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Texans Sign Brandon Weeden Because They Learned <i>Nothing</i>
The Houston Texans have signed Brandon Weeden to back up Deshaun Watson and let us for the moment set aside the silliness of a certain unemployed QB remaining unemployed—Texans owner Bob McNair was deposed earlier this month in Colin Kaepernick’s collusion grievance against the NFL, so that wasn’t a...
Ronda Rousey Misunderstands Question, Gets All Cranky About Time Travel
Behold, the most cringe-inducing TV appearance you will see all week. Mike from ESPN’s Mike & Trey asked Ronda Rousey a pretty basic question, albeit with some slightly odd verbiage, about whether or not she would ever want to return to the UFC octagon. Rousey thought he was asking about time travel...
Goalkeeper Tries To Pretend He Didn't Do The Incredibly Dumb Thing He Just Did
To throw a ball into one’s own net is the single worst thing a goalkeeper can do. To throw the ball into one’s own net, and for that colossal boner to not be the biggest takeaway from the incident in question, takes some serious work. So we doff our cap to this Ethiopian keeper who managed just that...
Daniel Bryan's Path To And From Retirement Was As Messy As It Gets
Wrestling fans rejoiced on Tuesday when WWE announced that after two years in retirement, Bryan “Daniel Bryan” Danielson had been medically cleared to return to action. Hours later, he bookended this week’s edition of SmackDown Live, opening the show with his return speech and closing it by shooting...
BBC Makes Shirtless Andy Murray And Geri Halliwell Sing Spice Girls Songs In Bed
This video of Spice Girl Geri Halliwell, along with excessively cheery host Michael McIntyre, prompting Andy Murray to fill in the blanks on Spice Girls songs is so weird and delightful....
Why Is Charlie Ebersol Launching A Direct Rival To His Buddy Vince McMahon's XFL?
The most delightfully stupid sports story of 2018 is still extremely stupid, but it just got a lot more complicated. Vince McMahon’s nascent MAGA-adjacent XFL revival was first reported back in December, formally announced in January, and seemingly set for a February 2020 launch. It now has to deal ...
Daniel Bryan Talked About Retiring Due To Concussions And Got Powerbombed
After the surprising news that Daniel Bryan was cleared to return to wrestling, he showed up on WWE SmackDown Tuesday, talked about the brain injuries that caused him to retire, and got right back to wrestling. Even for WWE, it felt on the nose....
Former Mavericks Employee Who Made Harassment Claims: "I'm Still Not Sure The Mavericks Get It"
Melissa Weishaupt, who worked in the marketing and game operations department for the Dallas Mavericks from 2010 to 2014, has revealed herself as one of the women who told Sports Illustrated about the Mavericks’ culture of harassment. In a piece published in SI today, Weishaupt revealed her identity...
Daniel Bryan Cleared To Return To Wrestling
WWE announced today that Daniel Bryan, who retired more than two years ago and hasn’t wrestled since 2015 due to repeated concussions, has been cleared to return to pro wrestling....
"Oh God, It's About Grunting Again": An Official Stenographer Dishes On Transcribing Tennis Players<em></em>
Tennis players do press constantly; it’s part of their job. They field questions about all the unforced errors on their forehand, why their first serve was so effective, or what does it feel like to pull off an upset like this, and they generally give tame and compact answers. So the journalists can...
Pro Cyclist Booted From Race For Using His Bike As A Weapon
Cycling season has well and truly started up and that means that cycling fighting season has also begun. Zhiwen Chen of Giant Cycling was kicked out of the Tour de Langkawi—this is perhaps the most egregious usage of the superfluous “de” to remind people that this is the same sport as the Tour de Fr...
Bob Uecker’s Latest Malady Was A Venomous<em></em> Spider Bite
Bob Uecker is 84 years old and still going strong, but the longtime Brewers broadcaster has had some health issues in recent years. His latest scare was when a venomous brown recluse spider bit him in October after last season. From the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel’s Tom Haudricourt:...
Bob Huggins Met Dan D'Antoni In A Battle For The Future Of Men's Fashion
West Virginia Governor Jim Justice appeared at Sunday night’s NCAA Tournament game between West Virginia and Marshall wearing a suit that was both deeply and intentionally unfortunate. Justice is a Marshall University graduate—his wife and daughter are, as well—and, if you’re just joining us, a West...
Oklahoma City's Wacky Corey Brewer Gambit Is ... Working?
The Raptors are great. They’re virtually a lock to finish the regular season with the best record in the Eastern Conference, and they’re the only team in the NBA’s top five in both offensive efficiency and defensive efficiency, and they’d come into Sunday having won 11 in a row, and 18 of 19, and wi...
Rafael Palmeiro, 1996
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For Gael Monfils, The Play Is The Reason For The Work
INDIAN WELLS, Calif. — Within five minutes of sitting down to watch Gael Monfils, you realize that this one practice session—practice!—has given fans more joy than entire swathes of the Indian Wells Masters main draw. They’d trade this one session for a dull quarter of the men’s singles tournament, ...
Nike President Resigns Amid Vague Investigation Into "Inappropriate Workplace Behavior"<em></em>
The Wall Street Journal’s Sara Germano reported last night that Nike president Trevor Edwards had resigned after the company received complaints about “inappropriate workplace behavior.” What behavior? The Journal’s report does not specify what the complaints contained or who they were about, only t...
ESPN Paid The Air Force Almost $75,000 For Food, And Other Random Things From A Military Invoice
At the beginning of this college basketball season, ESPN brought Texas A&M and West Virginia all the way to Germany for a game at Ramstein Air Base. For the entire trip, ESPN Productions, Inc. paid the Air Force a total of $140,129.45, according to an invoice obtained via Freedom of Information Act ...