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Greta Thunberg carried away by police... AGAIN. Is she making a sport out of it?

Put Devin Hester in the Hall of Fame, you cowards

Most every time, I don’t care about the Hall of Fame. Any of ‘em. The Baseball Hall of Fame is now just a platform for every voter and commentator to prove how important they think they are or what new metric they say proves all. Everyone gets into the Hockey Hall of Fame as long as they went out dr...

The best foods to bring to your Super Bowl party

There is nothing more stressful than knowing you have a group of people coming over in 20 minutes, but your dip in the oven takes 40 minutes. Or that you might be showing up empty-handed to the pot-luck style watch party, and you are hoping no one notices. In any case, here is a guide to bringing an...

Philadelphia Eagles OL Josh Sills cleared of rape, kidnapping charges [Updated]

Updated Aug. 5: Josh Sills was found not guilty of rape and kidnapping charges. The lineman was also removed from the commissioner’s exempt list....

Lotta goals in the desert - World Cup Daily Diary: The Final

How do you chuck the trophy away twice and still walk away with it?...

Lotta goals in the desert - World Cup Daily Diary: Day Argentina

Sometimes those who cover the game have to fistfuck a narrative into fitting. And then sometimes Lionel Messi does that. ...

The Brittney Griner-Viktor Bout deal is being unfairly criticized [See the exchange]

The end of Brittney Griner’s detainment in Russia arrived early Thursday morning, after the White House announced that she was on an airplane returning home safe and sound. The timing was a surprise to everyone outside of the Biden and Griner family’s inner circle. However, the two individuals invol...

Lotta goals in the desert - World Cup Daily Diary: Day 11

Game of the day: Mexico 2 - 1 Saudi Arabia...

Albiceleste of Steel? World Cup 2022 Group C Preview: Argentina, Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Poland

OK, I’m stretching to get a Rush reference into these. But the heart wants what it wants. ...

Week 2’s NFL MVP? That award goes to Kyler Murray

As tempting as it is to call Tua Tagovailoa the most valuable player of Week 2, he had help. Tyreek Hill and Jaylen Waddle meep-meeped all over the Raiders, but he earned so much respect that this is the weekend everyone learned how to spell his last name. He’s now Mr. Tagovailoa. In Week 2, Micah P...

Cordarrelle Patterson kept running past people and finally found his best position

Cordarrelle Patterson’s NFL career began with him as a purple blur for the Minnesota Vikings....

Desmond Howard… explain yourself

College football season kicks off today and already people are looking to the future, making predictions for conference championships and national titles. Some of these takes are scalding hot....

How far can Brighton go?

The question almost every soccer fan gets from non-soccer fans, which is healthy, is, “So which team should I support?” You never mind hearing it, because it means your friend/acquaintance/bookie wants to become a fan, but it’s also an impossible question to answer. Your football club usually finds ...

Does Deebo Samuel have an infatuation with Dallas or merely trolling to get what he wants?

Deebo Samuel might have 19 problemz, but his contract is the biggest one. In pursuit of a big-money extension or trade, Samuel is taking the troll route. Deebo was in Dallas for Game 3 of the NBA Western Conference finals, surely showing support for the Golden State Warriors, and was seen shaking ha...

Rangers give Igor Shesterkin the Henrik Lundqvist treatment in 79 save performance

Perhaps the one downside of the NHL game speeding up is that more and more teams look the same. It gets harder to identify a specific style to a specific team as rosters are just packed with players who can move at a high pace and are directed to just get the fuck up the ice as quickly as fucking po...

You should root for the Florida Panthers

I know there’s a lot of obstacles. First off, hockey is probably the most provincial sport we have, and once everyone’s team is out, those fans tend to not give a fuck about whatever happens next. We’ve spent so much time coming up with reasons to hate everyone else it’s impossible to change gears. ...

Roman Abramovich tries to help himself by helping peace negotiations, allegedly gets poisoned

If no good deed goes unpunished, what happens when you perform a good deed from a place of self-interest? Soon-to-be-former owner of Chelsea FC Roman Abramovich found out after he tried to “help” the peace negotiations between Russia and Ukraine....

What in the hell is the WNBA doing?

The WNBA is apparently trying to compete with the MLB for how much it can hate its own players....

Mikaela Shiffrin’s response to failure is more important than failing

When I’m left sifting through the rubble, struggling to find any remnant of hope in the disaster that has befallen me, I try to remember advice my father never stops giving me: “You can’t control the things that happen to you, but you can control how you react to them.”...

Never a silver lining in this rivalry

Talk your shit, Natalie Spooner. ...