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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...

Earlier this week there was a phony report about the Golden State Warriors deciding not to go to the White House after winning their second title in three years. That prompted Washington Post columnist Sally Jenkins to write this column calling for all of the Warriors to go and shake Donald Trump’s hand in the name of…Read more...

Former 49ers coach Jim Tomsula is now handling the Skins’ defensive line, and not only is he free of the crushing burden of working for Jed York, but he’s also lost some facial hair and fat.Read more...

It’s really happening.

NORRISTOWN, Pa.—When word came out Thursday night that Bill Cosby spokesman Andrew Wyatt would talk to the media, everyone started running. The camera operators grabbed their gear and hustled, with reporters trailing behind them. They moved like a school of fish; you couldn’t miss it. The microphones quickly collected…Read more...

Draymond Green and LeBron James had a bit of a back-and-forth yesterday, and the good-natured ribbing ended with Green taking a shot at James during his speech at the Warriors’ victory parade, much to James’s delight.

NORRISTOWN, Pa.—On the fifth day of deliberations, the Bill Cosby criminal trial jurors started with a familiar update: They had a question. The jurors, who will decide if Cosby is guilty or not of three counts of aggravated indecent assault, have so far asks to rehear multiple pieces of evidence and twice had…Read more...

This week, much has been made of the main event of New Japan Pro Wrestling’s annual Dominion event, which took place on Sunday. IWGP heavyweight champion Kazuchika Okada and challenger Kenny Omega went to a 60-minute time-limit draw, the hallmark of classic title matches for decades. It came five months after their…Read more...

Last night my dog ate a shitload of flour off the floor when I spilled it, which seemed bad until I tweeted out the story and learned that readers’ pets have perpetrated far, far worse culinary crimes. Here now are some of the best:

Randy Moss was inducted into the Minnesota Vikings’ ring of honor this week, and at a press conference on Wednesday he was asked what he would say to Dennis Green, who coached Moss in Minnesota and died last June, if he had the chance.

Gedvydas Vainauskas, the president of Lithuanian professional basketball team BC Lietuvos Rytas, had this to say about black players on his basketball team.

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Darren Baker, the son of Nationals skipper Dusty Baker and probably best known for almost being trampled at home plate during the 2002 World Series, was selected by the Nationals on Wednesday in the 27th round of the MLB Draft. We’re all so very old.Read more...

Brydan Klein, the Australian-born British tennis player who was banned from the sport for six months in 2009 for racially abusing an opponent, was assessed an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty during his ATP Nottingham Challenger match on Thursday for calling himself a “stupid person” after he dumped a shot into the…Read more...

The June 22 NBA Draft feels as set, at least on its opening picks, as any in recent memory: Markelle Fultz will go to the Celtics at No. 1, then Lonzo Ball to the Lakers at No. 2. But a week out, everyone is doing their darndest to cast some doubts.

After falling behind 9-1 to the Rockies by the seventh inning, the Giants stormed back to tie the game—only to ultimately fall short, as Colorado walked off with a run in the bottom of the ninth.Read more...

Chris Sale pitched seven shutout innings against the Phillies before giving up just one run in the eighth. He allowed five baserunners over his complete game. He struck out 10. He got the only extra-base hit of the game for the Red Sox (and the first of his career), in the form of an eighth-inning leadoff double to…Read more...

Stand up paddleboarding—is it surfing, or is it canoeing?Read more...

Orlando City SC forward Cyle Larin was arrested early this morning for driving under the influence after driving on the wrong side of the road in Orlando.Read more...

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“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.”Read more...

Adrian Wojnarowski did not report that LeBron James plans to opt out in 2018 and create a super-team in Los Angeles; “WojVertioalNBA” did. Around the Horn didn’t catch the faux Woj before the tweet aired, though, so the panel debated whether James would actually execute this not-actually-reported plan.

The Steelers placed the franchise tag on running back Le’Veon Bell, but Bell has yet to sign his tender and did not report for any of the team’s offseason program. That includes this week’s mandatory minicamp, which for Bell was actually not mandatory because he’s not officially not under contract.Read more...

NORRISTOWN, Pa.—When the judge announced Thursday that jurors in the Bill Cosby trial were deadlocked, first there was silence. Shock from the women in the courtroom who have said that Cosby also drugged and assaulted them. Quiet pleasure from the Cosby supporters. And eventually flurries of typing and tweeting from…Read more...

Let’s check in with the New York Mets, who are supposedly a Major League Baseball team playing in the NL East.

In the first of what I hope are many blockbuster trades over the next couple of days, the Tampa Bay Lightning are sending forward Jonathan Drouin and a conditional sixth-round 2018 draft pick to the Montreal Canadiens for defense prospect Mikhail Sergachev and a conditional 2018 second-round pick. We don’t yet know…Read more...

David toppled Goliath in the form of this antelope taking down a long-necked victim desperately trying to avoid it at a Netherlands zoo. The gritty attacker showed no mercy, even as helpless zoo visitors looked on in disbelief.Read more...

The last time the Warriors won a title (the year before they blew a 3-1 lead in the NBA Finals), Draymond Green got tipsy at the team’s victory parade in Oakland. He mocked the Cleveland Cavaliers by rapping “Cavaliers? Nope. We won? Yupp. They suck? Yupp. We here? Yupp. They not? Nooope.”

Luka Modrić should be a national hero. The Croatian midfielder has been a regular for several seasons now on Real Madrid, one of the most famous teams in world soccer, and he’s appeared in nearly 100 matches for his nation. Modrić has been one of the most consistent players of his generation, and he’s been honored in…Read more...

Oregon State star pitcher Luke Heimlich has removed himself from the baseball team, according to a press release sent Thursday out by university president Ed Ray.Read more...

Steve Ballmer, the recently woke owner of the Clippers, has been trying to get his team out of the arena that they share with the Lakers for some time. He bought the Clippers during the summer of 2014, and every year since then, he’s talked about the possibility of leaving with a rising sense of urgency. In 2015, he …Read more...

Maybe you have heard that some or all of the Golden State Warriors may decline an invitation to celebrate their NBA championship at Donald Trump’s White House, if Donald Trump chooses to invite them, which he has not yet. Maybe you have also heard that yesterday morning, an angry man with Bernie Sanders themes on his…Read more...

Just before the 2016 MLB playoffs, Baseball Prospectus emailed its staff and contributors to tell them that they would not be paid for work they did in August and September until January 2017. The costs of a website redesign and the collapse of daily-fantasy ad spending, the email explained, led to the payment freeze.

Louisville’s attempt to convince the NCAA that it should avoid punishment because it only hired cheap prostitutes that barely assisted their recruiting efforts has, predictably, failed.Read more...

Here is one video with (almost) every Stanley Cup-winning goal, minus those from the pre-TV era that just weren’t filmed. Patric Hornqvist’s winner is still a real dog.Read more...