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So how will the NHL, official partner of PointsBet, Bally’s, and MGM Resorts, handle Evander Kane?
Gambling on your own team’s games has always been the biggest line to cross in team sports. It’s why Pete Rose is still out of the Hall of Fame and probably always will be (though, being pretty much the same unrepentant asshole he was on the field doesn’t help his cause much). While it’s certainly b...
BREAKING: Sean McVay looking at Matt Stafford’s arm a lot differently this morning
Generally, the first couple days of NFL training camps are when the onslaught of injuries takes place. Unfortunately for us, the injury bug has decided to make an early appearance this year. Los Angeles Rams second-year running back and massive breakout candidate Cam Akers is done for the year after...
That dumb MLB moon ad was just about crypto
Nothing could possibly be more fitting than Major League Baseball being sponsored by currently-plummeting cryptocurrencies. FTX is now the “Official Cryptocurrency Exchange brand of MLB,” according to a release, because apparently MLB thinks they’re cool and hip and “with it.” ...
MLB’s first entry into NFT craze – Lou Gehrig's speech – doesn’t pass the smell test
Add “non-fungible” to the list of words that define 2021....
It's 1, 2, 3 balls, you're on!
It’s not quite Javier Báez stealing a run for the Cubs by going backward, but Yankees third baseman Gio Urshela also did something you probably haven’t seen before on Friday night in Detroit....
Why players and coaches love Cam Newton, but Patriots fans don’t
There is a deep Cam Newton divide in New England....
Derek Chauvin’s conviction wasn’t progress, and silence from white athletes about Daunte Wright, Adam Toledo, Ma’Kiah Bryant, and Andrew Brown Jr. proves it
Welp, here we go again. Yet another video of the police using a person of color as target practice is devastating a community and Black America. But this time, I want you to pay attention to who you don’t see or hear from, which are white athletes. ...
Ex-Bear Steve ‘Mongo’ McMichael is battling ALS and ‘declining quickly’
Former Bears great Steve “Mongo” McMichael is battling ALS — also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease — according to multiple reports this morning, including one from Dan Wiederer of the Chicago Tribune, who said McMichael is said to be “declining quickly.”...
Jackie Robinson would be condemning police terror and white America were he alive today
Yesterday was April 15th, Jackie Robinson Day, baseball’s annual event of empty tributes to cover up the fact that 90 percent of teams refuse to hire Black or Hispanic executives or managers despite Jackie’s dying wishes. ...
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Britt Reid finally charged with DWI as tale of two justice departments on display in Kansas City and Minneapolis [Updated]
The difference in the two justice systems in America couldn’t be more stark....
The Exploding Barbed Wire Death Match was the worst thing I’ve ever seen, in all the best ways
They actually went through with it....
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Ariel Young emerges from coma almost two weeks after accident caused by Britt Reid, but has 'long road to recovery' [Updated]
Updated on February 16, 2021 at 7:00 p.m.: Ariel Young, the five-year-old that was injured in the car accident with Britt Reid, is out of her coma. An initial update was posted by Tiffany Verhulst last night on the GoFundMe page for Ariel’s family that says “Ariel is awake.” However, while this pos...
This is Ariel, the girl Chiefs coach Britt Reid, Andy’s son, hospitalized
Her name is Ariel, and she is five years old. She’s fighting for her life because Kansas City Chiefs assistant coach Britt Reid, son of Andy Reid, smashed into the car she was sitting in. Reid told officers he had been drinking....
Mark Cuban finds it hilarious that financial giants are taking an L to Reddit
Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks, has big money. According to Forbes’ real-time billionaires tracker (which is just so gross), he’s worth $4.2 billion. I feel like it deserves to be written with the zeroes for perspective. That’s $4,200,000,000. Cuban, however, is on the side of the little ...
The GameStop revolution <i>probably</i> won’t sink Steve Cohen and the Mets, but
The hope for the little guy, which all of us are, is that one day hell would come to breakfast for the hedge-fund tools that are pretty close to ruining baseball, the country, and the globe. And at that point, through some inexplicable force that could only be karma, they would all have to work at W...
Dodgers scout Jairo Castillo dies of COVID complications, franchise shrugs
The Dodgers won their first championship since 1988 with Justin Turner on the field until the eighth inning of the deciding game, even though he had coronavirus, and then didn’t stop him from coming back out to celebrate with the team, taking his mask down and exposing more people to the virus....
The NFL and White House are paying the price for pretending the pandemic will just go away
The past week has felt like a month, the past month has felt like a year, and the past six months have felt like a decade, so maybe it’s time for a refresher on what Dr. Anthony Fauci said a decade ago, back on March 26, in an Instagram Live interview with Stephen Curry:...
Breonna Taylor grand jury makes it clear: In America, Black lives don’t matter
If you’re surprised, you haven’t been paying attention....
It Isn’t LeBron’s Job to Help L.A. Police Find a Criminal
It seems wild that a department benefiting from nearly $3 billion in funding is asking civilians for financial help to do its job. ...
Dak Prescott Steps Out of Pocket to Shine 'Much-Needed Light on Deep-Seated Prejudices'
Dak Prescott is using his stature to pull at the levers of power overseeing Oklahoma’s criminal justice system, filling a growing demand for Black NFL quarterbacks to use their platform to speak out against systemic racism in American institutions. ...