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How The NFL Could Exploit A Plague To Tighten Its Death Grip On Sports
The NFL is the one league that wasn’t in the middle of a season or in training camp when the coronavirus epidemic hit. And that’s mostly true worldwide, with soccer, rugby, the Olympics, tennis, golf, cricket, and however many others feeling the freeze. The NFL still gets to sit back and observe how...
Two Governors, Two Parties, Same Insanity On Sports
Andrew Cuomo’s seeming competence during the coronavirus pandemic has generated waves of positive press for the New York governor, and has even spurred talk of the possibility of him being Joe Biden’s running mate, even though Biden has said he plans to select a woman. Never mind that his record is ...
These Are The Sports Films That Should Have Already Been Made
Scrolling endlessly through Netflix and HBO, looking for new movies to watch, sparked an idea: What are the movies I would definitely watch, but haven’t been made yet?...
Ben Affleck & Matt Damon Are Hosting A Charity Poker Tourney On A Sketchy Offshore Site. What Could Go Wrong?
Tom Brady, Ben Affleck and Matt Damon headline a group of Hollywood stars, poker pros and celebrities who will be on the virtual felt Saturday at 2 p.m. EST to raise money for charity....
Major Golf Events Are Being Cancelled Everywhere, But States As Hard Hit As N.Y. Still Think It's Safe For Courses To Remain Open
Like every other sport realizing its proper place in a society in crisis, the PGA and professional golf around the globe is undergoing major shifts in its schedule. Today, the British Open was canceled for the first time since 1945, while tournaments over on this side of the pond have been shifted t...
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....
De'Aaron Fox Not Playing In NBA 2K Tournament Makes This Thing Trash
De’Aaron Fox is the NBA’s premier gamer. ...
They Were Great, But Not <i>That</i> Great: The 10 Most Overrated Players In The NBA Since 1990
Let’s clear up a couple of things here before anyone starts calling for the heads of any of the writers who put together this list:...
Hey, Trump Voters: He Called A-Rod For Advice While A Pandemic Raged. We're All Reaping What You've Sown
The coronavirus doesn’t give a fuck. ...
There Is No God If The Red Sox Get Rewarded For Dumping Mookie Betts
Thanks to an agreement between Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association on coronavirus-related adjustments, Mookie Betts will be a free agent next winter, regardless of whether there is a 2020 baseball season....
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....
Remembering Curly Neal And The 10-Year-Old's Birthday Party That I Thought Was Going To Be At Yonkers Raceway
When I heard Curly Neal had died last night at 77, my heart sunk....
Boston Bruins Owner Jeremy Jacobs Is a Demon Lizard, Episode 3,476
Not that we needed more reminders that Boston Bruins owner Jeremy Jacobs is completely made of bugs, but today is another. Delaware North, Jacobs’s company that owns the TD Garden and the Bruins, announced Wednesday that they’re laying off all the part-time arena staff....
You Know What's More Stupid Than Trump Saying The World Will Be Back To Normal In Three Weeks? Listening To Him
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo says “we are not flattening the curve,” and talks about his state hitting peak cases of coronavirus in two to three weeks. The Tokyo Olympics, set to begin July 24, have been canceled. Seventeen states have ordered residents to “shelter in place,” with another 10 states is...
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...
Let’s Invent An MLB Cup, Because We Might Have To
As always, a disclaimer that this is hardly the most important thing of the times right now. But it’s important to get these fantasies out before they turn sinister and weird and involve trying to write the Grim Reaper’s Tinder profile....
Tom Brady Is The Most Overrated QB In History. New England Should Be Glad He Is Gone
Tom Brady is no longer a member of the Patriots, and nobody should be happier about that than Patriots fans, who are finally free from having to watch one of the most overrated quarterbacks ever as his long fade into irrelevance begins....
Now That We Are All Quarantined, Let's Revisit Some Old Video Games. First up? NES Hockey
With the sports world effectively shut down waiting for the coronavirus pandemic to subside, one way to get your fix is to play video games. But what if you’re not into the 2K life because… okay, because you’re washed....
Lamar Jackson Shellacs Pats, Handing New England First Loss
The day the worst team in football won its first game of the season, the best one lost its first. ...
If Only Kevin Durant Had Beaten The Shit Out Of Draymond Green
Golden State Warriors fans are in the process of suffering through a rotation anchored by the legendary Eric Paschall, the even more legendary Omari Spellman, and the beyond legendary Ky Bowman. Stephen Curry (out indefinitely with a Rice Krispie’d hand) and Klay Thompson (waiting for various knee l...