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Mayweather vs. the YouTuber? Don't fall for that garbage cash grab
It’s Trash Talking Tuesday, and today I’m trashing boxing champ Floyd Mayweather Jr....
You’ll say you were there when the NHLPA finally owned the owners
Every so often, a blind squirrel finds a nut. And there’s been no blinder squirrel than the NHL players’ union over the years. This is a side that got locked out for an entire season and still got a salary cap with no exceptions enforced on it. Eight years later it got locked out again and got an ev...
Once-perfect Steelers fall to imperfect Washington, past perfect Dolphins start celebrating
For at least one more year, the 1972 Miami Dolphins remain as the only perfect season in NFL history. The Pittsburgh Steelers, who were 11-0 entering their game tonight, shockingly lost, in their own house, to the 4-7 Washington Football Team of the miserable NFC East....
What the hell is a Logan Paul?
I haven’t paid attention to boxing since I was a kid, which pretty much makes me like 95 percent of the rest of the world. Ever since Redman and Method Man led Roy Jones Jr., my favorite boxer, to the ring, I couldn’t really see what more the sport could offer. That didn’t stop my heart from sinking...
Claressa Shields has an unrelenting desire to prove all of you wrong
Claressa Shields was getting her hair done when we spoke. Not because she was celebrating the holidays. She was preparing for war....
The Hall of Fame missed its chance to honor Dick Allen, who died today at 78
Editor’s note: This story was originally published about an hour before we learned that Dick Allen had died at age 78 at his home in Wampum, Pa. Changes have been made throughout to reflect that....
Jets fire Gregg Williams, who saved team’s future with worst play-call ever
The Jets lost in the Jetsiest way possible yesterday, and it falls squarely on the shoulders of defensive coordinator Gregg Williams. In an atrocious display of hubris and arrogance, Gregg Williams made arguably the dumbest defensive play-call in NFL history, and he was fired this morning for it....
Week 13 Powerless Rankings: Wading through the NFL’s putrid muck
It’s time once again to highlight the teams stinking up the joint every single week....
Myles Garrett got his ass kicked by COVID
Coronavirus “kicked my butt,” said Cleveland’s Myles Garrett....
In MVP race, Aaron Rodgers is leader of The Pack
Aaron Rodgers isn’t just in the NFL MVP race. Let’s face it, he’s leading the way....
Mayweather vs. Paul won’t ruin boxing, but it will further dilute the art of the sport
Fourteen months removed from being thrown out of his Ferrari in a near-death experience, Errol Spence rebounded to outclass Danny Garcia Saturday evening in Dallas. The bout left many calling for Spence to defend his WBC and IBF Welterweight Championships against WBO Welterweight Champion and arguab...
I told ya’ll so! Jalen Hurts should be the Eagles starter
Remember when I wrote that Jalen Hurts should have been starting in Philly a few weeks ago?...
Giants still bad but not trash, Sean Payton treats DCs like children, and Goff plays like an NFL quarterback
After a wild Week 12 left us watching Wednesday afternoon football due to COVID-19, Week 13 gave us a return to normalcy, at least the 2020 version of it....
Browns are no longer worse than three-week-old sewage
You know it’s 2020 when the Cleveland Browns are being considered for Super Bowl contention....
The world’s largest-ever douchebag fight? MLB vs. Insurance companies
If there ever was a lawsuit where you wish both sides could lose and then be sucked into a portal shuttling them to a dimension of goo and detritus, it would be Major League Baseball’s lawsuit against the biggest insurance companies in the land....
Logan Paul vs. Floyd Mayweather is on, for some reason
Logan Paul just agreed to a date to get Nate Robinson’d....
Jets nearly ruin future by playing competitively
The Las Vegas Raiders almost made history today by losing to arguably the worst team that has ever decided to participate in an NFL season....
<em> Sports Illustrated</em> whiffs on Sportsperson of the Year qualifications
This column is not an indictment of LeBron James, Breanna Stewart, Patrick Mahomes, Naomi Osaka, or Laurent Duvernay-Tardif. It is, however, a callout of Sports Illustrated for limiting their “2020 Sportsperson of the Year: The Activist Athlete” to those who were “champions on the field, champions f...