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Remembering Curly Neal And The 10-Year-Old's Birthday Party That I Thought Was Going To Be At Yonkers Raceway
When I heard Curly Neal had died last night at 77, my heart sunk....
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Bill Belichick Has Been Boring The World For Years, Cam Newton's Arrival Could Change All That [Updated]
Cam Newton is unapologetically different....

MLB's Union and Its Owners Are Teaming Up To Screw Amateur Players
There are more hurdles than just scheduling for both Major League Baseball and its labor union to overcome when trying to figure out how to handle a shortened or possibly canceled season. One of the major obstacles was figuring out service time, so that players would have an accurate idea as to how ...

Tom Brady Will Be 43 Next Season. History Tells Us That Doesn't Bode Well For Him
Opinion: Tom Brady is the greatest quarterback to ever play the game. Fact: Tom Brady will be 43 years old when he begins his 21st season later this year as a new member of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers....

You Know What's More Stupid Than Trump Saying The World Will Be Back To Normal In Three Weeks? Listening To Him
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo says “we are not flattening the curve,” and talks about his state hitting peak cases of coronavirus in two to three weeks. The Tokyo Olympics, set to begin July 24, have been canceled. Seventeen states have ordered residents to “shelter in place,” with another 10 states is...

Behold: The Los Angeles Rams' New Logo Is A Giant Penis With Horns
The Rams unveiled their new logos today as they get ready to move into their new stadium in Inglewood this fall....

Wrestlemania Is Between The Rock And A Turnbuckle
There probably was a time when WWE boss Vince McMahon, and his counterparts at All Elite Wrestling (AEW), dreamed of being the only parties providing new, live television in this era of shelter-at-homes and shutdowns and burning through all of “Schitt’s Creek” and needing something as keenly silly (...

I'll Always Remember Kenny Rogers For His Most Important Work: Making Michael Jordan Look Like The Jerk That he Is
Full disclosure: I grew up in the 1980s as a Knicks fan. Which means I had plenty of reasons to hate Michael Jordan. And I did....

The Level Of Disrespect For Black QBs This Week Is Sickening
Did you hear Tom Brady is leaving the Patriots for the Buccaneers? This is something that should never have happened just based on Brady’s line of credit. All the Brady talk may have drowned out a larger troubling pattern this week – the consistent disrespect of black quarterbacks by the NFL and med...

The Nets Getting Coronavirus Tests Shows Just How Screwed Up Our Society Is
Will Kevin Durant and the Brooklyn Nets be a rallying cry as the sick and the poor rise up to eat the rich? ...

Bill O’Brien’s Alleged Comments to DeAndre Hopkins Highlight How The Term ‘Baby Mama’ Has Been Associated With Only One Race
Sometimes it’s less about what is said and more about what is implied....

Shenanigans: This is How Bored Athletes are Passing Time While They Can't Play Ball
The global stoppage of sports due to the COVID-19 pandemic has left many feeling the same way: bored....

Don't Be That Guy, Tom. Don't Go to Tampa Bay. Hang 'Em Up
Tom Brady has the greatest resume of any quarterback in NFL history and is one of the most successful athletes to play any sport, which is why he has nothing left to gain by playing another snap in the NFL....

Tom Brady Is The Most Overrated QB In History. New England Should Be Glad He Is Gone
Tom Brady is no longer a member of the Patriots, and nobody should be happier about that than Patriots fans, who are finally free from having to watch one of the most overrated quarterbacks ever as his long fade into irrelevance begins....

I Don't Care What All The Haters Are Going To Say: Tom Brady Is God And I'm In Mourning
I’m staring at a bottle of tequila....

The World Might Be Coming To An End, But Here Are The Places You Can Still Bet On Sports
You might have noticed that there is a lot going on in the world. Even though everything has been cancelled....

Browns Even Suck At Cutting A Player Who Threatened To Kill Their Fans
The Cleveland Browns were unbelievably bad in their 24-19 loss to the Denver Broncos. Worse than Jets losing to Dolphins bad. Coverage sucked. Play call sucked. Clock management sucked. And not for the first time this season. Or even the second time. With 3:23 remaining on the clock, down five poin...

Lamar Jackson Shellacs Pats, Handing New England First Loss
The day the worst team in football won its first game of the season, the best one lost its first. ...

Dolphins Dent Pursuit Of Being NFL's Worst Team, Perhaps Ever
Dolphins win. Not a sentence anyone has been able to utter since Week 14 of last season. Not a sentence many expected to be able to say at all this season as the Fins vied to be plain awful....

If Only Kevin Durant Had Beaten The Shit Out Of Draymond Green
Golden State Warriors fans are in the process of suffering through a rotation anchored by the legendary Eric Paschall, the even more legendary Omari Spellman, and the beyond legendary Ky Bowman. Stephen Curry (out indefinitely with a Rice Krispie’d hand) and Klay Thompson (waiting for various knee l...