Новости за 23.07.2018

The pitching market is dire, but that doesn’t mean teams aren’t asking.

Lochte posted a photo of IV treatment to Instagram, which was a no-no for USADA.

A bad photo with the Turkish president was all Germany needed to remind Ozil, a son of immigrants, that he didn’t belong

Howard’s first press conference with the Wizards, of course, had some lines for the ages.

The Mets are a mess, but is there really anything they could have done differently?

Tebow was streaking at Binghamton, but since he’s technically a Met, everything went to hell.

To a 17-year-old athlete, what your team did more than a decade or so ago might be ancient history.

Retired NFL lineman Geoff Schwartz went behind the scenes at last week’s OL Masterminds conference in Dallas. Here’s what he saw.

The order was filed by his ex-wife on Friday.

A domestic violence civil protection order was filed against Ohio State wide receivers coach Zach Smith on July 20. The order comes on the heels of a trespassing charge filed by his ex-wife.

Brett McMurphy, who first reported the order, additionally reported a separate domestic violence claim against Smith during his time on OSU head coach Urban Meyer’s staff at Florida:

In 2009, when he was a University of Florida assistant... Читать дальше...

Aaron Donald, Khalil Mack, and Julio Jones are a few of the players angling for new contracts this summer.

A love letter to the one shot at the Open that made the notion of ‘Tiger’s back’ never feel more alive.

It’s insane enough just to get to the top of an 8K summit. This is double insane.

Player empowerment is at an all-time high, but there are other structural incentives causing all this star movement.

These two coaches have given us some of the best clashes in college and pro football.

The Rockets are still the frontrunner for Melo when he becomes a free agent.

Please stop doing this, Los Angeles.

Lakers majority owner Jeanie Buss said the people who are vandalizing LeBron James murals in the Los Angeles are are not actually Lakers fans on Sunday. “I didn’t realize how many people from Boston are living in LA,” she said, according to Mark Willard of Fox Sports.

. @JeanieBuss on those defacing LeBron murals in LA:
"If you're doing that, than you're not a Laker fan. I didn't realize how many people from Boston are living in LA!"

The World Cup ran for a month and a day. But the World Cup lasted, ooh, at least a couple of extra months. There’s the run-up beforehand, a long shadow cast forwards over the end of the season, giving shade and depth to every injury, every dip and surge in form. Then, afterwards, comes the hangover.

They never see it coming!

OK, this is officially my new favorite college football-themed wedding trend. Recently, we’ve seen Alabama fan grooms getting duped by their new wives when they cut their Bama wedding cakes. You see, what looks like a Crimson Tide cake on the outside is actually filled with an SEC rival’s colors inside.

This Alabama icing filled with LSU purple-and-gold cake is the latest example, from newlyweds Johnny and Bekka Campbell:

In 2015, we saw it happen to Bama fan groom Mike Portillo... Читать дальше...

Big Papi is finding a balance in his post-Red Sox life

It’s hot in D.C. And by hot I don’t mean “oh boy I could sure go for some ice cream right now before I walk to the pool” hot I mean hot in the sense that if someone were to trace the origins of the word back to its inception I would not be surprised to find out ancient Germanic peoples created it to describe a death by 1,000 tiny flames.

It’s even hotter on the astroturf a group of MLB All-Star Game attendees is standing on... Читать дальше...

It feels like Tiger Woods is going to win again, and that feeling alone is the great achievement of the final stage of his career.

And his 2018 Demon Deacons should be solid once again.

Bill C’s annual preview series of every FBS team in college football continues. Catch up here!

Each week before we record Podcast Ain’t Played Nobody, Steven Godfrey and I solicit for “#AskPAPN” questions on Twitter. We always get more solid questions than we can actually use, but I saved one for this Wake Forest preview. It blew my mind a little bit.

Are PJ Fleck & Dave Clawson the same coach with completely different approaches to hype? Читать дальше...

It’s Roger Goodell and the NFL that look the worst after the league decided to freeze its national anthem policy.

The F1 season is here, and we have all you need to know to watch the races on TV and online, as well as full results and standings from each race.

The Baltimore Orioles are historically bad in 2018, and they aren’t alone. Keep track here as they rack up the losses at an uncommon rate.

A young Chicago Cubs fan will have a nice story to tell from Sunday’s game, a satisfying resolution to what was an unfortunate situation.