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Boston Red Sox Manager Alex Cora to Skip White House Visit While His Native Puerto Rico Is Still Struggling
Boston Red Sox manager Alex Cora is cool on the complimentary White House visit that comes with winning the 2018 World Series as long as his homeland Puerto Rico is still struggling to get back to normal after Hurricane Maria. “The government has done some things back home that are great, but we still have…
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LeBron’s Personal Ego Masseuse Expected to Join Lakers as Head Coach
Looks like the band is almost back together. Tyronn Lue, the shadow coach who helped bring an NBA Championship to the then-LeBron James-led Cleveland Cavaliers, is reportedly taking his phantom coaching skills to Los Angeles Lakers, where he will be reunited with the true Lakers head coach, LeBron James. While nothing has officially been announced,…
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Lamar Odom Says He's Still Battling Addiction But Adds, 'Getting High Is Not on My Agenda'
When it comes to his addiction, Lamar Omar says he’s winning the battle but still fighting the war. “Getting high is not on my agenda,” Odom told TMZ Sports Thursday. Odom is set to join the “Enemies” squad in Ice Cube’s Big 3 league, aka “The league of extraordinarily old basketball players.” This will mark…
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We Need to Talk About Brooklyn Nets Guard D'Angelo Russell and Not Just His Weed Arrest
I’m worried about D’Angelo Russell. I was worried about him back when he was the then-Los Angeles Lakers guard and recorded then-teammate Nick Young talking about cheating on then-girlfriend Iggy Azalea and the video somehow got leaked. Russell was then iced out by all his teammates who found the offense akin to snitching and he…
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Court Rules That Runner Caster Semenya Must Take Medication to Reduce Testosterone If She Wants to Compete
In what might be the most bizarre judgment against an Olympic athlete ever, South African 800m Olympic champion Caster Semenya lost her legal landmark case and now, if she wants to compete in international events between 400m and a mile in length, she will have to take medication to reduce the testosterone that her body…
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Jimmy Butler to 76ers Head Coach After Monster Game: ‘My Name Isn’t James!’
Jimmy Butler wants to make one thing clear to everyone: His name is not James! The Philadelphia 76ers guard had just finished single-handily destroying the Toronto Raptors, putting up 30 points, 11 rebounds and 5 assists in a 94-89 playoff victory. After the game, Butler’s coach Brett Brown was praising his star player and wanted…
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NFL Rookie Shot Just Hours After Being Drafted By New York Giants
What should have been the best weekend in one college football player’s life turned into tragedy when he was injured and his college teammate killed in a shooting early Sunday morning at a party in Topeka, Kan. Corey Ballentine, a 23-year-old senior cornerback at Washburn University in Topeka, was the 180th pick in the NFL…
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Shannon Sharpe Is Dead Serious About HBCUs
Shannon Sharpe has gone viral many times since his 2016 debut on Fox Sports 1’s Skip and Shannon: Undisputed with sportswriter Skip Bayless. Just last year he set Black Twitter abuzz when he appeared on the show with a Black & Mild dangling from his lips, referencing Hennessy as “yak” and “Henn Dog.” Because the…
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Manhunt Underway After Dame Lillard Commits 1st-Degree Murder on National Television
NBA players live a charmed a life. There’s lucrative endorsement deals, celebrity friends, an inconceivable level of fame and influence along with a litany of other perks that I’m too spiteful to catalogue. But you know who I don’t want to be right now? Oklahoma City Thunder forward Paul George. I’m sure the MVP candidate…
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After Securing the Bag, Russell Wilson Delivers a Prime Package to His Teammates
Now that Russell “Future Baby Daddy” Wilson is the highest paid quarterback in the entire NFL, he decided to give the men on his offensive line a little gift — $12,000 in Amazon stock each. As reported by The Root, Wilson recently signed a four-year, $140 million contract extension with the Seattle Seahawks, and hey,…