November 4, 2013
Now With More Ricky Davis! Highlights From the D-League Draft
On Friday night, this year’s NBA Development League draft took place, an event that included considerably more Ricky Davis than last year’s draft. The D-League is still very much the minor league you think it is, in stature and with respect to player compensation — the D-League consists of a three-tiered salary structure ($25,500, $19,000, […]
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Early-Season NBA Surprises Shootaround, A.K.A. SIXERS SHOOTAROUND
Michael Carter-Williams is here to make basketball fun again. What. Is. Happening!? Zach Lowe: Here’s how bad it was: My annual column of “bold” predictions hadn’t been out even 30 minutes when an executive on a non-Sixers team emailed to challenge my call that the allegedly tanktastic Sixers would win at least 10 games, thus […]
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An Idiot’s Guide to the Tiger Woods–Brandel Chamblee ‘Feud’
Hey there, casual golf fans! Have you seen strange references to Tiger Woods and someone called Brandel Chamblee as you’ve browsed ESPN over the last two weeks? Are you kind of curious as to what it’s all about, but would rather not chase a series of links down the Internet rabbit hole until you reach […]
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B.S. Report: Cousin Sal and Joe House
Bill Simmons and Cousin Sal discuss yesterday’s NFL games and guess the lines for Week 10. Then Joe House joins the show to talk basketball. Listen to the podcast here. Subscribe to the B.S. Report on iTunes, and check out our podcasts page.
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The Tumultuous Timeline of Richie Incognito
Last week, news broke that second-year Dolphins tackle Jonathan Martin had left the team after an incident with teammates in the team cafeteria. Initially, reports said Martin was taking time away for “assistance with emotional issues,” but in the days since, the alleged incidents involving Martin depict a culture of bullying in the Miami locker […]
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Opening Night in Brooklyn, Year 2
If there was a Year 1 winner when the Nets moved to Brooklyn, it was the Modell’s on Flatbush Avenue that sits across the street from the Barclays Center. What was formerly a rundown sporting goods store with little on the shelves transformed itself into a bright beacon of fluorescent light featuring row upon row […]
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The Weekend in Hockey: A New Low in Philadelphia
A look at three of the biggest stories from the NHL weekend and how they’ll play into the coming days. Flyers Hit Rock Bottom; Grab Shovels The biggest news of the weekend came on Friday night, when the struggling Flyers faced the Capitals. Despite missing the injured Alexander Ovechkin, Washington pumped five second-period goals past […]
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Premier League Pass & Move: Uh-Oh, It’s Magic
A look back at the weekend’s Premier League action. Just Like He Drew It Up Chris Ryan: I was going to say something here about how Arsenal are everything that Liverpool aspire to be. Slick, young, full of flair, incredible in possession with one-touch passing that always seems to land on the instep of an […]
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NFL Run & Shootaround: Foles Show
On any given Sunday (or Monday, or Thursday), your NFL Run & Shootaround crew will be gathered around multiple televisions, making inappropriate jokes and generally regressing to the mean. Catch up on all the NFL action right here. Yeah, Totally … of Course Chris Ryan: So here were are on a Monday morning and Nick […]
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College Football, Week 10: What You Missed While Missing Almost Nothing
What do you get when fully half of the teams in the BCS top 10 don’t appear on the weekend schedule and four of those that do put on decisive wins of varying degrees of ruthlessness? We come not to criticize our corporate mothership, which did not engineer the expansive talent gaps between the Buckeyes […]
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The Year in Gennady Gennadyevich Golovkin
The scene at Madison Square Garden on Saturday night for WBA middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin’s title defense against Curtis Stevens was a far cry from the atmosphere at Golovkin’s first fight on U.S. soil, just 14 months ago at the Turning Stone Resort and Casino in Verona, New York. That night, Golovkin’s opponent had a […]
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About Last Weekend: The Comeback Kids
In case you were busy trying to solve the Heat’s chemistry issues using stoichiometry, here’s what you missed in sports last weekend: It was a weekend of big comebacks in the NFL as contenders Seattle and Indianapolis mounted stunning symmetrical rallies behind their Pro Bowl second-year quarterbacks to beat Tampa Bay and Houston, respectively, 27-24. […]
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Week 9 NFL Viewing Guide: Robert Quinn, Mario Williams, and the Weekend’s Best Matchups
Line Play Nerdery of the Week Robert Quinn, DE, Rams vs. Michael Roos, OT, Titans Sunday, 1 p.m. ET If there were fans who still didn’t know about Quinn before Monday night, I’m guessing they do now. The Rams don’t get many national stages these days, but Quinn made the most of it, tallying three […]
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Cousin Sal’s Week 9 Prop Bets
Week 8: +135,000 jermajesties Season: +95,500 jermajesties Warning: This blog is being written by a grown adult male who has overdosed on Nerds and tropical Starbursts and is completely full of false bravado after sweeping the board with his Week 8 prop bets. Please proceed with caution. Week 9:
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The Sports Guy’s Week 9 Picks
The Week 9 Superduper Quick Picks … (Home teams in caps) DOLPHINS (+3) over Bengals The Skunk! So much for the Red Rifle’s resurgence … and, maybe, so much for the Bengals, who just lost Leon Hall and Geno Atkins in a span of three weeks. Unrelated: Last night was our no. 1 Alcoa’s Great […]
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Introducing the NBA Regular-Season Championship Belt
You see that flag, billowing in the darkness up there? That’s the flag of champions. This isn’t some crazy, premature, homerific Philly sports rant, people. We don’t engage in that kind of propaganda. This is science. The Philadelphia 76ers are the champs. The Regular-Season NBA Champs.
