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Week 5 takeaways: Another coach is gone, the Niners got smacked like they ate an edible, and the Boys’ D is as bad as Trump’s COVID team
After a crazy week in the NFL that saw more players testing positive for COVID-19, a mass reshuffling of games, and coaches getting the boot, here we are again with our weekly NFL takeaways. ...
MLS has been a scheduling mess for months, and the NFL might not do any better
While the NFL has had to become Tetris masters to rearrange their schedule in accommodating even more positive tests from both Tennessee and New England, MLS has been doing this dance for a while. And it also may be an indication that there won’t be a light at the end of the tunnel for the NFL....
Dwayne Haskins sacrificed for NFL Nepotism of Scott Turner, Norv’s Son
New Washington Football Team Head Coach Ron Rivera made one of the riskiest hires imaginable going into 2020. Despite inheriting a young developing quarterback in Dwayne Haskins, he hired Scott Turner as his offensive coordinator, a man who has never won a single game in that capacity....
Manchester United can't unscrew itself, again, as transfer window slams shut on their fingers
Much like Lyle Lanley told the residents of Springfield before they purchased the monorail, Ed Woodward as chairman of Manchester United is like a horse with a spinning wheel. No one knows how he got it, and danged if he knows what to do with it. ...
Rangers win race against no one to sign the worst player available in NHL free agency
Henrik Lundqvist, bought out last week by the New York Rangers, found a new home as soon as NHL free agency opened up on Friday, joining the Washington Capitals on a one-year deal to try to chase the Stanley Cup that eluded the 38-year-old for his whole career on Broadway....
Everybody hates Aroldis (correct!) but thinks they hate the Astros vs. the Rays now, and ... that's bad
Schadenfreude in sports is strong. When it’s coupled with revenge, it’s beautiful....
Butler does it again — but like, at a whole ’nother level — to extend NBA Finals
If you watched Game 5 of the NBA Finals on Friday night, you know that just watching it was incredible and that not a whole lot needs to be said. The Heat extended everyone’s stay in The Bubble with a 111-108 win, with Jimmy Butler getting the best of LeBron James in a back-and-forth battle for the ...
Minor hockey league pretends it’s going to have an almost normal 2020-21 season
In case you’re thinking that life is going to get back to normal anytime soon, minor league hockey has provided the first reminder that it’s absolutely not....
Les Miles contracts COVID, could coach next week. What?
College athletes are safer in the hands of their coaches, right?...
Tyreek Hill mocks NFL’s ‘Old man yells at cloud’ celebration rules with new gloves
Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Tyreek Hill is mocking the NFL for its egregious celebratory punishments....
Dumb football players are going to ruin football
Athletes hate being called dumb jocks, but sometimes the title fits....
MLB Playoffs gets signature moment in 'Bellinger-robs-Tatis' — the problem is sport doesn't have enough of them
You knew it as soon as you saw it. It’ll be a play that MLB will try and dine out on for years to come. ...
Even in the ‘Year of the Black QB,’ a double-standard remains
Ten Black quarterbacks – the most ever – started Week One of this NFL season, and it seemed that a new era might finally be dawning. It was a positive measure of progress that rang in “The Year of the Black Quarterback.”...
WNBA caps off its wildest, most impactful season ever with the founding of a dynasty
Something special is brewing in Seattle....
Is it racism? COVID-19? Incompetence? What <i>IS</i> the Football Team's secret to constantly stepping on rakes?
Here are three mystery quarterbacks:...
Does no fans mean more scoring across all sports?
We’re now something like six months into the no-spectators sports world. Seven if you start with the German Bundesliga in May. It’s been only a little more than three here in the Colonies, as the NBA, NHL, and MLB started at the end of July. Football has only been through four weeks. And yet a commo...
Three years ago, Kentavious Caldwell-Pope was balling with an ankle monitor, last night he helped LeBron James take a 3-1 lead in NBA Finals
Role players are imperative to a team’s championship run....
The Astros' desire to be the victim is getting farcical
The Division Series in the American League started their California vacation yesterday, kicking off in Dodger Stadium with the Astros and the Athletics. Watching two teams, who don’t call Chavez Ravine home, play there was weird, and the urge to ask everyone if they’d gotten lost permeated throughou...
Jon Gruden won't keep the damn mask on
Week by week, NFL coaches are learning to wear (or defog) their face shields and have mostly been keeping their masks on. But one head coach remains especially careless when it comes to covering his face....
LSU forgets that COVID still exists and decides to get rid of CDC wellness checks at games
LSU announced that it will ditch CDC medical wellness checks as a requirement for entry to their stadium on game days, encouraging fans to administer their own self-assessment prior to going to Tigers games in order to thwart the spread of the deadly virus....