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Notre Dame coach Mike Brey furiously swiping right to find new opponent to put at risk
You have to assume that Mike Brey at least made a few phone calls, sent a few texts, something, anything, before he decided to tweet in desperate search for someone to play basketball against Notre Dame next weekend....
The Force Awakens: A sports fan finds his passions unexpectedly rekindled
I didn’t know how badly I was broken until I found myself on Wednesday evening leaping off the couch, pumping my fist and yelling “YASSSSS!” while watching my St. John’s Red Storm back in action....
As usual, Tom Brady becomes Tom Baby after he plays like crap
Tom Brady is a sore loser....
The Knicks baffle fans by continuing to make moves that actually make sense
The Knicks didn’t get Fred VanVleet, who stayed with the Raptors for four years and $85 million....
Two feel-good MVP stories mask modern technology baffling backwater St. Louis again
While the NL Cy Young conjured thoughts about some of the things that are wrong with baseball (the warping of the game played by galactic assholes), there’s no reason to not feel good about both MVPs named yesterday....
Trevor Bauer wins NL Cy Young, and everyone’s in a hurry to sanction foreign substances
As expected, Trevor Bauer claimed the National League Cy Young Award last night, which has launched a raging river of horseshit like this....
Notre Dame president now slamming students for exposing his failure
Being the parent of eight-year-old twins, I often need to be wary of worst-case scenarios....
Roger Goodell, Rob Manfred, and Adam Silver are showing themselves during this pandemic
The idea of leadership has consumed us this year....
Dumb college kids at Notre Dame rush field in pandemic
Notre Dame-Clemson happened. It was a good game, with the top-ranked Tigers, with Trevor Lawrence sidelined by COVID-19, rallying from 13 points down to take the lead late in the fourth quarter, only for the No. 4 Fighting Irish to drive 91 yards for a score to force overtime, where Notre Dame pulle...
MLB has a take-out-the-trash Friday as cheaters prosper, Mets clean house & Justin Turner skates
The Friday news dump is a time honored tradition, but baseball really went all in on it this time, not only with it being Friday, but with the drama of the American election continuing to unfold....
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....
Rob Manfred does what he does best: Pass off responsibility
Nobody’s right if everybody’s wrongIt’s an oldie, but still true. Perhaps it’s unfair to the Dodgers that perhaps the enduring image of their World Series win will be Justin Turner returning to the field to celebrate after testing positive for COVID-19. Maybe that’s what Turner and the Dodgers deser...
In tight World Series spot, Clayton Kershaw finally delivers for the Dodgers
ARLINGTON, Texas — There are baseball stories. There are Hollywood stories. This is both....
Ex-Astros GM Jeff Luhnow assures you: I did all the good stuff, but none of the cheating
Jeff Luhnow, the disgraced, suspended, and fired general manager of the Astros, has finally spoken publicly, giving a 37-minute interview to Houston NBC affiliate KPRC. And the man who ran the team responsible for baseball’s biggest scandal in a century would like the world to know that it wasn’t hi...
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 ...
Like so many others, Notre Dame President Father Jenkins flouted COVID-19 until he got it
Hindsight is 20/20. Lack of foresight is 2020....
Even after postponement last week, Notre Dame football announces <em>more</em> COVID infections
Are you surprised that college campuses are becoming hot spots for a deadly disease which in turn is infecting football teams, causing them to shut down and postpone games?...
Happy 20th to Vince Carter cordially asking Frédéric Weis to please step aside so he could dunk
Frédéric Weis basketball career was eviscerated on this day exactly 20 years ago by none other than Vinsanity. ...
If It’s Normalcy You Seek, Then a Jackass in Fenway Is What You Need
If you had to wager which stadium would see a fan quite possibly risk his life, merely for the opportunity to yell at everyone around and act like a yahoo to an audience of no one, Fenway Park most definitely would have been the chalk....
Expanded Playoffs Suck, But Here’s a Way to Fix It
Rob Manfred says this season’s expanded baseball playoffs are likely to remain in place for 2021 and beyond, and everybody hates it....