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The Raptors traveled to San Antonio to face the Spurs in their first matchup since the Kawhi Leonard-DeMar DeRozan trade, and fans made it clear that they did not support Leonard’s post-Gregg Popovich endeavors. San Antonio fans booed their former star as soon as he was introduced and did not show him much love as […]
Basketball culture’s mythical “ball don’t lie” maxim is just as it implies. If there’s a questionable call, the ever-truthful Spalding will go through the hoop for the call’s beneficiary if it’s right, or will do the same for the other side instead if it’s wrong. Here’s NBA great Rasheed Wallace with an example. James Harden […]
The topic of the NBA’s G.O.A.T. was revisited at the end of 2018 when LeBron James said he thought he became the greatest after leading the Cleveland Cavaliers to their first championship in franchise history after coming back from a 3-1 deficit in the 2016 NBA Finals against the Golden State Warriors. Like with many G.O.A.T. conversations, […]
PETA has sent letters to the University of Texas and the University of Georgia, asking the schools to retire their respective animal mascots, Bevo XV and Uga X, following their near deadly sideline altercation before Tuesday’s Sugar Bowl. About an hour before kickoff, Texas’ Bevo (a steer) rammed through the barricade of his makeshift pen and charged […]
The Masked Singer is a new Fox reality competition series hosted by Nick Cannon in which celebrities sing in front of the an audience and panel of judges that includes Nicole Scherzinger, Robin Thicke, Jenny McCarthy, and Ken Jeong. The catch is that the viewers don’t know who’s singing because, of course, they’re in full […]
Purdue superfan Tyler Trent, whose battle with a rare form of bone cancer and advocacy became a nationwide story, has passed away. He was 20 years old. Trent was fighting a third round of a cancer called osteosarcoma. He died on New Year’s Day, leading to a flood of tributes from sports world figures who […]
In light of Floyd Mayweather making quick work of 20-year-old kickboxing phenom Tenshin Nasukawa in their New Year’s Eve exhibition match, Manny Pacquiao posted an early version of his lone resolution for 2019, which appears to be a clear reference to the lopsided victory of his longtime nemesis. Pacquiao’s goal to “only fight experienced opponents who are my size or bigger” is […]
Steelers star wideout Antonio Brown was inactive for his team’s Week 17 contest against the Bengals because of a skirmish he had with a teammate, and not because of an injury, according to a report published by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Despite him being out, the Steelers won the game 16-13, but they ended up missing […]
The NBA isn’t often a place for compliments. Opponents will take compliments as a sign of weakness. That’s the theory at least, and no player is exempt. That maxim certainly holds for rookies, who sometimes have a hard time garnering a compliment from their own teammates. And it’s basically unheard of for European imports playing their initial bit of […]
The Cowboys and Giants were supposed to lollygag through their final matchup in Week 17. The NFC East rivals weren’t really playing for anything. Dallas had already locked up the division last week and New York was simply playing out the season before Odell Beckham, Jr. spends his summer covertly shading Eli Manning on Instagram. […]
