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Baseball players don’t know anything: Round 2,315,890It doesn’t help anyone to act as if “you should get vaccinated” and “you don’t need to get vaccinated” are arguments that need to be treated as equal because of the archaic journalistic construct of giving equal weight to all sides of a story. Some stories have a clear right and wrong. YOU SHOULD GE...

At least Biden realizes that packed ballparks are still a bad ideaI know we all want to get back to normal, but Texas’ “fuck it all, we’re completely open” approach seems a Texas-sized amount reckless. We’re close. More people are getting vaccinated by the day, there’s light at the end of the tunnel, but we still need to be smart and do exactly the opposite of wha...

Let these athletes tell you all about how much it sucked to have COVIDRemember when you heard that young, healthy people would have an easy time with the coronavirus? Looking back, it’s as ridiculous as comparing COVID to the flu or saying the country would open by Easter. But that’s what some thought around this time last year....

If the AHL’s Silver Knights don’t have COVID issues, why was their game canceled before the third period?

The Henderson Silver Knights’ “we don’t have COVID” tweet raised a lot of questions already answered by the tweet....

Now Karl-Anthony Towns has COVID-19, listen to him

Karl-Anthony Towns has COVID-19....

Like most everything the NHL does, this season is a wreck before it even starts

Credit to the NHL, in that its summer bubble went off about as smoothly as could be imagined, allowing the league to complete its playoffs and award the Stanley Cup. Betting that the NHL wouldn’t be able to get through anything without fucking up royally was a very chalky play, so it was a real upse...

Tommy John, COVID-denying namesake of medical marvel, hospitalized with COVID

From The Daily Beast today comes a story that might make you chuckle about your own cantankerous grandfather if it wasn’t so dangerous, sad, and yet another symbol of just how this country devolved into a hellscape....

The Premier League has no way out, no plan, and barely any hope

When rumors began to swirl last week, as postponements of games in the Premier League ramped up, that the league was considering taking a two week break in January to try and let teams recover from either positive tests or simply the oppressive schedule, the league quashed those whispers with “there...