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Jurickson Profar's Been Through the Damn Wringer
God, I feel so bad for Jurickson Profar. Once the consensus top overall prospect in baseball, Profar has spent the last few years sustaining and sort-of-recovering-from a series of increasingly strange injuries. That bad luck has reduced him from a franchise cornerstone to a guy who, at 25, mostly s...
USA Wrestling Will Require Media To Submit To Vague Background Checks And Training Program
With sexual abuse scandals plaguing USA Gymnastics, USA Swimming, and USA Taekwondo, the national governing body for wrestling is putting bizarre new policies in place that will subject those who cover the sport to harsher protocols....
Bartolo Colon Might Just Do This Forever
The coolest and most fun to watch baseball players are consistently the guys who look like they have no business in any kind of athletic contest, yet still manage to dominate. Baseball is a sport for all shapes and sizes, and no one has illustrated that better than Bartolo Colon....
MSU Board Meeting Erupts As Larry Nassar Victim Says School President Tried To Buy Her Off
While speaking at a tense Michigan State University board meeting today, Kaylee Lorincz, who said she was sexually abused by former MSU doctor Larry Nassar, detailed a troubling interaction with interim president John Engler. According to Lorincz, Engler attempted to “coerce” her into settling a civ...
Boxer Wears Anti-Immigrant Trunks, Gets Soundly Beaten By Mexican Opponent
American boxer Rod Salka lost a six-round bout to Mexican fighter Francisco Vargas last night. Salka, who is known for having been brutally knocked out by Danny Garcia in 2014, entered the ring wearing trunks with an anti-immigrant message. The top of Salka’s trunks had “AMERICA 1ST” written on them...
Phil Nevin Is Still Pissed That Alex Cora Waved At Him From The Dugout
While you might think that the ugliest part of last night’s Yankees-Red Sox donnybrook was guys like Joe Kelly and Tyler Austin trying to bloody each other in the infield, Yankees third-base coach Phil Nevin has other concerns—namely, hand waving from Red Sox manager Alex Cora....
Tank Warfare, Or A Night At Mavericks-Suns
DALLAS — If the Mavericks were going to do what needed to be done on Tuesday night in the finale of their 2018 season, it would take an almost herculean effort. A guaranteed share of the NBA’s third-worst record and the attendant lottery-odds boost was on the line, but they would have to lock in, fo...
Let's Enjoy Some Pictures Of The Day In Baseball Donnybrooks
Baseball featured one tussle in the afternoon (Padres-Rockies, after a few hit batsmen) and one in the evening (Yankees-Red Sox, after one hit batsman and one hard slide) and, as always, the resulting photographs from Getty and the Associated Press are much more engrossing than any video can be. Her...
Red Sox, Yankees Put On A Brawl
Just a few hours after baseball’s last benches-clearing brawl, here’s another solid one for you. The Red Sox and Yankees got into a tussle in the seventh inning tonight, after Boston’s Joe Kelly hit Tyler Austin in retaliation for a spikes-up slide earlier in the game. Austin slammed his bat down, K...
Lawsuit: MLB Advanced Media Accused Of Contract Breach, Patent Infringement In Developing Statcast Tech
The parent company of Sportvision, the group that created the pitch-tracking system Pitchf/x, is suing MLB Advanced Media over the use of their technology in the development of Statcast. The suit—filed in district court in New York last week—accuses MLBAM of breach of contract, patent infringement, ...
Fragile Rookie Shohei Ohtani Unable To Overcome Dominance Of Legendary Bartolo Colon
He didn’t start the game, but anyone who stuck with tonight’s Angels-Rangers blowout was treated with a glimpse of baseball’s most fascinating, awe-inspiring marvel. And Bartolo Colón did not disappoint. The pitcher that does what no one else in MLB can do—that is, strike people out at age 44—helped...
Robert Kraft Calls Meek Mill "A Great Guy" After Visiting Him In Prison
Patriots owner Robert Kraft, of all people, and 76ers owner Michael Rubin visited Meek Mill in Pennsylvania prison today, where the Philly rapper is currently serving time for a probation violation. Kraft talked to the media afterward and—if you adjust your standards for his wealth, age, and race— ...
The Rape Case Tearing Apart Irish Rugby
Rory Best should have stayed in Carton House with the rest of the Irish national rugby team. Instead, the captain and starting hooker sat in Belfast’s Laganside Crown Court alongside his teammate Iain Henderson, watching the trial of two other teammates for the alleged rape of a 19-year-old woman in...
Paige VanZant Talks For The First Time About Being Raped In High School<em></em>
UFC fighter Paige VanZant spoke to several media outlets today and opened up publicly for the first time about being raped when she was a freshman in high school. VanZant has a book coming out soon, and in it she writes about being sexually assaulted by a group of boys at a house party when she was ...
The President's TV Channel Of Choice
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MSU Student Says Three Basketball Players Raped Her In New Lawsuit
A lawsuit filed by a current Michigan State University student says that, in 2015, three MSU basketball players gang-raped her in an off-campus apartment. The student also says that employees at the university’s counseling center discouraged her from reporting the rape, either to police or the schoo...
Ray Lewis Says Odell Beckham Jr. Has "Removed God From His Life"
Former NFL linebacker Ray Lewis, who now makes a living going on TV to say “God” and “greatness” as many times as possible, joined Colin Cowherd on FS1 today to dish about Odell Beckham Jr....
Home Run Balls Are Free For The Taking In Chicago Today
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Report: Bill Belichick Chewed Out Gronk In Front Of Teammates For Using Tom Brady's Sketchy Guru<em></em>
However the relationship between Patriots head coach Bill Belichick and quarterback Tom Brady stands now, it’s clear that the former still takes issue with the latter’s body coach and business partner Alex Guerrero. Belichick last season reportedly banned Guerrero from the team’s sidelines and revok...
Report: MSU Basketball Player Charged With Assault Last Month
Michigan State walk-on basketball player Brock Washington, who was reportedly under investigation for criminal sexual conduct in February, has been charged with misdemeanor assault by prosecutors in Ingham County, MI., according to ESPN. The details of how that charge came about, however, remain ext...