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The Mourning After

NFL playing schedule Sudoku

As the NFL continues its choose-your-own-adventure method of trying to finish this season when scheduled as scheduled, in order to win some sort of imaginary trophy only it can picture, it’s playing hopscotch with the schedule.

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College Basketball

The Makur Maker experiment at Howard was never going to work and already off to a bad start

Carron J. Phillips

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Nike would very much like to keep its slave labor, thank you

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Will Fuller is an idiot

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Should you, professional athlete, smoke weed before a competition?

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Robert Saleh should be a head coach in the NFL tomorrow

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Jim Harbaugh and the Detroit Lions need each other

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Message to the NFL: Do the right thing and call off Ravens-Steelers [UPDATED]

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Where should DeMar DeRozan have a good time?

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The Denver Broncos have set football back 115 years

The first legal forward pass in professional football history was completed by Massillon’s George Parratt in 1906. Today, the Denver Broncos were forced to play a game that more closely resembled a game from 1905 than anything we’ve seen lately.

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The Mourning After

The NFL is tying itself in knots of its own making

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Comparing Mahomes and Brady has become disrespectful to the Chiefs QB, stop it

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Sheila Ford Hamp finally takes out the trash in Detroit

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Edinson Cavani doesn’t learn from history

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Best Deals of the Day

Tuesday's Best Deals: Lighted Pine Tree, Fortnite Switch, No7 Serum Sale, HyperX Gaming Accessories, Garmin Forerunner 645, and More

The Inventory Staff

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Shop Cyber Monday Deals on Nintendo Switch, Apple, Always Pan, TVs, Smartphones, and More

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Best Tech Deals

Kickstart Your Running Journey With $68 off the Garmin Forerunner 645

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The sports figures we've lost in 2020

2020 has seen much loss, and the sports world was not spared.

Dustin Foote,

Chris Baud,

Jon Helmkamp,

and 1 more

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Here are the NBA ballers who made the most money this year

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Meet the NFL's 10 poorest owners

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The Most Overrated MLB players Since 1990

Chris Baud,

Jesse Spector,

Eric Barrow,

Jim Rich,

and 2 more

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Deadspin Presents: The Most Overrated NFL Players & Coaches of the past 30 years

Rich O'Malley, DeArbea Walker, Donovan Dooley, Dustin Foote and Carron J. Phillips

NFL

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Will Fuller is an idiot

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Week 12 Powerless Rankings: Jets remain terrible, as does NFC East

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Message to the NFL: Do the right thing and call off Ravens-Steelers [UPDATED]

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Comparing Mahomes and Brady has become disrespectful to the Chiefs QB, stop it

MLB

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Rogers Centre, formerly SkyDome, aka SexDome, may be umm, going down

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MLB's feel-good story of the year, Randy Arozarena, arrested in alleged kidnap attempt, assault

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Just trade Blake Snell and Nolan Arenado to the Dodgers already

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Ricketts family gets a landmark tax break on Wrigley Field just in time to gut the Cubs

NBA

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Where should DeMar DeRozan have a good time?

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One of these contenders should trade for human secret ingredient LaMarcus Aldridge

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The Lakers, Sixers & Hawks crushed free agency

Carron J. Phillips

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As Hornets owner, Michael Jordan is the goat

NHL

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Turns out NHL owner greed is right on time for once & could save lives — no, really

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NHL releases Reverse Retros Jerseys: Blasty is your new god

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Coyotes sniff out kudos for renouncing racist bully, deserve howls of disgust for picking him at all

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The NHL clears Dale Tallon because it's the NHL

NCAA

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Student activists on the Harvard-Yale protest, one year later

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Jim Harbaugh should be fired for turning Michigan into a national disgrace, not a national champion

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New state flag finally flies over Ole Miss months after SEC, NCAA pressure

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How a Trump-stacked Supreme Court could gut Title IX safeguards for transgender students, athletes

and Rich O'Malley

SOCCER

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Edinson Cavani doesn’t learn from history

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See Messi’s tribute to Diego Maradona

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WWII bombs found at Roma training ground, Dick Cheney slaps forehead

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USWNT takes knee, dons Black Lives Matter jackets in solidarity 'to affirm human decency'

Jesse Spector and Rich O'Malley