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Idiot of the Month: Waving goodbye to a stupid summer
It’s another month in human history, and you know what that means: people did idiotic things. Let’s investigate!...

Mac Jones could mess around and game manage his way into the playoffs this season
Mac Jones is now the man in New England....

Leagues are all-in on sports gambling — is that <em>really</em> a good idea?
On Monday, the NFL announced that it was partnering with four sports-betting outlets in addition to the three sports gambling related partnerships already on the… books....

What to make of Cowboys’ 0-4 preseason
The 2021 preseason has ended, and the Dallas Cowboys did not win a single game. Going 0-4 in games that don’t count isn’t the worst thing in the world. Hell, it might actually be a good sign. In 2014 and 2018, the Cowboys lost all of their preseason games and managed to make the postseason both time...

The Dolphins’ interest in Deshaun Watson contradicts last season’s stance against inequality
The Miami Dolphins are fake allies....

Hey Carlos, wherever you go, the boos will follow
Carlos Correa, the Houston Astros shortstop who won a championship with the team in 2017 with the help of some extracurriculars, has announced that he will be leaving the team after this season....

Hurricanes tweet Kotkaniemi offer sheet news in French out of sheer pettiness
Two years after the Montreal Canadiens tried to pry Sebastian Aho away from Carolina with an offer sheet, the Hurricanes have exacted their revenge, getting Jesperi Kotkaniemi to ink an offer sheet for one year and $6,100,015....

You done messed up, Urban
The Jaguars are not going to compete for a Super Bowl this year. They are not going to compete for a division title. They are not going to compete for a playoff spot. With that in mind, all that should matter in Urban Meyer’s first season as head coach, is developing his rookie quarterback, Trevor L...

Who is the fastest NFL player ever?
The title of “fastest man in the NFL” is a battle that has and will continue to rage on into the future. We’ve seen plenty of players with phenomenal speed over the years, all of whom have either said it publicly or to themselves that they are the fastest human being in the NFL....

The icons of tennis are about to leave the stage, and the US Open will be our first taste of life without them in decades
With Serena Williams withdrawing from US Open, and Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal out, we’re about to get a peek at tennis without its icons...

'Red' storm rising
The Premier League might be headed for something of a row with FIFA and international teams next week. Yesterday, the league announced that teams won’t be releasing players that have to travel to countries on the U.K.’s “red list,” which is pretty much all of South America and a lot of Africa....

Baseball For All's message to women and girls: You don't have to stop playing the game you love
The 29 young women who gathered on the pristine green turf of the Centenary University baseball field in mid-August for Baseball For All’s first-ever scouting combine for women — a group looking to continue their baseball careers into college — all shared commonalities in their individual stories....

Y’all had jokes for Karrion Kross’ new entrance attire — and rightfully so
Let’s provide you with some idea of how high the WWE’s been on Karrion Kross. ...

Does Big Ben even have anything left to run it back with?
One last run for the Pittsburgh Steelers and future Hall of Fame quarterback Ben Roethlisberger. The last ride for the six-time Pro Bowler and two-time Super Bowl champion is about ready to take off into the regular season. But how much does Big Ben have left at this point? Enough for a last dance?...

David Moyes must be having a midlife crisis with West Ham
Maybe it was pandemic football that blinded me. After all, it was hard to fully invest in in the same way with the canned noise and lessened verve that each game had. Everything started to look and feel the same, and hence I couldn’t see what was really going on. ...

Yo, Bears: Please don't feed Justin Fields to the wolves
Did the league not learn anything from Joe Burrow’s catastrophic knee injury last season?...

When the smoke clears, it’ll be WFT in the NFC East
This season there should be zero roadblocks standing in the Washington Football Team’s way in the NFC East. Yes, that includes the Dallas Cowboys, who have been picked by many to win the division and contend for the Super Bowl. Okay, we’ll see about that....

This weekend told you everything you needed to know about what WWE and AEW are
The idea WWE higher-ups have been pushing that they don’t pay attention to AEW seems as flimsy as ever now....

Just when I think I'm out, WWE's big events pull me back in
SummerSlam is Saturday night, the second-biggest night in pro wrestling behind WrestleMania, and as a casual fan of the grapples, I’ll be tuning in as usual....

Terry Rozier got the memo about Latrell Sprewell that Dennis Schröder missed
Irrational confidence is something that all pro athletes have, as it’s a necessity for anyone that makes it to that level of play. But, sometimes, “betting on yourself” can lead to bankruptcy — just ask Latrell Sprewell....