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2020 Idiot of the Year: Our descent continues with Jon Gruden, Dana White, and a cold look in the mirror
UPDATE: We have compiled all 50 items into one handy list, for your reading convenience. It is available here....

2020 Idiot of the Year Awards: Counting down from 50-41 with Ronaldo, Bolt, Cespedes, and more
UPDATE: We have compiled all 50 items into one handy list, for your reading convenience. It is available here....

You don’t have to feel sorry about Jose Altuve's 'Thing'
You can if you want. Certainly in this year that’s causing even Satan to tug at his collar we need all the empathy we can get. But there’s something reassuring that karma can exist, when we’ve spent most of the recent past watching shitty people do shitty things and get away with it to the point whe...

Random Dude Smacks Three Home Runs for Bombers — it's the Yankee Way
The Yankees have hit a lot of home runs....

In Game 7, Jason Heyward Rose to the Occasion, Last Night His Cubs Teammates Failed to Return the Favor
When Game 7 of the 2016 World Series went to a rain delay in Cleveland, after the Chicago Cubs, trying to end their 108-year championship drought, had let the lead slip away on Rajai Davis’ tying homer, they needed to pick up the pieces and figure out how to mentally get back into things for extra i...

With NFL Draft In The Rearview, Here Are Some Best Bets To Win Some Hardware
For three glorious days, the sports world was gleaming....

Media Coverage of Justin Rohrwasser's White Nationalist Tattoo Has Been Shameful
Kicker Justin Rohrwasser was selected by the Patriots in the fifth round of the NFL Draft. It was also discovered he had a “Three Percenter” tattoo on his arm, and sports media is having a really hard time framing this story, and what the “Three Percenter” tattoo represents....

The XFL Was Mostly Irrelevant, But Don't Celebrate Its Failure
For many football fans, the resurgence of the XFL was simply a way to get their weekend fix of America’s “new pastime.” ...

WNBA Referee Walks Into Astou Ndour’s Hand, Delivers Emphatic Ejection
You can’t touch a referee. That’s the rule in basketball and basically every sport. So, the ejection of the Chicago Sky’s Astou Ndour from today’s game against the Washington Mystics was understandable. But the reaction of WNBA ref Kevin Fahey was a bit over the top....

Look At This Weird Thing Donald Trump Just Belched Up<i></i>
In March, a young whale beached itself in Davao City, in the Philippines. When scientists from the local museum—it is, delightfully, called D’Bone Collector Natural History Museum—did a necropsy on the whale after its death, they discovered that it had starved to death because its stomach contained...

Let’s Remember Some Guys: When Paul Heyman Was Paul E. Dangerously
Paul Heyman is known today as the advocate for WWE wrestler Brock Lesnar, but about 30 years ago he was Paul E. Dangerously—named, as Heyman says in a WWE DVD, because he looked like Michael Keaton’s character in the 1984 film Johnny Dangerously....

WWE's Intergender Experiment Is Still A Work In Progress
When Paul Heyman took over Monday Night Raw last month, one of his reported goals was to make the show edgier. “Edgier” is a catch-all for many different storylines and actions, including intergender matches. Heyman is a veteran of the Attitude Era, where men hitting women was commonplace, often to ...

Paul Heyman's First Monday Night Raw Showed Real Signs Of Life
After three days of embarrassing attendance at the Stomping Grounds pay-per-view and the subsequent editions of Raw and SmackDown, and after months of chatter that the product had sagged and stagnated, WWE finally decided to make a big move last week. That the move in question wound up being the sh...

As WWE Wraps Up A Crazy Week, AEW Winds Up For Its Second Show
This ended up being one heck of a week for All Elite Wrestling to have their second show....

WWE Picks Two Relics Of The '90s To Fix Its Creative Stagnation
On Thursday, Sports Illustrated broke an “exclusive” story about a shift in WWE’s upper management. Effective immediately, the storied wrestling figures Paul Heyman and Eric Bischoff will take on the roles of Executive Directors for Raw and SmackDown Live, respectively. Though the report notably doe...

Luka Dončić, True To Form, Dominates Rookie Of The Year Voting
Dallas Mavericks sensation Luka Dončić won Rookie of the Year honors Monday night at the annual NBA Awards, inexplicably broadcast live on TNT, which presumably ran out of rerun episodes of Bones with which to fill their primetime schedule....

Pope Thrower Is The 2019 Name Of The Year
There was 1:09 left on the clock when Eli Manning, under pressure from the New England Patriots defense, hurled the football downfield. The three-time world champion Patriots, up 14-10 at the time, were defending a perfect run through the regular season and postseason. At that point, only the 1972 M...

Pope Thrower Vs. Jizyah Shorts Is The Name Of The Year Final
Well, we can’t say we’re surprised....

Here's The Name Of The Year Final Four
In 1985, Belgian psychologist Jozef Nuttin published a landmark study in which he revealed that people have a general preference for the letters in their own names over the other letters in the alphabet. The idea is that the sight of those letters provides a temporary self-esteem boost that affects ...

The Trevor Rosenthal Situation Has Gone From Funny To Gloomy To Dangerous
There can’t be many experiences in sports more bewildering and humiliating than the yips, and any player going through something yip-like deserves sympathy, if not pity. In the case of Nationals reliever Trevor Rosenthal, it especially sucks to think that his current season-long inability to throw s...