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Overwatch’s healer-monk Zenyatta floats cross-legged while delivering voice lines like “embrace tranquility” and “be one with the universe.” He was a frail, peace-loving healer, it seemed—until Sung-hyeon “JJonak” Bang’s January debut in the Overwatch League. Four days after the League launched, JJonak’s Zenyatta…Read more...

Cycling season has well and truly started up and that means that cycling fighting season has also begun. Zhiwen Chen of Giant Cycling was kicked out of the Tour de Langkawi—this is perhaps the most egregious usage of the superfluous “de” to remind people that this is the same sport as the Tour de France—after video…Read more...

Kermit Davis, the new head coach of a college basketball team with a mascot named after confederate secessionists who wanted to destroy the union of American states, has vowed his team will respect the flag and the national anthem of the United States of America.Read more...

Black Panther is the biggest hit of 2018 and stands poised to become one of the five highest grossing movies in the history of this continent. It’s a rare movie that serves as both an artistic and financial success and has absolutely destroyed any preconceived boardroom notions about a movie with a nearly all-black…Read more...

This has been a heated topic of debate for many years, most recently in The Atlantic and on the Hello Internet podcast: Are tennis balls green or yellow?

Another hockey guy upended, another close call for a fellow player’s major arteries. Kings defenseman Derek Forbort had his ear butterflied in Monday’s 4-3 win after Wild forward Zach Parise’s skate caught him on the side of the head. Forbort’s lucky it wasn’t his neck.Read more...

Bob Uecker is 84 years old and still going strong, but the longtime Brewers broadcaster has had some health issues in recent years. His latest scare was when a poisonous brown recluse spider bit him in October after last season. From the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel’s Tom Haudricourt:Read more...

We are just 12 weeks away from some soccer games, but more importantly we are just 12 weeks away from a bunch of animals picking the winners of those soccer games. Following in the footsteps of Paul the octopus and Clam the psychic clam, a veritable menagerie of clairvoyant creatures are preparing to flex their…Read more...

This time two months ago, Real Madrid were struggling. Their defense of the league title had already all but mathematically failed. Their Champions League fate also looked shaky, with the back-to-back winners in the club’s favorite competition finishing second in their group and receiving a tough draw against Paris…Read more...

Former Browns tackle Joe Thomas, who rules, is finally free of the Sadness Factory after 11 seasons. Yesterday, he held a press conference to make his retirement official, and spent a portion of it playfully roasting various characters from the Browns’ depressing universe.Read more...

The New York Knicks hosted the Chicago Bulls last night. Here’s some stuff that happened in that game.Read more...

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As you may have realized by now, Facebook can’t be trusted with your data, and has been caught out time and time again letting it leak out to places it shouldn’t. If you can’t quite bring yourself to close down your account—maybe there’s a support group or family connections you’d like to keep active—then here’s how…Read more...

Los Angeles Dodgers third baseman Justin Turner will miss opening day, and likely at least the first month of the season, after suffering a broken wrist when being hit by a pitch in Monday night’s spring training game against the A’s.

It can be easy to take LeBron James for granted, to feel like you know what you’re getting after a decade and a half of this particular brand of greatness and decide that you’d rather watch someone else on any given night. Fine. Fair enough. But—c’mon!—look at him, look at what he did tonight in a game so ordinary for…Read more...

Three weeks after former NFL offensive lineman Jonathan Martin used Instagram to share a photograph of a gun and ammunition with a ominous message, he has been charged by the Los Angeles County District Attorney with four counts of making criminal threats and one count of possessing a loaded firearm, as reported by TMZRead more...

One of the stranger injuries of baseball’s offseason was Texas Rangers pitcher Martín Pérez’s broken elbow, the result of a bull that startled him and caused him to fall on his ranch in Venezuela.Read more...

In a revealing piece about LeBron James’s too-good-to-be-believed body and injury prevention, this anecdote from ESPN’s Brian Windhorst stands out:Read more...

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New Cavaliers players Jordan Clarkson and Larry Nance Jr. went on Uninterrupted’s Road Trippin’ podcast with DJ Montage and Allie Clifton. Anytime an NBA player who has ever played for the Cavs appears on a podcast, they are apparently bound to give their takes on science, and Clarkson did not disappoint. After…Read more...

Mike Lupica, whose little fingers are still, somehow, busy banging out columns for the New York Daily News and MLB.com, has a bit of a reputation for being a smug jerk to people he deems beneath him. From Shannon Hale, a well-known author of young-adult novels, comes yet another tale of Lil’ Mike being a big asshole.

In previous years, Jezebel’s annual March Madness brackets have spanned a number of fun categories—Internet vs. IRL, Sex vs. Chocolate, Childhood vs. Adulthood. And what a gas it has been. This year, however, we have thrown caution and also optimism to the wind. We have let our hair down. We have unbuttoned our pants…Read more...

A single word in the sweeping tax bill that House Republicans passed in December could lead to a host of unintended consequences for American pro sports teams when making trades, according to a report from Jim Tankersley in the New York Times.Read more...

Collin Sexton is a star freshman point guard for the University of Alabama’s basketball team. He’s so good that although Oklahoma’s Trae Young has a bigger name, Sexton will probably be picked ahead of him in the NBA draft. And while Alabama had an up-and-down season this year, that they even made it to the NCAA…Read more...

J.Crew Factory’s classic extra discounts are back. Use the code BLOSSOM at checkout and grab an extra 30% off everything, including sale items. There’s a ton to look at, especially if you’re in the mood to throw your winter coats and sweaters into storage ASAP.Read more...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Across the large swath of the parking lot of Mapfre Stadium before the first Columbus Crew home game of the season on March 10, I could see it clearly: Fans duct-taped owner Anthony Precourt to the side of a red four-door pickup truck.

