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In a 911 call from the April night that free-agent NFL offensive tackle Michael Oher was cited for assaulting an Uber driver, the driver screams that Oher bit his back, reports the Tennessean.Read more...

Last week, WWE recorded the opening rounds of their inaugural Mae Young Classic—an all-women’s tournament that will air on WWE Network next month—in Winter Park, Fla. The shows, which featured a mix of talent from the WWE developmental system and the independent and international scenes, were well-received by those…Read more...

Le’Veon Bell is making a big bet on himself. That kind of thing isn’t all that uncommon in the NFL, where contracts are not guaranteed, but Bell’s gamble is an attempt to transcend his position from a financial standpoint. The odds that he’ll succeed appear to be stacked against him.Read more...

Markus “Hippaheikki” Kokkonen just secured a second first-place finish in this year’s In The Groove World Cup. The Finnish dance gamer is a well-known champion in Europe’s In The Groove scene, having placed first in the Doubles tournament at last year’s EuroCup. He scored first in yesterday’s Doubles tournament at the…Read more...

Put simply, Houston Nutt won. Put more colorfully, Houston Nutt is a mad man and, my God, if anybody out there has slighted him, their best bet is either fleeing the country or submitting defeat before it’s too late.Read more...

While LeBron James’s future with the Cavaliers beyond the 2017-18 season is unknown, someone else on the team might want to jump ship earlier than him. ESPN’s Brian Windhorst reported today that Kyrie Irving wants the fuck out:Read more...

This morning, beleaguered and incompetent White House press secretary Sean Spicer resigned and went off to the great briefing room in the sky in protest of the White House’s hiring of hedge fund guy Anthony Scaramucci as communications director. Scaramucci gave his first address to the press today, where he boasted…Read more...

During his round at the British Open today, Sergio Garcia whacked his club into some bushes after hitting a shot he was not happy with on the fourth hole. He should not have done that, because he ended up hurting his shoulder.Read more...

Javier Hernández is abnormally famous for a man of his talents. He’s undoubtedly a very skilled and capable striker, especially in the latest period of his career, but Chicharito also benefits from an extraordinary fanbase in North America, one that’s unshared by any of his peers. He is by far the most visible Mexico…Read more...

It’s no secret at this point in the NBA offseason that Carmelo Anthony is over playing his basketball for an irradiated wasteland of an organization, the New York Knicks are equally done with Carmelo Anthony, and the Houston Rockets would like to help both parties out of their predicament by trading for Melo. However,…Read more...

Here come the Pittsburgh Pirates, winners of five games in a row and eight of their last 10, making a push in the crowded and confounding NL Central. The team nobody was paying much attention to last month is suddenly two games behind the Cubs (who have won their last six games), three games behind the Brewers, who…Read more...

As Variety reported today, Vice Media is laying off two percent of its employees in order to expand video production. That two percent appears to include the entirety of Vice Sports.

Last year, NFL fans in Canada were able to watch a full slate of NFL games in the way you might expect. Simply pony up the money to your cable and satellite provider and you’d be able to get NFL Sunday Ticket and the RedZone channel. If you didn’t have cable, NFL Game Pass on NFL.com provided live streaming of every…Read more...

This week, former Vine star and current Disney Channel actor Jake Paul was revealed to be a horrendous nightmare of a neighbor. In some of his videos are a a set of twins named Marcus and Lucas Dobre. Though they regularly collaborate with Paul, the Dobres have a much more notable name helping them: their mother, 1987…Read more...

Hiking can quickly devolve from a wonderful day outdoors to the seventh circle of hell if you don’t use the right footwear, so take this opportunity to save 30% on Merrell’s popular Moab hiking boots for men and women. This deal is only available this weekend, so don’t traipse around too long thinking about it.

In an interview with TMZ Sports, Broncos linebacker Brandon Marshall, who played with Colin Kaepernick in college, raised the same question that many football fans have been asking this year: If guys like Geno Smith can get NFL jobs, why can’t Kaepernick?

On Wednesday, the University of Louisville agreed to increase its annual lease payment to the Louisville Arena Authority, which manages the arena in which Louisville plays its basketball games, by $2.42 million each year. The vote to approve the new deal was a contentious one, and not all of the university’s board…Read more...

Nordstrom’s anniversary sale, a 3-in-1 travel gadget, and a cordless vacuum lead off Friday’s best deals from around the web.Read more...

Even if you’re at a minor league game between the Fort Wayne TinCaps and the Clinton LumberKings, the rules are the same: If you catch a foul ball in your beer cup, you have to chug that shit.

I see you. Spandex. Spiderman. I see you there. What are you doing?Read more...

The Dodgers lost tonight for the first time in nearly three weeks, stopping their win streak at 11 and dropping them to 31-5 in their past 36 games. Their streak was tied for the longest such one in baseball this year. (The Astros put up the same mark in early June.)Read more...

Blue Jays shortstop Ryan Goins had a plate appearance in today’s fifth inning that combined the fright of nearly being hit in the head with the disappointment of an ordinary groundout. Fun!Read more...