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Mike Budenholzer Is Hoping Jeff Teague Can Become Atlanta’s Tony Parker
On Wednesday, for the first time in nearly a decade, Atlanta played a game without Josh Smith as a member of their team. Whatever you think of Smith as a player — and there are quite a wide range of opinions — he led the Hawks through one of their most successful stretches as a […]
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Grantland NFL Podcast: Mailbag Questions and the Week 9 Preview
Barnwell and Mays take mailbag questions on Frank Gore and aliens before getting to the Week 9 game previews. You can listen to this podcast on the ESPN Podcenter here, or subscribe to the Grantland Sports podcast network on iTunes here and the Grantland NFL Podcast here.
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NHL Grab Bag: Things Are Just Super Normal in Philly Right Now, Basically
Welcome to a weekly grab bag of thoughts and observations from the past few days and/or decades of NHL hockey. The Three Stars of Comedy Recognizing the NHL personalities from around the league who produced the most comedic fodder for fans. The Third Star: Steven Oleksy Wishes You a Hoppy Halloween Either the Washington defenseman […]
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Who’s That Guy? Texas Tech Tight End Jace Amaro!
Who’s That Guy is an orientation tool for use in college football’s vast landscape, and is filmed in front of a live studio audience. Who Is He? Texas Tech tight end Jace Amaro. Where Is He From? San Antonio. Years Played: He’s a third-year Red Raider. Follow the Bouncing Ball: Amaro, a regional recruiting coup […]
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Hostage Situations: Meet the NFL Players Who Deserve to Be Set Free
We’re halfway through another NFL season, and this week the trade deadline came and went without any big news, because this is pro football. The only trade that happened involved some guy named Isaac Sopoaga. NFL teams never shake things up at the trade deadline. Bill Barnwell already covered the trades that should’ve happened, but […]
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Who Is This Man? And What Has He Done With Fernando Torres?
Now well into his third season at Chelsea, some are still waiting for the time when Fernando Torres goes back to being the player he was at Liverpool. And with three goals and an assist over two games last week, including a stunning late poached goal to beat Manchester City, Chelsea fans are hoping that […]
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We Went There: Derrick Rose Returns to Chicago
With 17 minutes left in the countdown until tipoff last night, United Center was still half-empty. Rain had beat down on Chicago all day, and adding wet roads to the already grinding rush hour crawl turns I-90 into one long parking lot. As the JumboTron clock hit 16:40, the people who had made it were […]
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B.S. Report: Brian Koppelman
Bill Simmons talks to Brian Koppelman about his 30 for 30 This Is What They Want, the movie Rounders, and the New York Knicks. Listen to the podcast here. Subscribe to the B.S. Report on iTunes, and check out our podcasts page.
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About Last Night: The Dolphins’ Safety Dance
In case you were busy shooing weird-looking kids begging for candy off your doorstep, here’s what you missed in sports on Thursday: Cameron Wake’s game-ending sack of Andy Dalton was the difference as the Miami Dolphins snapped the Cincinnati Bengals’ four-game winning streak via a rare overtime safety in a 22-20 win. When asked if […]
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