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The NFL stopped being a running back’s league long ago — just ask Le’Veon Bell
The New York Jets’ decision to release Le’Veon Bell Tuesday is not shocking — it made a lot of sense, given the direction the game has been heading....
Mark Jackson is the reason why Mark Jackson isn’t an NBA head coach
The key to life is being a palm tree instead of an oak....
BREAKING: Adam Schefter is a vacuous turd who embodies white male privilege
Sports media is overpopulated by privileged white people, myself included. But it’s especially populated by privileged white men, who are never called to account for their privilege or use it in any constructive way. America seems, by and large, OK with this: The “leave politics out of sports!” crow...
NFL plays Russian roulette with decision to let Titans back on field
In the 15 days since the Titans played the Vikings, nine have involved a member of the Tennessee organization testing positive for COVID-19. ...
Players are terrified of COVID, but don’t want to speak up for fear of angering the NFL
They are terrified, and it’s understandable....
Week 5 takeaways: Another coach is gone, the Niners got smacked like they ate an edible, and the Boys’ D is as bad as Trump’s COVID team
After a crazy week in the NFL that saw more players testing positive for COVID-19, a mass reshuffling of games, and coaches getting the boot, here we are again with our weekly NFL takeaways. ...
Dwayne Haskins sacrificed for NFL Nepotism of Scott Turner, Norv’s Son
New Washington Football Team Head Coach Ron Rivera made one of the riskiest hires imaginable going into 2020. Despite inheriting a young developing quarterback in Dwayne Haskins, he hired Scott Turner as his offensive coordinator, a man who has never won a single game in that capacity....
Sunday Scaries: The Week 5 bets you should avoid
Welcome to another installment of the Sunday Scaries where NFL Sundays are becoming, fittingly, scarier....
Lindsey Vonn schusses (get it?) bigots, talks depression, love, Covid & how she almost drove for Formula One
Lindsey Vonn opened up on In Depth with Graham Bensinger this week on a wide array of topics, including depression, having a pandemic wipe out your wedding, and dealing with hate for being in an interracial relationship....
Wisconsin axes stadium voting in Milwaukee, but says it's just fine in lily-white Green Bay
This is what voter suppression looks like. ...
Is it racism? COVID-19? Incompetence? What <i>IS</i> the Football Team's secret to constantly stepping on rakes?
Here are three mystery quarterbacks:...
The Eagles being in first place is hilarious
I can hear the LMAOing in Philly all the way in Chicago....
This weekend, basketball proved why football needs a bubble
To fully understand how popular football is in America, all you have to do is realize that a single sport owns two days out the week....
The NBA Finals begin tonight, here’s what you should know
Tonight’s matchup involves two fan bases that were bored during last year’s playoffs as the Heat and Lakers were at home, with Miami finishing with a 39-43 record while Los Angeles finished 37-45. It’s the first time two teams are meeting in the Finals that didn’t qualify for the postseason the year...
It’s time to ban the A’s and Twins from MLB playoffs
Major League Baseball began it’s playoff key party yesterday, with all the American League wild-card series kicking off. And while this season has been weird/a farce/an abomination to the sport and really all logic (if you lean that way), there was something exciting about having a day full of baseb...
Lamar Jackson is not on Patrick Mahomes' level, because nobody is
Lamar Jackson and the Ravens just aren’t good enough....
What is even happening on Jon Gruden’s face?
Jon Gruden was fined $100,000 for wearing his mask during last week’s Monday night game — how will the league respond to whatever this is?...
Happy 20th to Vince Carter cordially asking Frédéric Weis to please step aside so he could dunk
Frédéric Weis basketball career was eviscerated on this day exactly 20 years ago by none other than Vinsanity. ...
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...