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2020 AL Central Preview
“Flyover Country” in the American League contains history’s greatest home-run squad (Minnesota, somehow), perhaps the league’s most exciting team….and then three teams not even trying. This is pretty much the norm in baseball these days, a division that has one or two teams fighting over actual priz...
Paying Elena Delle Donne is a Nice Gesture, But Washington Mystics Miss the Point
As the Elena Delle Donne fiasco continues, the Washington Mystics last night came in to save the day, at least so they thought. They announced that they had planned to pay Della Donne whether she played this season or not, as she’s coming off back surgery and is rehabbing at the moment. Which at fir...
Even Though It’s Broken, 'MLS Is Back' Can Still Teach Us About Life
The “MLS Is Back” tournament certainly has already taught us much about the world — or this country specifically. How greed and corporations can run roughshod over personal concerns, how clear logic will never apply in that process, and how the working stiffs don’t get much of a say. Also that Disne...
‘She’s Being Discriminated Against’: League Says Two-Time MVP’s Health Issues Not Serious Enough For Opt-Out
While the WNBA might lag behind in TV money or notoriety, it proved last night it doesn’t lag behind when it comes to being a callous jackwagon (yes, I’m from Chicago. Why do you ask?) The league’s panel of doctors denied two-time MVP Elena Delle Donne’s request to be excused from the WNBA’s bubble ...
Five Years On, Wrestling Women’s Evolution Has Come Far, Still Has Far To Go
Last night marked the five-year anniversary of WWE’s “Women’s Evolution,” the night they called up Becky Lynch, Sasha Banks and Charlotte to the main roster and decided they were going to completely alter their women’s division. It was the culmination of the #GiveDivasAChance movement, which had spa...
Atlanta Braves To Look At Tomahawk Chop, But What Else Is There To See?
Now that we live in a post-racist Washington NFL nickname world, the scrutiny on other teams, from professional to high school, using Native American imagery and names will only grow. There has yet to be any word from the Cleveland Indians after they said they were “reviewing” their name (and what’s...
NHL Training Camps are Going About as You'd Expect
Across the continent today, NHL training camps are opening before the league’s restart on August 1 in Edmonton and Toronto. And considering the time and places we live, it’s going about as you’d expect. ...
Manchester City Are Destroying Everything In Its Path, Including UEFA
If it’s felt like Manchester City are just an irresistible, and inevitable force, today will only underline that. Not only have they outscored their opposition since soccer returned 25-3, or won six of their eight games, or still have a very good chance at claiming three trophies this season (alread...
Arsenal’s Defending Continues To Be The Best Television
With production shut down on everything in Hollywood these days, you might be worried that soon your entertainment options will run dry. Comedies you’ve come to count on to provide just enough giggles to get through this death march of a timeline might not be around. Don’t you worry, weary traveler,...
Orange Cassidy Is the Wednesday Night Wars
It’s been a week where Triple H has admitted that the WWE is directly counter-programming AEW with their NXT shows, essentially an official acknowledgement of the “Wednesday Night Wars” between the companies. Last night seemed the most distinct illustration of the difference between the two. While b...
MLS’s ‘New Normal’ Is a Bleak, Barren Field With Ads Plastered Everywhere
As the first American men’s league and the first league to actually bring to life the dog-in-a-burning-room meme, MLS hit the field last night. We didn’t know what it was before, other than a vague, bad idea, and it doesn’t feel like we have much more of an idea now....
New NHL CBA Guarantees Top Players Will Get Theirs
For the first time since the ’80s, the NHL and NHLPA were able to agree to a new collective bargaining agreement without shutting down the league. This time, the surrounding world shut down the league. But for hockey, going from a self-inflicted wound to just a normally-inflicted wound is something ...
What Exactly Is MLS’ Endgame?
The lie that every league in the U.S. has sold, and not very well, is that it can return to action safely, even if in spaces where COVID-19 is raging. Even the leagues that are returning only in Florida, where they set records daily on new cases and the state government’s response is like trying to ...
Has Barcelona Finally Broken Lionel Messi?
Everything about Barcelona the past decade and a half has been about pushing things until they break. Sometimes that’s good, as its dominance on the field has yielded an ungodly sum of league titles and four Champions’ League triumphs....
The NHL Has A Different Idea, Except It’s The Same Idea
What we’ve learned so far about sports attempting to come back in the U.S. amongst a pandemic (and the balloon-handed handling of it) is that no model has proven safe. The “bubble” model didn’t protect MLS from having their Orlando bubble contaminated to the point that Dallas FC is being isolated th...
Iceland’s New Crest Will Make You Want to Fight the Nearest Bear
The Football Association of Iceland released its new crest today, and to describe it “as the most metal thing you’ve ever seen” does it an injustice. From now on, any heavy metal song will now be described as, “That’s Iceland’s crest.”...
The Premier League’s Upstarts Have Stalled Out
Every team in every league that decided to return to play after the pandemic shutdown was going to struggle to hold onto their form from before the break. Three months without playing, and weeks and weeks of not even training, made everything a crapshoot. For teams that seemingly had something magic...
It’s All Going Wrong for Barcelona and Messi Can’t Save It Any More
It was a big ask for any football club to hang on to whatever they had before the shutdown due to coronavirus. A three-month break is larger than the normal offseason these teams get. When everything was on ground as shaky as Barcelona’s lead in La Liga, it was probably always doomed. The only thing...
Hockey Culture Continues Its Destructive Path
It becomes harder and infinitely more tiring to pick out particular bits of shit as we crawl through this sewer of history, whether that’s sports or society in general. The next thing you see is hardly more surprising or shocking than the last. So Sportsnet’s Eric Engels’s thread today on how NHL pl...
Sports Returning is the Perfect Statement About What We Are
With MLB’s announcement last week that it will officially return, every major professional league is in the pool. The NWSL started this past weekend in Utah. MLS will start next week with a tournament in Orlando. As we move along, the NBA, NHL, and WNBA will return with their various plans. Lurking ...