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Let Me Fill In Some Missing Details On Complex Record Of Isiah Thomas
Did you hear the one about the team walk-off involving Isiah Thomas? You know, the one in 2012?...
Baseball Isn’t The Only Sport With Lower Division Problems
The landscape of the world’s most popular game is about to change severely....
Trump’s Head Explodes As Fauci Says Sports ‘May Have To Skip A Year’
On Tuesday, Dr. Anthony Fauci spoke to the New York Times about sports and the global pandemic....
Sold Out Sabrina Ionescu Jerseys Sure Sound Swell, But It's Part Of The Problem
The WNBA’s No. 1 pick from the most-watched league draft in a decade and a half. One of the most exciting prospects ever to go pro. Jersey sold out online within an hour. All in all, that makes for a pretty good day for Sabrina Ionescu. But as ESPN’s Sarah Spain pointed out, something is amiss....
The Next Step In Black Progress For Agents Is Ownership
It’s no secret that black professional athletes have been represented by mostly white agents and white-owned sports agencies for decades....
James Dolan & Jeff Wilpon Might Finally Kill Us All
It’s one of the hardest questions to answer for a New York sports fan: Which son of privilege has done a worse job running a franchise and would be worse to work for — James Dolan or Jeff Wilpon?...
Essential Business? Mais Non! France Cancels All Sports Leagues Until September
On Tuesday, French Prime Minister, Édouard Philippe, said that all French professional sporting events will be banned until September....
Black Women Are Changing College Hoops, The Latest Example? Notre Dame's Niele Ivey
When Niele Ivey was named the next head coach of Notre Dame’s women’s basketball program last Wednesday, many players she coached as an assistant under retiring Irish coach Muffet McGraw, such as WNBA All-Star Skylar Diggins-Smith — and even players she didn’t coach — put the world on notice that No...
Removing A Tattoo Won’t Get You Out Of White-Nationalist Purgatory
Whether or not you believe Patriots draft pick Justin Rohrwasser that he had no idea what his “Three Percenter” tattoo really meant until this weekend, and however the media has struggled to accurately describe the Three Percenters as the white nationalists that they are, it’s not really just one ta...
With NFL Draft In The Rearview, Here Are Some Best Bets To Win Some Hardware
For three glorious days, the sports world was gleaming....
Land O Lakes Did Something That Football Team In D.C. Doesn’t Have the Decency To Do
In February, Land O Lakes released a statement saying their packaging would change....
Patriots Draft Pick Justin Rohrwasser's Ignorance About 3 Percenters Isn't Believable
A photo of new Patriots kicker Justin Rohrwasser caused quite a stir Saturday when tattoos on his arms displayed a logo for a far-right group known as “The 3 Percenters” or “III%ers.” The logo is three roman numeral I’s surrounded by a ring of 13 stars, as the original U.S. flag. Rohrwasser, who kic...
A Salute to Tristan Wirfs' Cat, the NFL Draft's Lone Feline
It had been inevitable, since the announcement of the broadcast format for this year’s NFL Draft, that dogs, the plodding, attention-starved beasts they are, would be front and center in a sizable chunk of live-streamed homes....
Hot Dog Eating, Slam Dunk Contests Are Some Virtual Sports Activities We'd Love To See
The virtual WNBA and NFL drafts went pretty well. That’s a sentence I did not think I would write a week ago. But here we are. Crazier things have happened (and are happening)....
Misogyny Was Taken Early In First Round Of NFL Draft
There is no secret there is misogyny in sports....
Goodell’s Ineptitude Couldn’t Hurt The Draft, While CeeDee Lamb Stole The Show
It’s crazy that a virtual draft relying almost solely on the strength of WiFi routers would turn out almost perfect....
One Neutral Site Won’t Work For The NHL, But For Some Reason, Four Might?
Time for our routine check-in of the batshit ideas leagues are kicking around to finish their seasons and playoffs. They vary as to level of batshittiness (battyshit?), and the NHL is apparently lessening the level of theirs at the moment. Only barely, though....
Who Will Be The Bust Out Of This Year's QB Class?
There’s at least one every year....