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Admitted steroid user Gary Sheffield claims MLB tried to blackball him for speaking outFormer slugger Gary Sheffield claims MLB tried to force him out of the sport in the 1990s after he spoke out about the growing steroid scandal. ...

Jim Irsay saying cops target white billionaires sounds like an Onion headlineIndianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay has gone full C. Montgomery Burns. That type of detachment from reality can happen when you grow up in a family that owns an atom-smashing plant — pardon me, the Colts franchise....

<i>Winning Time</i> is the latest casualty of David Zaslav’s sports media bloodbath at WBDOn Monday, the guillotine hovering over HBO’s Winning Time finally dropped when the series joined a growing collection of shows canceled by the network. Declining ratings and criticism from its stars, who insisted that Adam McKay’s Lakers series based on Jeff Pearlman’s biographical account, turned ...

Salute to Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel, the show that sports fans needed

Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel has been on the air for 29 seasons. Unfortunately, it will not make it to 30. Gumbel has decided to step away from the show and there will be no replacement. According to the Los Angeles Times, HBO has decided to end Real Sports, and no reason was provided....

If this is the price for a superstar quarterback, I’ll pass

I’m exhausted trying to think of ways to drive home the severity of the allegations against Deshaun Watson. The depth of his indiscretions and sheer volume of his accusers is hard to put into words. It’s one of those things that you need to see visually to contextualize just how many massage therapi...

Of course Bernie Sanders is the senator to be upset about the greed in baseball, but he makes a great point

Major League Baseball may soon have another fight on its hands. There’s a reason that there was never a USFL or an ABA to challenge MLB in the 20th century. The league has always been exempt from the antitrust laws passed in the Sherman Antitrust act of 1890 that attempt to ensure open competition i...

The timing of Mike Tomlin hiring Brian Flores is … odd

Brian Flores is gainfully employed again. But is it for the right reasons?...

This week in The Ladies Room: NBC Sports Bay Area's Jessica Kleinschmidt

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