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Report: TV Reporter Fight At Brewers Game Started Over Photo Of Bulldog
Last Friday, Milwaukee television reporter A.J. Bayatpour was arrested on battery charges after punching out a reporter from a rival Milwaukee station at a Brewers game. According to the police report, Bayatpour, who works for FOX affiliate WITI Channel 6, “caused significant injury” to Ben Jordan, ...

Here's Everything At Stake On The Last Night Of The NBA Regular Season
Tonight, anyone watching the NBA will get to see the closest possible regular-season equivalent of a play-in game when the Denver Nuggets travel to Minnesota to play the T-Wolves for the last playoff spot. Both clubs are 46-35, and Minnesota leads the season series 2-1, though a 100-96 win last week...

Milwaukee TV Reporter Arrested After Allegedly Punching Fellow Reporter At Brewers Game
Milwaukee television reporter A.J. Bayatpour was arrested on battery charges after police said that he punched a reporter from a rival network at Friday’s Brewers game, according to FTV Live. Bayatpour was taken into custody on Saturday and has since been released on bail. ...

A Review Of WrestleMania 34, Which May Still Be Going On
It was long....

Pavel Datsyuk Got Robbed In OT And His Superteam Is Out Of The KHL Playoffs
The two KHL teams that made up almost the entirety of Russia’s gold medal-winning Olympic roster ended their conference final battle with a Game 6 overtime classic. CSKA Moscow delivered the relative upset victory over the superteam SKA St. Petersburg in the 3-2 sudden death win....

Corey Knebel's Injury Sure Is A Bummer
Last night was a rough one for the Brewers. They got shut out by the Cubs at home. They made two ugly errors in a three-run inning. And they lost closer Corey Knebel, who took the mound for the ninth in a game where he wasn’t really needed and went down with a hamstring injury that’ll keep him out f...

Jon Lester's Weird One-Hop Pickoff Move Succeeds
Cubs pitcher Jon Lester’s complete and utter inability to successfully deliver a pickoff throw has been well-documented and exploited over the years, so he began trying something new in spring training this year: one-hopping the ball to first base. (Or more-than-one hopping it, if necessary. “I don’...

John Kruk Hints At The Gross Thing He Did As A Player During Rain Delays
Today’s Phillies-Mets game broadcast only on Facebook was fittingly delayed nearly two hours due to rain, so announcer Scott Braun asked color commentator Cliff Floyd what he did to pass the time during rain delays. Floyd said he’d text with friends, watch whatever other game was on, and try to stay...

True Hit King Ichiro, In A Mariners Uniform, In 2018, Robbed A Dinger At The Wall
The Mariners lost at home yesterday to the Indians. This would be a happier story if they’d won, although I feel no particular way about the Mariners. But this is Ichiro doing a cool and heroic thing on a baseball diamond in the majors in 2018—had it been part of a win, it would’ve been that much sw...

Tuukka Rask Throws Hands At Crease Intruder, Almost Sparks Goalie Brawl
The Lightning and Bruins are currently previewing tonight what could be a very good playoff series next month, and going by this game, tempers will be hot if these teams meet again....

Enjoy Zion Williamson's Dunks One Last Time Before He Becomes A Vile Dookie
Zion Williamson, the hefty dunking boy whose high-school exploits have been all over YouTube for what feels like a decade now, is finally ready to join the ranks of elite college basketball. Although he’s committed to Duke, he’s not officially a Blue Devil yet, which means you are free to lose your ...

"I Like The Whimpering": Deadspin Editors Mock Innocent Child Cheering For Duke
On Sunday, Duke lost to No. 1 seed Kansas. Depending on your loyalties—more precisely, depending on if you’re one of the North Carolinians that overpaid for your undergraduate education or one of the Northeastern private schoolers that couldn’t make the cut at Yale—you took this one of two ways....

Duke Will Probably Have Nightmares About Malik Newman For A While<em></em>
On this particular Kansas team, with its all killer/no filler six-man core, it can sometimes be easy to overlook the contributions of shooting guard Malik Newman, a relative newcomer who has yet to establish his exact role with the Jayhawks. Devonte’ Graham is the face of the team. Svi Mykhailiuk is...

Kansas Jayhawks Do The World A Favor, Knock Out Duke
The Kansas Jayhawks accomplished a much-needed task today as they eliminated Mick Krizilonski and Duke in an 85-81 overtime win. The Blue Devils can settle for an Elite Eight appearance and get their dreadful visages off everyone’s TVs. Fuck off!...

Duke Hit The Magic Number And Syracuse Is Going Home
It sure as hell wasn’t pretty but Duke did what it had to do by scoring more than 60 points, and the Blue Devils sent Syracuse packing as they secured their spot in the Elite Eight....

Sorry Coach K, But You <i>Are</i> The NCAA
Are you ready for some more Sweet 16 action? Well, too bad—it’s time to talk some good, ol’ fashioned amateurism....

This Is One Hellish, Captivating Badminton Rally
Prepare yourself for badminton back and forth, forever....

Bob Uecker’s Latest Malady Was A Venomous<em></em> Spider Bite
Bob Uecker is 84 years old and still going strong, but the longtime Brewers broadcaster has had some health issues in recent years. His latest scare was when a venomous brown recluse spider bit him in October after last season. From the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel’s Tom Haudricourt:...

Brandon Jennings Brought A Near-Triple-Double For The First Game Of His 10-Day Contract
Brandon Jennings started his 2017-18 season in China; this winter, he moved on to the D-League; one of his sharpest performances of the year, across all those leagues and locales, came tonight—in his first game of a 10-day NBA contract, back with the team that drafted him. ...

Lonzo Ball And The Lakers Are Beefing With Jamal Murray
Back in December, at the end of a Nuggets home win over the Lakers, Jamal Murray engaged in some extremely rude dribbling, to the great irritation of several Lakers players:...