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Old Geezer Dirk Nowitzki Dunked Himself Onto The Injured List
Old, old man Dirk Nowitzki had himself a bit of a throwback game against the Los Angeles Lakers Saturday night. In 24 minutes of action—just about all his body can handle, at this point—Nowitzki knocked home eight of 11 shot attempts, including all four of his looks from beyond the arc, to score 22 ...
Bobby Portis Plays Role In Derrick Rose-To-Wizards Conspiracy To Perfection
Saturday night, with the Bulls hosting the Wizards, teammate puncher Bobby Portis sent not one but both available Wizards point guards to the locker room with bloody head wounds. Clearly, clearly, this is part of the grand conspiracy to bring Derrick Rose to the Washington Wizards. ...
NBC Apologizes for Calling Japan An "Example" To Koreans
PYEONGCHANG, South Korea — The period of Japanese colonial rule in Korea, from 1910 until 1945, was characterized by executions, forced labor, systematic rape of so-called “comfort women,” and other human rights atrocities. Japan’s whitewashing of this time period in their history books today is a c...
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CNBC Airs Stoppage-Time Dong [NSFW]
CNBC is known for its coverage of money markets, including the value of the Yuan, Euro, and Yen. But today, it was covering the Dong. A Huddersfield keeper’s dong, to be specific....
We Got A Minor-League Hockey Goalie Fight
The Walleye no longer play at the Toledo Sports Arena, but the ECHL action tonight brought back memories of that smoke-filled brawlatorium as tonight’s game against the Kansas City Mavericks got feisty in the third period:...
17-Year-Old Red Gerard Wins Gold In Slopestyle
Red Gerard, who was born in freaking 2000, claimed the first medal for the U.S. at these Pyeongchang Games by winning men’s slopestyle with a perfect final run that launched him past some of the event’s favorites....
"Nice."
CBC snowboarding analyst Craig McMorris was pretty pleased with Seppe Smits scoring a 69 during today’s slopestyle final. ...
Evil Fate Is Conspiring To Bring Ernie Grunfeld And Late-Career Derrick Rose Together At Last
Adrian Wojnarowski is reporting that the Wizards are expected to sniff around Derrick Rose, now that he has been waived by the Utah Jazz. In a closely related story, I am going to be sick....
For Those Who Want "One Korea," The Unified Hockey Team Is A Starting Place
GANGNEUNG, South Korea — Even with more than two hours left before the puck was scheduled to drop between the Koreans and their heavily favored Swiss opponents, a taxicab couldn’t get anywhere near the arena. I’d assumed, and planned for, the first game featuring a joint team of players from both No...
Answer For Your Awful Basketbloggers, Warriors Fans
What the hell am I even reading right now?...
Edward Cheserek Is Still The King Of The Indoor Mile
Despite being one of the most dominant individual athletes in the history of college sports, Edward Cheserek only managed to break one collegiate record in his four years at Oregon: the indoor mile, where he ran a scintillating 3:52.01 last winter to not only set an NCAA standard but a new Kenyan on...
WEEI Suspends Christian Fauria Five Days For Racist Don Yee Impression
There is, apparently, a line that can be crossed at oft-offensive Boston sports radio shithole WEEI, as the station suspended host Christian Fauria five days for his racist impression of NFL agent Don Yee on Friday’s show....
Here Is Your Olympic Norovirus Update
Organizers in Pyeongchang report 11 new cases of norovirus have been confirmed at the Games. That brings the total of people at the Olympics suffering from the highly contagious diarrhea-and-vomiting disease up to 139....
Swimmer Ariana Kukors Describes How She Says Her Coach Groomed Her For Sexual Abuse
Former Olympic swimmer Ariana Kukors published an essay on her personal website today detailing what she calls her “extensive, abusive, and incredibly manipulative relationship” with her ex-coach, Sean Hutchison. Investigators with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security searched Hutchison’s home e...
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Boston Radio Host Christian Fauria Does Insanely Racist Impression Of NFL Agent Don Yee [Update]
On today’s edition of WEEI’s Ordway, Merloni & Fauria, the fellas discussed how Boston Herald columnist Ron Borges was pranked by a guy pretending to be NFL agent Don Yee, who represents quarterbacks Tom Brady and Jimmy Garoppolo. The prankster fooled Borges into writing an inaccurate story through ...
Of Course, N.C. State-UNC Is A Rivalry. It's Just A Bad One.
Three days ago, before Duke poo-poo’d all over itself during a ghastly second half and gave the folks in Chapel Hill something to be happy about, Joel Berry II did what every single Tar Heel fan does before each of the annual clashes between N.C. State and UNC. Yes, he denied that the Wolfpack and T...
The Eagles Beat The Patriots With A Heaping Dose Of Their Own Medicine
The Philly Special will rightly be the play that forever defines the Eagles’ victory over the Patriots in Super Bowl 52. But such ballsy trickery wasn’t some one-off bit of well-executed brilliance: The Eagles rolled up 538 yards and scored 41 points on the Pats, and they did it by doing a lot of th...
Bring Back Speed Skiing
Everybody knows the downhill is the best Winter Olympics event. The speed! The danger! The mind-boggling athleticism of the participants! The weird cowbell! I love it so much. If there were a downhill skiing network in my cable package, I would watch it for hours every day. I cannot get enough of th...
Dead Letters: "Go Back To School And Become A Christian"
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Here Are Some Unbelievable Feats Of Walking By The One And Only Lionel Messi
Lionel Messi is so incomprehensibly great because he has an almost unlimited arsenal of match-deciding, soul-snatching, title-winning skills and attributes—so many, in fact, that some of them threaten to go under-appreciated. Perfect example: some of his deceptively simple but actually staggeringly ...