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The Money in the Bank ladder match was, both in storyline and in real life, created by Chris Jericho. It’s a simple take on the ladder match. But instead of a championship dangling from the rafters, wrestlers instead fight to grab a contract in a Halliburton-style briefcase. That briefcase can then be “cashed in” at…Read more...

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The Washington Redskins won big today in a Supreme Court case that had nothing to do with them specifically.Read more...

The Federal Trade Commission, along with the Offices of the Attorneys General in the State of California and the District of Columbia, will file a complaint to block the merger of the two largest daily fantasy sports sites, DraftKings and FanDuel, according to a statement released by the FTC today.Read more...

At this last weekend’s The Summit 7, one team decided to challenge itself. Rather than lean on any one hero, Virtus.Pro would go the opposite way: Try to never pick the same hero twice.Read more...

When you watch WWE programming for a long time, certain patterns emerge, ranging from production quirks to how matches are laid out to certain tropes that consistently recur in the storytelling. One of these is the way WWE lets show its utter contempt for its audience. Hell, it showed up recently when, in the “Bayley:…Read more...

Brazilian international and ex-Chelsea player Oscar, who joined his countryman Hulk on Chinese Super League side Shanghai SIPG for an obscene amount of money in December, has managed to score only one goal in league play this season. But during Shanghai SIPG’s match against Guangzhou R&F yesterday, he succeeded in…Read more...

Zack Hample, a grown man who has collected over 9,000 baseballs at major-league stadiums and does not react well to being denied a ball, was unable to get his hands on a ball yesterday. The person keeping him from his souvenir was Clayton Kershaw:

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Paul George has reportedly told the Indiana Pacers that he plans to leave the team next summer and sign with the Lakers. The Pacers should obviously try to trade George before the end of the season, but any non-Lakers team that acquires him would do so knowing that they are likely getting a one-year rental for a run…Read more...

The list of players protected from Wednesday’s draft to stock the expansion Vegas Golden Knights is out, and conversely—and most importantly—the list of unprotected players. The Golden Knights could enter the NHL with a perfectly fine team, but from all indications, GM George McPhee won’t be satisfied with that; he’s…Read more...

So Brooks Koepka won the U.S. Open at Erin Hills today, bringing to a merciful end Fox’s awful efforts at airing golf—for the weekend, at least. The network went out with a typical bang of a blunder: picking out the wrong Brooks Koepka girlfriend.Read more...

Rockies third baseman Nolan Arenado completed a cycle today in the most dramatic possible fashion: with a three-run walk-off dinger in the bottom of the ninth inning. Dig it:Read more...

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Here is a really slick, gorgeous double play from the boys in sky blue:Read more...

Paul George has told the Indiana Pacers that he will leave the franchise via free agency after the 2017-18 season, according to this Sunday report from Yahoo’s Adrian Wojnarowski.Read more...

Sergio’s sartorial selection is remarkably Nintendonian today.Read more...

Famous or anyway probably real and human soccer person Jason Cummings has been transferred from one team to another team, according to this report. He is the Cum Dog. Cum Dog coming to Nottingham Forest, is what I’m saying here.

During yesterday’s European Overwatch Contenders group stage, Esporati player DIDS put together a highlight reel of Widowmaker shots in short succession to secure the round.Read more...

Basque matador Ivan Fandino is dead after being gored to death yesterday by a bull named Burp at the Corrida des Fetes in southern France.Read more...

Is a water balloon fight sports? Of course it is.

Justin Thomas, wearer of sweet pink pants and nailer of wild curving birdie putts, set a PGA Tour record with his 9-under 63 on Saturday, the lowest score in relation to par in the history of the U.S. Open.Read more...

Machado is moving the other way when he uncorks this throw, and he is deep in foul territory, and he throws the ball on a line, and it’s a perfect strike:Read more...

Here we have brawny sports heartthrob Tim Tebow losing his grip on a bat and yanking it 30 rows into the stands in Charleston, South Carolina:Read more...

According to multiple reports, the Celtics have agreed to trade the number one overall pick in Thursday’s NBA draft to the Philadelphia 76ers, clearing the way for the Sixers to finally add a guard—any guard, please God let it be a guard—to their young core. The Sixers are expected to use the first overall pick on…Read more...

Rowing is one of the best workouts you can perform at home, so if you’ve got the space for it, you can save about $70-$90 on a highly-rated machine in today’s Amazon Gold Box.

