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Wrestling’s Skirting Of The Rules Hasn’t Gotten It Ratings
While most of the attention has been focused on how WWE and AEW have bent, skirted, and avoided protocols and rules to still run live programming during the pandemic, it doesn’t appear to be netting them results that make it seem worth it. Once again, when Monday Night Raw’s ratings for Monday came ...
Since Half Of NFL Fans Are Women, How 'bout Putting One In The Booth For 'Monday Night Football'?
Want to see a sexist NFL fan’s head explode? Mention that nearly half the NFL’s audience is made up of women....
With No Other Live Sports to Watch, Will NASCAR’s Return Ignite A Viewership Boom?
On February 18, 1979, many Americans were confined to their homes and glued to their TVs. On that day, a snowstorm covered the east coast and kept many indoors. Confined and bored, millions tuned into the main sports program for the day: The Daytona 500...
Becky Lynch Showed What Could Happen When Vince And WWE Simply Get Out Of Their Own Way
Last night on “Monday Night Raw,” Becky Lynch announced she is pregnant and would be taking a prolonged leave from WWE. The company and fans will be without perhaps its most galvanizing star for a while as she cedes her title to Asuka. But what she also takes with her is being a symbol of what WWE s...
For the 50th Earth Day, Let’s Remember the Threat Climate Change Poses To The Sports World
The Australian Open was hot this year. Unusually hot. Temperatures reached 111 degrees fahrenheit. Play was postponed, the roof on Rod Laver Arena closed, and one athlete forfeited her match due to smoke caused by the nearby wildfires. The extreme weather was not confined within the gates of the gra...
No Opening Day, No Sports...My Center Won't Hold
Important disclaimer: I acknowledge this is far from the most consequential aspect of the shelter-at-home policies under which half of this country and many others around the world are enduring. And I’m aware that I happen to be one of the lucky ones in that I’m nor anyone that know personally have ...
Peyton Manning Was Never Going To Make Monday Night Football Good Again. But There Still Is A Way To Salvage It
The NFL is just about the only league fans can discuss in a definite future tense. While there are some forecasts out there that the Coronavirus pandemic and subsequent measures to combat it could stretch into late summer and fall, it’s far enough in the distance that football season still feels saf...
With Opening Day Postponed Indefinitely, How Could This Season Look? Let's Break it Down
It was always pie in the sky that baseball would be able to get back up and running with Opening Day delayed a mere two weeks, which was their original postponement due to the spread of COVID-19. With the CDC saying Sunday it was recommending eight weeks of a ban on events with more than 50 people, ...
A Bear Friday For The Road
I won’t lie, I felt daunted by this blog. I was never a very funny blogger. I never wrote Bear Friday before. I am not Tom Ley! But, it turns out, the secret to bear blogging is getting out of the way and letting the bears work their magic....
Nats Send Big Wet President To World Series After Failing To Send Runners Home
In the 1976 film Freaky Friday, a mother and daughter learn to forgive one another after a Friday the 13th spell forces the two to switch bodies for a day and experience the other’s life. The lesson at the end is that one of the best ways to resolve conflicts is by seeing the world through another p...
WWE Is Finally Taking The AEW Threat Seriously
It took almost a month, but WWE finally seems to have realized that its new Wednesday Night War won’t be won with filler. This isn’t quite the same as saying that WWE is innovating in response to the challenge presented by AEW’s competition, but at the very least NXT has done well of late by leaning...
Boxer Patrick Day Dead After Suffering Traumatic Brain Injury In Fight
American boxer Patrick Day has died at 27, after suffering a traumatic brain injury in his fight against Charles Conwell Saturday night in Chicago, his promoter Lou DiBella announced in a statement Wednesday evening....
Boxer Patrick Day In A Coma After Brutal Knockout
Junior Middleweight Patrick Day remains in a coma Sunday morning after undergoing emergency brain surgery following his ugly knockout loss at the hands of Charles Conwell in Chicago Saturday night....
It's Time For NXT To Say Goodbye To Full Sail University
Let’s not overreact. After two weeks of the new Wednesday Night Wars, nothing about the future of the industry is really much clearer than it was before, and lord knows none of it is set in stone. All Elite Wrestling followed up its good debut showing on TNT with an even better episode on Wednesday,...
Terry Bradshaw Spills Coffee During Halftime Highlights, Makes A Big Ol' Mess
Folksy goofus Terry Bradshaw was doing a highlight read during halftime of the Vikings-Giants game when he managed to spill coffee all over the tablet of fellow host Curt Menefee, like a big clumsy boob....
WWE Had The Best Action, But AEW Won The Ratings Battle By A Shocking Margin
Barring a disaster next week and beyond, everything in pro wrestling has changed. All Elite Wrestling, the biggest competitor to World Wrestling Entertainment’s stranglehold on the American and broader international pro wrestling scenes, made its television debut on Wednesday night, directly opposit...
All Elite Wrestling Is Good, But It Will Have To Be More Unique To Be Great
WASHINGTON, D.C. — All Elite Wrestling, WWE’s stiffest challenge since the Monday Night War years around the turn of the millennium, made its cable television debut on Wednesday night, kicking off a new era in professional wrestling that has already been dubbed the Wednesday Night War. The head-to-h...
The Sports Highlight Of The Day Is This Runaway Airport Supply Truck Getting JACKED UP
Due to the ongoing wussification of American culture at the hands of liberal snowflakes, crunching, destructive hits have mostly been pulled out of highlight packages, if not out of sports altogether. Gone are the days when you could look forward to Tom Jackson and Michael Irvin cackling sadisticall...
FIFA Releases Meaningless Statement Condemning Iran's Ban On Women In Soccer Stadiums
An Iranian woman recently died from from self-inflicted burns after she was arrested for trying to attend a soccer match in the country, and her death has brought renewed scrutiny to Iran’s law that bans women from entering soccer stadiums. FIFA, an organization always eager to do the bare minimum i...