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Talk about superspreaders! Millions of dollars showered on Prez, GOP by NFL owners who allow fans in stadiums
So far this season, there have been 12 NFL teams that have allowed fans into games. Obviously, they’d all like to open their gates, and a lot of whether they do comes down to state and local regulations amid the coronavirus pandemic, but thanks to Donald Trump and his cabal of derelict ignorance, sa...
Trash Odell Beckham Jr. at your own risk
It’s Trash Talking Tuesday and today, I’m trashing all those in NFL America who said WR Odell Beckham Jr. was washed up....
LSU forgets that COVID still exists and decides to get rid of CDC wellness checks at games
LSU announced that it will ditch CDC medical wellness checks as a requirement for entry to their stadium on game days, encouraging fans to administer their own self-assessment prior to going to Tigers games in order to thwart the spread of the deadly virus....
This was the Sunday America finally lost its mind
We’ve seen it coming, as colleges refused to let infected football players and their inflamed hearts deter football seasons and those sweet, sweet television dollars. And we’ve seen how cautious leagues like the NBA and WNBA were able to let science lead to success....
The President is hospitalized with COVID-19 and the SMU student section still doesn't get it
This isn’t working, and it’s hard to say what will....
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Cam Newton, three more Titans, and Saints player test positive for COVID-19, throwing NFL into turmoil [UPDATED]
New England Patriots quarterback Cam Newton tested positive for COVID-19, it was reported Saturday morning, sending an already messy NFL Week 4 into chaotic overdrive....
Like so many others, Notre Dame President Father Jenkins flouted COVID-19 until he got it
Hindsight is 20/20. Lack of foresight is 2020....
Sometimes good things happen in Philadelphia too, Don!
President Trump said, “Bad things happen in Philadelphia.” ...
Kyrie Irving shades LeBron, praises Durant in clutch as first teammate who can 'make that shot too'
Brooklyn Nets star Kyrie Irving spoke about his new teammate Kevin Durant, while appearing to cast some shade at his former teammate LeBron James in the process. ...
Wisconsin GOP tries to grill Racing Sausages, but they’re gonna get burned
The Wisconsin Republican Party is very good at manipulating the rules of democracy. They’ve gerrymandered the hell out of the state to the point that despite Democrats earning a majority of the votes in the 2018 legislative elections, Republicans won 63 of the 99 seats....
TV magic can't mask NFL's ugly reality: This season hangs by a thread
This NFL season is as sturdy as a house of cards. No amount of theater, from the low camera angles that cloak a lack of fans to the laugh track of fake cheering that pretends they are still there, can hide the truth....
Chaos breaks out in NFL as three Titans test positive
The Tennessee Titans and Minnesota Vikings have both suspended in-person club activities following the discovery of eight positive COVID tests in the Titans organization....
The Tampa Bay Lightning, the NHL’s best organization, finally have their stamp
It’s funny, if you remove the esteem, the adjectives, the histrionics we attach to those who win championships and those who don’t, and just look at the results on paper, the difference is small. We attach a chasm between the teams that lift the trophies and those that they beat for them, but in rea...
Even after postponement last week, Notre Dame football announces <em>more</em> COVID infections
Are you surprised that college campuses are becoming hot spots for a deadly disease which in turn is infecting football teams, causing them to shut down and postpone games?...
The Lightning eviscerate the Stars, win the Cup, and mercifully send everyone home from NHL bubble
It shouldn’t have taken this long, and the Stars were lucky to not get run out of the building in four games, the sort of thorough thrashing to clinch the Cup and the ending the Lightning deserved. But there hasn’t been a sweep in the Final in 22 years. So the Bolts will happily settle for a six-gam...
The Phillies should have taken the left at Albuquerque
The selling point of a major overhaul/rebuild in baseball, at least the way you bill it to fans, is that for a few years of abject play and unadorned summers you will be rewarded with years and years of contention and a spin at the playoff wheel that might land on “World Series Champion” every seaso...
The NFL has a black cloud hanging above its gender-equality milestone
Three women will make history today....
Padres’ Clevinger could be lost for the postseason, and that sucks
Because it’s 2020, the most fun team in baseball just has to take a gut-punch to its title hopes....
Gale Sayers, the brightest of lights
Five seasons. Sixty-eight games. That’s all it took for Gale Sayers to prove to everyone he was one of the greatest running backs in football history (at the time only Jim Brown would have been argued to be in the same stratosphere). Just five, and those five seasons still hold up today to put Sayer...