covid-19 - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights

Pat McAfee lets Aaron Rodgers spout more garbage on today's showAfter a week of controversy, New York Jets signal-caller Aaron Rodgers was welcomed back to The Pat McAfee Show with applause and a standing ovation from its host. (To be fair, McAfee is always standing, though at least he’s wearing sleeves today.) ...

NFL shortens COVID quarantine period, confusion ensuesUnder new guidelines, symptomatic players and staff will only sit out five days ...

Kirk Herbstreit hasn’t been able to taste or smell since contracting COVID in DecemberWe’re well over a year into this thing. Thankfully, cases and deaths in the country are plummeting and vaccination rates are rising. Many Americans are now flying, attending sporting events, and getting back to some sort of “normal” that existed before the pandemic. For others, the effects of infect...

How do you solve a problem like Kyrie? Enigmatic star is kind of all of us right now: Lost and trying to find himself

Kyrie Irving is tough to pin down, and not just when it comes to figuring out his whereabouts....

COVID-19 will define Adam Silver’s legacy

At its core, leadership is unfair. When things go well, leaders get all the praise. But, when things don’t, the burden is theirs alone to carry....

Shouldn’t all publicly-funded stadiums become mass vaccination sites?

The vaccine rollout hasn’t exactly happened at warp speed. So far, nearly 9 million Americans have received a first dose of the COVID shot. If we want to move faster, we may need super-centers and round-the-clock immunizations to accommodate the hundreds of millions of Americans still waiting to be ...

Batty ’Bama fans test the theory of herd immunity after national title win

After seeing their team win their fifth national championship in the last decade, Alabama fans apparently weren’t interested in letting a teeny tiny pandemic stop them from celebrating in the streets really, really close together....

WWE Champion Drew McIntyre tests positive for COVID 20 days before Royal Rumble

This afternoon, the WWE announced that two-time and current WWE Champion Drew McIntyre tested positive for COVID-19 and is in quarantine. McIntyre’s positive test was reported hours before RAW was set to air live on USA at its usual 8 p.m. EST....