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MLB Owners Test Limits of Believability With Sudden COVID Concerns
The state of negotiations for a 2020 Major League Baseball season is a disaster, with Rob Manfred backtracking on Monday from last week’s assertion of “100 percent” confidence that there will be pro baseball in America this year, and the MLBPA asserting that management is negotiating in bad faith....
Brett Favre Took a Million Dollar Payout for a PSA and We Want to Know Why
Last month, Brett Favre found himself tied to a scandal in which $1.1 million meant for needy families in Mississippi instead wound up in the bank account of the Hall of Fame quarterback in exchange for one public service announcement and three speeches he never made....
Meet Daniel Kinahan, Boxing’s Latest Underworld Figure
Throughout its history, boxing and gangsters have fit together like, well, a fist in a glove....
Why is Jerry Jones So Quiet Now?
Jerry Jones loves to talk. He lives for the spotlight. It’s impossible to discuss the Dallas Cowboys without mentioning his name. ...
For Once, Don’t Dismiss Kyrie Irving, His Stance is Legit
It’s easy to want to pooh-pooh Kyrie Irving....
While the World Burns, Huge Idiot Matt Gaetz Floats Anti-Kneeling Bill
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Florida) announced he would draft legislation in Congress requiring that U.S. Soccer players stand for the national anthem. This is exactly the type of leadership needed in this country, especially since there’s nothing of public interest going on, like a nationwide uprising to en...
As Sports Rush to Return, Pesky Pandemic Reminds Us Why That's a Stupid Idea
Coronavirus is surging again in the United States, although it never really stopped in the first place. There hasn’t been a day with fewer than 10,000 new cases of COVID-19 in America since March 22, according to the Centers for Disease Control....
'Lincoln Made a Mistake': St. John's Fires Fencing Coach Who Said Black People 'Steal,' 'Kill,' and 'Do Drugs'
St. John’s fired a repugnant racist assistant fencing coach, Boris Vaksman, after he said “Lincoln made a mistake” by freeing slaves in a Zoom call....
Rex Chapman Takes Mitch McConnell to the Hole
Rex Chapman was a fun player in the NBA, an energetic shooting guard who could knock down threes or find teammates for open looks, while also snagging some rebounds and collecting his share of steals — a little bit of everything....
Breonna Taylor’s Incident Report Is Why America Shouldn’t Be Celebrating ‘Acts of Good Faith’ From NASCAR and the Red Sox
The banning of a racist flag that represents a former wannabe nation that got its ass whooped in the Civil War, and a baseball team finally acknowledging that its city has historically been one of the most racist places on Earth, has millions of Americans acting as if racism has been magically defea...
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Red Sox Shock the World By Revealing Presence of Racist Fans at Fenway [UPDATED]
This story has been updated....
Racists Take Huge 'L' as NASCAR Bans Loser Flag
Take that, you fucking traitorous-loser lovers. ...
Bubba Wallace Will Not Shut Up And Drive
Tonight, Bubba Wallace, NASCAR Cup Series’ lone black driver, will debut a custom stock car in Martinsville....
Roger Federer To Miss Rest Of Season, Whatever That Is
In between showing the world that only a chosen few can pull off a Panama hat, critiquing his fans’ form, or calling for major changes within his sport, Roger Federer has been recovering/rehabbing from arthroscopic surgery on his right knee. It was the injury that ruined his Australian Open run (wit...
MLS Got Its Orlando Tournament! It Will Likely Suck
MLB owners have sucked up almost all of the oxygen for those trying to be greedy shits, so you might not have known MLS owners attempted a lot of the same stuff. They went even one step further than their MLB counterparts, threatening to lockout MLS players during a pandemic, which would have had th...
The NFL's Relationship with the Military is Even More Tenuous Now
The connection between the NFL and the U.S. Military is now a given for pretty much every football fan and most non-football fans as well. As well as the overt displays before games, the ceremonies for soldiers, the constant ads and whatever else, there’s the more subtle camouflage team gear, the wa...
Teaching Killer Cops Brazilian Jiu Jitsu May Be the Dumbest Idea of Them All
You know who doesn’t need any more lethal weaponry at their disposal? America’s killer cops, that’s who. And I’m not just talking about guns....
Will ‘Woke’ NFL Finally Wake Up About its Racist Team Name?
Let’s see how woke the NFL really is....
Hold Everything! Angel Hernandez Finally Gets a Call He Can Handle
Remember The Late Shift, the early HBO original movie that chronicled the fight over The Tonight Show chair between Jay Leno and David Letterman? Both men battled for the show upon news of Johnny Carson’s retirement. In one scene, Leno, feeling the show slip away from him and also feeling like he’s ...