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Nathaniel Hackett is the latest example of NFL owners getting it wrong with white (and Black) coaches

Have you ever seen that classic gif/meme of the confused woman trying to figure out an equation in her head? Well, that’s what NFL owners look like when deciding on a coach....

Everybody Hurts sometimes

With three weeks left in the regular season, the Philadelphia Eagles have all but locked up the top seed in the NFC, needing just one win or a loss from both the Minnesota Vikings and San Francisco 49ers in order to secure home-field advantage through the NFC Championship and a first-round bye. With...

IDIOT OF THE YEAR: More dumbasses

WHY? Why must professional athletics function as such a powerful magnet for stupid, impetuous people? Ugh....

Playoffs?! Yes, the Jets and Jags have a shot at them

The Jacksonville Jaguars vs. the New York Jets is one of those games you’d typically see on the Thursday night NFL schedule, and figure this could be skipped this late in the season. Coming into the season, having that game scheduled on Thursday Night Football in December seemed like a dud. Suddenly...

The remnants of Adam Gase’s disastrous Jets tenure are rearing their ugly heads again ahead of Thursday Night Football

If the NFL playoffs started today, the New York Jets would be on the outside looking in, currently in possession of the AFC’s ninth seed. They are just one game out of a playoff spot and that makes every game for the remainder of the season a must-win. The Jets have to put their best foot forward an...

HBCU football runs through the Carolinas — not Jackson State (Deion Sanders)

Putting the cart before the horse never works — especially for a coach that has a history of coming up short....

Week 15 NFL Takeaways: Gut punch losses made the playoff picture more clear

The last four weeks of the NFL regular season have a different meaning to different teams and fanbases. However, the one commonality that all teams share is that the end is nigh. Soon, 18 of the NFL’s 32 franchises will be in team-building mode until post-Labor Day 2023....

Lotta goals in the desert - World Cup Daily Diary: The Final

How do you chuck the trophy away twice and still walk away with it?...

No, the San Francisco Giants’ offense isn’t suddenly elite with Carlos Correa

After missing out on Arson Judge, it was only a matter of time before the San Francisco Giants used their massive spending budget on one of the few elite hitters left on the open market. For weeks, the Giants-Carlos Correa speculation had been swirling with some people considering San Fran the front...

An 1800s outfielder is baseball’s most searched athlete… in Delaware

I spend a lot of time on Baseball-Reference. Apart from it being my job to do research and correctly relay player statistics to you, the readers, I enjoy looking back at old names from the late-90s and 2000s to see if they were as good as I remember them in my head. Casey Blake? Better than I rememb...

Players and recruits shouldn’t trust Kim Mulkey, who was useless when it came to Brittney Griner

Editor’s note: This column has been updated to include a comment from Kim Mulkey....

World Cup 2022 Diary: Day 21 - It's no Kane do for England again and Ronaldo walks off a loser... again

First things first: As the sport of soccer mourns, take a moment to remember Grant Wahl, a journalist of the highest order....

World Cup 2022: Morocco knocks off Portugal

World Cup Diary Day 18: Croatia, Argentina advance in penalty kicks

As extra time started, neither Brazil nor Croatia showed any urgency. The weight of a FIFA World Cup quarterfinal entering the additional 30 minutes-plus after going scoreless in the contest’s original time could’ve been swapped for the rhythm of a Tuesday exhibition. World Cups are how every countr...

Trea Turner to the Phillies is fine... for now at least

Two-time All-Star Trea Turner will be a Philadelphia Phillie for the next 11 years. He will be 30 in 2023, meaning the deal will end when Turner turns 40. This long-term contract with Turner near the end of his prime has some people worried. The two biggest concerns I’ve seen given to this situation...

The Brittney Griner-Viktor Bout deal is being unfairly criticized [See the exchange]

The end of Brittney Griner’s detainment in Russia arrived early Thursday morning, after the White House announced that she was on an airplane returning home safe and sound. The timing was a surprise to everyone outside of the Biden and Griner family’s inner circle. However, the two individuals invol...

Brittney Griner is free

At long last, a deal has been struck to release WNBA player Brittney Griner from a Russian prison. She was sentenced to a draconian nine years after a small amount of cannabis oil was found in a vape cartridge in her luggage....

Week 13.5 NFL Powerless Rankings: Nothing good is happening for these teams

At the intersection of Week 14 and Week 13, it’s time to take an unsettling look at this season’s worst. These are the squads who need a 12th man on the field to keep pace with their peers because whatever they’re doing right now isn’t working. Let’s dive in, but hold your nose, the stench is strong...

The NBA’s newest award is a better fit for MLB teams

It’s bad enough that there have been 16 NBA playoff spots since 1984. At that time there were only 23 teams in the league. It’s 2022, and still more than half of the league gets into the playoffs, and that’s not even counting the highly entertaining Play-in Tournament. Sure the New Orleans Pelicans ...

Carl Nassib helped save the Buccaneers’ season

The effect of an individual defensive player is hard to measure by statistics alone. It’s actually hard to even measure offensive players by traditional numbers. (What do 1,000 yards mean? Is it right to hold a single player responsible for his average yards per touch? How much should an individual’...