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The biggest “snubs” from the NBA Awards finalists
Y’all are already mad over ‘Player X’ not appearing on at least one of these ballots, so we’re gathered here today to commemorate those unable to join their peers as NBA Award Finalists. ...

The Lakers can’t visit Biden in the White House because of COVID-19 – blame Trump
After serving as the white supremacist president that eternally merged politics and sports, the ramifications of Donald Trump’s time in the Oval Office are still affecting American traditions....

ETSU players believe their white coach got fired because he supported their kneeling. Then the school hired a Black coach. Wait, what?
On Monday, while the college basketball world was preparing for the national championship game between Gonzaga and Baylor, East Tennessee State was busy naming its first Black men’s basketball coach. ...

Stupid ways to fill out your NCAA Tournament bracket
Your well-considered bracket is try-hard garbage. Admit it. With all your esoteric knowledge of basketball — and possibly even due to it — you will inevitably sit slack-jawed in the coming weeks as your “lock” of a team gets melted by a 5-foot-3 point guard from Southwest Rando State University....

Kansas City Chiefs OC Eric Bieniemy needs to stop taking the high road (Updated...again)
Here we are — again. Days after the Kansas City Chiefs — powered by one of the most exciting and explosive offenses the NFL has ever seen — won their second Super Bowl in four seasons. Their offensive coordinator, Eric Bieniemy, missed out — again — on another head coaching cycle as white men with ...

From White House visits to NCAA reform, what should sports expect from a Joe Biden administration?
President Biden doesn’t seem to care about sports as much as his predecessor, and that’s probably a good thing....

How the election of a former basketball player from Hawaii and the kneeling of a football player led to Trump’s homegrown terrorists setting America on fire
It all started with a lie, so it might as well end with one, too....

COVID-19 almost killed Bobby Bowden, but he's still voting for Trump
There’s nothing more American than college football, racism, and voting against your own self-interest....

Mike Leach Is Extremely Normal
Mike Leach is not mad, but mostly he is not crazy. He’s your average Fox News viewer, mostly, but also famous and rich and the best-paid public employee in the state of Washington....
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Yes, That Video Of Obama That Mike Leach Tweeted Is Very Fake [Update]
Mike Leach might’ve officially lost it....

The Time Barack Obama Tracked Down Dave McKenna At A Coffee Shop
Our beloved colleague Dave McKenna tells good stories. He’s done a lot of cool shit, met many weird people in weird ways, and had his run-ins with the law. And after selfishly squirreling all his stories away in Slack and our brains for years, we’ve realized we have a societal obligation to share....

The Most Controversial Part Of Obama's Off-The-Record Sloan Speech Was Just A Light Criticism Of The NCAA
The off-the-record talk that Barack Obama gave at MIT’s Sloan Sports Analytics Conference last Friday didn’t stay under wraps for long. The folks at Reason obtained a recording of the former president’s hour-long speech and published it today, and—surprise—it doesn’t have anything too different from...

Bah Gawd, It's The Rattlesnake!
Stone Cold! Stone Cold! Stone Cold!...

Wait, Let's Clown These Scrub-Ass Doofuses Some More
Seventeen days. That’s how much stamina flinty-eyed deal master Donald Trump, sober policy knower Paul Ryan, and all the Republican Party had for a health care overhaul they’d been promising for seven years, before the work of negotiating amongst themselves overwhelmed them and they retired to their...
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Basketball Fans Treated To Ads Congratulating Republicans For Repealing Obamacare [UPDATES]
Basketball fans tonight in several Republican-adjacent TV markets are enjoying a series of ads, prematurely bought by the American Action Network PAC, inviting viewers to call their representatives to thank them for repealing Obamacare today—something that did not happen. ...

Celebrity Democrats Fuck Off
We have just witnessed the incredible spectacle of a vile right-wing celebrity being elected President of the United States. There is a right lesson—and a wrong one!—for Democrats to take from this. ...

Please Keep This In Mind Now That Donald Trump Is Taking Over The Economy
To all the Wall Street titans, billionaires, and run-of-the-mill rich people who are celebrating the ascendance of Donald Trump to the White House: please keep this one piece of context in mind....

President Obama Pardons Giants Legend Willie McCovey
The most surprising and noteworthy prison sentence that Barack Obama commuted today was that of Chelsea Manning, the former Army official who was seven years into a 35-year sentence for leaking documents to WikiLeaks in 2010. Among the other 208 people whose sentences Obama commuted were Puerto Rica...

The Government Is Out Of The Equality Business
After the financial crisis and the Occupy era, “inequality” became a mainstream political issue. And the Obama administration made some quantifiable progress. Now? Prepare for the reverse. ...

Barack Obama Got Some Decent Jokes Off At Michael Jordan's Expense
Michael Jordan, the famous denim icon, received the Presidential Medal Of Freedom from President Obama this afternoon at the White House, along with Vin Scully and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. While introducing the inductees, Obama ribbed MJ and called him “the guy from Space Jam.” I hope Kevin Durant is so...