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Welcome To The Jason La Canfora Orioles Minute
Over the last few seasons, NFL reporter Jason La Canfora has emerged on Twitter as a particularly outspoken Baltimore Orioles fan. The Jason La Canfora Orioles Minute is an irregularly recurring feature in which we check in with La Canfora on the O’s....
Chip Brand's Automated Twitter Promotion Spirals Out Of Control
Fancy a crisp? How about a bag of Walkers, the Frito-Lay-owned brand that broadcasted videos of Gary Lineker holding framed portraits of serial killers and convicted pedophiles? Who’s hungry?...
Jack Del Rio Wants To Know What's Really Going On With Seth Rich's Murder
Oakland Raiders head coach Jack Del Rio seems to be a man willing to a hear out a broad variety of opinions on a topic. Maybe that’s a common attribute for football coaches, an occupation that demands approaching a problem with multiple possible solutions and can reward unconventional thinking. That...
Pro Golfer Creeps On High School Student, Deletes Tweet
Grayson Murray, one of golf’s up-and-coming talents, has spent the past month pushing golfers to take a more active role in showing off their personalities online. On Wednesday, Murray shared a little too much of his....
The Predators' Mascot Did A 👀 Tweet
Okay so the Nashville Predators upset the Chicago Blackhawks in the first round of the NHL playoffs, and Gnash, the Preds’ mascot that has an official Twitter account for some reason, is angry that nobody at ESPN predicted the upset:...
The Patriots Want You To Know That Photos Didn't Capture Their Players' Snub Of The White House
On Wednesday the New York Times sports desk tweeted out two group photos of the New England Patriots at the White House, one from their post-championship visit with then-President Barack Obama in 2015, the other from yesterday’s visit with President Donald Trump. Lots of people, including us, jumped...
Patriots Fan's Heat Check Goes Wrong
Sound the Twitter drama foghorn, because you’re about to read about something incredibly stupid and meaningless....
Marcin Gortat Loves His Fans
Wizards center Marcin Gortat is a little more outspoken online than the average athlete. For instance, there’s the time he discussed the benefits of a porn subscription. So when someone told Gortat he was acting like a dick at a bar last night, the NBA player responded....
Diamondbacks Fuck Up Online<em></em>
Who’s ready for #TealTuesday in Arizona??? These guys!!!...
Desperate NFL Puts Shitty Thursday Night Games On Website Belonging To <i>Washington Post</i> Owner
Thursday Night Football, which features tired NFL teams playing in ugly jerseys, tried out an experiment last season and streamed 10 of its games on Twitter. I tried watching once and promptly saw Twitter’s wonderful “social” integration alert me that someone had scored a touchdown before I saw anyt...
Trump Conspiracy Tweetstorms Are The Infowars Of The Left
The fastest-growing career in America is not, as the Bureau of Labor Statistics would have you believe, in installing and repairing wind turbines. The fastest-growing career is doing 63 tweets in a row about why Donald Trump is a Manchurian president....
Jim Harbaugh Freakin' Loves Twitter
Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh sat down with GQ to talk about peanut butter, treating his eight-year-old kids like his football players, and some other stuff—you can read the full interview here. What really jumped out from the piece, though, was the fact that the Wolverines head coach really, rea...
Curt Schilling Accuses Rosie O'Donnell Of Spewing "Poop And Lies"
If Curt Schilling’s going to eventually run for office, he’s doing a bang-up job of following in his political idol Donald Trump’s footsteps. Last night, the former baseball pitcher got into an argument with Rosie O’Donnell....
Nobody Tweets Like An Old Person Better Than Jerry Rice
When Jerry Rice isn’t busy in front of the camera or sipping mimosas and snapping photos with an increasingly bothered bartender, he spends his time distributing his thoughts to his fans via Twitter. While all current and former athletes should generally avoid tweeting Rice proved (once again) that ...
Bleacher Report Deletes Dirk Nowitzki Tweet After Mark Cuban Complains To President Of Turner
Last night, Bleacher Report tweeted out a video of Dirk Nowitzki shooting an air ball, captioned “DIRK FOREVER”:...
Trump Called A Press Conference Because The Tweets Weren't Working
Here is a ... well, here is something:...
Half Of Chris Paul's All-Star Fan Votes Came From Justin Bieber And His Fans
NBA fans have voted on All-Star starters for decades, and have voted for them online since 2001. This year fans were able to vote on the NBA’s website, app, and a variety of social media platforms. But as Zaza Pachulia’s near-All-Star appearance showed, it’s a pretty easy system to game, right?...
Aubrey Huff Tells Protesters To Get A Job
In response to Donald Trump’s decision to ban immigrants from seven predominantly Muslim countries, Americans took to the airports and streets in protest. In response to those people, former MLB player Aubrey Huff complained online like a big baby....