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Immortals has been rejected from North America’s League of Legends Championship Series, which comes as a shock, given that the organization bought in back in 2015 and has since built one of the league’s largest support staffs for their LoL team. That still wasn’t quite enough of a commitment in League of Legends for…Read more...

Leaving a hotel in Manhattan Wednesday afternoon, San Francisco 49ers owner Jed York told me that he believes that “ultimately, social justice is not a political issue.” Meaning, contextually, that it’s not a partisan political issue, from his perspective. Or shouldn’t be, at least.

The NBA returned this week, and while I periodically enjoy a glance at regular season basketball here and there, as any sane man would, basketbloggers treated that shit like First Contact happening on Christmas. Given the evils of the NFL, it’s very very easy to cast the NBA in a heroic light. It’s “The Good League,”…Read more...

Though not nearly as gruesome, the knee injury suffered by Jeremy Lin last night was just as stomach-churning as the leg break that ended Gordon Hayward’s season on Tuesday night. The gut punch didn’t come from any horrifically twisted limb, but from Lin’s anguished reaction.

Yesterday, 2012 Olympic gold medalist McKayla Maroney added her name to the ever-growing list of gymnasts who allege they were sexually abused by former USA Gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar. Maroney is the highest profile athlete to date to come forward; so far, more than 140 women and girls have come forward…Read more...

Kevin Durant? Corny in ways we are only beginning to understand. Kawhi Leonard? Boring. LeBron James? A bald dad. James Harden? Beards are out. Russell Westbrook? Okay, he’s still pretty cool, but what I am getting at here is this: we are headed, at this very moment, directly into the Year of Giannis Antetokounmpo. It…Read more...

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Given the graphic and shocking visual of the injury, it’s not actually so absurd to refer to the aftermath of Gordon Hayward’s injury as the “best-case scenario,” as Hayward’s agent called it. But that’s the truth: It could have been much worse. Instead, it’s a broken tibia and a dislocated ankle, serious to be sure,…Read more...

If you can’t be bothered to schlep to the gym during the winter, you can still keep in shape at home with this cleverly designed PowerBlock dumbbell set. Each dumbbell adjusts from 3 to 24 pounds in 3-pound increments with just the flick of a selector pin, so it’s basically like a complete weight rack that could…Read more...

Dyson vacuums dominated the nominations in our Kinja Co-Op for best vacuum, but they can be prohibitively expensive. Today though, refurbs of the popular Dyson Ball Animal are down to $200 on Amazon, one of the best prices we’ve seen.

In the eighth inning of tonight’s 3-2 Cubs victory over the Dodgers, there was, for a few moments, a third-strike call on Curtis Granderson. Just until the umpires conferred for a bit and determined that Granderson had in fact fouled the ball off rather than swinging and missing. This made Cubs manager Joe Maddon…Read more...

After failing to protect an early lead in each of their three NLCS games against the Dodgers so far, the Cubs managed to pull it off tonight with a 3-2 victory to stave off a sweep.Read more...

Jeremy Lin went down with an ugly knee injury in the fourth quarter of tonight’s game against the Indiana Pacers after going up for a contested layup.Read more...

Historically, the dogs in the famous Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race have been extremely good boys, but some bad dogs appeared to break that precedent this year. Race officials have said in a statement that several animals tested positive for the opioid pain reliever Tramadol, approximately six hours after they finished…Read more...

The Yankees are just one game from the World Series after tonight’s 5-0 win over the Astros—thanks to another strong starting pitching performance, sure, but also to Houston’s sudden and near-total impotence at the plate.

There has been much fanfare in Metro Detroit about the $863 million new stadium downtown that serves as the new home for both the Red Wings and the Pistons, which was paid for in part by $324 million in public money from the city and the state. The stadium, which is named after cheap pizza, is by all accounts…Read more...

Here we are again in the midst of another news cycle involving a powerful man being accused of sexual assault and harassment and women sharing their own traumas in the hope that something—anything—will change the way men treat women and our bodies.

FIFA 18 is a good game of football with an absolutely incredible singleplayer mode. PES 2018 is a fantastic game of football wearing clearance rack kit.

On the eve of the Thunder’s season opener against the Knicks tomorrow, Carmelo Anthony spoke to Marc Stein, now of the New York Times, about the process of switching conferences and leaving New York after six drama-filled and mostly pointless seasons. It has some good Phil Jackson burns that paint the old coot as an…Read more...

Poor, poor, 18-year-old Mile Svilar made his debut for Benfica today in a game against one of the scariest teams in England. He became the youngest-ever Champions League keeper in the process, but more to the point, he made himself a target for Manchester United’s more experienced scorers.Read more...

Perhaps you spend all day on Twitter or are a close follower of Indianapolis Colts beat writers. If that is the case, you may have recently seen some footage of injured star quarterback Andrew Luck actually throwing a football. The footage was not exactly inspiring, but it was at least evidence that Luck’s surgically…Read more...

Two days after the Louisville Athletic Association’s board canned men’s head basketball coach Rick Pitino, the university’s board of trustees voted Wednesday to fire athletic director Tom Jurich with cause.Read more...

According to arrest records from Orange County (Fla.), five-star basketball recruit Emmitt Williams was arrested early Wednesday morning in Orlando and charged with one count of sexual battery and one count of false imprisonment. Williams, 19, was booked by Orlando PD at around 12:40 this morning and was held on…Read more...

