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Video Surfaces Of Odell Beckham Jr. Enjoying A Delightful Pizza Party In Bed, Plus Maybe Some Drugs?
Who among us hasn’t enjoyed the thrilling, illicit pleasure of a hot pepperoni pizza in a warm bed? Truly one of life’s great pleasures is slapping the pizza box down on the bedsheets and going to town on the cheesy goodness. As you will see in the strange and fleeting video below, Odell Beckham Jr....

Muhammad Wilkerson's Mom Goes On Radio To Blast Reporter Who Said Her Son Had "Issues With Alcohol"
Yesterday, New York Daily News reporter Manish Mehta suggested that defensive lineman Muhammad Wilkerson, who was recently cut by the Jets and is currently visiting Green Bay and New Orleans, shouldn’t sign with the Saints because of “issues with alcohol.” This understandably pissed off Wilkerson’s ...

Connor McDavid Is Having One Hell Of A Wasted Season
How are things going for the Islanders these days? I was at an ostensible Islanders bar last night, with about 15 TVs in the place, and only one screen—one of the smaller ones—had the Islanders-Oilers game on. And not with sound....

Oklahoma Needs To Get Out Of The Trash Heap Fast
It was only two months ago that Trae Young’s Oklahoma team was ranked fourth in the nation. With the most exciting player in the country leading the way, the Sooners improved drastically from an awful 2017 season, riding a 14-2 start that turned their freshman point guard into a national fascination...

Kelly Oubre On His Mental Health: "Deep Down Inside I'm Going Through A Lot"
Washington Wizards small forward Kelly Oubre Jr. added his perspective to what other NBA players like DeMar DeRozan and Kevin Love have opened up about in recent days—talking about his mental health in an interview on NBC Sports’s “Wizards Tipoff” podcast (it starts around the 13:00 mark)....

Is The Freshman Dominating Maryland High School Basketball Actually 20 Years Old?
The Cinderella-est story of the schoolboy hoops season in the Washington, D.C., area came to an end over the weekend. It turns out the year’s most fantastical feel-good tale really was a fantasy after all....

The Biggest Indie Wrestling Show Ever Is Officially Coming to Chicago
After months of speculation, one of the year’s biggest pro wrestling stories fully took shape on Monday night. All In, a hotly anticipated independent wrestling show produced by Cody Rhodes and The Young Bucks (Matt and Nick Jackson), had its location announced as Sears Centre Arena in Hoffman Estat...

The World Took So Much From Me, But Baseball Gave It Back
Originally featured in the anthology Birth of a Fan (Ed. Ron Fimrite), 1993, this essay appears here with permission....

A Trip To The Big Ten In New York City, The Conference Basketball Tournament Everyone Hates
The Big Ten’s first trip to New York City has not been well received....

Which Was Longer: James Harden's Staredown Or Tom Brady's Kiss With His Son?
Everyone had a hearty chuckle (or gasped in horror) as James Harden extracted Wesley Johnson’s soul with a crossover last night, but The Outline’s Jeremy Gordon had an offhand joke that made us think. He said Harden’s staredown of Johnson was longer than Tom Brady’s definitely normal lips-on-lips ki...

Nick Young's Irrational Confidence Almost, Kinda, Sorta Works
Nick Young did not come close to making this shot. Not remotely. But he played it off as if he did, and sometimes that’s all you need. Announcer Bob Fitzgerald fell for it, hard. ...

Lawsuit: Rick Butler Sexually Abused Six Girls, Threatened Their Careers To Keep Them Quiet
A mother whose daughter played volleyball under coach Rick Butler has filed a federal lawsuit against Butler and his wife, Cheryl, saying that Butler sexually abused “no fewer than six” underage girls and that the Butlers hid the abuses so their coaching business could continue. The lawsuit goes in...

Will Japan’s Olympic Mascot Be A Soohorang Or An Izzy?
The 2018 Winter Olympics are over, and there was one clear winner: Soohorang, mascot of the Pyeongchang games....

Report: Gronk Feel Like Pawn In Game Of Life
Although Rob Gronkowski goes about his everyday life like an ageless high schooler, he’ll be 29 in May and has had a bunch of surgeries to his back and limbs. Add in his marketability and the fact that he’s already sealed up a Hall of Fame spot whenever he walks away from the NFL, and it’s not compl...

NBC Only Aired 60% Of The Winter Games Closing Ceremony Last Night, So Here's The 40% You Missed
As usual, NBC’s tape-delayed Olympic closing ceremony broadcast left much of the festivities on the editing room floor. More than 51 minutes, to be exact, or 40% of the overall show. Here’s some of what the Peacock Network decided was beneath you; a sped-up version of everything you missed is in the...

Jets LB Dylan Donahue Charged With DWI After Driving Wrong Way In Lincoln Tunnel, Hitting Bus
Jets rookie linebacker Dylan Donahue was arrested early Monday morning after he crashed his car into a bus while driving the wrong way in the Lincoln Tunnel, according to Port Authority officials. Donahue crashed into the bus around 2:00 a.m. this morning, and four passengers were injured in the cra...

Tim Tebow Walks On Water Sprinkler, Sprains Ankle
Tim Tebow, who is still playing baseball and apparently a threat to rise to the majors one day, has hurt himself:...

Sandy Alderson Threatens Unruly Mets Fans: Tim Tebow "Will Play In The Major Leagues"
In what I can only assume is a threat, in the vein of “you kids quit monkeying around back there or I will turn this car right around,” Mets general manager Sandy Alderson has made it clear that Tim Tebow will play in the major leagues:...
