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Budweiser celebrates Messi by shipping bad beer to every goalie he’s beaten

Lionel Messi has driven many a goalkeeper to drink over the course of his legendary career. Now, all the more so....

You’ll say you were there when the NHLPA finally owned the owners

Every so often, a blind squirrel finds a nut. And there’s been no blinder squirrel than the NHL players’ union over the years. This is a side that got locked out for an entire season and still got a salary cap with no exceptions enforced on it. Eight years later it got locked out again and got an ev...

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....

Arizona to host massive soccer tournament because stupidity

This story warrants direct honesty. Adults in this country are really stupid....

On Maradona, his life, and the most famous two goals in soccer history

This story was taken from an episode of Julie DiCaro’s now-defunct sports history podcast, Stick to Pods, and originally aired on July 13, 2018....

The NBA and NHL are just making things up now

It’s certainly strange to be in hockey and basketball preseason with Thanksgiving next week. It’s even weirder that we’re a month or so from a start date — one that is most certainly not rock solid — and yet we don’t know what the schedule will be. But that’s 2020 for you, as both the NHL and NBA co...

Through the fog, there’s finally some light for the USMNT

Maybe having 10 months off from each other is exactly what the U.S. Men’s National Team and their fans needed. The last time we saw the national squad, they were hacking, gagging, and stumbling through the Gold Cup or attempting to play out from the back in another friendly with Mexico with truly di...

Sergio Ramos’s No Good, Terrible, Very Bad Day

Sergio Ramos might be the biggest villain in European soccer, but part of the reason he is that is he’s already won, and you know it. He’s got two European Championship medals, a World Cup, a murder of Champions League trophies, a handful of La Liga titles, and will go down as one of, if not the, be...

Diego Maradona still kicking, by the Hand of God

Let’s talk about Diego Maradona....

NWSL dramatically expands TV audience as women’s sports leagues see viewership growth

When we talk about “sports ratings” being down, let’s start adding a “men’s” before the phrase....

European soccer isn’t clear of Coronavirus either

It was likely that at some point last spring or over the summer, all the North American sports that were so desperate to return looked at European’s soccer reemergence in May and June, and figured if they could do it, we should too. Of course, everyone on this side of the Atlantic ignored the ways i...

Sergino Dest’s move to Barcelona continues the Yanks’ storming of the castle

It wasn’t that many years ago that the push from a large swath of US Men’s National Team observers was to get more players out of MLS and to Europe. ...

Gareth Bale and Tottenham Deserve Each Other

It can be startling to remember that Gareth Bale has only been something of a punchline for two seasons. And we should all be so lucky to be considered a joke when making over $37 million per year to live in Madrid and not do a whole bunch. We’d all accept a pretty healthy share of laughs at our exp...

Let's Enjoy the Celtics' Implosion. Plus, the Yankees Continue Hitting Homers Like Crazy

The Celtics’ season is going down the toilet....

Christen Press and Tobin Heath are the Latest to Head for Blighty

It might seem like an exodus, and it sort of is. If reports are true, then Christen Press and Tobin Heath will become the third and fourth members of the World Cup-winning US Women’s squad to head for England’s WSL this season. ...

U.S. Soccer Could Learn Something from England and [Checks Notes] Brazil (!) on Equal Pay

Pep Guardiola Overthought It Again and City Are Out on Their Ass

We’ve all had to deal with a lot of our rites of spring being moved to another location on the calendar or lost to the pandemic altogether. Opening Day, Memorial Day blockbuster movies, Derby parties, all of these and more were lost or moved to an unfamiliar spot in life’s routine. Oh, and Pep Guard...

Sarri’s Not Enough: Juventus Boots Manager as Champions League Drought Continues

It is strange for a club to fire its manager after winning the league. It’s not unheard of, as Real Madrid once fired Vicente Del Bosque after he’d won both the Champions League and La Liga twice, but it’s still strange. To do it in two consecutive years however suggests a nutty desperation, a flail...

Iceland’s New Crest Will Make You Want to Fight the Nearest Bear

The Football Association of Iceland released its new crest today, and to describe it “as the most metal thing you’ve ever seen” does it an injustice. From now on, any heavy metal song will now be described as, “That’s Iceland’s crest.”...

USA Doesn’t Have a Monopoly on Racially Coded Language in Sports

Baseball is America’s national pastime, but the use of racially coded language when referring to players is not a phenomenon that’s specific only to baseball. Certainly, if you’ve heard about an NFL cornerback with “deceptive speed” or an NBA guard with “outstanding leadership qualities,” you can ma...