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How a Trump-stacked Supreme Court could gut Title IX safeguards for transgender students, athletes
“A prime part of the history of our Constitution ... is the story of the extension of constitutional rights and protections to people once ignored or excluded.” — Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, writing for the Supreme Court in United States v. Virginia, the 1996 case that struck down the state’s exclu...
When Trump nominee Amy Coney Barrett made it harder to report sexual assault on campus
If you’re a woman, or someone who cares about women, it’s hard to pinpoint what the most disturbing thing about Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to the Supreme Court is, exactly....
The Phillies should have taken the left at Albuquerque
The selling point of a major overhaul/rebuild in baseball, at least the way you bill it to fans, is that for a few years of abject play and unadorned summers you will be rewarded with years and years of contention and a spin at the playoff wheel that might land on “World Series Champion” every seaso...
Sunday Scaries: After going 4-0 last week, here are my Week 3 bets you should avoid
These Sundays are not scaring me yet....
Happy 20th to Vince Carter cordially asking Frédéric Weis to please step aside so he could dunk
Frédéric Weis basketball career was eviscerated on this day exactly 20 years ago by none other than Vinsanity. ...
Sure, hire Mike D'Antoni if you don't want to win a title
If the Philadelphia 76ers DON’T want to win an NBA championship, they should hire Mike D’Antoni as their next coach....
Ryan Reynolds' chimichangas are coming to Wales
Celebrities investing in soccer teams isn’t a new development. LeBron James is a minority owner of Liverpool. Drew Carey is part-owner of the Seattle Sounders The expansion NWSL team in LA’s ownership group, as well as LAFC is strewn with glitterati like Natalie Portman and Jessica Chastain, just to...
Padres’ Clevinger could be lost for the postseason, and that sucks
Because it’s 2020, the most fun team in baseball just has to take a gut-punch to its title hopes....
Carson Wentz is the problem for hapless Eagles
Back-to-back losses to start the season....
COVID is Nothing More Than a Teaser for ESPN
If you tune into ESPN’s “Sunday NFL Countdown” for any other reason than to watch a bunch of old guys laugh uncomfortably or stand around screens they don’t entirely understand how to work, then I assume it’s for information. Who’s injured, who’s being replaced as a starter, who got caught putting t...
'Notorious,' Admired, Respected and Beloved: Athletes Pay Tribute to Iconic Force of Nature Known Simply as RBG
The nation went to bed Friday and woke up Saturday mourning the loss of not only a brilliant legal mind, but an absolute icon of feminism — and badassery....
We Rank the Best No. 1 NFL Draft Pick Quarterbacks of All Time
Quarterbacks have had a pretty significant impact on the history of the NFL. They are often the most important players on the field on any given Sunday....
Let's Enjoy the Celtics' Implosion. Plus, the Yankees Continue Hitting Homers Like Crazy
The Celtics’ season is going down the toilet....
You Can throw Tom Brady Out With the Trash
It’s Trash Talking Tuesday and today I’m trashing Bucs’ QB Tom Brady....
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I Worked With the Guy Who Was Just Fired For Gross Maria Taylor Tweet [Updated]
[Update: 2:22 pm ET] Dan McNeil has been fired from WSCR 670 The Score. The station sent the following statement to its employees this afternoon:...
Players Breathe Toxic Air as West Coast Burns: What the Hell Is Wrong With Baseball? UPDATE: M's Postponed
Update: Amid western wildfires and hazardous air quality, the MLB and NFL continued to play on Monday night, but on Tuesday, sanity was restore....
Fans at Arrowhead Can Go Kick Rocks
I don’t know what we expected....
Welcome to the Same Old NFL, Where 41-Year-Old Josh McCown Has a Job and Colin Kaepernick Doesn’t
Another NFL season is about to start on Thursday, the fourth without Colin Kaepernick....
It’s Always Important to Stop and Laugh at the Yankees
Some will disregard this baseball season as an experimental farce (and it basically is), and they will do it even more so and with more passion as their teams slip further down the standings. So you can expect a lot of cries of “Charlatan!” from New York in the coming days, and it’s not like Yankees...