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I'm Worried About Andrew Luck
Sure, maybe you think it’s a little ominous that Andrew Luck had shoulder surgery nine months ago, hasn’t played since, and had to be shut down after briefly attempting to throw a football. But do you know what’s really ominous? His throwing shoulder hurts and the Colts and doctors have no idea why....
Game 5 Was Murder On Baseballs And Superlatives
I barely know what to say, so why not just let them say it:...
This Is The Sort Of Weird Controversy That Always Seems To Happen In Montreal, Huh?
Alex Galchenyuk has struggled this season, scoring just two points with zero assists in 10 games as he’s been shuffled up and down the Canadiens’ lineups. The left winger was on the top line as recently as last week; he was on the fourth line in last night’s 4-0 loss to the Kings. As Galchenyuk goes...
Frederik Andersen Makes A Very Unlikely Glove Save
Look at alllll that net facing Noah Hanifin, and the unpreferable positioning of Frederik Andersen, on his pads, off-balance, and stuck near-side after making a save a split second before. Easy goal, right? Not if you know a little trick I like to call “reading the headline.”...
It Was Roger Goodell Vs. Jerry Jones On National Anthem Protests
ESPN’s Seth Wickersham and Don Van Natta Jr. have a great track record of illuminating the shifting and engrossing dynamics among the NFL’s owners—it was they who reported on the revenge motive behind the Deflategate punishments, and they who explained how Jerry Jones was the driving force behind re...
Joyous Baseball Is Great Baseball
Game 2 was delirious. It made me feel drunk and insane, even though I was barely either. In the 7-6, 11-inning Astros win to tie the series, enough weird shit happened for an entire postseason. Where do you start?...
Here's A Great Multi-Sport Baby
Calvin, no, that’s a basketball, you don’t hit a basketball with a baseball bat...oh....
Kevin Bieksa Lands Leaping One-Punch Knockdown
I’m generally over hockey fights, both for their silliness and their safety concerns. So here’s a good reminder that for as right-thinking as I’d like to imagine myself, I’m entirely willing to drop all principles the second something cool happens....
The Vegas Golden Knights Inexplicably Just Keep Winning
I think I’ve sort of avoided writing about them, because it all seems too deeply weird to be real, let alone to be anything close to sustainable, but there’s really no other option but to acknowledge it now: The Vegas Golden Knights, by pure winning percentage if not quite by points, have the best r...
This Is How Scary The Sixers Can Be
Joel Embiid vs. Andre Drummond was always going to be the real plot of the Sixers’ trip to Detroit, and in preparing for it, Embiid watched a lot of game tape and liked what he saw. “Defensively,” Embiid said of Drummond, “he doesn’t play any defense.”...
Let's Check In With Bills Fans...Oh, One's On Fire
The dry-as-the-Gobi headline in the Buffalo News calls it “another typical Bills game day,” and let’s go to the video to see the totally normal tailgating activities:...
The Fog Made Falcons-Patriots Look Like No Other Football Game
The fog that rolled in around halftime of the Patriots’ 23-7 win over the Falcons in Foxboro might have been something of a mercy for viewers, unless you’re a weirdo who was really into seeing Atlanta run some of the most questionable play-calling since ... well, since the last time these two teams ...
Gordon Hayward Will Likely Miss The Entire Season
Given the graphic and shocking visual of the injury, it’s not actually so absurd to refer to the aftermath of Gordon Hayward’s injury as the “best-case scenario,” as Hayward’s agent called it. But that’s the truth: It could have been much worse. Instead, it’s a broken tibia and a dislocated ankle, s...
Please Enjoy(?) 21 Years Of Joe Buck Hyping Forgotten Fox Shows
Matthew Callan deserves hazard pay for compiling this video of the last 21 seasons of Joe Buck doing postseason promo reads for Fox’s fall lineups. Thrill! to his obvious lack of enthusiasm. Marvel! at the cuts to the stars of the shows, miraculously in good seats at the game. Wonder! at why you can...
McKayla Maroney Says She Was Sexually Abused For Years By Larry Nassar
Olympic champion McKayla Maroney has added her voice to the massive and growing list of women using the hashtag #MeToo to share their stories of sexual abuse and sexual harassment, and, more specifically, Maroney joins the more than 140 women who allege they were abused by Larry Nassar, team doctor ...
Soccer Cow Just Wanted To Play Some Soccer
There is a cow on the loose in Brooklyn. Livestream here. He’s on a soccer field so this is sports....
De'Aaron Fox Says In-N-Out Is "Just Not Good"
Kings rookie PG De’Aaron Fox was born in Louisiana, went to high school in Texas, college at Kentucky, and is settling in to his new life in Sacramento. And, as with anyone who goes to California for the first time, he’s been bombarded by locals’ boasts about a certain fast-food chain. He’s supremel...
Columbus Crew, Welcome To The Stadium Extortion Racket
MLS is not and for the foreseeable future will not be one of this country’s so-called Big Four, but let no one say the scrappy upstart doesn’t extort American cities like a big-boy league. The league’s rapid expansion—someone without a stake in the matter would say too rapid—has cities from Cincinna...
Maybe Ben McAdoo's Play-Calling Was The Problem
Two things happened. First, the Giants did not look anything like themselves last night (for instance, they won). Second, head coach Ben McAdoo finally surrendered play-calling duties to offensive coordinator Mike Sullivan. He did so quietly, with most of his players not even aware of the fact until...