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Son Of One Mike Upset About Mike Situation<em></em>
The big Mike news that we all heard about back in January is finally official: Mike Greenberg and Mike Golic, the hosts of ESPN’s Mike & Mike radio show, are going their separate ways. This is the end of the Mikes....
Cardale Jones Graduates Today From Ohio State
Bills quarterback Cardale Jones, who as a Buckeyes freshman tweeted—and then deleted—that “we ain’t come to play SCHOOL, classes are POINTLESS” will graduate today from Ohio State with a bachelor’s degree in African-American Studies....
Gift Ngoepe, First-Ever African-Born MLB Player, Got A Hit In His First Career At-Bat
Earlier this week, the Pittsburgh Pirates were losing to the Cubs and they replaced Antonio Bastardo on the mound with Dovydas Neverauskas. The Lithuanian pitched two innings and became the first Lithuanian-born player to play in a major league game. Neverasukas was optioned back to Triple-A Indiana...
Rod Carew Is Alive Thanks To The Heart Of A Former NFL Player
While golfing in September 2015, Panamanian baseball legend Rod Carew suffered a huge heart attack and had to be hospitalized for six weeks. He was fitted with a pump in his left ventricle, and doctors determined that he would eventually need a heart transplant. After months on the transplant list, ...
Steelers Owner Dan Rooney Is Dead
Dan Rooney, the chairman and patriarch of the Pittsburgh Steelers and a giant in NFL decision-making circles for decades, died on Thursday, the team announced. He was 84....
Legendary Los Angeles Hiker Sam Kim Found Dead Near Mountain He Summited Almost Every Day
Mt. Baldy is the highest peak in the San Gabriel Mountains, looming 10,064 feet above Los Angeles. If you hiked Baldy over the past few years, chances are you probably ran into Seuk Doo “Sam” Kim....
Dortmund Fans Gladly Host Traveling Monaco Fans After Champions League Game Delayed By Explosions
Dortmund’s Champions League quarterfinal match against Monaco this afternoon was canceled after their team bus was hit by three explosions on its way to the stadium. According to the latest out of Dortmund, Marc Bartra had to undergo surgery for a broken wrist and officials are working to verify the...
Bryan Bickell Scores First Career Shootout Goal In Final Game Before Retiring Due To MS
Bryan Bickell announced his retirement yesterday due to his multiple sclerosis diagnosis, and the Hurricanes started the longtime NHL forward for the final two games of his career—and gave him first crack when Carolina and Philadelphia remained deadlocked after overtime, even though Bickell had neve...
Apparel Company Picks Stupid Fight With Law Firm Over Dumb Grayson Allen Tripping T-Shirt
Smack Apparel—the brilliant minds behind this t-shirt and others of its ilk—has decided to say some very dumb stuff to defend an equally dumb shirt about Grayson Allen’s tripping tendencies. ...
I Can't Stop Watching This Video Of Infuriating Fuck-Ups<em></em>
You know how when you’re scrolling through Facebook, and you happen upon one of those top-down videos that shows a pair of hands creating some sort of delicious food or craft, and then you get stuck watching it for three or four minutes, not because you are especially interested in how to make pinea...
The Gifts Jimmy Breslin Gave Me
It is hard to realize just how far away New York is by every conceivable measure unless you are in Salt Lake City when you are introduced to the world Jimmy Breslin populated with characters, con men and crusaders. I felt the sense of distance for the first time more than half a century ago, and it ...
Bill Paxton Was The Best
The brilliant actor Bill Paxton died on Saturday at the age of 61, after what several outlets have reported was a stroke following scheduled heart surgery. This is awful. He was a goddamn gem of a screen actor, and he has left the world so much poorer now that he won’t be boasting or grinning or mel...
Arizona's My-King Johnson Set To Be First Openly Gay Recruit In Power Five History
Just having the first name My-King already made three star My-King Johnson an intriguing football recruit; the fact that he’s going to be major conference college football’s first openly gay recruit made history....
Anthony Beauvillier Gets Pranked, Scores, Makes Father Weep With Joy<em></em>
Islanders rookie Anthony Beauvillier returned to Quebec for the first time in his young NHL career and had a real roller coaster of a night. His teammates lovingly pranked him right before warm ups and he took the ice alone. Beauvillier then followed up the lil’ prank by scoring in the first period....
Wrestling Legend George "The Animal" Steele Dead At 79
Growing up in the Washington, D.C. area in the ‘70s, I’d hear a rumor from fellow pro wrestling fans whenever we discussed George “The Animal” Steele, who died last night at 79, which held that he was a college math professor....
Mike Ilitch Was No Saint<em></em>
If you only went by what you read in the Detroit papers this week, you’d think Mike Ilitch—the pizza baron and owner of the Detroit Red Wings and Tigers who died last week at the age of 87—was a god incarnate. And for the last three decades, if you’d asked anyone in Michigan, you’d have gotten the s...
Tennessee Department Of Transportation Clowns Lane Kiffin With Winter Hype Video
Lane Kiffin’s tenure as Florida Atlantic’s head football coach got off to a rocky start when he brought all the enthusiasm of a teen being forced to mow the lawn to his role in an official hype video. ...
Tom Brady And Dwight Freeney Play Video Game On <i>Conan</i>; Marshawn Lynch Steals Show
Takeaways from Conan O’Brien’s lasted edition of the now-annual Super Bowl Clueless Gamer segment: the Patriots are going to beat the Falcons; Tom Brady comes off as empty-headed as you’d imagine; Marshawn Lynch is still the best....
"A Kick In The Ass" For Labor: A Union Leader Considers The Age Of Trump
Stuart Appelbaum, the head of the most powerful retail workers union in America, swears he is optimistic. Why? ...
Report: ESPN Is Canceling <i>The Sports Reporters</i>
The Sports Reporters, a Sunday morning talk show in which boomer columnists who stopped actually watching sports when Michael Jordan retired for the second time take turns benevolently donating their dignifying Pensive Faces to the vulgar ball-games, will be canceled, according to a report by Sports...