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100,000 Californians Have Been Evacuated From Wildfire Zones
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Gregg Popovich Called Up Dave Zirin To Call Donald Trump A "Soulless Coward"
Gregg Popovich has never been hesitant to criticize Donald Trump when reporters ask him for his thoughts. However, in the wake of the president’s baffling claim that Barack Obama “and other presidents” never called grieving military families, Popovich, who served in the Air Force, went out of his wa...
C.J. McCollum Suspended One Game For Walking A Little Bit
The Trail Blazers will be without C.J. McCollum for their season opener, and McCollum will be without a game check of $165,000. The NBA suspended Portland’s guard one game after he walked away from the bench and onto the court during Wednesday’s preseason scuffle between Caleb Swanigan and Alex Len....
Trump Voters Say They Choose Trump Over The NFL
Vox journalist Dylan Scott, you will get no argument here: that chart, showing the reported opinions of Trump voters on the NFL, is indeed pretty nuts! The data, compiled by an online survey company called Morning Consult and laid out at the New York Times’s Upshot blog, tells the story of how the o...
Las Vegas Sneakily Gave Away $80 Million For A New Triple-A Stadium
If you read the press release announcing the construction of a new ballpark out in Summerlin, Nev. for the Las Vegas 51s, you might have thought that the construction would mercifully be completed without use of public money. The Raiders’ stadium deal is the worst heist in American history, and one ...
Lindsey Graham Promises That Donald Trump Really Did Shoot A 73, Or Maybe A 74, He Swears
Two days ago, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) tweeted the following:...
Phil, No!
The Penguins visited the White House today, and Donald Trump made a bunch of the players, including Phil Kessel, shake his hand. Dammit....
Jerry Jones Thanks Donald Trump For Telling Him What To Do
Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones is surprised that all these anthem protests are still happening—for some reason, they didn’t go away after he personally ripped off the cause with a smirk and an empty gesture on national television—so he’s doubling down on his intention of benching any player who “d...
Report: Dante Exum Might Miss Another Full Season Due To Injury
Well, Adrian Wojnarowski has now welcomed us to the weekend with some particularly grim and depressing NBA news: Dante Exum could miss the entire upcoming season with a separated left shoulder. Frig....
Sixers Fans Booed The Shit Out Of Kris Humphries<em></em>
Kris Humphries, Kim Kardashian’s pretend husband for 72 days and a 13-year NBA veteran, is now on the Philadelphia 76ers. The team played its first preseason game in Philly last night, and Humphries got his first action with the squad....
Look At This Big Dumb World Cup Stadium
Soccer fans who travel to see some hot World Cup action next summer in Yekaterinburg, the easternmost of Russia’s 11 host cities, will not only get to watch soccer from inside a stadium, they’ll also simultaneously get to watch soccer from outside the very same stadium, thanks to some creative const...
Look At This Fucking Disaster<em></em>
I know you are long since numb to it, and I know every day is worse than the last, but I’d like you to remember just how fucking embarrassing yesterday, October 3, 2017, was for humanity. Behold our gnome-handed buffoon of a president, wearing his finest emergency golf windbreaker, jump-shooting pap...
Donald Trump Dedicates Golf Trophy To Hurricane Victims
The Presidents Cup, a golf tournament started by the PGA Tour in 1994 and won by the United States this weekend for the seventh time in a row, somehow necessitated the appearance of President Trump on Sunday. After the U.S. victory, Trump took the shiny trophy, and dedicated it to Americans in Texas...
Report: NFL Floated Plan For All Players to Wear “Team America” Patches
There’s an interesting story at ESPN today about how NFL executives and owners are dealing with Donald Trump. Trump, as you may recall, called Colin Kaepernick a “son of a bitch” before last weekend’s games, adding that any player protesting police brutality during the national anthem should be fire...
<i>Washington Post</i> Op-Ed: Black Athletes Hurt Their Sports By Having Liberal Ideas
In its continuing quest to greatly injure public discourse by gifting legitimacy to arguments from all sides, the Washington Post op-ed page published a hilariously dumb and wrong-headed column Friday by rural Ohio newspaper editor Gary Abernathy, mourning the loss of American professional sports’ a...
Ben Simmons Calls Donald Trump An "Idiot" And A "Dickhead"
Pretty much every pro athlete in America is getting asked about Donald Trump these days, and though many have had interesting things to say, few have cut to the chase quite like Ben Simmons:...
What The NHL Is Doing In Calgary Is Pretty Gross
Let’s cut through the sports angle and put in plain terms exactly what’s happening here:...
Georges Laraque Calls Out The Penguins' Decision To Visit The White House
The Stanley Cup champion Pittsburgh Penguins decided to visit Donald Trump at the White House, in a statement that was released soon after the President uninvited the never-really-invited Golden State Warriors. Former NHL player Georges Laraque, who played for roughly two years in Pittsburgh over a...
Check Out This Romanian Soccer Dude's Boomerang-Curved Golazo
The only way Claudiu Bumba, winger for Romania’s Concordia Chianjna, was going to overcome the terrible angle and distance from which he decided to pop a shot in today’s match against Dinamo București was if he put a truly insane amount of curl on the ball to get it to fly into the far corner. Which...
The President Continues To Babble About The NFL
A week after President Trump galvanized the entire NFL against him following remarks about how owners should fire any “son of a bitch” who protested the national anthem and somehow made commissioner Roger Goodell—Roger fucking Goodell—into the good guy, he’s returned to that well, because his streng...