This gentleman is named Arthur Abraham, and he's the IBF middleweight champion, whatever the hell that means anymore. If you're looking at his hat and thinking, "Gee, that kind of looks like a Smurf hat," well, you're right: That's exactly what it is. You see, Abraham is a boxer who is obsessed with The Smurfs. He calls himself "The Smurf," and he — seriously — actually uses The Smurfs theme song as his ring entrance music, which, without question, is the lamest goddamned entrance humanly possible, save for maybe anything by Creed. And now The Smurfs are pissed. Those who own the rights to The Smurfs theme song have demaned Abraham to cease-and-desist playing the song before fights, and they'd like him to lose the hat too. Those with t…

Until the 87th minute of this afternoon’s match against Spain, the biggest news Croatia had made at Euro 2016 was when fans threw a bunch of explosives and flares onto the pitch during a game against the Czech Republic. Croatian fans were reportedly planning another attack during the 30th minute today, but they remained under control and watched on as their team, down Luka Modrić and Mario Mandžukić, handed Spain their first Euro loss since 2004. Not only did their team beat the defending champs, they gave themselves an easier path to the final and shook up the tournament in the process. Spain came out hard early and were creating chances from the first minute of the game, scoring easily a few minutes later after David Silva played a perfectly incisive ball past young Tin Jedvaj. …

Time to put on our bitchy pants and say shitty things about the Oscars and everyone nominated for the Oscars. Now, according to Entertainment Weekly, this year’s Oscars will be “song-and-dance heavy,” which is arguably the most terrifying thing I have ever read. The Grammys were two weeks ago. That is the show where singing and dancing are appropriate. When singing and dancing happen at the Oscars, you get this. Who asked for more musical bullshit at the Oscars this year? Was it you? If it was you, I’ll piss in your soup. All of this will presided over by Seth MacFarlane, who’s so hip with the kids these days and will surely get ABC the two percent bump in male 18-24 viewership that they so desperately covet. And I think you and I can agree that, when it comes to hosting a ye…

A San Francisco high school baseball coach made a racist remark toward his Asian-American player during a game, according to another player’s father, who spoke to columnists Phil Matier and Andy Ross of the San Francisco Chronicle. Nakia Kashima said Don Papa, social studies teacher and coach of Galileo Academy of Science and Technology, made the comment during a Feb. 24 varsity game: As Kashima tells it, the targeted Galileo player, who is U.S.-born, was standing on first base and appeared puzzled by instructions being called to him by his coach, Don Papa. The coach then let loose on his player — yelling “at the top of his lungs from the dugout in a fake Chinese dialect, ‘Ching, chong, something something,’” Kashima said. He said Papa added: “Do you understand me now? D…

data-mm-id=”_38wzyvzam”>Tua Tagovailoa's health is an uncertainty following hip surgery and a long rehab. His potential, when healthy, is not in doubt. This makes him one of the most compelling, if not the most compelling figure in the 2020 NFL Draft. Franchise quarterbacks don't grow on trees and there are several teams in desperate need of one. Joe Burrow is ripe for the picking at No. 1 and the Cincinnati Bengals will almost certainly take a big ol' bite of that apple. Washington at No. 2 just took the plunge with Dwayne Haskins last year and aren't as disillusioned as the Arizona Cardinals were last year before the Josh Rosen-for-Kyler Murray swap. So that will leave the Detroit Lions at No. 3 with an interesting decision. Or so they'd like you to think. Wi…

data-mm-id=”_rnm1u8k5u”>Ed Farmer, who grew up a White Sox fan on the South Side of Chicago, played for the White Sox as a pitcher, and ultimately became their play-by-play man on radio, passed away on Wednesday night at the age of 70. Farmer battled kidney disease most of his life and the White Sox said he died from complications from a previous illness. We mourn the death of Ed Farmer who passed away Wednesday night.Farmer worked as a radio broadcaster for the Chicago White Sox for nearly 30 years, played 11 seasons in the major leagues, including three with his hometown White Sox, and was a strong advocate for organ donation. pic.twitter.com/wx7itjfEYk— Chicago White Sox (@whitesox) April 2, 2020An 11-year MLB veteran who made the AL All-Star team in 1980, Farmer transitioned to r…

data-mm-id=”_x3oy4zqx3″>Paul Finebaum lit into NCAA president Mark Emmert on Friday during an appearance on Get Up. Finebaum was responding to what North Carolina coach Mack Brown said about Emmert the day before on The Paul Finebaum Show. The nicest thing Finebaum had to say about the NCAA president was that he might not be fired anytime soon. "Mark Emmert is a complete failure at leadership."@finebaum went absolutely no holds barred on the NCAA President. pic.twitter.com/AZwoiMUjU2— Get Up (@GetUpESPN) July 17, 2020Here are the best quotes from Finebaum on Emmert:””It was nice of Mark Emmert to come out of the witness protection program.””””Him telling us there’s a problem is like a meteorologist telling us during a hurricane that it’s raining.””””He is a complete abject …

data-mm-id=”_ts58zyj14″>In the afterglow of his record-setting Masters victory, Dustin Johnson broke character during an interview with CBS Sports' Amanda Balionis on the practice putting green. Balionis transported Johnson back in time with the question of what he'd tell his younger self about the 2020 reality of putting one arm after the other into a green jacket being held by Tiger Woods. phew. this is something pic.twitter.com/EmZm6LgeeS— Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) November 15, 2020Winning the Masters is a dream come true for Dustin Johnson. pic.twitter.com/2gGJ9HuMSJ— CBS Sports (@CBSSports) November 15, 2020Balionis was kind enough to reflect on the moment, which was both appreciated in real time and will be remembered in concert with Johnson's 20-under, with T…

data-mm-id=”_7ud455c9r”>By this point if you have read any NFL news at all you know that Bryce Young is short. Not short by normal people standards but definitely short by professional quarterback standards and it was the chief concern about Young as a prospect heading into April's NFL Draft. Obviously it did not end up making a difference as the Alabama product went first overall to the Carolina Panthers, but his success at the highest level will in large part be determined by how Young deals with the fact that everybody around him is a lot bigger than he is. On Friday afternoon we got our first look at Young on the field with his teammates as the Panthers gathered for rookie minicamp. Anybody who thought the size concerns were overblown may rethink their stance after seeing the …