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Mayweather vs. the YouTuber? Don't fall for that garbage cash grab
It’s Trash Talking Tuesday, and today I’m trashing boxing champ Floyd Mayweather Jr....
The Big Ten should have never reversed course, that much is clear
The Big Ten had done the right thing. They looked at a sports landscape ravaged by the virus, and decided to shelve the football season. ...
Here are the NBA ballers who made the most money this year
It’s no secret that the players in the NBA rack up bands during their careers. So, we decided to take a look at which players in the league have been stacking the most cash this year. Here are the top ten, as calculated by players’ 2019-20 salaries and endorsement pay....
Billy Beane changed baseball, but he could never conquer the game
While the movie “Moneyball” has become canon for the analytics movement in baseball — or more accurately those looking to trace its spread to basically every other sport — those who have read the book know that Billy Beane didn’t invent them with some intern he ransomed out of Cleveland (and every C...
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Notre Dame and Brian Kelly Perfectly Happy to Put Kids in Harm's Way [UPDATED]
UPDATE: Notre Dame announced it will switch to online classes for the next two weeks....
In Shrugging Off COVID Heart Complications, NCAA Has Gravely Failed Its Athletes
The spring crawled into summer and the heat, combined with a global pandemic, has put all of our lives, including the lives of athletes, at a standstill. Many schools started having COVID-19 breakouts in the middle of the spring and the prognosis has only become more dire, with more and more schools...
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Division III Had No Problem Shutting Down Championships. What’s the Hold-Up for D1? [Updated]
The NCAA Division III Presidents Council’s decision, Wednesday, to cancel all fall sports championships for the 2020-21 school year in what could foreshadow the fate of larger divisions....
Kroger, MLB Bosses Reveal America’s True Pastime: Worker Exploitation
James Andres, who had just started working at the Kroger supermarket in Westland, Mich., in March, contracted coronavirus in April and died last weekend. The manager of a Kroger in Murfreesboro, Tenn., died after testing positive for COVID-19. Kroger announced that its $2-an-hour “hero pay” bonus fo...
If New Rules Weaken NCAA Control Over Athletes, That’s A Good Thing
In this time of big companies grabbing up small-business loans — or fucking over their employees to the point of death, news of the NCAA lurching toward the right thing, if belatedly and clumsily, is still something of a shock. It’s what happens when the bar is so low. “The NCAA: The butter is under...
College Athletes Finally Will Be Compensated For Commercial Use Of Their Likeness
The NCAA takes a step towards ending shamateurism in college sports....
Can Simone Biles Dunk?
First things first: Yes, we actually talk about the important sports things that are happening right now in this Deadcast. The World Series is happening and we address that; Dom Cosentino, who does not really care that much about the World Series, joined us for this one, and we talked to him about t...
Mets Owners Gave Bill de Blasio $5,400 The Day Before He Quit His Presidential Campaign
In 2019, Jed Lowrie suffered a lower-body injury in spring training that somehow never got better or better-understood; for much of the year, the injury was just designated as “left side.” While he was unable to play the field at all, Lowrie did finally make it back to the bigs at the very end of th...
Simone Biles Keeps Finding New Worlds To Conquer
It was quite the week to be Simone Biles. On Tuesday, at the 2019 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Stuttgart, Germany, the diminutive 22-year-old superstar helped her team to their seventh consecutive gold medal, at the same time beating the record for the most world medals ever won by a f...
Simone Biles Is Now The Most Decorated Gymnast In World Championship History
Simone Biles stands alone atop the world of gymnastics, again. Her gold-medal performance on the beam in Stuttgart, Germany, made Biles the most decorated gymnast in world championship history with 24. Here’s what her record-breaking outing looked like:...
Is Beer Money Sign Man Sorry For Old Racist Tweets?
It’s the question everyone has been asking today: Is beer money sign man sorry for old racist tweets? Well, thanks to a breaking report from ESPN, we can now confirm it with confidence: “Beer money sign man sorry for old racist tweets.” ...
If The NBA's Itching To Investigate Something, It Should Look At The Orlando Magic
The NBA has promised to crack down on tampering and salary cap circumvention, rolling out new rules and talking a big game about ramped-up enforcement. So far the league has done really noble work, punishing the Milwaukee Bucks for noting that their own player, Giannis Antetokounmpo, will be offered...
Report: Spencer Dinwiddie Gives Me A Migraine With Complex-Sounding Contract Conversion Plans
Spencer Dinwiddie, a cool basketball man, is planning to sell bonds secured by his contract with the Brooklyn Nets in order to raise up-front investment capital, or anyway that is how I have chosen to make sense of this gobbledygook-ass report from Shams Charania of The Athletic....
Simone Biles's Brother Charged With Triple Murder
Tevin Biles-Thomas, the brother of three-time Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles, was arrested yesterday and indicted on a variety of charges stemming from his alleged role in a New Year’s Eve shooting in Cleveland that left three men dead. According to local Cleveland outlet WKYC, two people showed...