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Mini McGregor Falls To Mini Mayweather In Likely Preview Of Actual Fight
They’ve held almost every kind of wrestling at the building formerly known as the ECW Arena. But according to the guy who sold me my ticket, Friday night was the first time the 2300 Arena was hosting Micro Championship Wrestling....
Kevin Durant Says He Will Not Visit White House: "I Don't Respect Who's In Office Right Now"<em></em><em></em>
Kevin Durant said today that he will not visit the White House if invited, noting that he does not agree with or respect President Donald Trump....
North Carolina Isn't Ready For This, But The GOP Was
Monday night in Durham, well-intentioned protestors tore a testament to the Confederacy down from its perch, sending it tumbling 15 feet to feebly fold over. It was glorious, if long overdue. It was also a glimpse at what the future holds for similar pro-CSA statues littered around North Carolina, t...
Ryan Howard Is Alive And Playing For The Albuquerque Isotopes
Ryan Howard is still chasing that baseball dream. The 2006 NL MVP signed a minor-league contract with the Colorado Rockies over the weekend, and was assigned to the Triple-A Albuquerque Isotopes. ...
Here’s A 54-Year-Old Sandman Clearing The Ring With A Singapore Cane
The crowd heard “Enter Sandman” and immediately knew what was coming. It didn’t matter that it was 2017 instead of 1997. The Sandman was going to enter the ECW Arena and save the day....
55-Year-Old Curler Glenn Howard Could Represent Two Countries At The Same Olympics
Glenn Howard has been one of Canada’s top curlers for years, and the four-time world champion is again attempting to represent Canada in the 2018 Winter Olympics. The master strategist and his team, ranked 17th in the world and 11th in Canada, qualified for the opening round of the Canadian curling...
JaVale McGee Provides Pick-Up Game Highlights And Statistics
During the summer, NBA players often post short, low-quality clips of themselves getting shots up or lifting weights in order to prove that there truly are no days off and that ball is indeed life. These dispatches are mostly self-serving, but you can’t help but appreciate the effort JaVale McGee ha...
Kyrie Irving Spotted In Video Of Steph Curry Mocking LeBron James
Here is a short video of Steph Curry doing a funny-looking pantomime of what looks like someone working out:...
Important Nick Young Update: Nick Young Is No Longer Afraid Of Dolphins
In the far off days when Nick Young was still on the Lakers and Iggy Azalea was relevant, we learned of Swaggy P’s delfiniphobia, which apparently stemmed from an attempted drowning by one of the majestic sea creatures while on vacation with his then-girlfriend Azalea in Cabo. From ESPN:...
White Sox Make Transaction
The White Sox have sent reliever Anthony Swarzak to the Brewers in exchange for outfield prospect Ryan Cordell....
Man Suing Draymond Green: "I Still Feel His Hand On My Jaw"<em></em>
Last July, Golden State lightning rod Draymond Green was arrested for assault and battery for allegedly striking former Michigan State football player Jermaine Edmondson in East Lansing, Michigan. At the time, Green settled this affair by paying the city $560 for a noise violation. Today, however, E...
Steph Curry Went To China And Mocked Klay Thompson's Infamous Botched Dunk
Klay Thompson appears to have spent most of his offseason tour of China dancing like a maniac, but he also found the time to make everyone laugh with a very ill-fated dunk attempt....
My Bizarre Quest To Become A Jew And Play Pro Soccer In Israel<em></em>
In September of 2015, soon after the move to Hønefoss, I had spoken with Aaron about future options. I told him I wanted to get back to the United States. He thought that returning to MLS would be an option. Enough teams still knew me and I should be able to at least get a minimum salary offer to be...
New Warriors Arena Will Require PSLs For Season Tickets
When the Warriors’ new arena in San Francisco opens for the 2019-2020 season, it will be the first building in the NBA where fans will have to buy personal seat licenses just for the right to purchase season tickets....
The Warriors Said No To Paul George For Klay Thompson
The NBA is just as interesting for the trades that don’t get done as the ones that do, and this is an especially fascinating what-if: Before shipping Paul George to Oklahoma City (which was wild and surprising enough), the Pacers reached out to the Golden State Warriors and proposed a blockbuster on...
Get A Stainless Steel Pan
In the abstract—which is to say, if you were an extremely rich person with an army of servants to attend to all but those parts of human life you chose to handle yourself, and therefore did not have to worry about things like cleaning and upkeep—the best kind of pan would be a well-seasoned cast iro...
Nick Young, On Passing: "That's The Point Guard's Job"
Recent Golden State signee Nick Young met with the press Friday night. Among other things, the issue of Golden State’s constant-movement, pass-first offense came up. Here’s Swaggy P:...
Nick Young Makes Perfect Sense On The Warriors
The most whimsical and doomed NBA teams in recent memory were those Washington Wizards squads between 2008 and 2012 that featured Gilbert Arenas pooping in teammates’s shoes, JaVale McGee fucking up all over the court, and Nick Young pulling up and laying bricks about 20 times a game. Thanks to the ...
It Sucks To Be The Utah Jazz
A little over eight weeks ago, before the Golden State Warriors summarily swept them out of the second round of the playoffs, you could squint at the Utah Jazz and see the outline of a team that might spend the next five years angling to lose in the conference finals, rather than in the first or sec...
Let's See How Jazz Fans Are Taking The Gordon Hayward Signing
After a few hours of genuine confusion, Gordon Hayward signed with the Boston Celtics last night. This is obviously a tough blow for the Jazz, who won 51 games last season and were looking to cement a place near the top of the Western Conference for years to come, with Hayward leading them. Now they...