perfunctory mercy-killing a little over halfway through Game 1, thanks to a goon doofus’s misplaced foot. In the East, meanwhile, what should have been a deliciously ...

Russians Lure Curling Circuit To Siberian Mining Town
And you thought the NBA season was short. The competitive curling-circuit season typically runs from September to April, but officially, the 2017-18 season began over the weekend with what stands to be the largest purse, men’s or women’s, in any curling event. In Siberia....

Texas Gets Closer To Passing Anti-Trans Bathroom Bill, NCAA Remains Silent
Texas is on track to become the second state in the United States to take statewide legislative action to prevent transgender citizens from using the appropriate bathroom, as the House voted on Monday in favor of limiting bathroom choice in public and charter schools....

An Absurdly Late Equalizer Saved The United States At The U-20 World Cup
The U.S. U-20 team is currently in South Korea for the U-20 World Cup. They are in a decently tough group with Ecuador, Saudi Arabia, and Senegal, and they kicked things off against Ecuador early this morning....

Report: Mikes Don't Like Each Other
Days after Mike Greenberg and Mike Golic, two ESPN employees who happen to share the same first name, officially announced that their radio show Mike & Mike would be ending this year, a new report from Richard Deitsch of Sports Illustrated suggests that there might be more to the Mike situation than...

The NBA's Push For Parity Backfired With These Garbage Playoffs
The NBA playoffs, in theory if not always in practice, is the best postseason system in all of sports. After a bloated and distended regular season, the playoffs come around and pit the great teams against the merely good ones, the former whittling down the latter until all that’s left is the very b...

The Celtics Won The Game
Game 3 of the Eastern Conference Finals, a game I definitely watched, was one for the ages. Due to the absence of Isaiah Thomas and the fact that the first two games of the series were huge blowouts, some basketball fans may have ignored the game and spent last night doing laundry and watching old e...

Celtics Win On Avery Bradley Last-Second Three
What looked to be another NBA conference final blowout turned into a shocking Celtics win after Boston erased a 20-point deficit and beat the Cavaliers in Cleveland on Avery Bradley’s last-second three-pointer....

Team Celebrates Euroleague Title By Chopping Off Player's Man Bun
Fenerbahçe defeated Olympiacos to capture their first Euroleague title today, and the team opted for a celebration a little more cutting-edge than simply taking down the net. Instead, they chopped off the hair of teammate Luigi Datome, conveniently gathered in a man bun to make the work easy. Former...

The NBA Finals Begin June 1
Kawhi Leonard sat on the sidelines last night, his ankle injury keeping him out indefinitely. David Lee left the game in a wheelchair thanks to a partially torn tendon in his knee. JaVale McGee scored 16 points in the first half while LaMarcus Aldridge scored six. ...

Isaiah Thomas Is Out For The Rest Of The Playoffs
Whatever scrap of hope the Celtics might have had for being able to resemble something competitive against the Cavaliers is probably gone: Isaiah Thomas is officially out for the remainder of the postseason....

The Cavaliers Brought Total Ruination Upon The Celtics
The Cavaliers scored the first six points of last night’s Game 2 of the Eastern Conference Finals. Things only got much, much, much worse for the Celtics. By the end of the first quarter, the game had all the markings of a massacre; by the end of the second, it was historic. LeBron James was his bes...

Marlins, Dodgers Benches Clear
A late, uninteresting Marlins-Dodgers game got fiery after Ross Stripling threw behind Giancarlo Stanton, got ejected, and sparked a fight that saw former L.A. and current Miami skipper Don Mattingly front and center....

J.R. Smith Finishes Off Cavs' Historic <em></em>First-Half Blowout With Incredible Buzzer-Beater
Isaiah Thomas insisted yesterday that the Cavs are “not the Monstars.” A 72-31 first half decapitation sure would seem to disagree with his assessment. LeBron James was transparently fucking around, playing center for long stretches and ripping through the Celtics like cheap toilet paper for 22 poin...

Tim Tebow Exhibits That Old NFL Accuracy, Hits Fan In Dick And Balls With Throw
Tim Tebow, former football player and current brand/alleged baseball player, is hanging out with the Single-A Columbia fireflies before he inevitably goes on TV full-time. He’s done some productive baseball stuff with the Fireflies and might even get moved up at some point this season. Tebow is hitt...

Fernando Gaviria Is Cycling's Next Superstar Sprinter
The best Colombian cyclists have long hewed to a single archetype, specializing in climbing high mountains and winning on the harshest and steepest slopes. There have been Colombian rouleurs and sprinters before, but the most successful riders have almost all been pure climbers. Lucho “El Jardinerit...