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The Wednesday(?!?) Scaries: The bet you should avoid
Welcome to the first and hopefully last installment of the Wednesday Scaries. We’ll see how many more COVID bowls we get before the end of the season....

Which 2-0 NFL teams were frauds? An investigation revisited
Every year, we overreact to 2-0 teams. And every year, a hot team in September cools off by December....

Drew Lock’s mom wants you to leave her baby alone
Aren’t moms embarrassing? Like, they ask us questions about our underwear in front of the girl we like, they wipe food from our cheeks, and they just can’t seem to help themselves. Laura Lock, the mother of Denver Broncos quarterback Drew Lock is apparently no different, and also seems to think that...

Tony Romo tosses credibility out the window for allegiance to Tom Brady
Tony Romo is a sellout....
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Message to the NFL: Do the right thing and call off Ravens-Steelers [UPDATED]
Update (5:04 PM): Out of sheer panic and ineptitude, the NFL has postponed Steelers-Ravens to Wednesday. ...

Sarah Fuller kicks historic first as a woman playing in a Power 5 football game
Sarah Fuller made history as the first woman to play football for a Power 5 school. But because she did it for Vanderbilt, she had to wait a while to do it....

College hoops returns during a pandemic so we can have an 81-point blowout nobody needed
A tweet on Wednesday afternoon that got 10,000 retweets and quote tweets, and nearly 40,000 likes in the first six hours it was up showed a score of No. 1 South Carolina 119, College of Charleston 7....

NFL's greatest Thanksgiving Day disasterpieces
It’s that time of year again....

NFL postpones Ravens-Steelers Thanksgiving game, players pissed
The Steelers vs Ravens Thanksgiving day tilt has been postponed until Sunday. This comes a day before they were supposed to play, and Steelers players are not happy....

FEAST MODE! Marshawn Lynch gives out turkeys in Hawaii
Sorry, not sorry — we had to say it....

Jim Nantz wants CBS to pay him like someone with a personality
In some ways you can’t begrudge Jim Nantz for asking for the bag. He probably looks to his right most Sundays, sees the Jerry Lewis soundboard that is Tony Romo, and figures A) Just by having to sit next to that overrated, handsome gas bag for four hours a week is worth $17 million a year. And B) If...

Lord knows John Harbaugh didn’t want that smoke with Malcolm Butler
Titans defensive back Malcolm Butler looked like he was about to take Ravens coach John Harbaugh one-on-one before kickoff today....

'Woj Bombs' vs. 'Shams Wows': Who won opening night of the NBA free agency salvo?
NBA free agency opened on Friday, and with the usual whirlwind of signings in the first few hours after the 6 p.m. Eastern Standard Time start of activity, it’s not easy to say what team really did the best....

This college basketball tournament in South Dakota doesn’t sound like a great idea anymore
When organizers cancelled the Battle 4 Atlantis in September they picked an interesting replacement: Sioux Falls, South Dakota....

Regrettably, Justin Herbert got a haircut
If you thought Justin Herbert looked like a preadolescent before, wait until you see his new ‘do....

We don’t want you to have to watch the Bears either
Whenever the NFL schedule is released, we Bears fans cringe whenever there’s a national game listed. Not because the Bears’ record over history on Sunday or Monday night is pretty porous, though that’s part of it. And it’s not the slagging we’ll be in for by national analysts. We’re numb to that by ...

That Cajun accent and ‘loveable charm’ won’t save Ed Orgeron from what’s happening at LSU
When USA Today drops an exclusive report on you, then you know it’s real. Just ask USA Gymnastics, Michigan State, and Larry Nassar....

Patriots grit it out over Ravens as lack of big plays stands between Baltimore and Super Bowl
In a downpour on Sunday Night Football, the Patriots outlasted the Ravens. It was a much-needed win for New England who had been on a slide before these last two games that had many people questioning quarterback Cam Newton and Head Coach Bill Belichick....

Sunday Night Football: Naked in the rain
The optics of this NFL season have already been weird and an indictment of the decision to have a season at all. Whether it’s empty stands or, even worse, quarter-filled ones, something has been off about watching football all season. It’s a constant reminder just of where everything is, and how it ...

Morikawa struggles on the 11th worse than Tommy Tuberville explaining civics
Sometimes in life, things just go downhill....