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Just As Sports Leagues Gear Up To Play In Florida, COVID-19 Cases Are Peaking
The NBA is getting ready to come back in Florida. So, too, is MLS. And now it looks like the WNBA is headed there, as well. Meanwhile, whether or not the Sunshine State is undercounting COVID-19 deaths, the state’s official word is that Thursday was the day with the most confirmed coronavirus cases ...
Morning Drinkers Rejoice: Premier League And Serie A Announce Return Dates
In give-it-a-name fashion, both the Premier League In England and Italy’s Serie A announced today the dates they will resume. The Premier League will restart on June 17, behind closed doors (no fans), with two matches and then a full-slate the following weekend. Serie A will return on June 20....
MLB Plan Seeks To Splinter Players Union With Pay Cuts Aimed At Highest-Paid
The inherent advantage that Major League Baseball has in any labor battle is that players’ salaries are public and much higher than yours, while the teams do not have to open their books....
Patrick Ewing Is Out Of The Hospital And Home 'Getting Better' After Positive COVID-19 Test
NBA Hall of Famer Patrick Ewing is out of the hospital....
MLB Owners Claim To Show Their Cards, Ignore The Ones Up Their Sleeves
While most of the attention this past weekend was paid to the exhaustive and detailed outline of what the safety and health protocols and procedures would be for MLB to resume action, MLB owners attempted to cloak their projections of losses for a season behind closed doors underneath that. However,...
MLB'S Testing Plan Is Thorough, But Does It Pass The Doolittle Test?
While there are certainly many miles of financial sparring between MLB owners and players to get through before the league can return to play, issues rooted in the players’ concerns over safety. While a good portion, if not all, being the players’ anger over the owners reneging on a deal they made i...
Art Howe In ICU With COVID-19, Reminding Us Again It's Not Just Players Who Are At Risk If Baseball Resumes
Art Howe, who managed the Moneyball-era Oakland A’s in addition to stints as a skipper with the Houston Astros and New York Mets, has been hospitalized with COVID-19 and was in intensive care as of Thursday night, as reported by Houston NBC affiliate KPRC....
Ex-Manager Art Howe In ICU With Coronavirus — 'Never Experienced Anything Like It Before'
Longtime manager and player Art Howe is battling coronavirus in ICU, according to Houston TV station KPRC 2....
Governor Invites Sports Teams To Florida, Where Fire In The House Is Definitely Aurora Borealis
Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida today emerged from his crypt/coffin/hole dug by Saruman to invite all professional sports teams to Florida. Certainly he’s got his timing down, as all of MLB, the NBA, and MLS are discussing either completely housing their entire leagues there to finish out seasons (...
Kroger, MLB Bosses Reveal America’s True Pastime: Worker Exploitation
James Andres, who had just started working at the Kroger supermarket in Westland, Mich., in March, contracted coronavirus in April and died last weekend. The manager of a Kroger in Murfreesboro, Tenn., died after testing positive for COVID-19. Kroger announced that its $2-an-hour “hero pay” bonus fo...
A Second Wave Of Coronavirus Is Inevitable. Do Sports Leagues Even Care?
There’s a small engraving on the Stanley Cup which reads, “1919 - Montreal Canadians - Seattle Metropolitans - Series Not Completed.”...
With Baseball’s Sharpest Coronavirus Takes, Sean Doolittle Goes A Long Way
The idea that Sean Doolittle wouldn’t want to play baseball is one of the most ridiculous notions that anyone could come up with, and completely ignorant of the path the Washington Nationals reliever took in his career....
The AHL Has Canceled The Remainder Of Its Season, Some Players Remain in Limbo
Minor League Hockey is not an essential business....
Would A Labor Battle Sink MLB’s Return?
While MLB certainly has a lot of obstacles to jump over, under, and through to start the 2020 season due to the coronavirus pandemic, it would certainly be on brand for them to not even get there because the owners felt like picking another fight with the players. They seem intent, but the brewing a...
COVID-19 Reveals Tennis Class War Bubbling To The Surface
You’ll never believe this, but there’s classism present in professional tennis. Who could have ever guessed? It appears some players look longingly at Major League Baseball, and aim to bus-toss those players outside the very highest echelon of the sport for their own good. And as it always seems to ...
Our Solution To NBA Restart? Let Playoff Teams Draft Players From Lottery Teams... We Did Two Rounds
When the NBA gets back on the court, it’s likely to be just for a made-for-TV playoff tournament. That leaves several big stars on the sidelines. At the same time, there’s a chance that a long layoff will lead to injuries among teams who do continue their 2020 campaigns, as well as the chance that p...
As Athletics Budgets Plunge, Who's Fighting For Women's Sports On Campus?
When evaluating the college athletic departments that might be leaving programs in the dust or with a slashed budget, Title IX will be a huge factor in their decision....
AEW Loses Some Of The High Ground
Admittedly, the term “high ground” would rarely find a working relationship with pro wrestling. The point of the whole enterprise, or at least a good portion of it, is that it’s not the high ground. It’s supposed to be ridiculous, silly, edgy, and not cause your brain to breathe all that hard if you...
These Amoral Lizard-People Have Reached A New Low: $25 Face Coverings That Don’t Work
Imagine surveying the world as it is today — a horrifying place, pervaded by joblessness, pestilence, and uncertainty — then having the audacity to wonder:...
Scott Boras And His Normalcy Can Both Get The Hell Out Of Here
The melding of one person and one institution each so galactically up their own asses to have quite possibly come around again that is Scott Boras penning an op-ed in The New York Times is so perfect I might vomit up my own scrotum. I can’t believe it didn’t happen until now, honestly....