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Another Former Employee Sues Chivas USA For Discrimination
A former employee has filed a discrimination complaint against MLS team Chivas USA, claiming any non-Latino employee was harassed and squeezed out of the club. This follows on the heels of two Chivas USA coaches filing a suit that made similar claims....

The Time A Baseball Player Sent A Rat To A Female Sportswriter
This column originally appeared in the Sacramento Bee on June 26, 1986. It is reprinted here with the author's permission. ...

Usain Bolt Makes His Entrance On A Rocket, Because He Can
Usain Bolt took a lap around the track on Friday at the Anniversary Games on a rocket. Yeah, a rocket. That thing belongs to Bowser in Mario Kart....

Anthony Davis Catches/Steals Alley-Oop, Goes Coast-To-Coast For Dunk
Here's Anthony Davis casually catching an alley-oop—Basketball Twitter is saying he invented the block-steal, but you can't block an alley-oop before the oop happens, c'mon—and then dribbling to the other end for a dunk during a USA Basketball scrimmage. He's still a mutant basketball player of ter...

LeBron James Is Done Playing For Team USA, Unless He Wants To
Yahoo's Marc Spears reports that, right now, LeBron James is "doubtful" to play for Team USA in the 2016 Olympics, and that USA Basketball is unlikely to even ask him to play in international competition in 2014. This is a great way to get people to freak out right now, before LeBron reconsiders....
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The WWE Needs Better Wardrobe People [NSFW]
The Bella Twins have apparently been part of WWE for almost seven years. You'd think in that time, they'd find outfits that don't leave nipples exposed for minutes at a time. That is, unless the slip was intentional....

<em>USA Today</em> Article On Zimmerman Verdict Quotes A “Howie Felterbush”
Here's the original article, which we're assuming was reported by a former KTVU employee. ...

Hey, It's 10 Years (And A Day) Since The Randall Simon Sausage Episode
July 9, 2003, found first baseman Randall Simon in the middle of his first season with the Pirates, in the middle of a forgettable career that hovered just above replacement level. Well, not totally forgettable. Simon didn’t start on the night of the incident, but he did make the final out in the to...

Bolt Ran The Fastest 200 Meters Of 2013 Then Rode In This Car
The 19.73 seconds it took Usain Bolt to break the tape in the 200 meter finals of the Diamond League meet in Paris was the quickest 200 meters anyone has run this year, edging Tyson Gay's 19.74 in the U.S. World Championships in June....

<em>USA Today Sports</em> Reports Dwight Howard Is And Isn't A Houston Rocket
According to Sam Amick of USA TODAY Sports, Howard has chosen to sign with the Houston Rockets. Amick filed a report and tweeted it out....

Browns Rookie Charged With Attempted Murder
It's a banner day for the NFL!...

What Boxing Writing Can Teach Us About Everything
Excerpted from his essay for A New Literary History of America, check out this piece by Carlo Rotella:...

Miss Utah USA Gives Worst Pageant Answer Since Miss South Carolina
Question: "A recent report shows that in 40 percent of American families with children, women are the primary earners, yet they continue to earn less than men. What does this say about society?"...

Roy Hibbert Can Never Play For Team USA, And It's All Jamaica's Fault
The United States Olympic basketball team, finding itself short on centers, wanted to add Indiana Pacers big man Roy Hibbert to its roster before the 2012 summer games. There was just one problem: Hibbert belonged to the Jamaican national team. On this week's excerpt from Slate's Hang Up and Listen ...

NBC's Fake <em>USA Today</em> Pages Actually Text From The <em>Chicago Sun-Times</em>
You may have noticed NBC running these stupid, horribly-Photoshopped USA Today pages on their sports broadcasts recently. The mockups were inane enough before we realized the text was plagiarized from a Chicago Sun-Times article about this year's Notre Dame-Michigan football game....

David Ortiz Hit A Walk-Off Home Run That's Famous As Fuck
Big Papi homered off Michael Kirkman in the bottom of the ninth. It was his 11th career walk-off home run, and first in four years, and it kept the Sawx 1.5 games ahead in ... ah, who cares? Check out his T-shirt!...

Justin Gatlin Just Beat Usain Bolt In The 100-Meter Dash
Justin Gatlin had been talking a lot of shit heading into his showdown in the 100 meters with the world's fastest man. "I like talking about it, I like getting into the feel of it, so I’m sorry, Usain,” Gatlin said. At tonight's Golden Gala in Rome, Gatlin backed up his words....

Milton Bradley Is Now A Convicted Wife Beater
Milton Bradley, whose 12-year MLB career was marked by his occasional outbursts at fans, reporters, and umpires, was convicted in a Los Angeles courtroom yesterday of threatening and attacking his wife, from whom he is separated....

