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Hey Jerry, quit teasing Cowboys fans and sign OBJ or shut up
Here we go again. ...

The Lakers shouldâve listened when Anthony Davis said he didnât want to play the 5
Basketball fans always wondered why the pre-Kevin Durant Golden State Warriors didnât start its vaunted Death Lineup but instead opted to begin games with Andrew Bogut at center. The combination of Steph Curry, Klay Thompson, Andre Iguodala, Harrison Barnes, and Draymond Green finished the 73-win se...

The warm glow of MLB Hot Stoveâs warming glow: AL Central
We continue our whip around the baseball offseason by looking at the American Leagueâs worst division, which was won by a team that wasnât even trying to win, the AL Central....

Who will be stepping into the limelight this NBA season?
When a new wave of players becomes NBA relevant, it usually happens over time, never all at once. Itâs a gradual increase in relevance, sometimes under the radar, because itâs guys who reach their potential in small markets and losing situations. When a lottery pick hits early and fast, like Paolo B...

Anyone can play Qatar â World Cup 2022 Group A Preview: Netherlands, Senegal, Ecuador, Qatar
Itâs still hard to believe that for a team with the history of The Netherlands â three-time World Cup finalist, Euro â88 champion â that their recent history doesnât even include qualification as an automatic. They missed the last World Cup, and 2016âs Euros. The latter was the first European Champi...

Steph Curry is keeping Golden State upright, but for how long?
Golden Stateâs 4-7 record has been jarring to witness. A five-game road losing streak during a road trip that rolled through Charlotte (3-8), Detroit (3-8), Miami (4-7), Orlando (2-9), and New Orleans (5-5) had the alarms blaring. Despite the final result, the Warriors 116-113 win over the Sacrament...

Dwight Howard canât get an NBA job while other past their prime vets continue to collect paychecks
Former slam dunk champ Dwight Howard, aka Superman, entered the 2022 NBA season on the free agent list. Throughout training camps and three weeks into the season, nobody has come knocking at Howardâs door until now. And youâll never guess what team is giving Howard a chance to continue his career â ...

Like LeBron and Migos, NBA hipsters were on the Nuggets before you
Fun fact about the Denver Nuggets: They might have more trendy NBA Twitter fans than actual hometown supporters. While the hipster hoops headâs response to âYou know who I low-key really love to watch?â is always Nikola JokiÄâs squad, theyâre behind the Broncos, Avalanche, and the Rockies when it co...

From Josh McCown to Jeff Saturday â itâs impossible for Black coaches in the NFL
NFL owners are making life easier for Brian Floresâ lawyers....

The Utah Jazz are George Costanza-ing their way to the top of the West
âWhat is going on in Utah?â was the Brian Windhorst query that ruled the summer as the Jazzâs CEO of basketball operations Danny Ainge jettisoned Rudy Gobert to the Minnesota Timberwolves for a boatload of first-round picks through 2029. The answer was Utah gutting their roster and Quin Snyder walki...

How the mid-2000s Suns fâed it all up
Everything we love about the current NBA was made mainstream by the âseven seconds or lessâ Phoenix Suns of the mid-2000s. They mostly ran lineups that went four out, surrounding their All-Star big man, Amarâe Stoudemire, with space to dominate less athletic bigs. In the 2000s, just about every othe...

The Brooklyn Nets might be giving up on Ben Simmons already
Welp, that could be it, folks. ...

If youâre gonna have playoffs, make them as drunk as possible
Soccer doesnât really lend itself to playoffs. Itâs why league seasons and cup competitions are generally separate, and the latter are understood to just be goofy, random collections of games where just about anything can happen. As soccer games are still decided on maybe one or two moments, one or ...

The Brooklyn Nets are the biggest basketball failure of the 21st Century
With Kyrie Irving dominating the news cycle in recent days, now seems like as good a time as any to remind you that even if you take all the Brooklyn Netsâ off-court issues out of the equation, theyâre still a really bad basketball team....

Can you Phil the love tonight?
Love is certainly not the first thing that comes to my mind when I think about Philadelphia â despite it being called the City of Brotherly Love or having a statue of the word. I donât care how high of a note Musiq Soulchild hit in his 2000 Billboard Top 100 single....

Luka DonÄiÄ is just a more clutch James Harden
By the way Luka DonÄiÄ has been talked about this year, youâd think the Dallas Mavericks would be undefeated â or at least near the top of the Western Conference standings. The Slovenian superstar is the first player since Wilt Chamberlain to start a season with seven straight 30-point games â which...

How the Cavs got to 5-1 before last night was more impressive than last nightâs win
The Cleveland Cavaliersâ start to the 2022 season is even hotter than last yearâs 9-5 mark that caught a lot of hoops heads off guard. In what was supposed to be a rebuilding year in 2021, the Cavs made the play-in, were 12 games over .500 at the All-Star break, and were on schedule to finish with a...

Tony Khan still needs to act like the boss
There will be those who will tell you that last nightâs AEW Dynamite was the worst one the company ever aired. Which is saying something, considering that it still had a great three-way match for the All-Atlantic title, a surprisingly good contest between Brian Cage and Samoa Joe (though no Joe matc...

The NBA decided to pick the 76ers this time when selectively enforcing tampering penalties
While the Philadelphia Phillies and Eagles continue along championship tracks in their respective seasons, the 76ers, on the other hand, seem destined to waste another precious year of Joel Embiidâs prime. After a slow start to this NBA season, the Sixers have finally crawled back to .500. Now the l...
