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The time is right For Bonds and Clemens to enter Hall of Fame - together and forever linked
The timing is perfect....
NFL prepares for less than 16 games, which probably means not all teams will get to 16 games
It’s pointless to bemoan the NFL not pausing or just outright stopping its season. There’s too much money, they’re too far into it, they’d never admit a mistake, we know all the reasons. It certainly seems like the NFL is admitting that it’s going to get worse before it gets better, as yesterday the...
Drunk Tony La Russa told cop: ‘I’m legit. I’m a hall of famer, brother’
Tony La Russa is a “Hall of Famer baseball person.”...
Soulless ESPN lays off Claire Smith, the first female baseball writer enshrined in Cooperstown, in latest round of cuts
When I opened Twitter this morning and started scrolling, I have to be honest; I was shocked....
<em>Big Noon Kickoff </em>sidelined with possible COVID exposure
Every week the college football stands seem to be fuller and fuller as fans enter the stadium with coverings over their faces, but by halftime, things look very different. No face masks, people screaming and saliva latching on to ride the breeze. Just an all-around dangerous environment when we’re i...
We’ve seen enough of the NFC East this season, NFL, please adopt WNBA playoff structure
We all know bad the NFC East is this season. They are the butt of all the jokes....
What the NFL's postseason expansion talks suggest
The NFL jumped into the flying-by-their-ass pool Monday by reportedly discussing expanding this year’s playoffs to 16 teams. This coming after they expanded it to 14 already, and they may just jump over that this January without ever trying it....
Tua's first win, Chargers throw up on themselves, and helmet-punching Bears are the worst 5-3 team ever
It’s hard to believe that we are already halfway through the 2020 NFL season....
Giants left with only four O-Linemen after Will Hernandez’s COVID diagnosis sends rest home
When you hear the phrase “history repeats itself,” you usually think of some time in the distant past being relived — not last week. ...
MLB billionaires have waited years to screw working-class staff at altar of profit, & here it is
It’s no accident that before the World Series came to its conclusion, MLB was getting it out there just how much of a financial disaster this season was for the owners. You’ve got to lay the groundwork, and MLB wants all its fans to know why its owners will be non-tendering some pretty big names to ...
Let’s call it what it was: Another epic Dodgers’ October choke job
ARLINGTON, Texas — Epic, indeed....
Let's all say a prayer for Derek Carr as he stares at a possible all-backup O-line Sunday
Here is where the NFL is now with COVID-19. This Sunday, the Raiders’ franchise quarterback very well could be counting on an entire offensive line made up of backups....
Toxic pride is the NFL’s biggest obstacle to a much-needed playoff bubble
One of the biggest topics among some coaches, players and others throughout the NFL is a simple question: Will there be a bubble for the playoffs?...
This is where the Dodgers get to be the Dodgers
It’s rare when a team is favored to win a series when down 2-1. But then teams that are down 2-1 aren’t usually the Dodgers. Hell, the Dodgers might have still been favored before Game 3. After putting up 15 runs in the span of six outs over two games (four in the 9th of Game 2, 11 in the 1st of Gam...
Joe Morgan, championed by the analytics he hated, passes away at 77
Most old-time baseball men hate sabermetrics for fear of their own legacy. They’ll never admit that, but it’s what’s at the heart of it. That pretty much spreads to every industry, where the way we used to do it is obviously better than the way we do it now (and sometimes that’s true). That somehow ...
Kevin Cash continues to win by knowing how to lose
The Astros-Rays matchup for the right to head to Texas (boy, that makes it sound like a pyrrhic victory) has a lot of angles to it. It’s the league’s best contact team in the Astros vs. one of the worst in the Rays. It’s a bullpen full of darkness-bringers in Tampa versus one made up of guys who sou...
Baseball has lost yet another Hall of Famer in 2020 as Yankees ace Whitey Ford dies at age 91
Unlike many of the parks in New York City, there is no sign or marker at Whitey Ford Athletic Field to explain how the place got its name, just a standard list of park rules posted at the entrance to a ballfield and exercise area....
MLB Playoffs gets signature moment in 'Bellinger-robs-Tatis' — the problem is sport doesn't have enough of them
You knew it as soon as you saw it. It’ll be a play that MLB will try and dine out on for years to come. ...
Does no fans mean more scoring across all sports?
We’re now something like six months into the no-spectators sports world. Seven if you start with the German Bundesliga in May. It’s been only a little more than three here in the Colonies, as the NBA, NHL, and MLB started at the end of July. Football has only been through four weeks. And yet a commo...
Division Series playoff preview: Where the hell are we?
Baseball has gotten back to the playoff rounds we remember, sort of. The wild card round, which everyone thought was going to produce some real chaos and be totally unfair, only threw up one true upset: the Marlins beating the Cubs, because the Cubs can’t hit fastballs, which seems like it’s on the ...