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Rafael Nadal Eats Clay Three Square Meals A Day And Also Has It For Dessert

Does Rafael Nadal live in clay? He may. Is it where he likes to play? Yea—he has owned it for his entire career, and that dominance was made even clearer two weeks ago when he finally took the record for most consecutive sets won on clay. Today he claimed his 21st straight victim on the red stuff, a...

Rafael Nadal Catches Shit For Supporting Rival Soccer Clubs

Rafael Nadal is roughly midway through his clay-court rampage, having lengthened his consecutive set streak to a record 46, and just had some time off between tournaments in Barcelona and Madrid. He spent some of that precious downtime watching soccer, which he loves deeply....

Rafa Is Somehow Still Setting New Records On Clay

Today, playing at the Barcelona Open, a tournament he has won 10 times, on a court officially named “Pista Rafa Nadal,” Rafael Nadal won his 39th and 40th consecutive sets on clay. This extends an Open Era–record for consecutive sets on clay courts, per the ATP, that Nadal first set last Sunday in t...

Soulless Avatars Of Late Capitalism Set Up Nicely To Acquire Another European Cup

European Soccer Market (ESM) analysts the world over are still abuzz about the big step Real Madrid (ESM:RMD) took on their path to consolidating their ownership of the European Cup for the third consecutive year....

Watermelons, Cower In Fear At Your Mighty New Crocodile God

All hail the mighty Elvis, a 52-year-old crocodile in the Australian Reptile Park of Somersby, Australia, and my new God....

Bubba Watson Sends Eagle Putt Directly Into The Bunker

Owing to the insane three-day brilliance of leader Patrick Reed, Bubba Watson’s perfectly respectable six-under headed into Sunday at the Masters put him nowhere close to contending for the lead in the final round. An early eagle certainly wouldn’t have hurt the cause! I bring that up because Watson...

Shit, There Might Be Logic Behind The Jets' Plan At Quarterback

The Jets wanted to land Kirk Cousins, and they reportedly offered even more than the Vikings did to get him. After that fell through, they immediately turned to Plan B, which involved re-signing Josh McCown and adding Teddy Bridgewater. At first glance, it looked like the Jets spent $15 million for ...

Naomi Osaka Is Tearing Up The Tennis Court But Bummed She Can't Play <i>Overwatch</i>

INDIAN WELLS, Calif. — Naomi Osaka is enjoying an excellent run at Indian Wells. She unseated Maria Sharapova in her very first match, then cleared out the trickiest veteran Aga Radwanska and two more foes to earn a spot across from fifth-seeded Karolina Pliskova in the quarterfinal. The No. 44, 20-...

The Vikings Are Clearing The Deck Of Quarterbacks To Go After Kirk Cousins

There’s an old, dumb, incorrect football saying that goes, “If you have two quarterbacks, you have none.” Well, the Vikings this season had three quarterbacks. And now, it appears, they actually do have none....

Hank Aaron Sparked Pro Wrestling's First Major Racism Story 25 Years Ago<em></em>

25 years ago this week, the top story in pro wrestling was, in many ways, also the biggest pro wrestling story in the history of the business’s insider press....

If Fé<em></em>lix Auger-Aliassime Is The Future Then The Future Will Be Fun

Before anything else, just watch someone ball out for a bit:...

Gerard Deulofeu Is Back Where He Belongs

It only took a couple months for everyone to realize what had seemed obvious from the outset: that Gerard Deulofeu had made a big mistake coming back to Barcelona. Despite the Neymar departure and Barça’s subsequent struggles to lock down a replacement opening up an unexpectedly perfect avenue for D...

Houston Sports Radio Shouters Shout At Each Other On Radio Row [Update]

Houston-based radio guys Josh Innes of SportsTalk 790 and Seth Payne of SportsRadio 610 spent time at Radio Row today being loud at each other on air. It created a weird, beautiful situation where the radio shouters were shouting live on radio while other radio shouters around them focused their att...

Tom Brady Wore Gloves To His Presser And Wouldn't Talk About His Hand Injury

Tom Brady wore the gloves again. It is two days before the Patriots play in the AFC title game against the Jaguars....

WWE's New Facebook Show Was Full Of Bullshit And Totally Great

On Tuesday night, WWE’s new Facebook Watch series Mixed Match Challenge debuted to about 126,000 live viewers, with another million-plus later checking it out on demand. For all the rumblings about the WWE/Facebook deal’s possible larger significance, fans were authentically excited to see it. The m...

What’s Your Most Embarrassing Sex Story?

We’ve all got one....

The Best Things We Watched In 2017

When we weren’t busy watching sports contests, we watched some things. Here are the best things we saw this year....

Here's What The Houston Texans Did Instead Of Signing Colin Kaepernick

On Oct. 29, the Houston Texans lost to the Seattle Seahawks, 41-38, a hard-fought game in which rookie QB Deshaun Watson put on an entertaining, four-touchdown, 403-yard performance. Houston was 3-4 but still sat at the edge of the playoff hunt in a weak conference, and Watson had led the offense t...

Teddy Bridgewater Throws His First Interception Since The 2015 Season<em></em>

Vikings quarterback Teddy Bridgewater, whose gruesome knee injury last year seemed like it could’ve been career-ending, returned to the field for the first time since the end of the 2015 season. He received a heartwarming reception in Minnesota....

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