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Josh Allen has to stop playing like Carson Wentz if the Bills are going to have a chance

Josh Allen’s trio of picks thrown to New York Jets safety Jordan Whitehead and his two fumbles on one play, were the kiss of death for the Buffalo Bills in their loss to a New York Jets team whose Super Bowl aspirations disappeared after Aaron Rodgers went down with a torn Achilles. However, being h...

We live in a world where Matt Olson has 51 homers

Perhaps it’s because the higher-ups at MLB have wanted to discount the Steroid Era for so long and so passionately, with the hopes that we might erase all the numbers from our memories. Back then 50 homers was pretty much a buy-in. Some pretty silly names got to the mark. My favorite is probably Bra...

The New York Mets get their guy, now what?

David Stearns coming back to New York to become president of baseball operations for the Mets was about one of the worst-kept secrets in baseball. The Mets asked to talk to him after he stepped down from his post in Milwaukee and were denied access after last season, but it didn’t take a cocaine-add...

Are the Cowboys that good or are the Giants that bad? | Agree to Disagree

Jim Trotter’s lawsuit is a smoking gun for the rampant racism within Roger Goodell’s NFL

White America doesn’t accept racism until they’ve seen it broken down in percentages, watched an innocent Black man be murdered by police in Minneapolis — on repeat — or read a document that encompasses just how systemic this country’s original sin is. The claims in Jim Trotter’s racial discriminati...

The New York Jets' O-Line needs to block for whoever is under center

On an early first down Monday night, 38-year-old New York Jets left tackle Duane Brown attempted a poorly executed cut block that resulted in Buffalo Bills edge rusher Leonard Floyd getting a free shot at Aaron Rodgers. New York’s pricey new quarterback lacking time in the pocket to operate behind a...

Art Briles is still hanging around college football because idiot coaches keep bringing him around

For the second year in a row, Art Briles’ name has been associated with a college football program. And for the second year in a row, it’s because an idiot, posing as a coach, brought him around. Hue Jackson, meet Jeff Lebby....

Aaron Rodgers tears Achilles, ending season and possibly career [Updated]

Updated Sept. 12: Aaron Rodgers tore his Achilles and is done for the 2023 season, per ESPN. ...

The NBA can try all it wants, player rest is impossible to stop

Remember when the Dallas Mavericks concluded an embarrassing 2022-23 season by not dressing Kyrie Irving and Luka Dončić instead of attempting to qualify for the Play-in Tournament? The Mavericks were fined $750,000, and I think that the NBA reached a breaking point in its never-ending saga of star-...

LeBron James is Team USA’s shadow GM and possibly its next director

LeBron James is back to doing what he does best, flexing those roster construction muscles as the league’s greatest shadow GM. According to Shams Charania and Joe Vardon’s report in The Athletic, an effort to recruit Steph Curry, Kevin Durant, Anthony Davis, Jayson Tatum and Draymond Green, is being...

The Astros are just going to win again, aren't they?

There’s been a lot to get excited about in the American League, and a lot of new....

Mel Tucker was the highest-paid Black coach in college football history — he blew it because he’s a creep

Two years ago, Mel Tucker blazed a trail for Black head coaches. One day ago, Mel Tucker set them back....

NFL Week 1 takeaways: The AFC may have the QBs, but the NFC has the nasty

Was it as good for you as it was for me to hear Scott Hanson say, “seven hours of commercial-free football.”...

The Giants and Vikings are who we thought they'd be

Bill Parcells was correct when he said “you are what your record says you are.” In all sports, the champion is decided by who wins the tournament, and the seeding is determined by victories leading up to it. ...

Joe Burrow was chum in the water for Jim Schwartz and Cleveland's defense

Watching Joe Burrow slinging a wet ball against Cleveland’s bloodthirsty defense in Week 1 was akin to noticing a shark fin circling towards a helpless swimmer. Kevin Stefanski hired blitzing connoisseur Jim Schwartz this offseason to install a pressure scheme to activate his lethargic defense an he...

Where are all the women in NFL studios?

This hasn’t been a great weekend for women in sports. Disgraced Baylor coach Art Briles somehow made his way onto the field of an Oklahoma game to celebrate a win with his son-in-law, Sooners’ offensive coordinator Jeff Lebby. Lebby then had the nerve to get indignant when asked why Briles was on th...

The Steelers made Brock Purdy look like Joe Montana and Steve Young rolled into one

The Pittsburgh Steelers defense made Brock Purdy look like the second coming of Joe Montana and Steve Young rolled into one. Seriously, Mr. Purdy was nearly flawless during the first two quarters, completing over 66 percent of his passes, connecting for two touchdowns with Brandon Aiyuk and 154 yard...

Willy Adames doesn’t agree that you should never meet your heroes

It’s hard to remember that baseball players were wide-eyed kids like all of us at one point. Sure, there’s plenty of antics caught on camera in the dugout that remind us they’re playing a kids’ game. But given the amount of work, training, and coaching these guys get, it’s hard to picture them ridin...

Michigan State's Mel Tucker has been suspended [Updated]

[Updated at 4:17 pm ET] The Title IX investigation into sexual harassment claims against head football coach Mel Tucker has been ongoing since December of 2022, but it only took a few hours of media scrutiny for MSU to decide to discipline him. Funny how that works....

Getting Travis Kelce, Chris Jones back won't fix Kansas City's flaws

No matter how it went down, it was shocking to see the Kanas City Chiefs lose last night. Even with the Detroit Lions being a trendy upset pick and KC being down its second and third-best players in Travis Kelce and Chris Jones, the defending Super Bowl champions have found a way more times than not...