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Who is the fastest NFL player ever?
The title of “fastest man in the NFL” is a battle that has and will continue to rage on into the future. We’ve seen plenty of players with phenomenal speed over the years, all of whom have either said it publicly or to themselves that they are the fastest human being in the NFL....
The icons of tennis are about to leave the stage, and the US Open will be our first taste of life without them in decades
With Serena Williams withdrawing from US Open, and Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal out, we’re about to get a peek at tennis without its icons...
I think I know what Draymond is doing
Draymond Green and Kevin Durant’s attempt at controlling the narrative behind their sideline argument (almost three years ago) that happened early in KD’s final season in Golden State may be pointless at this juncture....
Glendale says 'Adios, 'Yotes!'
The Coyotes will not play their 2023 home games in the Gila River Arena, after the city of Glendale announced that it would be opting out of the team’s lease agreement — meaning the team will be forced out of their current home on June 30, 2022....
Sixers had no choice but to 'supermax' Embiid, but they just blew their shot at a title
As great as Joel Embiid has been thus far in his career, he hasn’t exactly been an iron man of any sort during his time in the NBA. That didn’t stop the Philadelphia 76ers from cashing out the player that many think is the best center in the league, with a four-year, $196 million extension....
This NBA Season is going to be lit, and that’s good because it’s already here
It still feels like the 2020-21 NBA season just ended. Wait, it did. And then the draft and Olympics happened almost immediately....
‘Playing it cautiously’ with Dak has the Cowboys playing with fire
The 2020 NFL season was riddled with injuries. Players like Christian McCaffrey, Michael Thomas, Joe Mixon, Saquon Barkley, George Kittle, Austin Ekeler, and Dak Prescott all missed significant time last season due to injury. We don’t know the exact cause of all these injuries, but there is one fact...
Where should Ben Simmons ultimately land?
He has to get traded, doesn’t he?...
From the Clippers, Kawhi still deserves whatever he wants
No one ever really knows what Kawhi Leonard is thinking, but he’s now reportedly under contract with the Los Angeles Clippers for the next few seasons. The deal is reportedly worth $176.3 million over the next four years, which includes a player-option for the final season....
‘Malice at the Palace’ documentary is a reminder of the damage that coded language can cause
“I’m never talking about this sh*t again. Can you get that on camera?”...
Are Arsenal the team to watch in EPL this season?
It may seem like the world of soccer never stops. That’s because it doesn’t. You may be thinking it was only yesterday that England were taking penalties with both hands and a rope around their throats. It was just about a month ago, and the new Premier League season starts this weekend. So if you a...
Aubrey Huff is gonna love that I wrote about Aubrey Huff finally being kicked off Twitter — bye, Aubrey
There was much rejoicing on Twitter yesterday, as former MLBer Aubrey Huff was kicked off the platform for God knows whatever he said this time....
4 prime reasons the Cowboys will disappoint fans — again! — this season
The Dallas Cowboys and Pittsburgh Steelers officially kicked off the 2021 NFL preseason in a game that featured the ’Boys doing what they have done well over the past 25 years… losing....
Should Major League Baseball have taken Olympic play more seriously?
Despite baseball making its triumphant return to the Olympics this year, nobody really seemed very excited to watch. There were probably a lot of factors that went into the lack of hype: general lack of public interest in the Olympics as a whole, the fact that Major League Baseball was going through...
The world is closing the gap… but there’s still a gap
When Team USA’s men’s basketball squad lost against France to officially begin Olympic play on July 25, the doubts were significantly heightened....
Yes, it's a gold medal for Team USA, but what does that mean?
Nobody is going to argue that this was the best men’s basketball team the United States has sent to the Olympics. They’re gold medalists today thanks largely to Kevin Durant — throughout the tournament and including the title game against France; deciding that play time was over, and proceeding to w...
One takeaway from the Hall of Fame Game: Najee Harris looked pretty solid
And with that, football is back. There will be football games every week from now until February 2022. It’s the most wonderful time of the year, and while we still have to wait a little over a month before games actually start counting, being able to see how certain players fit into their team’s sys...
This wasn’t such a good idea, but we knew that
While we’ve all been distracted by watching Olympians from around the world set new records on the athletic field, COVID has been setting some records of its own....
Dumb opinions from irrelevant Florida man
A 75-year-old Florida man has a garbage opinion about the U.S. women’s soccer team that he emailed to a bunch of like-minded reactionary dopes on Thursday morning, something that wouldn’t be notable at all if this fellow with a festering dumpster of manure where his brain should be didn’t happen to ...
We aren’t talking about Luka Dončić and Slovenia’s Olympic run enough
Do y’all even realize how abnormal this is? ...