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Tyler Summitt Resigns As Louisiana Tech Women's Hoops Coach After Inappropriate Relationship

Tyler Summitt, 25-year-old son of Hall-of-Fame coach Pat Summitt, has stepped down as head coach of the Louisiana Tech women’s basketball team after cryptically admitting to an inappropriate relationship. Speculation immediately and logically ensued that the relationship in question was with one of ...

The Cardinals Lost Their Third Game

Cardinals starting pitcher Mike Leake was chased from Wednesday’s game after just 4 1/3 innings as St. Louis lost to the Pirates, 5-1....

The Cardinals Lost Their Second Game

The Pittsburgh Pirates beat the St. Louis Cardinals in extras Tuesday with Jordy Mercer’s walkoff RBI single in the 11th inning. Right-handed reliever Seth Maness was tagged with the loss. ...

Reports: Entire Russian U18 Hockey Team Replaced Before World Championships Due To Failed Drug Tests

The IIHF World U18 Championships begin in Grand Forks, N.D., next week, and the Russian team was set to fly out tomorrow. Today it was revealed that the head coach has been fired and the entire roster will be replaced because too many players tested positive for the recently banned substance Meldoni...

Get A Load Of Vittorio Brumotti, Maniac Cycling Stuntman

After Peter Sagan won the Tour of Flanders last weekend, he blasted a lo-fi ‘gram of himself wheelieing across the line with the caption “Winner!”. Sagan is somewhat of an ur bro, whose bike handling skills are only exceeded by his propensity to show them off. In a moderate deep dive into the Sagan ...

Check Out Bryce Harper's "Make Baseball Fun Again" Hat

Bryce Harper’s 2016 season is off to a roaring start. He crushed a dinger in his first at-bat today, then continued his crusade on baseball’s stodgy unwritten rules with a timely (except for the trucker hat part) fashion choice....

Wrestlemania Kicks Off In Front Of Half-Empty Jerry World After Ticketing Mishap [UPDATE]

Irate fans chanted “LET US IN! LET US IN!” as a stadium ticketing issue kept tens of thousands of pro wrestling fans from entering the stadium in Dallas before tonight’s Wrestlemania kicked off at 6 p.m. local time....

Check Out All These St. Louis Cardinals Striking Out Like Jamokes

The Major League Baseball campaign is underway and it started off gloriously. Not only did the St. Louis Cardinals lose to the Pittsburgh Pirates 4-1, but they struck out 14 times, like a bunch of jamokes. Here is a video highlighting Pirates starter Francisco Liriano’s impressive performance—he str...

All Hail Peter Sagan, Who Is Too Strong For Tactics

Halfway between the Paterberg and the Tour of Flanders finish line in Oudenaarde, Peter Sagan was slowing down....

Stadium Blacks Out Ribbon Boards To Fix Horrific TBS Glare

Massive viewer complaints about glare from the Final Four venue ribbon boards on TBS’s broadcast led to the lights being blacked out late in the first half of tonight’s Oklahoma-Villanova semifinal....

Man Achieves Adequacy 

On April 1, in the Year of Our Lord 2016, a man finally achieved adequacy. We gave him a trophy, and surprise-interviewed him about this historic achievement. ...

Some Tragic Displays of Athletic Competition on the <i>Bachelor </i>Franchise 

The Bachelor franchise is successful because viewers experience a light but undeniable catharsis from watching other people humiliate themselves. ...

A Comprehensive List of All the Sports I Should Have Quit Immediately 

I spent my formative years in a sports-obsessed southern town surrounded by girls who were good at sports, girls who loved watching sports, and girls who were good at sports and also loved watching sports. Unfortunately, as an anemic and noodle-bodied sloth with zero competitive instincts who was tr...

Here Is Your Ultimate Sports Party Pump-Up Mix to Get You Very Hype

The Jezebel staff is very excited to join you all today, which is a great day for sports—all sports. We love sports!...

Did The Media Create Donald Trump? (No.)

So the question of the moment is: Did the media create Donald Trump?...

Let's Teach Ted Cruz Some Charisma

Politicians are in the business of persuasion, so it is always miraculous to see one succeed with an egregiously short supply of charm. It’s like the Hanukkah miracle, a menorah burning for eight days on a meager drop of oil; or, it’s like Ted Cruz conning his way onto the short list for our nation’...

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Pro Cyclist Dies After Suffering A Heart Attack During Race (UPDATE)

During Stage 2 of the Criterium International, 22-year-old Belgian cyclist Daan Myngheer of Roubaix-Lille Métropole suffered a heart attack towards the end of the race. Reports from Corsica are somewhat scant and not in English, but Het Nieuwsblad was on the scene and spoke to a teammate of Myngheer...

Madison Bumgarner And Jason Heyward's Beef Wasn't Really A Beef At All

Madison Bumgarner’s on-mound demeanor could be described using many different words; I’ll go with “cantankerous,” but depending upon your perspective anything from “fired-up” to “dickish” can be appropriate. So when Jason Heyward stood around seemingly staring at Bumgarner after taking a called thir...

Pro Basketball Player Wounded In Brussels Terrorist Attack

One of the more jarring photos to come out of the aftermath of today’s terrorist attack in Brussels shows a man lying on the floor of the airport, bleeding from his legs. That man has since been identified as Sebastien Bellin, a basketball player who currently plays for the Gent Hawks in Blegium’s p...