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Last April, eighteen-year-old Billy Monger lost both of his legs in a tragic British Formula 4 crash, and in March of this year it was confirmed that Monger would be back in the car for a full season of British F3 with Carlin Racing. And at his first race back in the series one step above the series he crashed in …Read more...

This rules. It’s footage of the broadcast table during the closing seconds of Friday’s Final Four game between Connecticut and Notre Dame, as Junior Arike Ogunbowale knocked down the game-winning basket:

COLUMBUS, OH — When Teaira McCowan grabbed her 23rd rebound of Mississippi State’s semifinal win over Louisville on Friday night, she just kept coming down with it—all the way to the floor. That’s a long way down for McCowan, who stands a muscular 6'7", but she wasn’t going to let this rebound get away. That board…Read more...

I would like for you to bear in mind that what you are about to see is a defensive highlight—it shows Josh Donaldson, Toronto’s third baseman, making a nice diving stab to his left, then rising to make a throw across the diamond. It’s the throw you’ll want to watch, in particular—it jumps out at you, despite the pay…Read more...

During a celebratory birthday stream last night, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive commentator Matthew “Sadokist” Trivett called members of his stream chat the n-word on stream, as well as telling one member of the CS:GO community to kill themself.Read more...

John Sterling’s call for Giancarlo Stanton’s first dinger as a Yankee was goofy and dumb. The call—Giancarlo, non si può stoparlo—was in Italian, which is random as hell, considering that Stanton is not Italian, and neither is Sterling, and we do not live in Italy, and Sterling was not broadcasting in Italy. It was…Read more...

The playoff hopes of the Denver Nuggets are probably cooked. They’re two back of the Pelicans with just six games left to play, and they’d dropped four of six coming into Friday night’s game in Oklahoma City. Realistically, losing that incredible stinker in Memphis on March 17 was probably the point of no return. But…Read more...

In the bottom of the 5th inning of Friday’s win over the Chicago Cubs, Miami Marlins utility guy Derek Dietrich ripped a foul ball into the stands in right, where it managed to find its way into a dimension of pure, ecstatic bro-dom:Read more...

The contemptible Laura Ingraham, host of the Fox News show The Ingraham Angle, announced Friday that she is taking a week of Easter “vacation” as advertisers continue to abandon her show.Read more...

Both women’s Final Four games went to overtime tonight, with UConn keeping its undefeated season alive thanks to an incredible meltdown by Notre Dame in the last seconds of regulation.Read more...

For every normal fan watching extra innings of today’s game between the Pirates and Tigers, it looked like Detroit won 11-10 in the 10th on a walk-off hit by JaCoby Jones, which scored Nicholas Castellanos on a thrilling play at the plate. The Tigers rushed out of the dugout and onto the field to celebrate, but had to…Read more...

When he almost makes it at the 33-second mark only to fall back again? That’s pure pathos. But please do not patronize this duckling with your pity unless you, too, are capable of a vertical leap more than twice your height.

In an interview with a Spokane, Wa.-based TV station, former Washington quarterback and Super Bowl MVP Mark Rypien spoke openly about his struggles with mental health, acknowledging that he had “been down dark places.” Rypien says that he has struggled with depression, and he believes that the damage inflicted on his…Read more...

Russell Westbrook’s remarkable final shot in the Thunder’s 103-99 loss to the Spurs last night was a doozy. His four three-point attempts from that game are best appreciated in sequence. Together they chart a descent into Westbrook’s wonderful, dark heart.

I get it, I do: You’re a fan of basketball, and this weekend has given you not one but two Final Fours watch. A choice appears. In one corner, an 11-seed underdog that might just do the dang thing and three high seeds that survived historically weird brackets; in the other, four No. 1 seeds, led by the same No. 1 seed…Read more...

It did not take long for America’s despicable conservative movement to lose its goddamn mind about the campaign by Parkland shooting survivors to, you know, not be shot in their classrooms. Laura Ingraham is just the tip of the vile iceberg; look in the fever swamps of right-wing Twitter and you’ll see that it gets…Read more...

The Tigers are up 2-0 on the Pirates in the early going of opening day for both teams, and Detroit got their rally going with a Mikie Mahtook leadoff double in the second. Mahtook’s slide was a thing of beauty, in a way. Ugly, awkward beauty. How do you even put that many parts of your body in contact with the ground,…Read more...

The Blues have dressed an emergency goaltender this season, and the Hurricanes actually put their equipment manager Jorge Alves in a game last year—for precisely eight seconds with no shots on goal. Thursday night, Scott Foster not only became the first emergency goalie to make a save in an NHL game, but achieved…Read more...

Of the many stupid NCAA rules and regulations that people tend to notice in March, the insistence that public-facing people—coaches, players, even folks in the media room—drink only from NCAA-branded cups ranks pretty far up there. During yesterday’s Final Four press conference, UConn coach Geno Auriemma rebelled: He…Read more...

