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Who Knew That Distance Runners Would Be Bad At Social Distancing?
Marathon runners are some of the only athletes who can go about their business right now with minimal interruption. While marathons have been canceled or postponed all over the world as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, it remains possible to train, as even Dr. Anthony Fauci continues to get som...


There Is No God If The Red Sox Get Rewarded For Dumping Mookie Betts
Thanks to an agreement between Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association on coronavirus-related adjustments, Mookie Betts will be a free agent next winter, regardless of whether there is a 2020 baseball season....

Eric Dickerson Agrees With Us: He Knows A Penis When He Sees One
Eric Dickerson knows what’s up. The Hall of Fame running back has joined in the chorus of displeasure and ridicule for the Los Angeles Rams’ new logo, unveiled earlier this week....

Desus Nice, Meet Josh Lewin
On this week’s episode of “Bodega Boys,” Desus Nice and The Kid Mero deftly summed up the big problem with trying to get your sports-fix by watching the “classic” games that TV networks are showing during the coronavirus pandemic....

The Nets Getting Coronavirus Tests Shows Just How Screwed Up Our Society Is
Will Kevin Durant and the Brooklyn Nets be a rallying cry as the sick and the poor rise up to eat the rich? ...

Shenanigans: This is How Bored Athletes are Passing Time While They Can't Play Ball
The global stoppage of sports due to the COVID-19 pandemic has left many feeling the same way: bored....

Did NBA players shame their billionaire team owners into social decency?
When the risks associated with the spread of COVID-19 forced the NBA to suspend the season last Wednesday, it was clear that the majority of the players and executives that occupy the top one percent of American wealth would not be significantly impacted....

Browns Even Suck At Cutting A Player Who Threatened To Kill Their Fans
The Cleveland Browns were unbelievably bad in their 24-19 loss to the Denver Broncos. Worse than Jets losing to Dolphins bad. Coverage sucked. Play call sucked. Clock management sucked. And not for the first time this season. Or even the second time. With 3:23 remaining on the clock, down five poin...

The Bears Missed A Field Goal To Lose A Game
The Chicago Bears have some *ahem* history with missed field goals, and the failure of Cody Parkey in last season’s playoffs clearly haunted the psyche of coach Matt Nagy all summer. But while this miss—by replacement kicker Eddy Pineiro to lose 17-16 against the Chargers—may not be as significant a...

Flea Flickers Are Out. Double Reverse Flea Flickers Are In.
Yeah, sure, it’s possible for a team to score a touchdown on a boring old flea flicker, but if you could jazz things up by scoring on an Ultra Spectacular Jet Sweep Double Flea Flicker Reverse™️ instead, why wouldn’t you? That’s what the Rams were clearly thinking today in England against the Bengal...

Bow Down Before The Mighty Devin Booker And His Unstoppable Phoenix Suns
I don’t want to alarm you, but you should begin to prepare for a world where the Phoenix Suns are NBA champions. It’s the only logical conclusion one could come to after one of the league’s sorriest franchises beat the Clippers on Saturday, 130-122, without their starting center (Deandre Ayton) or ...

Did Stephen Jackson Confirm Tony Parker's Infidelity With Brent Barry's Ex-Wife?
Former NBA players Stephen Jackson and Matt Barnes are the latest athletes to join the ridiculously oversaturated world of podcasting—don’t forget to subscribe to ours, by the way—with a show called “All the Smoke.” The focus, as outlined in this interview with CBS Sports, is for the two hosts to ha...

LeBron James Should Just Recap Your Crappy Team's Games From Memory
Thursday’s Lakers media scrum afforded LeBron James yet another opportunity to showcase his impeccable memory for the press. As he explained his habit of watching every NBA game during his off-days, James rattled off several plays from Wednesday night’s Timberwolves-Nets OT thriller....

Patrick Beverley Mercilessly Taunts Warriors Fans After Clippers Ruin New Arena's Opening Night
Kawhi Leonard and the Clippers opened up the Warriors’ shiny new San Francisco arena by hanging 141 points on the hapless Dubs. That’s the most in almost a decade. Golden State looked terribly thin, with D’Angelo Russell and Draymond Green both posting plus-minus lines of -35 and Green admitting tha...

Giannis Antetokounmpo Denies Giving Juicy Quote To Harvard Business School About Possibly Leaving Bucks
Because he’s the reigning MVP, because he plays in Milwaukee, and because the 2019 summer was defined by NBA stars switching teams—one of whom previously and publicly talked about how he wanted to stay—Giannis Antetokounmpo will face intense scrutiny over his forthcoming free agency decision in 2021...

Josh Gordon's Season Is Over, But Only In New England
The Patriots placed Josh Gordon on injured reserve Wednesday, signaling the end of the receiver’s time in New England. Gordon aggravated two bone bruises in his left knee in the second quarter of the team’s Week 5 win over the New York Giants, when he attempted a tackle after the Giants recovered a ...

Patrick Beverley Has Somehow Reached A Higher Plane Of Intensity On The New-Look Clippers
Becoming a title favorite over the summer and opening the season against the hometown rival would all be hugely motivational for the Clippers. But Patrick Beverley has never required that extra fuel. By tipoff of any given game he has already showered in kerosene and used a lit match as a Q-tip. ...

These Photos From A Muddy 49ers-Skins Game Are So Good
San Francisco’s win in Washington may not have been good football, but it was beautiful in its way.At a rainy, sloppy Landover, the Niners slip-slid their way to a 9-0 win that was a wholesomely good time—for the winners, anyway. “It takes you back to being a kid: You’re out there, you’re sloshing a...

Kyle Kuzma Ponders The Society In Which We Live
Has Lakers forward Kyle Kuzma been hanging out with Kyrie Irving? Has he just seen Joker for a third time? Has he simply been pondering what it means to be a citizen of this thing we call society? The following tweet leads us to believe that all options are on the table:...