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ESPN needs to keep this crew for future NBA Drafts
On a night in which Woj stripped ESPN’s telecast of the 2020 NBA Draft of any suspense due to tweeting the picks early, the worldwide leader deserves some credit for putting together a crew that, for once, knew what the hell it was talking about....

The NBA Draft was a welcome touch of comfort amid chaos
Traditions have been tested in this year of social distancing. There is absolutely no denying it — our society looks different today than we could have imagined a year ago. Remember groups? Remember parties? Remember crowds of crazed fans expressing their simultaneous hope and disgust at the way the...

Tread with caution if you're playing these guys on your fantasy football team: Week 11
It’s Thursday, which is the start of Week 11 on the football schedule. You only have this week and next to pencil your name into your league playoffs and to get that trash talk going against your leaguemates. Since this is the first of this column that you’ve seen from me, let’s set the expectation ...

LaMelo Ball is the star Michael Jordan and Charlotte desperately need
LaMelo Ball could transform the Charlotte Hornets right before our eyes....

What would MJ vs Lavar Ball one-on-one look like?
The most famous player in the 2020 NBA Draft is LaMelo Ball, partly due to his basketball ability, but mostly due to the crazy acts of his father, Lavar....

It would be ‘so much awesome’ if baseball writers kept Curt Schilling out of Hall of Fame until he’s dead
Curt Schilling is on the Hall of Fame ballot for the ninth time, his next-to-last opportunity to be voted into Cooperstown by the Baseball Writers Association of America. He seems fairly likely to make it, having appeared on 70 percent of ballots a year ago, just 5 percent shy of the threshold for i...

Cats, Dogs, Balls and Pizza: Deadspin's NBA Draft Betting Preview
Ah, yet another strange oddity in the sports calendar during pandemic life....

History shows Callum Smith must knock out Canelo Alvarez
With greatness comes polarization, especially when your living is dependent on fighting....

The time is right For Bonds and Clemens to enter Hall of Fame - together and forever linked
The timing is perfect....

We don’t want you to have to watch the Bears either
Whenever the NFL schedule is released, we Bears fans cringe whenever there’s a national game listed. Not because the Bears’ record over history on Sunday or Monday night is pretty porous, though that’s part of it. And it’s not the slagging we’ll be in for by national analysts. We’re numb to that by ...

That Cajun accent and ‘loveable charm’ won’t save Ed Orgeron from what’s happening at LSU
When USA Today drops an exclusive report on you, then you know it’s real. Just ask USA Gymnastics, Michigan State, and Larry Nassar....

Week 10 Powerless Rankings: NFL's race to the bottom intensifies
It’s about that time once again....

Jim Harbaugh should be fired for turning Michigan into a national disgrace, not a national champion
Jim Harbaugh should be done at Michigan....

NBA Draft experts will lie to you and use racially coded language
If you’re a basketball junkie like myself, then the NBA Draft is an annual can’t-miss event. The high school kids and foreign players you heard/read about, along with the players you watched in college, are days away from finding out where they’ll start their careers....

Everything is going badly for Tom Brady
Tom Brady is having some kind of a rough couple of weeks....

What the Heck? Sixers honcho airballs with Boathouse Row jersey, 'blue collar' rip
Sixers President Chris Heck placed a Joel Embiid-sized 17 sneaker in his mouth when he was talking up the Sixers new uniforms with the Uni Watch website....

These Nits are the pits
Penn State was No. 7 in the preseason AP college football poll. That is not where the Nittany Lions will finish the year....

We're facing a humanitarian crisis, but college football marches on
We are doomed as a society. There is no turning back. There is no shelter to run and hide. (Well, there is — it’s called your house — but seemingly millions of folks don’t want to stay there.) If anything, this pandemic has shown us that some people simply will not believe in science no matter what....

What would a 1,000 mph fastball do to a person? Watch and learn (& do not try at home!)
We’ve all seen it a thousand times: a baseball player tries to field a ball, but can’t catch it and it goes rolling on the outfield grass....
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Don't be a turkey, cancel the Lions on Thanksgiving [UPDATED]
The Detroit Lions have played a home game on Thanksgiving Day every year since 1934....