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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....
How Will Joel Embiid Stop Himself From Coughing Before Each Free Throw?
Habits and superstitions are as much a part of the NBA experience as deception and dysfunction are in the White House. However, with COVID-19, everything has changed. There are certain aspects to players’ games that must be addressed....
Hey, NBA, Spice Up Your Dull Bubble Games With Live Mics
We got our first look at games in the NBA’s makeshift “bubble” on Wednesday when eight different teams competed in live scrimmages in Orlando. ...
2020 NL Central Preview
The NL Central is the rare occurrence in modern-day Major League Baseball where an argument could be made for four teams to win it. Or, to put it more accurately in today’s context, only one team has actively given up and merely exists to siphon off revenue-sharing and BAMTech money while causing it...
The Bubble Wrap: Barbershops, Another Birthday and Remembering Breonna
A dedicated Twitter and Instagram account, plus bored millionaires cooped up in hotel rooms has brought us to this moment, as basketball fans are turning to social media to monitor the antics of the NBA and WNBA’s bubbles....
NBA Bubble Wrap: The Snitching Begins, and How Damian Lillard Celebrated His Birthday
As with every waking day this pandemic continues, so does the physical aging of our bodies....
Harden Shouldn’t Be Vilified For His Mask — but Ignorance Can Be Dangerous
James Harden doesn’t deserve to be condemned for unknowingly wearing a mask associated with “Blue Lives Matter,” but he does deserve to be educated on why his actions have offended many of his fans....
Tuberville Victory Proves Sports is Politics
If it hasn’t been any clearer before, the past few months have shown us that sports, politics, race and gender identity will always be intertwined, no matter how much we want to separate them....
NBA’s Got 99 Problems, Will a Snitch Be One?
Snitches get stitches, and nobody likes a rat....
Rockets' Russell Westbrook is Latest to Test Positive for COVID-19
Add Russell Westbrook to the list of NBA stars diagnosed with COVID-19....
Soccer Doesn't Have a Coronavirus Problem, the MLS Does
Professional sports have been back for months....
Arsenal’s Defending Continues To Be The Best Television
With production shut down on everything in Hollywood these days, you might be worried that soon your entertainment options will run dry. Comedies you’ve come to count on to provide just enough giggles to get through this death march of a timeline might not be around. Don’t you worry, weary traveler,...
Nobody Puts LeBron in a Corner
LeBron James, once famously told to “shut up and dribble” by condescending Fox News voice Laura Ingraham for speaking his mind on politics, has decided to send a message by not sending a message....
Bubble World: Joel Embiid Shows Up in a HAZMAT Suit and J.R. Smith Says 'This is Ass'
NBA players are getting their first look at the league’s makeshift quarantine “bubble” at Florida’s Walt Disney World resort, and some players are not pleased with their current living arrangements....
What Exactly Is MLS’ Endgame?
The lie that every league in the U.S. has sold, and not very well, is that it can return to action safely, even if in spaces where COVID-19 is raging. Even the leagues that are returning only in Florida, where they set records daily on new cases and the state government’s response is like trying to ...
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Inside the Nasty, Bed-Bug Ridden WNBA Bubble [Updated]
A WNBA league source told Deadspin that the league’s “bubble” at IMG Academy, designed to keep the coronavirus out, has failed to do the same with bed bugs. ...
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Trump Lies About Bubba Wallace, NASCAR Has Yet to Denounce Tweet [UPDATED]
Trump loves to criticize Black athletes. Scratch that. He needs to criticize Black athletes....
The NHL Has A Different Idea, Except It’s The Same Idea
What we’ve learned so far about sports attempting to come back in the U.S. amongst a pandemic (and the balloon-handed handling of it) is that no model has proven safe. The “bubble” model didn’t protect MLS from having their Orlando bubble contaminated to the point that Dallas FC is being isolated th...
Who Are the Best Athletes to Come From an HBCU? We Found a Few
The decision of top college recruit Markur Maker to turn down scholarship offers from Kentucky, UCLA and Memphis to attend Howard University, in D.C., an Historically Black College and University, has put the focus on HBCUs, once home to some of the best student-athletes in the country. When souther...
The Porn Industry Is Flirting With The Sports World
Sex really sells....