Russell Westbrook Answers Every Question About Kevin Durant By Talking About Fashion

Russell Westbrook, who is averaging a motherfucking triple-double but is somehow a reserve on this year’s All-Star team, took questions from reporters in New Orleans today. His whole press conference is above, and it’s worth watching all eight minutes of it if only to appreciate one man’s dedication to his trolling…

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Fed-Up Chileans Organize March To Convince Alexis Sánchez To Leave Arsenal

Alexis Sánchez, the pride of Chile, is one of the best soccer players on the planet. He’s also trapped on a bullshit team that kind of sucks, where—amazing goals and dribbles and passes be damned—he’ll probably never win anything of major consequence. To top it off, his bullshit team is balking at paying him superstar…

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Joel Embiid Considered Quitting Basketball When He Was Injured

Within the limited minutes he’s allowed, Joel Embiid has proven himself one of the finest two-way rookies in recent memory, but it bears remembering why he’s a rookie at all. Embiid was already hurt when the Sixers drafted him with the third pick in 2014, and he continued to struggle with right foot injuries for two…

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After 'O Canada,' An Unexpected Letter Taught Me a Valuable Lesson About Xenophobia

Last year, when I was invited to sing “O Canada” at the NBA All-Star Game, I was happy for the opportunity to represent the city I live in, Toronto, as it hosted the world’s largest celebration of one of my favorite sports.

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Mike Ilitch Was No Saint

If you only went by what you read in the Detroit papers this week, you’d think Mike Ilitch—the pizza baron and owner of the Detroit Red Wings and Tigers who died last week at the age of 87—was a god incarnate. And for the last three decades, if you’d asked anyone in Michigan, you’d have gotten the sense he was revered…

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Air Force Flyover Severs Cable Cam, Nearly Downs Ski Lift At World Ski Championships

ST. MORITZ, Switzerland — There was a crash today at the men’s giant slalom in the Alpine World Ski Championships, but it wasn’t a racer that hurtled to the ground. It was a cable camera, its wires severed by a too-close flyover from the Swiss Air Force. That was frightening enough, but it was just inches from true…

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It's Time For The Celtics To Get Isaiah Thomas Some Damn Help

One of the big subjects of talk around the NBA these past few weeks has been LeBron James’s workload. And with good reason, too: LeBron’s 32 years old now, with a hell of a lot of basketball miles behind him, and as the past two seasons have shown us, the Cavaliers’ title chances correspond pretty directly to his…

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Arsène Wenger Says He Will Manage Next Season, But Maybe Not At Arsenal

Arsenal had a big match in the Champions League on Wednesday, which is another way of saying Arsenal were yet again monumentally embarrassed in a huge moment. Arsenal are also right about at the start of the end stretch of their season, which is another way of saying that Arsenal are already out of realistic…

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It Looks Like Budapest Will Soon Drop Out Of The Race To Host The 2024 Olympics

There are three cities still in the running to host the 2024 Summer Olympics. Los Angeles was considered the front runner over Paris until very recently, but it’s unclear the degree to which the Trump presidency will impact the bid. U.S. Olympic officials and L.A. mayor Eric Garcetti are apparently worried that it…

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