Locker Page 89 - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights
The world’s largest-ever douchebag fight? MLB vs. Insurance companies
If there ever was a lawsuit where you wish both sides could lose and then be sucked into a portal shuttling them to a dimension of goo and detritus, it would be Major League Baseball’s lawsuit against the biggest insurance companies in the land....
<em> Sports Illustrated</em> whiffs on Sportsperson of the Year qualifications
This column is not an indictment of LeBron James, Breanna Stewart, Patrick Mahomes, Naomi Osaka, or Laurent Duvernay-Tardif. It is, however, a callout of Sports Illustrated for limiting their “2020 Sportsperson of the Year: The Activist Athlete” to those who were “champions on the field, champions f...
Ravens prez: “At least 4 unique strains” of COVID hit team, admits not all followed protocols
I’m sure everyone knows about the debacle the Baltimore Ravens organization has been the past few weeks....
Is silence golden? Kyrie Irving about to find out after letting statement do the talking for him
Some of the most memorable press conference moments in sports have been when players had to speak, even though they didn’t really want to....
Block or charge? Rex Chapman rips Rand Paul, so actually we see no foul
Is Rex Chapman considering a run for Senate?...
Canucks ice anti-mask anthem singer; Wisconsin falls to Marquette in literal last second
Rich people really can dictate media coverage....
Karl-Anthony Towns tells of unimaginable loss of seven family members due to COVID-19, including his mother
Karl-Anthony Towns revealed Friday that his life has been hell on Earth since the pandemic began....
Texas HS player charged with assault of referee
There is bad sportsmanship, and then there is criminal behavior. An assault charge against a high school football player for tackling a referee is now the latter....
NHL still silent as greedy owners proving they can never have enough
As is always the case, every so often you look up and wonder, “Hey, how come I haven’t heard from the NHL in a while?” And the answer always comes back, “Oh right, because they’re galactically stupid.” And then you go on about your life. It’s good to have solid things to hold onto at this point in t...
Smoke up! NBA won’t test players for weed, could help take the game ... higher
The NBA will not test its players for marijuana during the 2020-21 season, sources tell Ben Dowsett....
NBA City Edition jerseys run gamut from inspired imagery to font flops
The NBA City Edition uniforms for the 2020-21 season are all out, and you’ve got to give it up to the NBA for coming up with a way to introduce new alternate jerseys for every team, every year, and making it a point of interest rather than an extremely blatant cash grab. A lot of that has to do with...
Austin Rivers doesn't understand why people don't want to play for the Knicks
The red carpet rolled out overnight for Anthony Davis, who re-signed with the reigning NBA champs LA Lakers for a whopping five-years, $190 million....
Washington Wizards management was over John Wall
If you know a basketball fan from D.C. — not “ Washington” or its metropolitan area — and ask them about John Wall, you know their eyes will light up....
Baseball’s winter of discontent begins
As baseball’s non-tender deadline passed last night, it didn’t end up being the bloodbath that some had predicted, and indeed was expected. Fifty-nine players who could have been offered a contract weren’t, which is a slight rise from the 54 who found themselves in the same situation last year, when...
Russell Westbrook to Wizards, John Wall to Rockets in seismic shake-up for NBA
Russell Westbrook and John Wall will each have a new NBA home this season....
Election results show who's the real King of Queens (also who the hell voted for ME?!)
The New York City Board of Elections certified its results on Tuesday, which means I now know that my vote really did count....
The USWNT is halfway there, but pay equity is the tricky bit
The U.S. Women’s national soccer team’s fight for equality got a boost yesterday when they and U.S. Soccer came to a settlement on all the issues that weren’t thrown out by the court back in the spring. ...
NFL playing schedule Sudoku
As the NFL continues its choose-your-own-adventure method of trying to finish this season when scheduled as scheduled, in order to win some sort of imaginary trophy only it can picture, it’s playing hopscotch with the schedule. Barely 24 hours before the Ravens were scheduled to take on the Steelers...
Where should DeMar DeRozan have a good time?
LaMarcus Aldridge and DeMar DeRozan are still San Antonio Spurs. They probably shouldn’t be for the entire 2020-21 season, given that the Western Conference playoff outlook will likely exclude them. Last week, I wrote about a set of teams that should target Aldridge between now and the trade deadlin...
The NFL is tying itself in knots of its own making
What has been apparent from the very first week, maybe even training camp, was that the NFL was dead set on completing every game on its schedule, no matter what it had to trudge through or rearrange. In the league’s mind, it would be a show of its strength, dominance, and/or ingenuity that it gets ...