Big Fat Goalkeeper Faces Gambling Probe For Eating Pie During Match

Large boy Wayne Shaw, the backup goalkeeper for fifth-division Sutton United, has inevitably become a meme over the course of his team’s cinderella run to the fifth round of the FA Cup, which pits teams from up and down the league pyramid, and leads to wonderful, silly matchups like yesterday: Big, bad Arsenal…

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Three Officials And They All Blew The Call

Officials whistled WVU’s Elijah Macon for a foul on this play; all three refs were looking directly at the play—in which two Texas players foul each other, and no Mountaineers are to blame for anything—and they still screwed it up. Big 12 officials seem as good at their jobs as Texas’s basketball and football teams…

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Deshaun Watson plans to fully participate in NFL combine (Yahoo Sports)

FILE - In this Jan. 10, 2017, file photo, Clemson's Deshaun Watson celebrates a last second touchdown pass to Hunter Renfrow during the second half of the NCAA college football playoff championship game against Alabama, in Tampa, Fla. The NFL on Friday, Jan. 20, 2017, released a list of 95 underclassmen who have been granted early entry to the draft, along with the names of eight other players, including Clemson quarterback Deshaun Watson, who are draft-eligible by completing their college degrees. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, File)

National championship quarterback Deshaun Watson plans to participate in every aspect of the NFL’s scouting combine. Watson said Monday before the Davey O’Brien Award presentation that he will do everything he’s asked to do at the combine, which begins next week in Indianapolis. Six weeks after his last-second touchdown pass pushed Clemson past Alabama in the College Football Playoff title game, Watson picked up his second consecutive O’Brien trophy as the nation’s top quarterback.


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Jaguars release veteran defensive lineman Jared Odrick (Yahoo Sports)

Jacksonville Jaguar defensive lineman Jared Odrick (75) between drills during NFL football minicamp practice on Tuesday, June 14, 2016 in Jacksonville, Fla. (AP Photo/Gary McCullough)

The Jacksonville Jaguars have released veteran defensive lineman Jared Odrick, saving $8.5 million against the salary cap. It surely didn’t help that Odrick wanted to spend the offseason training away from Jacksonville. The 29-year-old Odrick signed a five-year deal worth $42.5 million with Jacksonville as an unrestricted free agent in 2015.


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Kings GM Vlade Divac: "I'm The Dumbest Shithead In The NBA," More Or Less

Sacramento Kings GM Vlade Divac made a blockbuster trade yesterday, shipping superstar center DeMarcus Cousins to the New Orleans Pelicans for a sack of oranges and a Fast & Furious DVD box set. He faced the music and held a press conference this afternoon, during which he revealed that he allowed himself to get…

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