Hugh Freeze quit his job as head coach at Ole Miss tonight for reasons nobody wanted to describe other than saying they involved “moral turpitude.” Part of the narrative, though, at least for tonight, includes Freeze’s phone records, which show a one-minute call to an escort service. According to a report by Yahoo,…Read more...

About an hour after announcing the resignation of head football coach Hugh Freeze amid an ongoing NCAA investigation and reports that he once called an escort service from his university-issued phone, Ole Miss officials gave a press conference in which they said Freeze left because of a pattern of “moral turpitude” in…Read more...

After spending more than a year under investigation for NCAA violations, Ole Miss head football coach Hugh Freeze has resigned.Read more...

After a sluggish start to the summer, the Cubs are now riding a six-game winning streak that has them just one game back of first place in the NL Central. Cool! To celebrate, they’ve adopted a distinctly dorky performance to mark getting on base. Less cool!Read more...

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Just yesterday, we sought to assuage nervous Barcelona fans’ fears and inform neutrals of reality by explaining that while reports of questionable reliability trickled out this week asseting that Brazilian superstar Neymar was seriously considering leaving Barça in favor of Paris Saint-Germain, nothing was actually…Read more...

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Who knew that Usain Bolt, the greatest sprinter of all time, had an uneven stride? One guess: This is the solution his body naturally arrived at to compensate for scoliosis. [New York Times]

The Nevada Board of Parole Commissioners has determined that O.J. Simpson will be eligible for parole in a hearing today at Lovelock Correctional Center in Nevada. Simpson could be released from prison in October.Read more...

Amazon always offers a free one-month trial of its Audible audiobook service, but for a limited time, they’re also tossing in an extra free book credit to sweeten the pot. That’s in addition to the book you normally get with the trial, and each credit is valid for any title in the Audible library. The best part? The…Read more...

Mariners GM Jerry Dipoto is feeling bullish about his team, judging by the medium-interesting trade he made today for reliever David Phelps, which will send four low-ranked prospects to Miami.Read more...

HBO’s Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel sent correspondent David Scott to Grozny, Chechnya to tell the story of Ramzan Kadyrov, the Chechen warlord running his private fiefdom with an iron fist thanks in part to the strategic use of MMA and soccer. Kadyrov is the most powerful man in his small corner of Russia and has…Read more...

The New York Daily News ran a lighthearted piece last week about the short amount of time Ray LeMoine—famous creator of the “Yankees Suck” T-shirts, which recently got their own 30 for 30 podcast episode—spent on Rikers Island. The Daily News framed the story as the Yankees “evening the score” against LeMoine, who…Read more...

Have you ever stopped to wonder why practically every government on earth follows the same basic form?

It took more than 50 years for Steven Weber’s father to tell his son he loved him. By the time he said the words, Steven’s father was overcome with dementia, living out his final days wheelchair-bound. Yet Steven’s father is the reason he bought the ‘68 Camaro back in 1973. It’s the reason he’s held onto it all these…Read more...

There is nothing else to say about Roger Federer’s Wimbledon that hasn’t already been blogged in gross excess. But fortunately there is a lot to rewatch.

Remember when Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov showed up at a team practice and gave his players an unbelievably awkward demonstration of his wall-dribbling drills? As it turns out, those drills were not simply the invention of one man’s wealth-addled mind, but part of a martial art known as Tescao, which Prokhorov…Read more...

Rays outfielder Steven Souza Jr. had to leave yesterday’s game against the A’s after sliding into second base during a steal attempt. The injury ocurred when his back foot dug too far into the dirt and caused his body to stretch awkwardly.

OxyLED’s uber-popular motion-sensing night lights come in a lot of different varieties now, but today, you can get their new T-04 modular, rechargeable, night light with the code KINJAT04 for $15.

On Wednesday, Florida resident Jorge Jove clearly couldn’t stomach the sight of an AT&T work truck parked out front of his house. Naturally, police say, he retrieved a revolver and started shooting out the tires and engine.Read more...

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Teens with way too much time on their hands struggling to entertain themselves is a hallmark of summer. This can be a bad thing when those teens take their cues from dipshits like Jake Paul, but it can be a very good thing when it leads to something like a summer full of pool dunks. The Drive-By Dunk Challenge fits…Read more...

Soccer is a game of goals, so naturally almost every transfer window is defined by the movement of the players that score the goals. This summer has been unique in that front, though, as a clutch of mostly young, established and/or wildly promising strikers have all been seemingly available for the right (exorbitant)…Read more...

When the Warriors’ new arena in San Francisco opens for the 2019-2020 season, it will be the first building in the NBA where fans will have to buy personal seat licenses just for the right to purchase season tickets.

The USMNT cruised to a 2-0 victory in tonight’s CONCACAF Gold Cup quarterfinal despite the fact that El Salvador repeatedly treated players like you might have treated your little brother.Read more...

Mets broadcaster Keith Hernandez took it upon himself tonight to horrify a poor girl with the story of the time his braces were smashed into his lips during a game of pick-up basketball, which required several painful hours of recovery work by the school nurse:Read more...