You’d think that Runcorn Linnets, the name of an English soccer club currently competing in the North West Counties League a whopping eight divisions below the Premier League, wouldn’t hold much importance outside of the tiny pocket of ostensible fans tucked away in northern England. You’d be wrong.Read more...

An item of conventional basketball wisdom is this: Generally speaking, if you can get a certain useful skillset in one player, that is better than getting it divided among, say, two or three players. That is why, when blockbuster trades go down, the default analysis favors the team that shipped out a few lesser…Read more...

Eagles defensive end Chris Long—who skipped the Patriots’ White House visit and supported teammate Malcolm Jenkins’s anthem protest earlier this year—said today that he would be using the rest of the season’s game checks to start the Pledge 10 for Tomorrow campaign.

The Celtics’ season was proceeding as planned for a total of six minute before Gordon Hayward obliterated his ankle Tuesday night, forcing the team to reorient itself without a player who figured to have an enormous role in the team’s offense. With Hayward’s ankle now shredded like carnitas, Boston’s goals are…Read more...

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Nikola Mirotic was hospitalized yesterday with a fractured jaw and a concussion after a confrontation with Bulls teammate Bobby Portis. Today the Bulls announced that Portis would be suspended for eight games.Read more...

In her first month as a morning show host, Megyn Kelly has experienced visible growing pains, after matriculating from a toxic conservative media outlet into millions of liberal American households.

Luke Schenn and Antoine Roussel waited only a minute and a half before they dropped their gloves in Tuesday’s Coyotes-Stars game. They absolutely should’ve kept them on.

To most of the sports world, Steve Robertson’s role in the greatest spectacle in college football this year has been a small one. Robertson, a recruiting writer for the Mississippi State fan site Gene’s Page on Scout.com, is the guy who found The Call, a one-minute entry in the record of Ole Miss head coach Hugh…Read more...

Defending Jeopardy! champion Manny Abell wasn’t doing so hot heading into Final Jeopardy last night. Abell had accrued just $1,000, trailing both Carlos Nobleza Posas and Fran Fried by a cool $11,300, and he needed a lot to break in his favor for him to make up that difference. Thanks to a panel-wide misunderstanding…Read more...

P.J. Dozier, an undrafted rookie who signed with the Oklahoma City Thunder yesterday and will be wearing the No. 35 jersey for as long as he is with the team, told reporters that his choice in jersey number had nothing to do with Kevin Durant, who wore No. 35 for nine years in Oklahoma City before leaving.

Matthew Callan deserves hazard pay for compiling this video of the last 21 seasons of Joe Buck doing postseason promo reads for Fox’s fall lineups. Thrill! to his obvious lack of enthusiasm. Marvel! at the cuts to the stars of the shows, miraculously in good seats at the game. Wonder! at why you can’t remember half of…Read more...

The Chicago Cubs are down 3-0 in the NLCS, and there’s really no use in thinking too hard about why that is. Joe Maddon has made mistakes, and the bullpen has been pretty bad, but there is a simpler explanation for why the Cubs are one loss away from playoff elimination: They can’t hit the dang ball.

The newest South Park game is full of funny moments and easter eggs, but here’s one you might not catch, because it requires you to break the rules.

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Olympic champion McKayla Maroney has added her voice to the massive and growing list of women using the hashtag #MeToo to share their stories of sexual abuse and sexual harassment, and, more specifically, Maroney joins the more than 140 women who allege they were abused by Larry Nassar, team doctor for USA Gymnastics.

Bosch’s drills and drivers are some of the most popular you can buy, and two different options are both down to their best prices ever, today only on Amazon.

After officials waved off an apparent Kevin Durant buzzer beater upon further review, the Golden State Warriors fell to 0-1 on opening night at home. They lost to the Rockets 122-121 on the occasion of their championship ring ceremony. Awwww.

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The Golden State Warriors were, by a mile, the best possible team for a goofy open-three shooter like Nick Young. But probably not even in Young’s wildest dreams did he know that playing for the Dubs would be so easy and fun so quickly.Read more...

I am aggravated hourly and nearly minutely by some dumb bullshit on television, but never with such consistency as come each MLB postseason, when America’s Home For Friends And Family Guy reruns TBS is mysteriously transformed into a media outlet worthy of broadcasting playoff baseball games. It’s not, but MLB cares…Read more...

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That gloriously frustrating scenario that can only occur in the National League smiled on the Cubs in the sixth inning of their losing battle against the Dodgers, when the pitcher came up with the bases loaded and two outs. Los Angeles was already leading 3-1, trying to bury Chicago, but manager Dave Roberts decided…Read more...

Further proof came tonight that, love him or hate him, Sidney Crosby is a modern hockey deity. In Pittsburgh’s overtime win against the Rangers, Crosby got the game-tying goal with under a minute to play in regulation.Read more...

With a game-tying warp-speed slapper that went off the post and in, Tampa Bay’s Nikita Kucherov continued his incredible year-opening streak. Through his first seven games this season, Kucherov has scored in every one. He’s the sixth player in the modern era to do this, and in the last 30 years, only Mario Lemieux,…Read more...

Aaron Judge, the Yankees’ young superstar slugger and potential MVP, had been having a pretty worthless postseason at the plate. Despite his team’s success, Judge only notched one hit in the entire ALDS, and he’s been mostly anonymous against Houston, only coming out of his shell for a home run in Game 3 when his team…Read more...

Gordon Hayward suffered one of the most gruesome injuries in NBA memory midway through the first quarter of tonight’s tip-off game against the Cavaliers when his ankle snapped just minutes into his tenure with the Celtics.Read more...