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The Mourning After: Last Night's Most Troubling News This Morning
While the Mets were pulling their weekly Mets’ing with Yoenis Cespedes and his decision to opt-out/Irish goodbye the season, the rest of the league continues to try and treat the Coronavirus much like an annoying co-worker with the hopes that if you wait until lunch to walk by their desk, everything...
Floodgates Should (But Won't) Open Behind First NCAA Football Player to Opt-Out
Virginia Tech starting cornerback Caleb Farley, a projected first-round pick, decided he could end his monetarily abusive relationship with the NCAA a little earlier than scheduled. Farley became the first college football player to opt out of the 2020 season due to concerns surrounding COVID-19....
You’ll Never Believe This, but the NHL Whiffed on Its Protests
It’s obviously awkward for the NHL and its players to find a way to join in on the Black Lives Matter movement and protests before and during their games. It’s an almost entirely white league, with a majority of players not even from this country — and even the ones who are come from a generally aff...
NBA Restart: Eastern Conference Predictions
The official NBA restart is inching closer and closer....
Adam Wainwright: My Job as a Christian is to Love My Neighbor and Love My Teammates
Cardinals pitcher Adam Wainwright is a devout Christian, so much so that in addition to his own regular Twitter account, where the first thing in his bio is “Follower of Jesus,” he maintains another feed called “Walking With Waino,” which links to a newsletter where posts a daily analysis of Bible p...
Wildest Plays Yet From NBA Bubble Scrimmage Games
All 22 teams taking part in the NBA restart down in the Orlando “bubble” have now officially competed in game action....
Giants’ Sam Coonrod Emerges as Early Favorite for MLB Idiot of the Year
The San Francisco Giants have been lacking a complete moron in their bullpen since they let wall-punching, brawl-starting, even-had-Fox News-wondering-if-he-was-racist imbecile Hunter Strickland go after the 2018 season....
WNBA Bubble Tip-Off: Stories to Watch This Season, on and off the Court
The WNBA season starts Saturday, with the Seattle Storm and New York Liberty squaring off to open a triple header that also includes the Los Angeles Sparks taking on the Phoenix Mercury and the defending champion Washington Mystics facing the Indiana Fever....
Washington Is Now the ‘Football Team’ Because Everything Else Was Copyrighted
The Washington football team will officially be going by what they’ve been referred to for a while. ...
2020 NL West Preview
The Dodgers have won seven straight division crowns, but remain title-free since 1988. Will either of those things change in 2020? Maybe!...
Baseball’s Performative Wokeness Is Fake As Hell
I know a fraud when I see one, and Major League Baseball is already showing us that it’s about to give an Academy Award-worthy performance this season. ...
Alyssa Nakken Becomes the First Woman to Coach On-Field in MLB
Major League Baseball’s first woman to coach in an on-field capacity took to the red clay during a San Francisco Giants exhibition game on Monday. ...
Former MLB Pitcher Sergio Mitre Under Investigation for Rape, Murder of 2-Year-Old
Former major league pitcher Sergio Mitre was arrested on Monday for drug possession and is being investigated for the rape and murder of a two-year-old girl, according to a report from El Heraldo de Saltillo....
Meet Martin Dihigo, The Best Baseball Player You've Never Heard of
“Dihigo was the best all-around baseball player I’ve ever seen.”— Buck Leonard...
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Adrian Wojnarowski Hurled Heaviest Bomb Yet at GOP Senator, Now ESPN Has Suspended Him [UPDATED]
Adrian Wojnarowski dropped another Woj Bomb....
How LeBron James' Decision Ended Up in a Greenwich, Connecticut Boys and Girls Club
When Bob DeAngelo got the call, he almost died....
Happy Bobby Bonilla Day! The Mets are still paying $1.19M each year to a guy who retired decades ago
July 1 in baseball is Bobby Bonilla Day, when the Mets pay $1,193,248.20 to their former third baseman, who hasn’t set foot on a major league diamond since 2001, as part of a deferred payment plan. It’s a check the Mets have been cutting annually since 2011, and they will send a seven-figure sum to ...
‘I Pray a Player Doesn’t Die’: Virus Will Grind College Football Season to Tragic Halt, Watchdog Says
Ramogi Huma has had a front row seat to coercive physical, psychological and sexual abuse that takes place at the hands of college athletic departments and the NCAA. ...
Hawks Busy Doing Real Work in Atlanta as Other Teams Sit Behind Empty Words
There has never been a major city in the United States that’s enjoyed a longer run as America’s “Black Mecca” than Atlanta....
Finally, Jarome Iginla Has Peers
Much like the football Hall of Fame, just about anyone gets into the Hockey Hall of Fame. Play in the league long enough, be kind to the writers, and gain any sort of rep for grit or toughness, and you’ll probably get in. Which cheapens the entry of those who are truly generational players. Those wh...