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Eric Dickerson Agrees With Us: He Knows A Penis When He Sees One
Eric Dickerson knows what’s up. The Hall of Fame running back has joined in the chorus of displeasure and ridicule for the Los Angeles Rams’ new logo, unveiled earlier this week....

Regardless of When The NFL Season Starts, Here Are Three Wagers You Should Make
For any sports bettor, this has simply been a bad time. Not that a lack of betting comes anywhere near the life-threatening plight facing so many right now. It doesn’t. We understand the insignificant place sports and sports betting holds in the grand scheme of things at the moment. What follows is ...

The Round of 32 Sports Logos According To You
After ranking the primary logos of all 123 teams in the four major sports leagues in North America (1-40, 41-80, 81-123), it only made sense to put them into a bracket and have a tournament. So, that’s just what we did....

Boston Bruins Owner Jeremy Jacobs Is a Demon Lizard, Episode 3,476
Not that we needed more reminders that Boston Bruins owner Jeremy Jacobs is completely made of bugs, but today is another. Delaware North, Jacobs’s company that owns the TD Garden and the Bruins, announced Wednesday that they’re laying off all the part-time arena staff....

If You Watch Only One Sports Documentary During Quarantine, Make It This One
If I told you that the FBI started an undercover investigation to expose the people who secretly pay college basketball recruits, only to find out that their own employees were stealing the agency’s money, would you believe me?...

Tom Brady Will Be 43 Next Season. History Tells Us That Doesn't Bode Well For Him
Opinion: Tom Brady is the greatest quarterback to ever play the game. Fact: Tom Brady will be 43 years old when he begins his 21st season later this year as a new member of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers....

You Know What's More Stupid Than Trump Saying The World Will Be Back To Normal In Three Weeks? Listening To Him
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo says “we are not flattening the curve,” and talks about his state hitting peak cases of coronavirus in two to three weeks. The Tokyo Olympics, set to begin July 24, have been canceled. Seventeen states have ordered residents to “shelter in place,” with another 10 states is...

Peyton Manning Was Never Going To Make Monday Night Football Good Again. But There Still Is A Way To Salvage It
The NFL is just about the only league fans can discuss in a definite future tense. While there are some forecasts out there that the Coronavirus pandemic and subsequent measures to combat it could stretch into late summer and fall, it’s far enough in the distance that football season still feels saf...

It's Great That The 76ers & Devils Backtracked On Cutting Employees' Salaries. Maybe Try Not Being Greedy Dickheads From The Start Next Time?
Joel Embiid is making $27.5 million in the second season of his five-year, $147.7 million contract with the Philadelphia 76ers. So, his decision to pledge $500,000 to medical relief and Sixers employees facing hardship amid the coronavirus pandemic represents a little less than two percent of his sa...

Coronavirus Shutdown Could Derail A Few Cooperstown Bids
1941. The world was at war, but in America, Ted Williams hit .406. Joltin’ Joe DiMaggio got a hit in 56 straight games....

The Olympics Being Postponed Is Costing The IOC Lots Of Money. Excuse Me While I Tune The World's Smallest Violin
It probably shouldn’t be a surprise that the most unwieldy and corrupt organizations in the world take the longest to do the most obvious thing. And yet it still is. Even weeks after it became clear it was the move, the IOC Tuesday finally announced that it would delay the Olympics in Tokyo this sum...

Behold: The Los Angeles Rams' New Logo Is A Giant Penis With Horns
The Rams unveiled their new logos today as they get ready to move into their new stadium in Inglewood this fall....

MLB Has Many Questions At This Point, Let's Take a Look At A Bunch
Usual disclaimer that there are far more important issues at this time of our lives, but just trying to distract and fill the time before the Space Madness makes me hit the big red button in my house. Which I will have to pretend actually does something, but don’t you worry, my imagination/delusions...

'They Don't Care About Black People. They Are All Trash.' Aunt of Slain Alton Sterling Rips NFL Owners over Colin Kaepernick Being Blackballed From League
For families that have lost loved ones to police violence, Colin Kaepernick’s stance—and the owner’s collusion to blackball him—is deeply personal. ...

Wrestlemania Is Between The Rock And A Turnbuckle
There probably was a time when WWE boss Vince McMahon, and his counterparts at All Elite Wrestling (AEW), dreamed of being the only parties providing new, live television in this era of shelter-at-homes and shutdowns and burning through all of “Schitt’s Creek” and needing something as keenly silly (...

Let’s Invent An MLB Cup, Because We Might Have To
As always, a disclaimer that this is hardly the most important thing of the times right now. But it’s important to get these fantasies out before they turn sinister and weird and involve trying to write the Grim Reaper’s Tinder profile....

Dan Snyder Finally Did Something Right. FedExField’s Parking Lot Will Become A COVID-19 Screening Site
The headline isn’t a typo....

I'll Always Remember Kenny Rogers For His Most Important Work: Making Michael Jordan Look Like The Jerk That he Is
Full disclosure: I grew up in the 1980s as a Knicks fan. Which means I had plenty of reasons to hate Michael Jordan. And I did....

What Do Leeroy Jenkins And Malcolm Jenkins Have In Common? Enough to Make Me Sad That Both Got Cut This Past Week
It’s time to say goodbye to two fearless warriors who share the same surname: Leeroy and Malcolm Jenkins (no relation)....