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NCAA Robs Predominantly Black Football & Basketball Players of Billions in Generational Wealth — Damning Study Shows Athletes Deserve $1 Million Over Four Years
The average NCAA men’s basketball player should walk out of commencement with a diploma … and more than $1 million. Football players should have earned nearly the same....

NBA Restart: Eastern Conference Predictions
The official NBA restart is inching closer and closer....

Patrick Mahomes, Son of Veteran MLB Pitcher, Becomes Part Owner of Royals
Patrick Mahomes, the starting quarterback for the Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs, has become the youngest owner in MLB history, joining a new ownership group of the Kansas City Royals....
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This Season Is Already a Disaster [UPDATED]
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NWSL Restart a COVID-Free Success as Houston Dash Win Challenge Cup
As strange as it may sound, maybe because good news is rarer these days than adamantium, the NWSL Challenge Cup wrapped up today and would have to go down as a success. At the top of the “reasons why” list: after the Orlando Pride pulled out before even arriving in Utah, the tournament saw no positi...

Wildest Plays Yet From NBA Bubble Scrimmage Games
All 22 teams taking part in the NBA restart down in the Orlando “bubble” have now officially competed in game action....

Rutgers Joins Michigan St. in Quarantining Entire Team, College Players Wonder Why the Season is Even Happening
Hey everyone, Michigan State football is the latest “Doofus” in the college game. ...

WNBA Bubble Tip-Off: Stories to Watch This Season, on and off the Court
The WNBA season starts Saturday, with the Seattle Storm and New York Liberty squaring off to open a triple header that also includes the Los Angeles Sparks taking on the Phoenix Mercury and the defending champion Washington Mystics facing the Indiana Fever....

Police Terrorize Black Lives Matter Plaza after Media Goes to Bed; Protestors turn to Midnight Yoga
Saturday night marked another session of “Midnight Yoga” on Black Lives Matter Plaza in Washington D.C....

Everything in 2020 Sucks, So Yankees Get Trump to Throw Out First Pitch in Empty Stadium...Yep
Welcome to the 2020 Major League Baseball season. Everything here is shit....

Baseball Can’t Even Get Started Before It Gets Stupid
MLB was probably hoping to get through its showcase opener, the defending champ Nationals vs. the marquee franchise Yankees, without any indication of just how stupid and dangerous this all is. But when it comes to looking stupid, no one puts MLB in a corner....

Washington Is Now the ‘Football Team’ Because Everything Else Was Copyrighted
The Washington football team will officially be going by what they’ve been referred to for a while. ...

Oh Look, Another NFL Owner/Trump Buddy is Accused of Being Racist and Sexist
In the latest installment of ”Sports Owners and Billionaires Are Terrible People,” we have Woody Johnson....

Cash-Strapped MLB Owner Finds $350 Million for Mookie Betts
Baseball is probably be delighted that the discussion today shifted from the Blue Jays not having a home because playing a sport at this time is gruesomely asinine, or that six different Royals have tested positive, to on-field matters. Or on-field as much as a player signing an extension is concern...

With Preseason Axed, Will the NFL Play at All?
The way things are playing out between the NFL and its players association mirrors negotiations between the MLB and its own union. ...

2020 AL West Preview
Ah, the AL West. The truest representation about where we are as a nation. A division dominated by an organization that couldn’t wait to tell everyone how much smarter it was than everyone in the room, as it cheated, lied, smirked and mocked its way to triumph, only to be found out. And then they’ll...

Alyssa Nakken Becomes the First Woman to Coach On-Field in MLB
Major League Baseball’s first woman to coach in an on-field capacity took to the red clay during a San Francisco Giants exhibition game on Monday. ...

2020 AL Central Preview
“Flyover Country” in the American League contains history’s greatest home-run squad (Minnesota, somehow), perhaps the league’s most exciting team….and then three teams not even trying. This is pretty much the norm in baseball these days, a division that has one or two teams fighting over actual priz...

If Didi Can Hit a Home Run Off Max Scherzer With a Mask On, You Can Wear One, Too
The United States is currently the dumbest country in the world....

2020 NL East Preview
Atlanta won its second straight National League East title, but continued a run of playoff futility that dates back almost two decades. Since sweeping the Astros in the 2001 division series, Atlanta has been to that best-of-5 round eight times, and lost all eight times — plus a loss in the 2012 wild...