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[UPDATE] This is fine: Kyrie Irving already in COVID protocols

Less than two hours after this piece was published, the Nets announced that Kyrie Irving has entered the NBA’s health and safety protocols, because of course he did....

NFL Week 15: Four straight days of games with COVID taking over

The NFL, despite all its ongoing problems with CTE, horrible additions to the rulebook, and comically bad press with the likes of Jon Gruden and Dan Snyder, did have one thing going for it throughout the 2021 season: They hadn’t had a serious COVID outbreak....

Liverpool manager makes the case for not shutting down English Premier League — and he might be onto something

With seemingly every major sports league in “This is fine” mode, the prevailing logic on how to calm the spread of the virus is to take a break to allow the latest variant-induced wave to pass so COVID-ravaged teams don’t have to scramble to fill lineups. English Premier League clubs have been hit s...

It’s Week 15 of the NFL, the most magical week of the year, and everyone is either injured or has COVID

Welcome to Week 15 of the NFL, where playoff races are heating up and things are getting good. Let’s see what’s cooking over at ESPN....

When it comes to pass rushers, Myles Garrett spent 2021 surpassing T.J. Watt

Who is the best pass rusher? ...

Tom Brady launching new clothing line that has all the personality of Tom Brady

Tom Brady is veering into a delusional confidence lane shared with Brain from Pinky and The Brain. For years we thought Brady was merely Belichick’s best student-of-the-art-of-football robot, then he wrote the TB12 Method. In that book he comes off as one who believes he’s the savior the sports worl...

Anthony Edwards is breaking records and giving T-Wolves fans something to get excited about

There could already be a new challenger coming for Steph Curry’s long-distance shooting crown, and his name is Anthony Edwards....

Will Urban Meyer get a shot at redemption? Let's look at how other coaches bounced back after failing miserably

Urban Meyer is out as coach of the Jacksonville Jaguars after going 2-11 in his only partial season at the helm. While that’s 13 more games than Meyer ever should have coached in the NFL, and he leaves with a lower winning percentage in the league (.154) than Marty Mornhinweg (.156), it somehow does...

Jim Harbaugh told us how Urban Meyer’s tenure with the Jacksonville Jaguars would end

Jim Harbaugh finally got a win over Urban Meyer....

This 17-game NFL schedule is terrible, just like the process of trying to buy Air Jordans

With the world trying to muster up some cheer in another holiday season dampened by COVID, I personally would like to offer a sincere bah-humbug to the NFL and the SNKRS app. I didn’t want much last weekend, just a spec of pre-Christmas. Instead, I received two lumps of coal with an unofficial SNKRS...

For Your Consideration: Pollard over Elliott for the Pro Bowl

Pro Bowl voting has been underway for some time now, and it closes...*checks notes*... TOMORROW NIGHT! Well, I hope you all voted your hearts out while you still had an opportunity. If you haven’t though, you might want to throw your two cents into the Pro Bowl fountain if you’d like to see your fav...

The NBA once led sports in defending COVID — now it’s getting dunked on and crossed over by the virus

Last year, between the Bubble and a season full of mandates that included no fans, or only the vaccinated ones, the NBA did a pretty good job at protecting their league against COVID-19. ...

Here’s a dumb baseball argument

Before we get into this at all, it has to be stated that Dan Szymborski, and his ZiPS computer projections, have changed the way most people watch and evaluate baseball. They are revolutionary, so to call him to the mat isn’t really fair. It’s what ESPN asked, he did his job. But this latest piece, ...

This has been out there but Mike Leach is out of his mind

Adam Sandler’s production company is inexplicably making a movie about Sean Payton, starring Kevin James

Hands up, everyone: who out there was asking for a Sean Payton biopic? ...

Cleveland has hope — and a pretty good basketball team

If there was a way to slyly tell you that Cleveland has the second best scoring defense in the NBA behind the Warriors, I would do that. But me doing the whole, “I bet you couldn’t guess who the second best scoring defense in the league is” bit isn’t clever, because Cleveland is in the headline of t...

Sorry Vegas, but there’s no way Jim Harbaugh or Nick Saban goes to the NFL

NFL teams have been looking at college coaches to fill their head coaching vacancies more than ever. In each of the past three seasons, at least one coach made the jump to the NFL after years of working at the collegiate level. Urban Meyer is the most recent college coach to take that route, and alt...

The onside kick revolution is upon us!

Despite onside kick rules becoming prohibitively restrictive in the NFL throughout the past decade or so, there must have been something in the air this weekend. Maybe you were sitting on your couch in a post-Sunday brunch fugue and you saw one and thought to yourself, didn’t I already watch one of ...

2021 Rookie QB Rankings: Down the stretch they come

It’s Week 14 of the NFL season, and rookie quarterbacks have been front and center, with some living up to the hype and others not as much. With that, let’s look at how the 2021 rookie class fared in Week 14....

La’el Collins joins the ‘WHY WOULD YOU PUNCH A MAN WEARING A FOOTBALL HELMET’ club

It would be an understatement to say it’s been a strange season for Dallas Cowboys offensive tackle La’el Collins. Collins was suspended five games earlier this year for trying to bribe the NFL’s drug-test collector. Now Collins is back in the headlines again, this time for throwing a punch at Washi...