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Here Is My 49er-centric Conspiracy Theory About The Patriots Drama
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the lord, and it looks like Jimmy Garoppolo in a 49ers uniform. For the first time since Jim Harbaugh was canned at the end of the 2014 season, the 49ers have been fun, and interesting, and there has been a glimmer of hope, led by the concerningly attra...
There Is Now An App For Triple Crown Ratio Lines On Bad Tweets, And It Rules
You are familiar, at this point, with how this all goes. Some verified foof on Twitter gets something grandly, gratingly wrong and then it gets...noticed. We are far enough along in the online part of our endless civilizational deadfall that we even have a name for this, now: that Bad Tweet and its...
Melo Yells Two Of The Seven Dirty Words
The Thunder are rolling. After a rough start, they’ve now won eight of 10, and Thursday’s 127-117 win over the Clippers was exactly how it’s supposed to go: Russell Westbrook had his 13th triple-double of the season, Paul George led the team with 31 points, and Carmelo Anthony added 22, in doing so ...
Yes, Yes, Give Me All The Good Patriots Gossip
The only thing the NFLosphere is going to be talking about today is this, so you might as well go ahead and read it now. For ESPN, Seth Wickersham delves into the escalating drama at Patriot Place, and hints that the dysfunction between Tom Brady and Bill Belichick has reached the stage where it’s t...
West Ham And Tottenham Trade Back-To-Back Bangers
Early-season basement dwellers West Ham showed some promise and held their own in a 1-1 draw against Tottenham today, but the point they won is mostly thanks to a bit of magic from Pedro Obiang. The Hammer midfielder, who had only scored two goals total since the start of the 2015-16 season, pulled ...
Mike Trout Can't Stop Texting His Wife About The Bomb Cyclone
Many athletes present first and foremost as carefully crafted public brands, but we know at least one thing to be true about Mike Trout: this dude really, earnestly loves the weather. Not a specific season, like most normal people who love swimming in the summer or wearing sweaters in autumn. No, Tr...
Andy Carroll Is Very Good At What He Does, If Not Much Else
It’s sort of a shame that the story of Andy Carroll’s sporting career will almost certainly be the arc of his failures. Yes, at 21 years old Carroll was selected as Liverpool’s heir apparent to Fernando Torres’s Merseyside throne, and yes, he failed miserably at making that seat his own—in large par...
Bill Belichick Still Does Not Care About Snow, Basic Decency
There’s a 100 percent chance of snow in Foxboro tomorrow, with a foot or more expected. Blizzard conditions are possible, and Gov. Charlie Baker has asked everyone to stay off the roads as many schools and businesses have announced their closures in advance. And Bill Belichick, as always, expects al...
UCF Is The National Champion, According To UCF
The University of Central Florida ended the season as the only undefeated team in college football, and though they didn’t make the playoff, they have decided to go ahead and claim the national championship. They’ve spent the time since they beat Auburn in the Peach Bowl justifiably boasting and gen...
Ball Family Arrives In Vilnius, Gets Serenaded With "Welcome To Lithuania"
LaVar, LaMelo, and LiAngelo Ball touched down in Lithuania today ahead of the kids’ scheduled debut for their new team, Vytautas Prienu. Their appearance was cause for a pretty wild welcome party....
Bad Quarterback Performance Of The Week: Kirk Cousins Is Cold And Wants To Go Home
Welcome to Bad Quarterback Performance Of The Week, a recurring feature in which we celebrate the worst quarterback play the NFL has to offer....
Polish Skier Finishes Downhill Race On A Single Ski
Pawel Babicki finished 67th out of 67 competitors at a downhill race last week in Bormio, Italy. He trailed eventual winner Dominik Paris by 36 seconds, which is all the more impressive considering that Babicki lost his left ski before the halfway point of the famous Stelvio downhill run....
I Can't Stop Watching These Buffalo Bills Celebration Videos
The Bills on Sunday ended an 18-year playoff drought, the longest active postseason dry spell in major U.S. sports. Understandably, Bills players and fans were pretty stoked. Some of this cathartic merriment was caught on video, and the spontaneity and genuine joy of it all makes for some fine hango...
The Patriots Tried To Cheat, As Usual
The New England Patriots wrapped up the No. 1 seed in the AFC today with a dismantling of the New York Jets. The primary highlight of the game, however, was this flop by Johnson Bademosi....
Donnie Jones Puts On A Show Before Punting
If you haven’t noticed by the ice forming in your water glasses, it’s very cold up north and out east today, and it’s messing with at least a few NFL players. One of them was Eagles punter Donnie Jones, who went out to punt while still wearing his warm-ups, then had to treat fans to a little show....
Kentavious Caldwell-Pope Wildly Overestimates His Improvisational Skills
Here is Lakers guard Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, boldly and tragically attempting the old off-the-backboard self-assist during last night’s loss to the Clippers:...
Everything That Should Die In 2018
It was a miserable year full of miserable things. Here is some stuff from 2017 that we hope stays in 2017....
2017's Biggest Pro Wrestling News Story Capped A Year Of Ups And Downs
We had to wait nearly 50 weeks for the biggest wrestling story of 2017, and it’s only sort of a wrestling story. The most dramatic development in the sport this year was Vince McMahon selling almost $100 million worth of WWE stock to fund what appears to be his new, private company’s XFL revival, bu...
Arena Worker Assailed By Czech Pucks
On one hand, you have to admire the Czech Republic World Junior team for their fierce commitment to getting in their practice reps. On the other, I’m terrified of their blatant disregard for human life, as seen when a Buffalo arena worker was still in the net as the team took the ice, and the young ...