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Notre Dame president now slamming students for exposing his failure
Being the parent of eight-year-old twins, I often need to be wary of worst-case scenarios....
Trump has plenty of time to golf now
Sports fans know the joke about players needing to “get their golf clubs out” as they’re eliminated from the playoffs. So it’s fitting that Donald Trump was at Trump National Golf Club in Virginia when he got eliminated by Joe Biden on Saturday....
Nothing goes as expected in Negreanu/Polk poker duel UPDATE: Polk posts huge win
The Daniel Negreanu-Doug Polk duel got off to a surprising start on Wednesday, as Negreanu, roughly a 4-1 underdog in the betting markets, booked a $116,500 win in the match’s 200-hand live portion at the Aria in Las Vegas....
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Forget 28-3 and booing Santa, Philly & Atlanta give us the biggest OT win of all time [UPDATED]
This is going to be hard to take for many, but we’re gonna have to give Atlanta and Philly folks a break....
The Doug Polk and Daniel Negreanu grudge match for the ages is finally on
Poker archrivals Daniel Negreanu and Doug Polk, who have been beefing on Twitter for years, will meet on the felt in a classic HU4ROLLZ challenge starting 8 p.m. EST tonight at the Aria, which will be televised for free on PokerGo.com. The two will play $200/$400, with the first 200 hands being play...
LA sports championships and a racially divided presidential campaign – we’ve seen this before
A dominant Lakers team, led by a charismatic, 6-foot-9 generational talent and a uniquely gifted big man, captured the NBA title. The Dodgers win a World Series featuring one of the most amazing game-endings ever seen. It’s a presidential election year featuring a Republican candidate appealing to h...
Lump Mike Piazza in with athletes for Trump after Pennsylvania rally appearance
Mamas, don’t let your sports heroes grow up to be Trumpers....
Mets fans dream of big-bucks battle with Bombers after sale to mega billionaire Steve Cohen is approved
As a lifelong Mets fan, I’ve been dreaming of this day for some time....
The 10 worst pitching changes in World Series history
Kevin Cash isn’t the only manager to blow a World Series game courtesy of a bad bullpen decision. A number of pitchers suffered the same fate as the Rays’ Ian Snell. Here’s a reminder of costly mistakes committed on baseball’s biggest stage....
The Big Ten should have never reversed course, that much is clear
The Big Ten had done the right thing. They looked at a sports landscape ravaged by the virus, and decided to shelve the football season. ...
Blake Leeper is breaking Oscar Pistorius' records, but Olympic gatekeepers don't want him to compete
Blake Leeper was born with no legs, and he’s one of the fastest humans on earth....
Kelly Loeffler’s endorsement from QAnon supporter shows how far America has fallen
In a different America, Kelly Loeffler and her financial transactions — that sure as hell look like she was trading on privileged information — would be the political scandal of the year, if not the decade....
Lindsey Vonn schusses (get it?) bigots, talks depression, love, Covid & how she almost drove for Formula One
Lindsey Vonn opened up on In Depth with Graham Bensinger this week on a wide array of topics, including depression, having a pandemic wipe out your wedding, and dealing with hate for being in an interracial relationship....
See it! Cody Bellinger's highway robbery of Fernando Tatis triggers blown kisses and an F-bomb barrage
It’s been a rough 2020 for reigning NL MVP Cody Bellinger, with his .239 batting average and abysmal .789 OPS. Those numbers are a far cry from his tour de force season of 2019 when he hit .305 with a 1.035 OPS and led the league in total bases (351)....
The Eagles being in first place is hilarious
I can hear the LMAOing in Philly all the way in Chicago....
Vegas Golden Knights sign Robin Lehner to 5-year deal
Robin Lehner has found a long-term home in Sin City, as the Las Vegas Golden Knights have answered the question of who will replace aging franchise goalie Marc-Andre Fleury....
Bob Gibson owned whatever he wanted of the plate and quite literally changed baseball forever
In a year that just keeps handing us terrible, unbearable losses, baseball lost one of its most iconic figures, as Bob Gibson died last night at age 84, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. It is reported that he had a year-long battle with pancreatic cancer....
Sometimes good things happen in Philadelphia too, Don!
President Trump said, “Bad things happen in Philadelphia.” ...
These guys should have opted out of baseball's 2020 season
It was a strange and crazy baseball season, and one might wonder if any of this was worth it. Maybe it was, if you’re a San Diego Padres fan, or you just like seeing the Yankees tee off for 5 or 6 home runs a night....
Padres’ Clevinger could be lost for the postseason, and that sucks
Because it’s 2020, the most fun team in baseball just has to take a gut-punch to its title hopes....