Sloane Stephens is in her first final, at the Miami Open, since winning the U.S. Open last summer. That’s especially significant, considering this tournament is the first time she’s strung together more than two wins in a row since that grand slam victory. (She won two and only two rounds at Acapulco as the No. 1…Read more...

Perhaps you’ve heard this before: The Philadelphia Eagles won the Super Bowl this year. The team that forever seemed doomed to represent the City of Philadelphia perfectly—generally pretty successful, but never the best—actually won the Super Bowl for the first time.Read more...

Many years could have been the year of Juan Martin del Potro. So many of them weren’t.Read more...

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Thirty-one years ago, WWE (then the WWF) held the third and still the most legendary WrestleMania at the Pontiac Silverdome in Michigan, headlined by Hulk Hogan successfully defending the WWE Championship against Andre The Giant. While the two had faced off numerous times across the country from about 1979 to 1981,…Read more...

Kevin Durant was ejected just before halftime during last night’s game against the Bucks. It was his fifth ejection of the season, and based on audio captured by the TNT broadcast, he prooooobably deserved it.

Upgrade your home’s networking setup, binge watch on an OLED TV, grab some Dash buttons essentially for free, and find the rest of Friday’s best deals.Read more...

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Imagine: you’re in a crowded mid-size venue, 300 strangers surrounding you. Just an hour ago, this space was vacant; now you’re practically cuddling with some drunk dudes you’re praying won’t spill beer on your shirt. They don’t smell great. It’s Friday night and you’ve headed straight from work to happy hour to here,…Read more...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk, a billionaire, just received an unprecedented incentive-laden pay package that could earn him tens of billions of dollars. But his employees also get something: Exhortations to work faster!Read more...

On MLB opening day and with plenty of actual good NHL teams in action, there was no way in hell I was going to put myself through Red Wings-Sabres last night. So I’d be lying if I said I’ve entirely stuck by my hometown team, but still, this highlight is like the best thing I’ve seen from Detroit all year.

In Thursday’s 5-3 Nashville win over San Jose, Predators winger Filip Forsberg attempted—and almost nailed—a thing of beauty. While skating around the back of the net, Forsberg scooped the puck onto the blade of his stick and threw it on net while he skated past. He hit the post.

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The crack of the bat. The smell of glove leather. Enormous American flags. Cracker Jacks. An idiot on the field, sprinting half-clothed through Arizona’s outfield. Baseball is back!Read more...

I’m not sure exactly what Robin Lopez is saying in this little tirade here—there are clearly several fuck yous, maybe what looks like an instance of bullshit, and some other stuff, all accompanied by very emphatic finger-jabbing—but he was very clearly pissed:Read more...

As of this year, all 30 MLB teams now have protective netting that extends at least to the ends of the dugouts, a change made after a toddler suffered bleeding on the brain when struck by a line drive at Yankee Stadium last year. The netting has a pretty negligible impact on the viewing experience for most fans, and…Read more...

The Pirates got rained out today, but here’s some Pittsburgh hitting that’s better than anything you would have seen from the Buccos.Read more...

The Lightning and Bruins are currently previewing tonight what could be a very good playoff series next month, and going by this game, tempers will be hot if these teams meet again.Read more...

A report yesterday from the Lansing State Journal revealed that in January—the same month over 150 women gave victim-impact statements in Michigan courtrooms about Larry Nassar’s serial sexual abuse—the PR firm Weber Shandwick billed Michigan State, Nassar’s old employer, for more than $500,000. According to the…Read more...

A few days ago, the New York Times talked to Yankees broadcaster John Sterling about the home run call that he’d decided to use for Giancarlo Stanton this season:Read more...

Baseball has a lot of structure to it, so when a relatively mundane in-game move happens, like a third baseman backing up deep onto left field grass for an at-bat, it has a deeper psychological impact that it should. Today, Astros manager A.J. Hinch caught everyone’s attention and did a cool, smart thing by sending…Read more...

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The Sixers are on a long winning streak; Joel Embiid has been a star all season; Ben Simmons is playing great; and Markelle Fultz is back in the lineup after missing 68 games. Of course, this means something bad has to happen.

Darius Bazley, high school senior and top prospect for the 2019 NBA Draft, has retracted a commitment to Syracuse and intends to enter the D-League this fall, possibly carving a new path to the NBA, as Yahoo’s Shams Charania reports. This is cool and basically without precedent!

There is no unpleasantness quite like a bad landlord. All anyone really wants from an apartment is that it do what it is supposed to do—that the stove gets hot without bursting into flames, that the doors and windows stay closed when closed and open as required, that the pipes remain intact and that whatever species…Read more...

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It only took a few innings for today’s season opener between the Cubs and Marlins game to reach the “semi-bored announcers just shooting the shit” phase. Thankfully, ESPN analyst and generally delightful guy Tim Kurkjian was there to participate.

Pat Conroy was full of shit.