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Vince McMahon’s Ruthless Aggression Is Aimed Almost Solely At His Employees
There are too many things the Firefly Fun House Match during Wrestlemania nailed about WWE storytelling, specifically Vince McMahon’s view of the world. The answer to Vince, as it is with most billionaires, is that the only thing you need to get what you want is to want it bad enough and be willing ...

Poker Pro Trash-Talking And Cleaning Out Tom Brady Makes Global Plague Almost Worth It
A bunch of A-list celebs signed up to battle it out in an online poker tournament, but in the end they were just a bunch of fish swallowed up by a full-time shark who trash-talked Tom Brady....

Trolling Has Become a Pandemic Sport
Patience has never been a virtue in sports....

The Sports Personalities Affected by Coronavirus
As the coronavirus continues its march, ravaging families and communities worldwide, the sports world finds itself at a crossroads, forever changed by the pandemic’s reach and left wondering how to proceed. The following is a look at some of the players, staffers, and personalities — and their famil...

Sports Writers Let George W. Bush Off The Hook And It Looks Like They Are Going To Do The Same With Trump
Among all the wild proposals/blueprints/sketches from various leagues on how to finish their season (NBA and NHL) or just complete it (MLB), there’s a semi-constant thread at the end of all of them. ...

The NBA Gets Vegas, The NHL Gets ... North Dakota
If you wanted a clearer statement about the difference between the NBA and the NHL, you can’t do much better than comparing the leagues’ contingency plans for finishing their seasons over the summer: The NBA has floated stationing everyone in Las Vegas, while the NHL mulls shipping its entire operat...

Dabo Swinney's Take On The Pandemic Is What 'Merica Wants To Hear. And That Means We Are All Doomed
In case you missed it, Dabo Swinney, the noted pandemic expert and Clemson football coach, suggested Friday that the coronavirus can be beaten into submission simply through the sheer force of America’s greatness. ...

These Guys Were Great, They Just Never Got Enough Credit: The 10 Most Underrated NBA Players Since 1990
In today’s edition of “Let’s talk about sports to distract ourselves from apocalyptic horrors,” we follow up our list of most overrated NBA players with their diametric opposites: the most underrated....

No, Joe Buck Won’t Do Play-By-Play Of You Having Sex
We’ve all been delighted by play-by-play announcers filling their time by announcing mundane, everyday activities. Like here. Or Josh Lewin here. Or here. Even Joe Buck volunteered to try and give us all a smile with submissions from the masses. Like anything that involves submissions from the masse...

The World Really Is Coming To An End: Adam Schefter Criticized The NFL
ESPN’s Adam Schefter is widely known as an NFL shill. He rarely, if ever, criticizes the league and has even fed from the same trough as the entity he supposedly covers objectively....

Why Is Construction On Stadiums Being Allowed To Continue?
In a global pandemic that has made many lawmakers issue “shelter in place” mandates in order to protect public safety, there have been some questionable exceptions. ...

You Know Who Jameis Winston Looks Like After Five Seasons? Peyton Manning
Only five quarterbacks in NFL history have thrown for more than 5,100 yards in a single season. They are: Peyton Manning, Drew Brees (four times), Tom Brady, Ben Roethlisberger and Jameis Winston....

Chris Jericho Yelling At A Drone Is Everything I Did And Didn’t Know I Wanted
This is simply the greatest piece of television this year, and quite possibly the past decade:...

Steph Curry's Interview With Dr. Anthony Fauci Is Exactly What The World Needed
Stephen Curry is an American hero. ...

No Opening Day, No Sports...My Center Won't Hold
Important disclaimer: I acknowledge this is far from the most consequential aspect of the shelter-at-home policies under which half of this country and many others around the world are enduring. And I’m aware that I happen to be one of the lucky ones in that I’m nor anyone that know personally have ...

Peyton Manning Was Never Going To Make Monday Night Football Good Again. But There Still Is A Way To Salvage It
The NFL is just about the only league fans can discuss in a definite future tense. While there are some forecasts out there that the Coronavirus pandemic and subsequent measures to combat it could stretch into late summer and fall, it’s far enough in the distance that football season still feels saf...

Behold: The Los Angeles Rams' New Logo Is A Giant Penis With Horns
The Rams unveiled their new logos today as they get ready to move into their new stadium in Inglewood this fall....

'They Don't Care About Black People. They Are All Trash.' Aunt of Slain Alton Sterling Rips NFL Owners over Colin Kaepernick Being Blackballed From League
For families that have lost loved ones to police violence, Colin Kaepernick’s stance—and the owner’s collusion to blackball him—is deeply personal. ...

Wrestlemania Is Between The Rock And A Turnbuckle
There probably was a time when WWE boss Vince McMahon, and his counterparts at All Elite Wrestling (AEW), dreamed of being the only parties providing new, live television in this era of shelter-at-homes and shutdowns and burning through all of “Schitt’s Creek” and needing something as keenly silly (...

Dan Snyder Finally Did Something Right. FedExField’s Parking Lot Will Become A COVID-19 Screening Site
The headline isn’t a typo....