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The NBA continues its protocol theaterIt’s not just the NBA, of course. Both MLB and the NFL engaged in this showy display of just how seriously they take COVID-19 without actually taking it seriously enough and turning the money spigot off to fight it. But yesterday, the NBA increased its mask protocols making it that everyone on an NB...

Sports Illustrated pegged dystopian present 30 years ago: Free-to-play ads, call-the-play apps & empty arenasHappy 2021! Today is the 20th anniversary of the beginning of a story that’s worth revisiting, one of the most interesting stories ever to appear in the legendary pages of Sports Illustrated — and a work of fiction....

James Harden fined, not suspended, for 'not a strip club' maskless videoThis story was updated on Wednesday, December 23 at 7:33 p.m....

Dwayne Haskins caught maskless with strippers, future deservedly in jeopardy [Updated]

So apparently, Washington Football Team quarterback Dwayne Haskins likes strippers more than his career. After losing to the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday, Haskins decided to party it up — maskless — with some ladies at a local jiggle joint....

NHL runs up against the problem of a country armed with logic

We’re now less than a week away from the start of the NBA season, and yet their roommates/moochers in the NHL still can’t seem to find their way through the door, or even the door itself. It was only a couple days ago that Jan. 13 was looking like more than a theory of a starting date. Now it’s a pr...

Everyone on Houston’s men’s team had COVID, 90% of Louisville’s had it, too

Texas is now at over 1.54 million COVID cases, with the pandemic affecting communities of color at an alarming rate. The state’s figures apparently include all 15 members of the Houston Cougars sixth-ranked men’s basketball team. According to head coach Kelvin Sampson in a media call on Thursday, ev...

Big Ten screws over Indiana, rewards COVID-y team with not enough wins

Full disclosure: I went to IU. Historically, we are a basketball school, though even that has fallen in shadow after the glory days of the 80s and early 90s. My point is, we are not, and have never been, a football school....

Shortly before Ravens-Cowboys, Dez Bryant tests positive, yet the game goes on

The saga of the COVID outbreak within the Baltimore Ravens organization just won’t quit. Twenty minutes before their Tuesday night game with the Cowboys was set to get started, Ravens receiver and former Cowboy Dez Bryant tweeted that he was pulled from his pre-game warmups because he had tested pos...