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Gordon Hayward Breaks Ankle Six Minutes Into First Celtics Game [Update]

Gordon Hayward suffered one of the most gruesome injuries in NBA memory midway through the first quarter of tonight’s tip-off game against the Cavaliers when his ankle snapped just minutes into his tenure with the Celtics....

Even TNT Isn't Quite Ready To See Kyrie Irving In The Other Team's Uniform

Federal Court Judge Re-Lifts Ezekiel Elliott's Suspension, Again

Okay so remember how Ezekiel Elliott initially got suspended by the NFL for six games, then appealed the suspension, then played during Week 1, then had his suspension blocked by a federal judge because of some wonkiness with the NFL investigation, then watched as the NFL appealed his injunction, an...

A Timely Preview Of The 2017-18 NBA Season, Which I Am Now Hearing May Have Begun Already

That’s right, folks: The NBA is back, baby! Literally it is already back, literally the first game has already tipped off. Seems like a good time for a thorough and detailed season preview blog. I hope you know where to find one, because this one is some half-assed shit I just whipped up today!...

Rick Pitino Files Federal Lawsuit Against Adidas For Emotional Distress

Rick Pitino was officially fired by Louisville and dropped by Adidas yesterday, and it took him exactly one day to file his first lawsuit. This afternoon, Pitino sued Adidas in United States District Court on grounds of intentional infliction of emotional distress, claiming that Adidas’s alleged pay...

Angry Idiot Sneaks Onto Field To Berate His Team's Players

Coventry City fans don’t take losing home matches against relegation candidates too lightly, apparently. Hence this Coventry supporter making his way onto the pitch during his team’s 1-0 loss to Forest Green in England’s fourth tier to really make his displeasure felt:...

Triple H's Nutritionist Makes, Walks Back Candid Steroid Comments

That bodybuilder Dave Palumbo was a nutritionist for Paul “Triple H” Levesque—the wrestler-turned-WWE exec who only performs occasionally now—has never been a secret. They talk about their work together all the time, whether it’s Palumbo interviewing Triple H and his wife Stephanie McMahon, the two ...

Olympic Champion Gymnast Tatiana Gutsu Accuses Fellow Gold Medalist Of Raping Her When She Was 15 [Update]

Early this morning, Tatiana Gutsu, the 1992 Olympic all-around champion in women’s gymnastics, took to Facebook to add her voice to the growing #MeToo campaign, where women share their stories of sexual harassment and sexual assault. Gutsu accused fellow 1992 Olympic gold medalist Vitaly Scherbo of ...

Long Island Man Bowls Just The 34th 900 Series On Record

Bowler Joe Novara, 26, of East Patchogue, N.Y., threw three perfect games for a perfect 900 series, the 34th such series to be certified (and the 33rd person to bowl one)....

Bad Quarterback Performance Of The Week: The Browns Scrape Up Kevin Hogan

Welcome to Bad Quarterback Performance Of The Week, a recurring feature in which we celebrate the worst quarterback play the NFL has to offer....

Soccer Cow Just Wanted To Play Some Soccer

There is a cow on the loose in Brooklyn. Livestream here. He’s on a soccer field so this is sports....

Mike McCarthy Snaps At Reporter For Asking About Colin Kaepernick

The Packers’ quarterback situation is suddenly very dire. Aaron Rodgers is likely out for the season with a broken collarbone, and the team now has to start Brett Hundley, a former fifth-round pick with 44 career NFL pass attempts. Perhaps even more worrying is the fact that behind Hundley is Joe Ca...

Columbus Crew, Welcome To The Stadium Extortion Racket

MLS is not and for the foreseeable future will not be one of this country’s so-called Big Four, but let no one say the scrappy upstart doesn’t extort American cities like a big-boy league. The league’s rapid expansion—someone without a stake in the matter would say too rapid—has cities from Cincinna...

Aaron Judge Jumps And—

Large Yankees outfielder Aaron Judge made quite the catch in the top of the fourth inning tonight, crashing into the right field wall to snare a deep fly ball before tumbling over backwards:...

Report: Handsome Man Not Interested In Managing Mets

Recently ousted Tigers manager Brad Ausmus is looking for another team. Just, uh, not one as messy as the Mets—the man has standards, you know....

Orlando Woman Sues Miguel Cabrera Over Reduced Child Support Payments

Earlier this year, Detroit Tigers slugger Miguel Cabrera was sued in Orange County (Fla.) Superior Court for not providing sufficient child support for the two children he allegedly fathered with Orlando woman Belkis Rodriguez. The Detroit News first reported on the lawsuit this morning....

Can The Knicks Defense Be Historically Bad?

A few weeks ago, while catching up on some Big Apple sports news, I came upon this incredible sentence:...

Barstool Sports Founder Asks If Harvey Weinstein Should Be Allowed To Exchange Sex For Work

Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy, a guy who once took great pleasure in calling women “cunts,” posed a question to one of his female subordinates live on the radio. The question was: Actually, should Harvey Weinstein be allowed to demand sex from actresses in exchange for roles in movies? Get re...

Jets Fan Who Stands For National Anthem Sits On American Flag

This man at Sunday’s Patriots-Jets game respects the United States and its national anthem so much that he turned the country’s flag into a picnic blanket. Reader Marshall spotted the patriot, who is better than all of us, at the Jets’ stadium....

There's Reason To Hope For The Future Of The USMNT

While the senior members of the United States Men’s National Team are holding their heads in intense shame after getting owned in horrifying public fashion and failing to qualify for the World Cup, the U.S. under-17 national team is killing it. The U-17 group is stocked with some of the hottest pros...