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Apparently, Chandler Parsons is the best looking player in the NBA. Reddit user Aesthetikal recently did a bit of a social experiment that led to this conclusion, creating profiles on the popular dating app Tinder for several players. Listing only their heights (no names) and posting pictures of them in street clothes, Aesthetikal tracked who got the most interactions in 24 hours. Parsons prevailed in a landslide with 127 interactions ahead of Kevin Love (96) and J....

For those who felt compelled to catch up, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt would prove amply satisfying; the same, unfortunately, cannot be said of the original book series. While long-time fans of the books have been very vocal about their disappointment over changes made in the Netflix show, critical analysis of these changes reveals that they were actually necessary to the show’s success. Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski published eight books about the titular Witcher, Geralt of Rivia (played in the show by Henry Cavill) over the course of the 1990s, with a ninth, standalone adventure, added to the saga in 2013....

Charles Haley, five-time Super Bowl winner, isn’t fully convinced of Tom Brady’s talents. The Patriots quarterback is coming off his fourth championship and knocking at the door of number five. Haley, who won two of his rings with Joe Montana, isn’t impressed by Brady’s accomplishments. MORE: Patriots parade photos | Richard Sherman has son | LaGarrette Blount backtracks on shirt “Joe didn’t have to cheat,” Haley told the Talk of Fame Network....

In a minor league Single-A matchup between the Kannapolis Intimidators and the Charleston RiverDogs, “Titus the Bat Dog” came out to retrieve some Louisville Sluggers. MORE: Worst All-Star Game performances | Minor league managers fight | All-Star snubs No offense to bay boys, but you can’t compete with a bat dog.

Lukas Rosol gave defending champions the Czech Republic a commanding 2-0 lead in their Davis Cup quarter-final clash with hosts Kazakhstan, battling back from a set down to beat Andrey Golubev. World No. 63 Rosol won 4-6, 6-4, 6-2, 7-6 (8/6) in two hours 41 minutes in his first ever head-to-head clash with Golubev, who is ranked 205th in the ATP world rankings. Jan Hajek had gained the first point of the best-of-five match tie for the Czechs when he beat Mikhail Kukushkin 6-3, 6-2, 6-4....

Barca have already qualified for the last 16 and have also won the group after another win against PSV, so could the Catalans ease up for this final match? Previous Matches Leicester City 0-2 Tottenham (Premier League) Tottenham returned to the third place on Saturday evening with a solid win away against Leicester City. The Foxes started brightly but Spurs grew into the game as it advanced, Dele Alli only being thwarted by an excellent piece of defending from Wes Morgan....

This stage concludes with reigning Champions League holders Chelsea traveling to Lille and Juventus welcoming Villarreal to Turin. Here’s a look at how each team could progress from this week’s second legs. A reminder that away goals will not count as a tiebreaker beginning this season. So the math should be fairly straightforward for the rest of the tournament. Lille vs. Chelsea (0-2 on aggregate) Reigning champions Chelsea eased to a comfortable 2-0 home win over Lille in the first leg, thanks to goals from young forwards Kai Havertz and Christian Pulisic....

Quite shockingly, Blake Govers missed a penalty stroke as he shot wide in the big final. Sreejesh blocked Govers’ powerful drag-flick and kept the Aussie strikers at bay for the entire sixty minutes. The Indians had played one of their best matches in years, and yet as the night progressed in London, there dawned a realization of how close they had come to achieving the impossible. At Breda, Govers capitalized on a rare lapse in concentration from India’s champion goalkeeper to give his team a vital lead which was canceled out by young Vivek Sagar....

SIMONE A. ANDRUS MARTHA STEWART ON YOUR COVER! THIS IS not a good thing for anyone except Martha. M. JEAN NAVIKAS THIS YEAR I DID MOST OF MY SHOPPING ONLINE, with almost 100 percent satisfaction. I avoided the crowds and the fistfights over parking spaces–basically the American Christmas experience. Thanks to your early heads-up on Furbys, I was able to place an order online the day they went on sale through Toys ““R’’ Us....

