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John Wall Denied Serge Ibaka's Dunk And It Was Glorious
In the fourth quarter of the Wednesday night game between the Toronto Raports and the Washington Wizards, Raptors forward Serge Ibaka collected a pass under the basket, pivoted, and launched himself towards the rim for a one-handed jam. It looked like he’d make it, too, until John Wall swooped down ...
May Russell Westbrook's Will Be Done
Watching Russell Westbrook stomp down the basketball court and score through sheer force of will is always a treat, and tonight he dropped us a particularly delectable morsel late in the fourth quarter of Oklahoma City’s 109-106 win over the Utah Jazz. ...
Newcastle Lucks Into Unbelievably Dumb Golazo
Sometimes you bang in a golazo by spinning through a box full of defenders and hitting the ball perfectly. Other times you just sort of stand there and let the ball hit you and it goes in anyway. Soccer is dumb like that. Case in point: this goal from Newcastle....
Mikael Granlund Beats All The Kings For Beautiful OT Winner
There were a whole lot of storylines heading into Monday’s clash between the West-leading Wild and the just-outside-the-playoff-picture Kings. The day before, both teams had recruited reinforcements for their respective postseason pushes: L.A. with a surprise trade for goalie Ben Bishop, and Minneso...
Roger Federer Is Just Making Stuff Up Now
Roger Federer is 35 and, increasingly, plays like he has no time to waste. That manifests in a very literal way: He barely waits for the ball to hit the ground. ...
Danny Drinkwater Strikes Perfect Volley As Leicester Bang On Liverpool
Hm. It’s good that the Leicester fans—who’ve continued supporting this team is if it were still the high-flying title-winning bunch of last season and not the sorry relegation-quality outfit of this year—have something to cheer. Plus, Danny Drinkwater’s delectable volley that gave the home team a 2-...
This Is How Hard It Is To Rip A Winner Past Gael Monfils
Gael Monfils is content to camp out eight feet behind the baseline and beat back whatever you send his way; it’s how the world No. 12 has made his living. He’s springy and long-limbed and you’re probably going to get tired before he does. But Mohamed Safwat, ranked No. 199, played Monfils’s game tod...
Index Pensions
This should be the most nonpartisan issue in America: don’t give middle class retirement dollars to high-priced Wall Street money managers for no good reason. And yet......
Steven Adams To The Rim: "I Fucking Hate You So Much"
Steven Adams shoots 65 percent from the free-throw line, and sometimes a man can only take so much....
Zlatan Ibrahimovic Free Kick Stunner Opens League Cup Final Scoring For Manchester United
Zlatan Ibrahimovic is back to doing Zlatan Ibrahimovic things, as he provided Manchester United a 1-0 lead in today’s League Cup final against Southampton with a free kick of absolute perfection. Give this man the serum that will let him play forever, please....
Glory Boy Cyclist Celebrates Too Early, Loses Race
Australian sprinting wunderkind Caleb Ewan appears to be the real deal, and he was in position to beat out all of the world’s best sprinters this morning at the Abu Dhabi Tour. Instead, he learned a tough lesson about celebrating after you cross the line, not before, when someone can still catch you...
Ty Lawson Found A Great Dumb Way To Burn A Ton Of Clock
The Sacramento Kings, the team that everyone spent the whole weekend mocking for their nonsensical DeMarcus Cousins trade, came out swinging in their first game post-Boogie and blew the doors off of the Denver Nuggets. The win puts them just half a game out of the playoffs somehow, and two games ahe...
Maybe Not The Best Time To Tie Your Shoe
The Northwestern women’s basketball team hosted and beat Rutgers tonight, which is all well and good, but guard Ashley Deary still produced the lowlight of the night....
Louisville's Deng Adel Smashes Down Ferocious Dunk
UNC and Louisville are in the midst of a tight one in Chapel Hill right now. It’s been a good game between the top-ten teams, and the best moment was easily Deng Adel’s eye-popping dunk from just in front of the free throw line. Look at this jam!...
Incredible Syracuse Buzzer-Beater Puts Duke In The Toilet Where They Belong
Syracuse hosted the infernal Duke Blue Devils tonight and scored 53 points in the second half to storm back from an early deficit and win at the buzzer. Grayson Allen only shot 2-for-11, and Cuse senior John Gillon led all scorers with 26. Gillon, who embarrassed Jayson Tatum earlier in the game, hi...
Sprinter Loses Shoe During Race, Wins Anyway
American University’s Liam Purdy won the Patriot League 800-meter indoor title on Sunday, and he did it despite losing his dang shoe partway through the race....
Carey Price Staved Off Defeat With A Last-Second Diving Save
The Montreal Canadiens escaped Madison Square Garden tonight with a shootout victory over the New York Rangers. The end of overtime was extra wild, as Montreal’s Tomas Plekanec dinged a potential winner off the crossbar with 12 seconds left. The Rangers then vaulted off to a 2-on-1 with the clock ap...
Atlético Madrid's Saúl Scores A Banger Against Bayer Leverkusen
Saúl must have something against German teams. A year after ripping apart Bayern Munich with the run of his life, the Atlético midfielder thumped in a beautiful curler against Bayer Leverkusen today:...
Jarrett Allen Is Even Putting WVU Bench Players In A Grave<em></em>
Yes, West Virginia is up big at the half over Texas. But spiritually, we don’t see how they ever recover from the devastation of this Jarrett Allen dunk....