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Tiger Woods' Former Caddy Says Working For Him Was Like Being His "Slave"
Steve Williams served as Tiger Woods’ caddy from 1999 to 2011, during which Woods dominated the PGA Tour, won 13 of his 14 Majors, and earned over $88 million. Williams recently wrote a book called “Out Of The Rough” about his time with Tiger, and he was very critical of Woods, of whom he once said ...
The NFL Will Exploit Your Dead Mom But Not Let You Celebrate Her
Pittsburgh Steelers running back DeAngelo Williams has an incredibly personal connection to the cause of breast cancer awareness. Four of his aunts died of breast cancer, and last year, so did his mother, Sandra Hill. Williams has dyed his hair pink, painted his toenails, and written about his famil...
Report: Auburn Receiver Duke Williams Went On A Punching Rampage
Auburn Tigers head coach Gus Malzahn announced yesterday that he had dismissed wide receiver D’haquille “Duke” Williams from the team. Malzahn didn’t get into the specifics of why Williams was dismissed, but it might have had something to do with an alleged rampage that Williams went on at a local b...
Bruce Bochy Was "Giddily Incredulous" With How Matt Williams Handled His Bullpen
Whenever just-fired former Nationals manager Matt Williams found himself on the receiving end of pointed questioning about a decision he made, his go-to move was to simply state one of his players’ role. ...
Report: Nationals Fire Matt Williams
The news everyone on the planet was expecting has broken: the Washington Nationals have reportedly fired manager Matt Williams....
The Washington Nationals Certainly Seem To Hate Matt Williams
The Washington Post’s Barry Svrluga has a deep, perfectly-timed dive into the Washington National’s disaster of a season. Not only is it a complete tick-tock of how the team fell apart, it features a number of quotes and anecdotes from inside the clubhouse, each one revealing that Matt Williams’s pe...
Nationals Blow Comeback In Most Nationals Way Possible
If you proposed the ending to tonight’s Washington Nationals game in a work of fiction, the audience would complain that it was too on the nose to be realistic. But truth is indeed stranger than fiction, and all that jazz. ...
English Rugby Star Clear To Play After Knocking Opponent Out With Kick To The Head
England flanker Tom Wood is free to play in his squad’s next match against Australia after Rugby World Cup officials determined his knockout kick to Welsh fullback Liam Williams to be a minor offense. The incident took place during Saturday’s 28-25 Wales upset....
Enjoy The Matt Williams Farce While You Still Can
It is a testament to the Washington Nationals’ dysfunction that the dugout fight between Jonathan Papelbon and Bryce Harper almost made sense compared to everything that came after. A team’s for-hire closer trying to choke the league MVP is one thing, but it’s absolutely inexplicable that manager Ma...
Julian Edelman Goes Airborne
I love this photo (by Tom Szczerbowski/Getty Images) of Bills safety Aaron Williams attempting to tackle Julian Edelman in the third quarter of the Patriots’ 40-32 win in Buffalo. It looks like the future magnet-assisted sport of hover-football....
Bills Safety Aaron Williams Leaves In Ambulance After Injury (UPDATE)
In the third quarter of today’s game against the Patriots, Bills safety Aaron Williams suffered a serious-looking injury while attempting to tackle Julian Edelman near the end zone. Williams moved his legs and neck post-fall, then was immobilized, lifted onto a stretcher, and, after a ten minute del...
Michael Carter-Williams Threw A Perfect First Pitch If He Was Aiming For The Cameraman
Bucks point guard Michael Carter-Williams threw out the first pitch at Thursday’s Brewers game, and it was accurate, provided that Carter-Williams was trying to hit the cameraman....
Roberta Vinci's Post-Match Interview Is An All-Time Great
It’s never easy being the anonymous athlete who knocks off a fan-favorite opponent in front of a national audience that wanted nothing to do with you, but I’ve never seen anyone handle being in that position better than Roberta Vinci....
Serena Williams Knocked Out In U.S. Open Semis By Unseeded Roberta Vinci
Serena Williams, two matches away from completing a calendar Grand Slam, fell today in the U.S. Open semifinal to the unseeded Roberta Vinci, who began the Open ranked 43rd in the world....
Matt Williams Fucks Up Again, Gets Booed At His Press Conference
Washington Nationals manager Matt Williams has spent most of the last week doing everything he can to ensure that his team’s slide out of playoff contention continues without a hitch. If his recent handling of the bullpen had Nats fans bashing their heads against walls, last night’s managerial perfo...
Serena Prevails Over Venus In Three Sets, Advances To US Open Semifinals
Despite how obviously great Serena and Venus Williams are, their Grand Slam match-ups haven’t always been thrilling tennis, with the sisters subduing their emotions and not always playing at their best. But with Serena on the march to a historic calendar year Grand Slam and Venus amidst a mini late-...
The Nats Are On Life Support, And Matt Williams Is Yanking Away At The Plug
Manager Matt Williams isn’t totally to blame for what’s happened to the Nats this season—they are, hands down, the most disappointing team in baseball, and their 93-win over-under from the start of the year is looking more and more hilarious by the day—but that doesn’t mean he shouldn’t be punted in...
Georgetown Player Breaks Five Vertebrae, Could Be Paralyzed
Georgetown linebacker Ty Williams underwent surgery Saturday to repair five broken vertebrae that left him with a bruised spinal cord suffered in the above pass play during this weekend’s game at Saint Francis....
Hot-Mic Ref To Irate Coach: "Get In The Fuckin' Huddle!"
Referee Ken “Wrong-Way” Williamson has HAD it with Dino Babers, so much so that he had this to say to the BGSU head coach following a penalty against the Falcons:...
Mike Williams Carted Off With Neck Injury After Crashing Into Goal Post
Clemson receiver and NFL prospect Mike Williams is headed to a hospital after suffering a neck injury early in the Tigers’ game today against Wofford. Williams crashed into the goal post while attempting to make a catch; he was carted off the field....