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Georgetown's James Akinjo Teaches Seton Hall's Quincy McKnight A Lesson On Actually Playing Defense After Slapping The Floor
The most important part about taunting an opponent is one’s ability to back it up when the time comes. This was not the case for Seton Hall’s Quincy McKnight in Saturday’s game against Georgetown. After scoring on a tough drive to the basket, the junior guard got back on defense to face off against ...
Alex Len Momentarily Forgot He Was Playing Basketball While Trying To Secure A Rebound
It wasn’t until the fourth(!!) period of overtime between the Bulls and Hawks on Friday that one team started to separate itself from the other. I’m talking, of course, about the Hawks, who began to separate themselves as the worst of the two on the court with less than two minutes to go in what eve...
Alex Len Momentarily Forgot He Was Playing Basketball While Trying To Secure A Rebound
It wasn’t until the fourth(!!) period of overtime between the Bulls and Hawks on Friday that one team started to separate itself from the other. I’m talking, of course, about the Hawks, who began to separate themselves as the worst of the two on the court with less than two minutes to go in what eve...
Old Man Thabo Sefolosha Is The Latest Secret Weapon In Utah's Weird Arsenal
The Utah Jazz ran out to a big lead over the Nuggets Thursday night, then held on for dear life during a late Denver surge and escaped with a 111–104 victory. A win over the Nuggets is a good win; a win over the Nuggets in Denver is, these days, almost unheard of. The Jazz did it while missing Ricky...
Old Man Thabo Sefolosha Is The Latest Secret Weapon In Utah's Weird Arsenal
The Utah Jazz ran out to a big lead over the Nuggets Thursday night, then held on for dear life during a late Denver surge and escaped with a 111–104 victory. A win over the Nuggets is a good win; a win over the Nuggets in Denver is, these days, almost unheard of. The Jazz did it while missing Ricky...
Nick Kyrgios Was More Than Happy To Be The Villain And Crush Some Forehands<em></em>
The crowd in Acapulco booed Nick Kyrgios all through his upset of Rafael Nadal, and kept that energy for his quarterfinal against three-time major winner Stan Wawrinka. When Kyrgios tripped in the first set and required treatment for a nickel-sized, oozing wound on his hand, they booed. When he hit ...
Nick Kyrgios Was More Than Happy To Be The Villain And Crush Some Forehands<em></em>
The crowd in Acapulco booed Nick Kyrgios all through his upset of Rafael Nadal, and kept that energy for his quarterfinal against three-time major winner Stan Wawrinka. When Kyrgios tripped in the first set and required treatment for a nickel-sized, oozing wound on his hand, they booed. When he hit ...
This Perfect High School Basketball Highlight Has One Block, One Dime, One Dunk, And Zero Dribbles
What can a highlight truther truther when the highlight has no dribbles? Let’s find out. Brandon Beidleman tried to take it to the rack as his Zebulon B. Vance Cougars played the West Charlotte Lions in Charlotte, N.C. on Thursday night. Lions senior Patrick Williams swatted that shit, sending the ...
This Perfect High School Basketball Highlight Has One Block, One Dime, One Dunk, And Zero Dribbles
What can a highlight truther truther when the highlight has no dribbles? Let’s find out. Brandon Beidleman tried to take it to the rack as his Zebulon B. Vance Cougars played the West Charlotte Lions in Charlotte, N.C. on Thursday night. Lions senior Patrick Williams swatted that shit, sending the ...
Warriors Beaten On Just The Most Busted, Chaotic Dwyane Wade Buzzer-Beater
The Heat beat the Warriors Wednesday night in Miami, 126–125, in an outrageously fun basketball game. The Heat led by as many as 24 points, but the Warriors, who very often cruise distractedly through big chunks of regular season games, roared back into it and had the lead in the final minute of reg...
Warriors Beaten On Just The Most Busted, Chaotic Dwyane Wade Buzzer-Beater
The Heat beat the Warriors Wednesday night in Miami, 126–125, in an outrageously fun basketball game. The Heat led by as many as 24 points, but the Warriors, who very often cruise distractedly through big chunks of regular season games, roared back into it and had the lead in the final minute of reg...
This Beautiful But Needlessly Complicated Goal Is Sadio Mané In A Nutshell
Sadio Mané is the kind of player who tends to make easy things look unnecessarily difficult and impossible things look effortless. It’s hard to find a better encapsulation of this than the goal he scored today in Liverpool’s match against Watford:...
This Beautiful But Needlessly Complicated Goal Is Sadio Mané In A Nutshell
Sadio Mané is the kind of player who tends to make easy things look unnecessarily difficult and impossible things look effortless. It’s hard to find a better encapsulation of this than the goal he scored today in Liverpool’s match against Watford:...
Bring Me All The Highest-Arcing Jump Shots In The Land
Here are some very cool shots that happened Monday night. They all have in common that they were launched from far away. That’s cool, but what’s even cooler is their towering, ridiculous arcs. High-arcing shots are the best shots. The first one comes from D’Angelo Russell, against the Spurs. His jum...
Bring Me All The Highest-Arcing Jump Shots In The Land
Here are some very cool shots that happened Monday night. They all have in common that they were launched from far away. That’s cool, but what’s even cooler is their towering, ridiculous arcs. High-arcing shots are the best shots. The first one comes from D’Angelo Russell, against the Spurs. His jum...
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Fighter Fakes Injury, Brawls With Crowd Members Who Taunted Him For Faking Injury
Former Brazilian jiu-jitsu world champion Erbeth Santos lost his main event fight Sunday against Felipe Pena after he injured his knee during an early exchange. Santos and Pena’s anti-climatic fight capped off an exciting night of BJJ Stars action in Sao Paulo, but Santos put on a show shortly after...
D'Angelo Russell Rained Fire And Brimstone Down On The Hornets To Steal A Win For The Nets In Charlotte
By now, most NBA fans have come around to the idea that D’angelo Russell might be a good player. But there are still some that have a hard time believing that the fourth-year Nets guard has evolved past his ball-hogging days in a Lakers uniform, and use old habits to judge his current playing style....
DeMar DeRozan Was Cruelly Reminded That The Raptors Are Better Off Without Him
It’s not often that such an on-the-nose metaphor for an event that happened outside of a basketball court takes place in such a venue, but that’s exactly what happened in the dying embers of Toronto’s game against San Antonio on Friday night. ...
Goalkeeper's Boner Overshadowed By Striker's Even Bigger Boner
Libertad goalkeeper Martín Silva must’ve thought he was the biggest idiot on the pitch when his error served up an incredibly easy scoring opportunity for Atlético Nacional forward Omar Duarte in a Copa Libertadores match Thursday night. Luckily for Silva, Duarte one-upped the keeper with an even wo...
Justin Williams Sacrificed His Face To Score The Hurricanes' Opening Goal Against The Panthers
The question of whether an intact face is more valuable to a hockey player than a goal in the regular season has plagued sports philosophers for generations, and now it’ll be a question that Hurricanes elder Justin Williams will be asking himself often, at least in the near future....