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  • Ross Barkley's Standoff With Everton Makes No Sense
    Friday - 05/19/2017 - 03:13 PM

    On paper, Ross Barkley and Everton should be the perfect marriage of player and club. On one side you have a young player who drips with talent and potential playing for an ambitious, relatively big club that offers him all the minutes and patience and care he could ask for in hopes that he reaches his sky-high…Read more...

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  • Fernando Gaviria Is Cycling's Next Superstar Sprinter
    Friday - 05/19/2017 - 02:24 PM

    The best Colombian cyclists have long hewed to a single archetype, specializing in climbing high mountains and winning on the harshest and steepest slopes. There have been Colombian rouleurs and sprinters before, but the most successful riders have almost all been pure climbers.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

  • A Q&A With Tony Reali About Postpartum Depression In Dads
    Friday - 05/19/2017 - 01:21 PM

    Tony Reali, the host of ESPN’s Around the Horn, always wanted to be a dad: “I wanted a whole team of kids. I’ve said this to everyone with ears.” So when he experienced what he called an attack of postpartum anxiety one Sunday afternoon in September 2015 when he was home alone with his one-year-old daughter,…Read more...

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  • WWE Wants to Replace John Cena With Japan's Shinsuke Nakamura, And It Might Actually Work
    Friday - 05/19/2017 - 01:52 PM

    This Sunday night’s Backlash show marks the beginning of a new era in WWE, one that would have been shocking even two years ago. For the first time in its history, the world’s largest professional wrestling promotion is attempting to turn a Japanese wrestler into one of its top stars—the top star, in fact, of one of…Read more...

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  • Here Is Kenley Jansen’s Immaculate Inning In 16 Seconds
    Friday - 05/19/2017 - 12:22 PM

    Again! Just four days ago, Max Scherzer threw an immaculate inning (nine pitches, nine strikes). Three days before that, Craig Kimbrel threw one. Then last night, Dodgers closer Kenley Jansen threw an immaculate ninth inning against the Marlins.

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  • Tyler Flowers Pointed Directly At Jose Bautista To Order His Plunking
    Friday - 05/19/2017 - 10:58 AM

    Last night the Atlanta Braves finally fired back at the Toronto Blue Jays for carrying out an immensely pathetic beef during the four-game series. Read more...

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  • Kevin Pillar Suspended Two Games For Using Homophobic Slur
    Friday - 05/19/2017 - 09:53 AM

    MLB announced yesterday that it was investigating whether Blue Jays outfielder Kevin Pillar called Braves pitcher Jason Motte a “fag” or “faggot” during Tuesday night’s game. The Blue Jays, perhaps in an attempt to get out ahead of any punishment from the league, have since suspended Pillar for two games.

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  • The Ducks Have Gotten So Good At Making Their Lives Difficult
    Friday - 05/19/2017 - 09:06 AM

    The Ducks are either thermodynamically impervious to momentum, or, even more useful in the NHL playoffs, they have short memories. Goldfish-short. Short enough to win four separate games this postseason that they trailed by two goals, or to come back from an 0-2 hole in the conference semis, or to forget a 7-1 blowout…Read more...

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  • Ducks OT Goal Evens West Final
    Thursday - 05/18/2017 - 11:30 PM

    Anaheim thwarted Nashville’s OT-forcing comeback and ended the Predators’ home playoff win streak when Corey Perry’s drive went off PK Subban’s stick and ended up past Pekka Rinne 10:25 into the additional period, giving the Ducks a 3-2 win and leveling the Western Conference final at two games each.Read more...

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  • Harry Kane Is Very Greedy And Very Good
    Thursday - 05/18/2017 - 08:51 PM

    Harry Kane scored four goals in Tottenham’s 6-1 dismantling of Leicester today, moving two goals ahead of Everton’s Romelu Lukaku to take the spot as the league’s top scorer. The first goal came in the 25th minute when Son Heung-Min laid off the ball to the streaking Kane, who hammered it home.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share