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The NBA continues its protocol theater

It’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...

by Sam Fels|

|Tue Jan 05 2021

Sports Illustrated pegged dystopian present 30 years ago: Free-to-play ads, call-the-play apps & empty arenas

Happy 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....

by Jesse Spector|

|Fri Jan 01 2021

James Harden fined, not suspended, for 'not a strip club' maskless video

This story was updated on Wednesday, December 23 at 7:33 p.m....

by Dustin Foote|

|Thu Dec 24 2020

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....

by Jon Helmkamp|

|Wed Dec 23 2020

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...

by Sam Fels|

|Fri Dec 18 2020

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...

by Jon Helmkamp|

|Thu Dec 17 2020

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....

by Julie DiCaro|

|Wed Dec 09 2020

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...

by Jon Helmkamp|

|Wed Dec 09 2020

Dabo Swinney sucks even more than you thought yesterday

God save us from the incessant idiocy of college football coaches....

by Julie DiCaro|

|Tue Nov 24 2020

Did Augusta really need to put Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player at risk in the time of COVID-19?

Hear me out....

by Staff Report|

|Thu Nov 12 2020

Dumb college kids at Notre Dame rush field in pandemic

Notre Dame-Clemson happened. It was a good game, with the top-ranked Tigers, with Trevor Lawrence sidelined by COVID-19, rallying from 13 points down to take the lead late in the fourth quarter, only for the No. 4 Fighting Irish to drive 91 yards for a score to force overtime, where Notre Dame pulle...

by Jesse Spector|

|Sun Nov 08 2020

As U.S. sees worst COVID-19 day yet, NFL stung for second straight day with Texans, Bears and Eagles cases [UPDATED]

For the second straight day, COVID-19 has infiltrated an NFL team facility. Today, it’s the Houston Texans. ...

by Donovan Dooley|

|Thu Nov 05 2020

Missing out on a title must sting, but Price was right to sit out after Turner COVID mess

David Price already got his World Series ring in 2018 with the Red Sox, so it’s not as emotionally wrenching as it could be that, after opting out of this season, the lefthander wasn’t part of the Dodgers’ first championship since 1988....

by Jesse Spector|

|Wed Oct 28 2020

Wisconsin could run out of quarterbacks soon [UPDATED]

The Big Ten wrapped up Week One. Yay! ...

by Dustin Foote|

|Wed Oct 28 2020

The NFL keeps following Trump into the abyss — first with Kaepernick then with COVID

We need to take a quick trip back in time to the year 2017. Something important happened then that explains, in part, the limp response of the NFL to the pandemic....

by Mike Freeman|

|Thu Oct 15 2020

Sports may be back, but the ratings aren’t — a new Marist poll tells us why

This spring, when the NBA shut down after Rudy Gobert tested positive for the coronavirus, other sports followed suit. It was an odd pause in what is essentially our modern calendar. The rhythm of the sports calendar functions like the movement of the stars once did for ancient mariners....

by Jane McManus|

|Wed Oct 14 2020