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Conor McGregor And Floyd Mayweather Started The Dumbest Possible Road Show Today<em></em>
This afternoon in Los Angeles, Conor McGregor and Floyd Mayweather made their first joint public appearance since announcing their superfight last month. They’ll also be holding press conferences every day for the rest of this week, because this is the deadest week of the sports calendar and they ar...
Texas Commit Mohamed Bamba Cleared To Play By NCAA Despite Brother's Smear Campaign
Two weeks ago, Ibrahim Johnson, the older brother of five-star Texas basketball commit Mohamed Bamba, brashly played his hand, releasing a 22-minute rant that seemingly trashed Bamba’s reputation and jeopardized his college eligibility. While entertaining, the effort turned out to be as fruitless as...
MMA Reporter Ariel Helwani Says UFC Booted Him From McGregor-Mayweather Press Tour
Conor McGregor and Floyd Mayweather are embarking on a short world press tour to promote their very dumb fight next month, and it kicks off today in Los Angeles. UFC czar Dana White will be there, but the most prominent member of the MMA media will no longer be working the event for Showtime....
The Quest To Bring Women's Kickboxing To India
KOLKATA, India—Sonia Das is three-fourths the height of her opponent, yet on a sweltering mid-morning at the APC Park in eastern Kolkata, she punched and kicked with all her might. The first-ever kickboxing championship for girls at the neighborhood level, the Meyeder Para Kickboxing Championship, ...
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Report: Floyd Mayweather Needs Some Time To Pay His Taxes [UPDATE]
Floyd Mayweather has filed a petition saying he doesn’t have enough cash on hand to meet his 2015 taxes, and he’s asking the IRS for a reprieve until after his fight against Conor McGregor next month, according to Law360. ...
Gymnast's Parents Sue U.S. Olympic Committee For Alleged Abuse Of Their Daughter By Larry Nassar
The parents of a former elite-level gymnast are suing the U.S. Olympic Committee and USA Gymnastics for their part in an “orchestrated scheme ... to suppress and conceal their knowledge of know sexual abusers in the USAG program, including Dr. Larry Nassar.” The lawsuit is the first to name the Olym...
Former USA Gymnastics Doctor Will Plead Guilty To Federal Child Pornography Charges
Larry Nassar, the former USA Gymnastics and Michigan State physician, will appear in federal court in Grand Rapids, Mich., tomorrow to plead guilty to three charges related to receipt and possession of child pornography and the destruction and concealment of records. ...
Watch Large Silly Galoot Alexander Ovechkin Do Some Shirtless Cavorting
Here is a video of a shirtless Alex Ovechkin being a big happy goober while music plays:...
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Amanda Nunes Is Out Of Tonight's UFC 213 Main Event
Amanda Nunes, who was scheduled to headline tonight’s UFC 213 pay-per-view in a bout against Valentina Shevchenko, has dropped out due to undisclosed medical reasons....
Byron Buxton Scored From First Base On A Single Because He Is Superhuman
Here is a video of Minnesota’s Byron Buxton, who is ridiculously fast, scoring from first on a sharply hit grounder that never even made it to the gap in left center:...
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Club Friendly Suspended As Ajax's Abdelhak Nouri Collapses On Pitch [UPDATES]
Officials suspended a club friendly in Austria between German team Werder Bremen and Dutch side Ajax after 20-year-old Abdelhak Nouri collapsed on the pitch midway through the second half....
Fox Sports' Pivot To Video Killed Its Advertising Deal With <i>Sports Illustrated </i>
In the wake of Fox Sports’ recent decision to lay off most of its writers and editors, and this week’s firing of Jamie Horowitz amid a sexual harassment investigation, there remain a whole lot of unknowns. We know that the grand plan in getting rid of writers was to “pivot to video,” and that even t...
The FBI Investigated Bobby Knight For Groping Women At A Spy Agency
The Washington Post has a scoop about famed basketball coach and terrible person Bobby Knight. On July 10, 2015, Knight was curiously invited to give a speech at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), an arm of the Department of Defense that analyzes imagery of the Earth’s surface in ord...
WBO Will Re-Score Manny Pacquiao's Dubious Loss, But Won't Overturn It
In a gesture where magnanimity is solidly outpointed by hollowness—unless the purpose is to drum up drama for a rematch—the WBO has announced it will re-score last weekend’s controversial fight, which saw Jeff Horn upset Manny Pacquiao, but that it cannot and will not reverse the decision....
Baylor Will Settle Lawsuit With Ex-Student Who Accused It Of Creating A "Hunting Ground For Sexual Assault Predators"
Baylor is in the process of settling a lawsuit filed by a former student who claimed in her suit that the university and its Board of Regents “had created a hunting ground for sexual predators to freely prey upon innocent, unsuspecting female students, with no concern of reprisal or consequences.” ...
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Brazilian Soccer Club Rocked By Locker-Room Double Handjob Video Scandal [NSFW]
Sport Clube Gaucho are a Brazilian third-division side who haven’t been relevant since they briefly made the first division in the 1980s. That changed, though, when four players had their contracts rescinded after a video showing one of them jerking off two of his teammates in the club showers leake...
Red Sox Fan Accused Of Trying To Frame The Left With Very Lame Anti-Trump Graffiti
A Connecticut man wearing a Red Sox shirt was caught on camera defacing signs at a school playground with anti-Trump graffiti in June—but after being caught, he admitted to police he supported Trump and was trying to make the “Left” look bad....
New York City's Parking Rules Have Turned Me Into A Sociopath
“I’ve never seen you happier,” my wife told me one day last week. She shook her head and rolled her eyes. As I started to do a little dance around our living room, she looked at me with bewilderment. The reason for my burst of happiness? I had parked our car and wouldn’t have to move it for more tha...
Adrian Beltre Humbled By Incredibly Slow Pitch
Rangers third baseman Adrian Beltre, whose habit of falling to one knee while batting is second only to his absolute hatred of having his head touched in a ranking of Adrian Beltre quirks, did not expect a 61-mph pitch from Red Sox reliever Fernando Abad in Wednesday’s game. The result was a powerfu...