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NBA probes video appearing to show Kyrie Irving partying during mysterious absence [UPDATED]
Fans of the Boston Celtics and Cleveland Cavaliers warned the Brooklyn Nets contingent that things would be abnormal....
NBA Daily Fantasy: Will Tyler Herro take advantage of a depleted Heat roster?
We’re beginning to see actual cancellations, so bet carefully. FanDuel didn’t even list the Philadelphia 76ers versus Miami Heat game but fret not. Two of today’s choices come from that game, but alternatives will be provided for FD players. You’ll be missing out, though!...
Alabama provides yet another COVID-era chalk title
With the added obstacle of a pandemic, you’d think we would be ripe for surprises. The greater protocols, disrupted or interrupted preparation schedules, the increased pressure based on not really being able to do anything else (not to mention the mental strain), the shortened seasons increasing the...
Fantasy basketball waiver wire: Pick-ups to consider to save your imploding COVID-ridden roster
More NBA players are either testing positive, are sitting out due to contact tracing, or are simply injured entering week four of the season. Now is about the time where you’ve already shuffled a few spots, your injured reserves are filling up, and you’re scouring your waiver wire for worthwhile fa...
Bet your daily fantasy fortunes on Bradley Beal normally, but especially tonight
As COVID continues to evade NBA locker rooms like Clickers in The Last Of Us (which also takes place a pandemic, oddly enough), degenerates are scrapping for answers as players drop out of lineups throughout the league. Read those lineups carefully, because some last-second scratches might come so l...
Have we seen the end of Big Ben? QB at a crossroads at the confluence
It was not a festival of football yesterday. The Titans and Ravens were at least passionate and close, though at times it resembled two old rhinos fighting for hours at the zoo because they were bored. You might have thought after watching Mitch Trubisky and the Bears that offensive football couldn’...
Florida government declares college football more important than COVID vaccine
It’s pretty easy to feel hopeless after the past week. There have been far more dangerous, frightening, and completely deflating examples of how our priorities and perceptions have been borked beyond repair. So to find comedy in the state of Florida putting a halt to COVID testing and vaccinations a...
Taylor Heinicke was a revelation, but we’re not rooting for him again
Taylor Heinicke started at quarterback for the Washington Football Team when Alex Smith was unable to go, and the 27-year-old from Old Dominion, who less than a year ago was the backup for the St. Louis Battlehawks of the XFL was incredible. Too good to be true, really....
Eastern Conference COVID Bingo shows what a fantastic idea bubble-less NBA season turned out to be
Tyrese Maxey has had a pretty impressive start to his NBA career. The No. 21 pick in the draft out of Kentucky, Maxey has been getting regular minutes in the 76ers’ backcourt, and had his best game yet on Thursday, scoring 16 points on 7-of-12 shooting against the Nets....
Jerry Jones doing his best ‘Hey, get me that guy I saw once’ routine will continue to doom Cowboys
The Cowboys are once again looking for a new defensive coordinator after firing Mike Nolan on Friday, along with defensive line coach Jim Tomsula, each after just one season in Dallas....
It sucks that it’s due to COVID, but the Celtics must now give the people what they want: A giant Tacko!
On Friday afternoon, three Boston Celtics entered the NBA’s COVID-19 protocol due to Robert Williams’ positive test, according to Adam Himmelsbach’s Boston Globe report. Grant Williams and Tristian Thompson will also sit a minimum of seven days due to contract tracing, says Mark Murphy of the Boston...
NBA Daily Fantasy: Can Most Improved Player Julius Randle keep this up?
Whew, boy. Wait until you see the first elite. You’re going to be like, “This dude isn’t elite.” But right now, in fantasy? Yes ... yes, he is. We begin your Friday night in New York City with the NBA’s Most Improved Player. ...
The NBA made it just two weeks as Seth Curry tests positive for COVID-19
If you had 15 days in the pool of when the NBA season would become a mess, please collect your winnings at the window. ...
Former Titan Colin Allred is the last person you want to mess with on the House floor
If you could pick any of the 435 members of the House of Representatives to throw hands with, Colin Allred would be at the very bottom of the list....
Draymond Green is right: Canceling NBA games won't fix America, laws will
NBA representatives spoke out following yesterday’s riots, which Republicans enabled with their silence as 45 continued his baseless Twitter tirades. In particular, it was Draymond Green’s postgame media session, following Golden State’s loss to the Clippers, that resonated overnight on social media...
Nikola Jokic is the surest bet in daily fantasy, but who joins him in your lineup tonight?
The slate begins as a promising one, but you must be careful with only five games tonight. This is a delicate piece of machinery you’re driving. Now’s not the time to scoop up the dude you believe in even though he’s had four straight games of 25 or fewer fantasy points. And no, I’m not talking to m...
How the election of a former basketball player from Hawaii and the kneeling of a football player led to Trump’s homegrown terrorists setting America on fire
It all started with a lie, so it might as well end with one, too....
This is America, 2021: This is who we are, even if we say otherwise
Covering sports for a while now, I’ve heard “That’s not who I am” more times than I can count. It’s not restricted to sports, of course. Every public figure who has gotten caught doing something they shouldn’t uses that line. “That’s not who I am.”...
Terrorists take over Capitol and athletes wonder what would happen if they were Black
As domestic terrorists stormed the U.S. Capitol in a coup attempt on Wednesday, the world was glued to screens watching the drama unfold. That includes the sports world, as athletes past and present had takes on what was going on....
Tommy John, COVID-denying namesake of medical marvel, hospitalized with COVID
From The Daily Beast today comes a story that might make you chuckle about your own cantankerous grandfather if it wasn’t so dangerous, sad, and yet another symbol of just how this country devolved into a hellscape....