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Lovely Act Of Kindness And Sportsmanship Marred By Bullcrap Football Game
Tennessee and South Carolina played an ugly, low-wattage football game today, combining for one touchdown, six field goals, and a botched extra point, in a contest that didn’t even have the decency to include a couple goddamn turnovers. The Gamecocks came out on top after scoring 12 unanswered secon...
Trump Voters Say They Choose Trump Over The NFL
Vox journalist Dylan Scott, you will get no argument here: that chart, showing the reported opinions of Trump voters on the NFL, is indeed pretty nuts! The data, compiled by an online survey company called Morning Consult and laid out at the New York Times’s Upshot blog, tells the story of how the o...
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NESN Suspends Anchor For Unleashing Stream Of Insults At Woman Who Told Him No [Updated]
Alyssa Labrie first posted on Facebook privately over the weekend, saying New England Sports Network anchor Marc James exploded at her in a string of angry text messages after she said she didn’t want to get drinks with him. Labrie told me that after she heard from people saying it needed to be kno...
"This Is An Utter Embarrassment"
“WHAT ARE WE DOING? WHAT ARE WE DOING!???”...
Harvey Weinstein Wouldn’t Take No For An Answer<em></em>
In an audio recording released today by the New Yorker, you can hear the true, common-as-all-hell approach Harvey Weinstein used against the women who say he assaulted them: Wear them down....
Falling From High Places Might Be Shane McMahon's Best Skill
You know what’s not fun? Watching a pro wrestling match in 2017 with a genuine fear that someone is about to be maimed....
Bad Quarterback Performance Of The Week: What Is Jay Cutler Even Doing Here?
Welcome to Bad Quarterback Performance Of The Week, a recurring feature in which we celebrate the worst quarterback play the NFL has to offer....
Western Michigan Tight End Doesn't Blame Sister For Prematurely Running Onto Field To Celebrate
A good sibling supports their kin when they achieve their goals. Maybe Western Michigan tight end Donnie Ernsberger’s sister Shalene shouldn’t have invaded the field after her little brother scored a touchdown in overtime, since the game wasn’t actually over, but her instinct was understandable....
This Man's Father Is A Billionaire
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The Eagles Pulled Off A Ridiculously Elaborate Baseball-Themed TD Celebration
Famous South Jersey native and baseball player Mike Trout is at the Eagles game today, so the team’s offense performed an impressively elaborate baseball celebration to honor him (and possibly recruit him for the Phillies, who knows)....
Outdoor Adventurer Thabo Sefolosha Saved A Woman From Drowning
Hey, what’d you do this summer? I built half a porch onto my house, badly, and now have to climb over a construction zone in order to enter my home, with no end in sight. Probably you did something a lot cooler than this. If you’re Thabo Sefolosha, some of what you did this summer is save a woman fr...
It's The Rare Double-Clutch Extra Point Attempt
Utah lost anyway, but at least they made things interesting in the process....
UFC Dickhead Allowed To Pull Off Unscrupulous Weigh-In Shenanigans
Kevin Lee, a dickhead, is scheduled to fight Tony Ferguson for the UFC’s interim lightweight title tomorrow. (The interim belt is only available because Conor McGregor is off looking at boats and pretending to be a boxer while Khabib Nurmagomedov can’t figure out his own physiology, which really say...
Demetrious Johnson Is Still The Perfect Champion, And It Still Doesn't Matter To The UFC<em></em>
The best fighter on Earth is a diminutive video-game enthusiast. He hasn’t lost a fight in six years. Along with Anderson Silva, he currently holds the record for consecutive title defenses in the UFC: 10 consecutive opponents have tried and failed to take his belt. Slick kickboxers, gritty grinders...
The World Series National Anthem That Infuriated America
The current crop of athletes protesting during the national anthem has roots at the 1968 Olympics, with the Black Power salute of Tommie Smith and John Carlos after they finished first and third, respectively, in the 200 meters. John Dominis’s famous photograph of the two U.S. sprinters on the medal...
The Shield Is Back To Give Us A Reason To Like Roman Reigns Again
Three years after an ill-advised split, WWE is finally pulling the trigger on the reunion of what was once the hottest act in the company, The Shield. A trio consisting of Dean Ambrose, Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns in riot gear, they immediately became one of the top acts in the company thanks to t...
Sad Brady
Our pal Tom just needs to drink more of his special water. ...
Family Gets Lifetime Ban From Pee Wee Football After Father Allegedly Put Teen Coach In Chokehold
A New Jersey man is facing criminal charges and has gotten his family a lifetime from a pee wee football league after allegedly putting a 16-year-old coach in a chokehold because he was frustrated that his son had been rotated out of the quarterback position....
Enjoy Tom Brady Getting Picked Off
Do you know when the last time Tom Brady got picked off in the regular season was? It was 264 passes ago. Here, then, is an update from his opening drive of tonight’s Patriots-Buccaneers game:...
Brewers Prospect Bubba Derby Opens Up About Escape From Las Vegas Massacre
Bubba Derby is a minor-league pitcher in the Brewers system, and he was at the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas when Stephen Paddock opened fire on the crowd, killing at least 59 people. Derby was at the festival with several family members and friends, and he’s since detailed the terrifying e...