That’s why the Cavaliers traded Varejao as part of a three-team deal in order to bring in Channing Frye, as USA Today Sports first reported. While Varejao, who heads to the Trail Blazers, was popular in the locker room, Frye maintains that veteran presence while also offering help with shooting and defense. MORE: 15 most untradable contracts | 11 teams’ deadline goals The deal breaks down like this, per ESPN: The Cavaliers receive Frye from Orlando....

The Brazilian first division outfit lost 19 players and several staff members when a chartered flight carrying the team crashed into a hillside near Medellin, Colombia, on Monday, reports Xinhua. People from around the world have been touched by the story of the club that rose from obscurity to within one match of its first continental title before the fairytale was cut tragically short. “In the past day 13,000 people have wanted to sign up as members, all of them from outside the city [of Chapeco],” Ivan Tozzi told the Globo newspaper....

Attorney Cam Reynolds says city attorneys dismissed the charge on Monday for lack of evidence. Police say on April 6 the redshirt freshman shouted obscenities outside of a bar and challenged another person to a fight. Reynolds says Seals-Jones was “clearly provoked.” Seals-Jones has caught eight passes in two games this season for 112 yards and two touchdowns.

This time, though, his opponents aren’t NFL linebackers or defensive backs, but rather kids playing basketball back in Herbert’s home state of Oregon. Herbert, who hails from Oregon and went to the Unverisity Oregon, was shown dunking on his rec center opponents clad in Ducks gear and the 6-foot-6 gunslinger showed no mercy and threw down some emphatic dunks along the way. MORE: NFL playoff bracket, schedule for 2022 postseason...

That was when the Jaguars capped a 14-play, 89-yard drive with a Trevor Lawrence touchdown pass to Marvin Jones Jr. to cut their deficit vs. the Chargers to 27-14. It made a win for the home team feel possible for the first time. The Jaguars had trailed 27-0 late in the first half, but a TD after the two-minute warning gave Jacksonville renewed vigor heading into the locker room....

“Spare anything, ma’am?” My son looked up at me uneasily, so I left him with my husband and went over to the man, dollar extended. He thanked me and asked my son again for his doggie bag. I motioned him over, nodding my assurances. “I didn’t finish my steak sandwich,” my son told him proudly, as he handed the man his bag. The man thanked him and said, “Be good to your mommy....

The Turner Sports sideline reporter underwent his third bone marrow transplant on Wednesday in his ongoing battle against leukemia. When Barkley, who had a hip replacement last month, found out Sager’s wife, Stacy, had come down with a cold and could not be by her husband’s side following treatment, he hopped on a plane from Phoenix to Houston. Barkley and Sager work NBA games together for Turner and Barkley’s trip was appreciated by Sager’s son, who thanked the basketball Hall of Famer on Twitter....

MORE: Shut up, LeBron haters | Cavaliers erase Cleveland’s pain After LeBron James won his third title (his first for Cleveland) and his third Finals MVP, Barkley still wasn’t ready to place The King in his top five, or even just a little outside of it. All-time player rankings are based on opinions, but at some point there needs to be a matter-of-fact aspect with certain players. What James has done already in his career is astonishing, like becoming the first player in the last 50 years to make six straight Finals appearances....

The Inside The NBA analyst opened up about his current relationship with Michael Jordan during an interview on 97.5 The Fanatic — and even spoke about a recent run-in with his former friend. “I love the guy like a brother. We haven’t been friends for a while and it’s no big deal, but we bumped into each other. He treated me great, I think I treated him great, but our relationship hasn’t been the same since I criticized him about his business… But I’ve got nothing but love and respect for the guy… We shook hands, we said hello and that was it....

Lesnar and Lashley competed in a dream match at this year’s Royal Rumble. After interference from Roman Reigns, The All Mighty took the victory and became the new WWE Champion. And in a shocking turn of events, Paul Heyman turned against Lesnar, handing the WWE title to The Tribal Chief to be used as a weapon against The Beast Incarnate. Charlie Hass was recently in conversation with Wrestling Inc. Managing Editor Nick Hausman....