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What the Heck? Sixers honcho airballs with Boathouse Row jersey, 'blue collar' ripSixers President Chris Heck placed a Joel Embiid-sized 17 sneaker in his mouth when he was talking up the Sixers new uniforms with the Uni Watch website....

Dallas Keuchel And Craig Kimbrel Are Haunting The Baseball SeasonBefore Jason Vargas made his second start of the season on Saturday, beat reporters asked Mets manager Mickey Callaway what he expected from his team’s fifth starter. It was a reasonable question, given how badly Vargas has struggled over this season and the last, but also a difficult one to answer...

Fixing MLB's Broken Economics Is About More Than Free AgencyThere have been a number of significant hints that MLB and the Major League Baseball Players Association are headed for some very combative collective bargaining in 2021, but the two sides being willing to talk about economics ahead of schedule will stand out to anyone who has ever been through thi...

Does MLB Care If No One Cares?

“The Rays have the right under the collective bargaining agreement to renew me at or near the league-minimum salary,” defending American League Cy Young Award winner Blake Snell said in a statement issued on the day the Rays re-upped his contract with a $15,500 raise. Some $10,000 of that raise was ...

You Don't Have To Believe Any Of This Shit

A non-refundable $45 fee on a bank statement whose existence cannot be explained by anyone; Raytheon’s Twitter account responding to a jape from Lockheed Martin’s Twitter account with a GIF of a grimacing Steve Carell from an episode of The Office; a show on The Learning Channel that is just goatee...

The NFL Coaching Failson Bar Has Been Lowered

The NFL coaching ranks are filled with failsons.* Always have been, of course, but it feels especially acute these days. In just the last week or so, we’ve seen: the Rams hire Wes Phillips, son of Wade (and grandson of Bum); three different Belichicks on one staff; that same team hire Mick Lombardi,...

MLB's Luxury Tax Became A Salary Cap Because Of Decades Of Failures

Major League Baseball’s luxury tax was introduced as a compromise during collective bargaining in the late 1990s as a way to avoid implementing a salary cap, which had been one of the major points of conflict that led to the 1994 strike by the Major League Baseball Players Association. In the years ...

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The Only Thing That Works About The NFL Is Football

My friend tackled Shaun Alexander. Not recently, I should note. This was years ago, and years before the brief period during which Alexander was the best running back on earth. Alexander led the league in rushing in 2005 and was voted NFL MVP by the Associated Press, and then was out of the league ...

by David Roth|

|Thu Feb 08 2018

(They Lost.)

It’s our favorite genre of local news screwups!...

by Timothy Burke|

|Sun Jan 07 2018

They Didn't Even Make The Playoffs This Year

by Timothy Burke|

|Sat Nov 04 2017

Even TNT Isn't Quite Ready To See Kyrie Irving In The Other Team's Uniform

by Timothy Burke|

|Wed Oct 18 2017

Yes, We're All Shocked To Learn The Cotton Bowl Has A Roof

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by Timothy Burke|

|Sat Oct 14 2017

Tight Butt

by Timothy Burke|

|Wed Oct 11 2017

The Short Life And Neverending Afterlife Of Rush Limbaugh's Disastrous ESPN Stint

There is a physical thing that happens to a certain type of Famous Terrible American, and once this thing begins happening it does not stop. It does not happen to every Famous Terrible American, and the process does not begin at the same moment in their respective Famous, Terrible American lives; on...

by David Roth|

|Thu Oct 05 2017

MLB's International Signing Rules Are A Disgrace

The precise details of what led to former Atlanta Braves general manager John Coppolella’s downfall are still unknown, but the basics are out: It was a breach of international signing rules, one said to be “significantly bigger” than the one that cost the Red Sox dearly last year. That makes this a ...

by Emma Baccellieri|

|Tue Oct 03 2017