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Stefan Bondy of the New York Daily News today dropped an excellent history of the incredibly ill-fated and lopsided 2013 trade that sent Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce from Boston to the Brooklyn Nets, in exchange for a bundle of unprotected draft picks and pick-swaps that wound up including this year’s first overall.Read more...

NORRISTOWN, Pa.—Every day in court, they were there—the other women who said, like Andrea Constand, they were drugged and sexually assaulted by Bill Cosby. Victoria Valentino always wore her button, saying “We stand in truth.” Lili Bernard always wore white; on the first day she carried in pink gladiolus. Every day…Read more...

Look at this unusually small man punking himself in the stands of today’s Blue Jays tilt against the White Sox:Read more...

In times of trouble, some players turn to a coach or fellow pro, possibly even to a higher power. This Street Fighter player chose to lean on the Good Book: namely, Daigo’s book, The Will to Keep Winning.Read more...

Up the slope, off the alligator, down the chute, through the clown’s shoes, banked off the bricks, and in!Read more...

In what can only be the result of dastardly Russian interference, The Freeze lost a race last night. Disgusting.Read more...

Intense and humongous Giants pitcher Jeff Samardzija loaded all of his 6-foot-5 heft into a mighty hack at this meatball from Rockies rookie Antonio Senzatela, blasting it 446 feet to right center for the longest homer smacked by a pitcher in the Statcast era. Behold:Read more...

Savage Twitter beef erupted Friday night between, umm, golfers? What?Read more...

Near the top of a Saturday leaderboard that is noticeably missing the world’s top three players—Dustin Johnson, Rory McIlroy, and Jason Day shot a combined 19 over par and all missed the cut—you will notice the excellent sports name Cameron Champ, sitting next to a little “a” in parentheses. Champ is a rising senior…Read more...

NORRISTOWN, Pa.— A mistrial has been declared in the criminal trial of Bill Cosby, an entertainer so beloved he was dubbed America’s Dad, so powerful his value was estimated at $400 million, and who in recent years has watched his entire empire crumble as dozens of women came forward saying he drugged, then raped…Read more...

Michael Floyd is currently under house arrest in Minnesota, a sentence stemming from a December 2016 drunk driving arrest where he blew a .217. He was released by the Cardinals shortly after, then signed with New England, where he won a Super Bowl. He was sentenced to 24 days in jail and 96 in house arrest, and after…Read more...

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The Philips Norelco OneBlade was the most exciting new shaving product of 2016, and Amazon’s offering a rare deal on it today if you’re curious to try it out.

There are many ways to describe Juan Martin del Potro: owner of the most devastating forehand in the sport, winner of a Grand Slam at age 20 after beating near-peak Roger Federer, and the dude with the largest heart on tour. But you could hardly describe him as healthy. Years of wrist issues sent him nose-diving down…Read more...

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These EXCLUSIVE pictures of a bear enjoying a hammock and investigating a trash can come to us from a reader who understands what this damn website is all about.Read more...

Thursday’s Detroit Tigers game felt like a quintessential performance from the team’s two pillars. Justin Verlander started in his 366th career game for Detroit, going up against the Rays and pitching seven solid innings as he put himself in position to get the win. But the team lost its 3-2 lead when an unreliable…Read more...

It’s Tuesday, and Zack “CaptainZack” Lauth is waiting on a plane. His flight’s been delayed twice. At 15 years old, he’s one of the youngest signed players in Super Smash Bros. For Wii U, and one of the best Bayonetta players in the world—a character as strong as she is controversial.

Matt Hughes hasn’t fought in the UFC since 2011, but he held the welterweight championship for two stints during the mid-2000's and is considered one of the greatest fighters of all-time in the 170-pound division. He beat MMA legend Royce Gracie and is one of two people ever to defeat Georges St-Pierre in the octagon.

The Detroit Pistons will soon move back to the city after nearly 40 years of playing out in the suburbs. The public will provide at least $305 million of the $945 million that it cost to build the new pizza-themed, arena as well as a new practice facility for the team. The actual cost will almost certainly end up…Read more...

Congratulations to the Milwaukee Bucks for hiring as GM the candidate who wasn’t even a candidate, and who no one in charge actually wanted.

Last year the good folks at Penguin sent me out on a book tour to promote The Hike, and now they’re sending me back out on the road once more to whore out the paperback for cheapskates.

A transfer window isn’t a transfer window without rumors that Cristiano Ronaldo might be on the move, and despite playing the hero in Real Madrid’s historic back-to-back Champions League trophies and snatching away the league title from Barcelona and all but certainly locking up a fifth Ballon d’Or while playing in…Read more...