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Saints beat up Bucs, steal their lunch money, and take their girl on national TV
Welp, there is no better way to say this: last night proved who the best team in the NFC South has always been....
Is this…a pair of shorts on Keith Burns’ face?
Yes, that is a pair of athletic shorts on an NFL coach’s face....
Gritty takes center stage after Trump campaign's weird Philadelphia press conference
As the Trump era begins to wind down in America, there’s still plenty of embarrassment available for everyone involved, as was shown Saturday morning when the outgoing president tweeted that his team would be holding a press conference at the Four Seasons in Philadelphia....
LA sports championships and a racially divided presidential campaign – we’ve seen this before
A dominant Lakers team, led by a charismatic, 6-foot-9 generational talent and a uniquely gifted big man, captured the NBA title. The Dodgers win a World Series featuring one of the most amazing game-endings ever seen. It’s a presidential election year featuring a Republican candidate appealing to h...
Lamar Jackson still can't pass big test, while Steelers are incapable of failing even one
While much of the nation was stuck watching Colts-Lions (and got to see Nyheim Hines’ roundoff backflip with a full twist, twice!) the marquee matchup of the day yesterday was between the Steelers and the Ravens....
Cam Newton is just good enough to break your heart
After nearly two decades of not just expecting. but knowing, all the right plays at all the right times, it must be a crash equivalent to falling from orbit for Patriots fans to see the exact wrong thing happen at the exact wrong time....
Michael Jordan, Bubba Wallace unveil Chicago Bulls-themed design on new car
The 23XI racing team took another step closer to diversifying NASCAR when they announced a new design this past weekend....
Coyotes sniff out kudos for renouncing racist bully, deserve howls of disgust for picking him at all
The Arizona Coyotes would like to think that renouncing the rights to their fourth-round pick Mitchell Miller, after it became public that four years ago he had been convicted of bullying a developmentally challenged Black classmate and calling him racial slurs — to a disgusting degree — shines them...
Do the NBA and NCAA have a plan to play basketball?
If 2020 has taught us anything, it’s that rules were made to be broken and that plans were made to be changed....
Momentum is tomorrow’s starting pitcher and other drugs
It’s one of the oldest cliches in baseball, which means it’s one of the oldest cliches in American society. But it happens to be true. Whatever happens in the previous game doesn’t really carry over. We just assign that after the fact when it fits to try and make sense of a game that rarely doesn’t ...
World Series sure was fun last night, but good baseball it wasn't
Game 4 of the World Series had barely ended on Saturday night when the hyperbole hit, courtesy of Red Sox writer Ian Browne....
Doug Jones roasts Tommy Tuberville’s coaching career, surges in Alabama senate polls
It is nearly impossible to not turn into your favorite forehead-slapping meme when discussing the Alabama senate race between Tommy Tuberville and Doug Jones. Any logical analyses of it can cause your brain to liquify and drip out of your nose to find the sweet release of non-existence. On the one s...
Toxic pride is the NFL’s biggest obstacle to a much-needed playoff bubble
One of the biggest topics among some coaches, players and others throughout the NFL is a simple question: Will there be a bubble for the playoffs?...
On a hot mic, Joe Buck and Troy Aikman reveal how fake the NFL’s patriotism is
The broadcast booth, like the press box, is always located in an elevated area of an arena or stadium....
Cleveland gets the Browns beat out of ’em, Packers get smacked with their cheeseheads, and is Adam Gase calling in plays from a bar?
NFL football is still underway, despite multiple COVID-19 scares that have endangered the season over the past few weeks. ...
Braves run and stumble their way out of the NLCS
Even a make-believe or mutated season can make for memories that will haunt for years. As the Braves and their fans stew over yet another playoff flameout (the Braves may have to join the A’s and Twins on the playoff-banned list), they’ll look back at the 2nd inning of Game 6 and the 4th inning of G...
My Twitter fight with Trevor Bauer
Trevor Bauer and I both worked in Toronto during the 2016 American League Championship Series. One of us made it all the way through Game 3 without bleeding all over the place from a cut sustained while working on a drone and forcing our boss to replace us....
NFL plays Russian roulette with decision to let Titans back on field
In the 15 days since the Titans played the Vikings, nine have involved a member of the Tennessee organization testing positive for COVID-19. ...
Unknown fighter delivers greatest KO in UFC history, then says he'll knock Chimaev's 'bitchass' out cold
Congratulations Joaquin Buckley, you’ve just etched your name in the UFC record books, joining the greats like Anderson Silva, Jorge Masvidal, Lyoto Machida, and Rashad Evans. Soon, your spinning heel kick finish at Fight Night 179 will be played and replayed on every UFC highlight reel from now thr...
Butler does it again — but like, at a whole ’nother level — to extend NBA Finals
If you watched Game 5 of the NBA Finals on Friday night, you know that just watching it was incredible and that not a whole lot needs to be said. The Heat extended everyone’s stay in The Bubble with a 111-108 win, with Jimmy Butler getting the best of LeBron James in a back-and-forth battle for the ...