It’s becoming increasingly clear that Facebook has never faced a scandal like the one it’s currently fighting through. Revelations over the weekend about its reckless sharing of user data sent its stock price plunging on Monday, and fresh calls for regulations on the social media network are looking more real than…Read more...

Extend the life of the unused portion of your fruits and veggies in these $7 silicone Food Huggers, and then rinse, and reuse them over and over again. Sure, you could use plastic wrap to achieve the same thing, but you can’t always untangle plastic wrap to reuse a second time.Read more...

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World-beating British runner Mo Farah has spent the gold-medal winning portion of his career denying that he took performance-enhancing drugs in more than the allowed amounts or in unallowed ways. He’s had to issue those denials in part because of his association with the legendarily shady coach Alberto Salazar, but…Read more...

Sebastian Aho plays for the New York Islanders. Sebastian Aho plays for the Carolina Hurricanes. Yes, there are two players named Sebastian Aho in the NHL, in what appears to be hockey’s useless but mildly interesting equivalent of the NFL’s “Antonio Gates played basketball in college.”Read more...

The Cavaliers today announced Lue will be taking a leave of absence from the team. Lue, who had not previously disclosed the illness or its symptoms, said he has been suffering from chest pains, a lack of sleep “and other troubling symptoms.” Doctors, however, have reached “no conclusions as to what the exact issue…Read more...

West Virginia Governor Jim Justice appeared at Sunday night’s NCAA Tournament game between West Virginia and Marshall wearing a suit that was both deeply and intentionally unfortunate. Justice is a Marshall University graduate—his wife and daughter are, as well—and, if you’re just joining us, a West Virginia native.…Read more...

Kids fall down a lot, and they hurt themselves a lot. It’s a feature, not a bug. You gotta crawl before you can walk, you gotta walk before you can run and you gotta trip over your clumsy feet five thousand times before your brain can figure out how to operate your limbs.

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William Strampel is the former dean of the osteopathic medical school at Michigan State University, a position he held from 2002 until last year. In that position he supervised Larry Nassar, a doctor who sexually abused hundreds of girls while working for Michigan State and USA Gymnastics. The Wall Street Journal has obtained…Read more...

The next generation of the NHL is in good hands, with the likes of McDavid and Matthews and Patrik Laine not merely promising to be superstars in the near future, but playing like superstars now. Laine, Winnipeg’s 19-year-old winger, with a pair of goals in last night’s 4-2 win over Dallas, is now tied for the NHL’s…Read more...

You don’t necessarily need to buy a new mattress to get a better night’s sleep: Sometimes, a mattress pad will do, and a great one is on sale in today’s Amazon Gold Box.

Martina Navratilova, long heralded as one of the greatest tennis champions of all time, appeared as a commentator for the BBC’s Wimbledon programming last year. But according to Navratilova, she made at least 10 times less for those appearances than male counterpart John McEnroe, a slight she says is in line with the…Read more...

It always ends in a loss. But for the previous 135 16-seeds in the 64-team era of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament before Friday night, that loss came in the first round. The UMBC Retrievers, fresh off a dismantling of the so-called “top” team in the country, made the most of their reprieve in staying within one…Read more...

Just two days after Nevada’s Caleb Martin lost his damn mind in overtime to beat Texas, teammate Josh Hall floated a ball over the head of Cincinnati’s Kyle Washington to give the Wolf Pack their first and only lead of the game and send them on to the Sweet 16.

Michigan State, a team that lost exactly four games all season before the NCAA tournament, is now on its way home thanks to the fact Tom Izzo could not maneuver past a zone. That it was the zone of a team that barely squeaked into the tournament makes it embarrassing; that the zone belongs to Syracuse just makes it…Read more...

The Raptors are great. They’re virtually a lock to finish the regular season with the best record in the Eastern Conference, and they’re the only team in the NBA’s top five in both offensive efficiency and defensive efficiency, and they’d come into Sunday having won 11 in a row, and 18 of 19, and with a league-best…Read more...

Texas A&M is headed to the Spokane regional after the fourth-seeded Aggies beat five-seed DePaul on a Chennedy Carter three-pointer that came with three seconds remaining in the game.Read more...

Michigan State took a three-point lead into the half against Syracuse thanks to Matt McQuaid fielding his own rejected field goal attempt and heaving up a banked three at the buzzer.Read more...

The Boilermakers overcame the absence of Isaac Haas due to an elbow fracture to hang on against 10th-seed Butler Sunday afternoon, utilizing 7-foot-3 backup big man Matt Haarms as a fill-in starter. And Haarms, you may have noticed, has quite the ‘do, and it requires quite a lot of attention, even during a tournament…Read more...

During pool play at Final Round 2018 yesterday, one Pokkén Tournament player took the opportunity to take the mic and deliver some choice words for his next opponent.Read more...

Michigan is moving on to the Sweet 16 after freshman Jordan Poole drilled a buzzer-beating three to end Houston’s season and seal his place in Wolverines lore. Brad Nessler’s call was perfectly fine for the moment, but we thought we’d share with you how it sounded to radio listeners back in Ann Arbor on the Michigan…Read more...

Rory McIlroy is sitting third headed into the final round of this weekend’s Arnold Palmer Invitational in sunny Orlando. During his third-round 67 on Saturday, McIlroy was irritated once again by rowdy fan behavior, and he’s got an idea for a solution, per ESPN:Read more...