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Why Are Conferences Straight-Up Ignoring the NCAA's Chief Doctor?
The Big 12, ACC, and SEC remain adamant on playing sports this fall, despite the NCAA’s own top doctor suggesting otherwise....
Baseball Bozo Zach Plesac Lists All The Rules He Broke, Then Accuses The Media of 'Mistreatment'
“The last thing I would want to do is put anyone at risk,” Cleveland Indians pitcher Zach Plesac says, looking directly into the camera while driving down a city street....
What Are the Odds That 23,000 People Attending a Horse Race Is a Bad Idea?
Churchill Downs announced today that 23,000 people will be able to attend September’s Kentucky Derby in accordance with the track’s health and safety plan....
Spring Won’t Save College Football, But A Vaccine Could
A number of college conferences will punt their football season to the spring. But the push to play in 2021 may not give conference commissioners and administrators enough time to plan a “normal” season, or keep a crumbling system in place....
While Washington Burns, Colin Kaepernick Steps Up to Fight Hunger
Colin Kaepernick knows that food insecurity is an issue of human rights, poverty and racial justice. It’s also a problem that is getting worse because of COVID....
Report: Big Ten, Pac-12 Set to Cancel Fall Football Seasons
A combination of health and legal risks have led to smaller college conferences to cancel their fall football seasons. But it looks like the Power 5 is up next....
How Do We <em>Know</em> That Thousands Of Disqualified Votes in New York Were <em>Not</em> For Pete Alonso?
The electorate has been polled, but to what extent have they been Polar Bear-ed? We still don’t know....
UConn Listens to Its Players - Announces It Will Call Off 2020 Football Season
This morning, the University of Connecticut announced it would cancel the 2020 football season. The decision makes UConn the first FBS school to cancel football....
Citing Growing COVID Cases, Rafa Opts Out of US Open
Tennis legend Rafael Nadal has decided to skip the U.S. Open. Nadal broke the news via Twitter, where he outlined his concerns about the spread of COVID-19....
Pac-12 Football Players Use Their Platforms To Promote #WeAreUnited Message, Demand Better Treatment
Since the #WeAreUnited letter released via the Players’ Tribune, Pac-12 players have come out to publicly support the letter written by a collection of conference athletes....
Pac-12 Players Demand Safety and Equality - So WSU Sent Them Home
UPDATE: According to Spokesman Review’s Theo Lawson, multiple Washington State players who shared the #WeAreUnited hashtag in response to today’s Players’ Tribune article have been released for the season....
Catching Up With the Kid Who Helped Get MLB to Right a Decades-long Wrong for Negro Leaguers
Cam Perron started flipping baseball cards in first grade....
With Umpires Opting Out of the MLB Restart, is Now the Time for the Robots?
The robots will eventually come to Major League Baseball. But maybe we should start to consider them immediately....
Where Teams, Schools Stand On Issue of Native Mascots
At a time of historic civic unrest and political polarization, the question of Native American mascots has returned to the mainstream. The Washington football team will change its racist name, but where do other teams with Native mascots stand?...
Soccer Doesn't Have a Coronavirus Problem, the MLS Does
Professional sports have been back for months....
Philadelphia Union Players Surprise MLS With Names of Police Brutality Victims on Their Backs
Before kicking off the second MLS game in the “MLS is Back” tournament, the Philadelphia Union paid tribute to the Black American victims of police brutality....
League of Smart People Decides Not to Have Fall Sports
The Ivy League, a college sports conference made up of “academically elite” institutions, has decided to cancel fall sports due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The league will become the first D1 conference to cancel fall sports....
DeSean Jackson Shares Anti-Semitic Social Media Posts, Eagles To Take 'Appropriate Action'
Over the past few days, Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver, DeSean Jackson, has shared a string of anti-Semitic social media posts and praised anti-Semitic extremist Louis Farrakhan....
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Trump Lies About Bubba Wallace, NASCAR Has Yet to Denounce Tweet [UPDATED]
Trump loves to criticize Black athletes. Scratch that. He needs to criticize Black athletes....
Who Are the Best Athletes to Come From an HBCU? We Found a Few
The decision of top college recruit Markur Maker to turn down scholarship offers from Kentucky, UCLA and Memphis to attend Howard University, in D.C., an Historically Black College and University, has put the focus on HBCUs, once home to some of the best student-athletes in the country. When souther...