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Here are some buzzer beaters from last night for you
There’s no such thing as buzzer beater season. But if there was, it would start around championship week (now) and wrap up in early April. You and I have seen plenty of game-winning shots in our time. Do buzzer beaters ever get old? You know the answer. (They do not.)...
How might COVID-19, and tight playoff races, impact this year’s NBA trade deadline? We asked around
The NBA trade deadline is on March 25. It’s reasonable to anticipate ample movement in a standard NBA season, but because of COVID, we’re obviously in unique times. Are teams going to be hesitant to make moves while pushing for the playoffs because of the lingering disease and all that comes with it...
ESPN rediscovers the NHL
For fans my age, the soundtrack of hockey, when we get wistful, can at times still be Steve Levy and Darren Pang calling yet another multiple overtime game. Or Bill Pidto hosting NHL 2night. It was eons ago now, but when ESPN launched ESPN2 “The Deuce,” one of its main tenets was that it was to show...
Porto score from Narnia to beat Old Lady
I’ve been dreaming of doing one of these “Old Lady” headlines ever since I started here, so thank you for coming on this journey with me....
Bauer Hockey couldn’t have screwed up worse than trotting out Patrick Kane for International Women’s Day
Whatever holiday you’re having, whatever group you’re honoring, you can expect hockey to somehow completely step on a rake before falling off a cliff and into an open sewer....
Tokyo Olympics to be held without foreign fans
Most Japanese citizens don’t want the large international event to begin with. But now, according to the Kyodo News, the Japanese government will not allow foreign spectators to attend this summer’s Olympics and Paralympic Games. The decision to bar overseas fans, according to the report, stems from...
Daryl Morey calls Joel Embiid ‘the most unstoppable thing I’ve ever seen,’ which begs the question: Is he?
Philadelphia 76ers general manager Daryl Morey sat down with Sports Illustrated NBA Senior Writer Howard Beck for a recent si.com story. Within the interview, Morey knowingly referred to Sixers star center Joel Embiid, as in, not James Harden, as the most impregnable offensive force he’s seen....
Les Miles’ creepy ass got fired on International Women’s Day, which is poetic
Late Monday night, the University of Kansas announced it had “mutually agreed to part ways” with head football coach Les Miles. The fact that Miles is out as head coach on International Women’s Day is truly a delightful display of life imitating art....
It's time to put the NBA All-Star Game into the dumpster
It’s a Trash Talking Tuesday, and today I’m trashing the NBA All-Star Game....
Nearly a third of the NBA was in Miami for Atlanta’s All-Star Weekend
Roughly 150 NBA players were in Miami during All-Star Weekend, according to ESPN’s Brian Windhorst....
Christian Pulisic <i>still</i> isn’t starting for Chelsea
There’s a little anxiety brewing in London for USMNT fans. Christian Pulisic once again didn’t start in Chelsea’s match yesterday against Everton. Just like he’s failed to in every match since new manager Thomas Tuchel took over. He hasn’t started a match in two months. ...
50 years ago a boxing match stopped the world, now the sport could barely stop traffic — could baseball be next?
Yesterday was the 50th anniversary of “The Fight Of The Century,” the first of three Joe Frazier-Muhammad Ali fights. Even though it took place a decade before I was born, anyone can glean the importance of it by listening to just about anyone who was alive at the time talk about it or even read a f...
Dak Prescott to make record $75M this season after inking 4-year, $160M deal to stay in Dallas
Dak Prescott finally got his contract extension, and it’s a doozy. The Dallas Cowboys announced today that Prescott has signed a 4-year, $160 million contract, including $66 million at signing. A record $126M of the deal is guaranteed. On top of that, Dak will be paid $75 million in the first year o...
Let’s take a moment to appreciate American women in sports of the 21st century
I will say it loudly and frequently – celebrate women in sports. They belong in sports. They belong wherever the hell they want to belong. Gender has zero bearing on knowledge about a topic. It has always been a battle for equality, and it should not have to be. And it’s not just athletes. Before an...
If you picked against Steph Curry yesterday, you need to re-evaluate your life
For everyone hurting today after Steph Curry burned your pockets in the three-point contest, you should have known better. ...
Did ratings for Oprah’s Meghan Markle and Prince Harry interview measure up against the NFL postseason?
For years, I felt like the only person who didn’t watch Game of Thrones. On Monday mornings in the spring and summer, I would leave my friends and social media to talk about who got killed, who got screwed, or which dragon appeared....
Everything John Schneider does is stupid and inexplicable
Seahawks general manager John Schneider continues to make me a very angry Seahawks fan. So, Schneider, let’s check in to see what you’ve done today to piss me off. Oh, I see, you decided to cut the best pass rusher the team currently has on its roster, less than six months after trading for him. Coo...
50 years ago today, Ali and Frazier stepped into the ring and delivered a divided nation its greatest sporting spectacle
Professional boxing had come a long way in the half-century that preceded March 8, 1971, the night Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali stepped into the Madison Square Garden ring for what remains history’s greatest heavyweight championship fight....
Is Overtime Elite the amateur sports game changer we’ve been waiting for?
It’s probably too soon to tell, but the new paid basketball league for 16- to 18-year-olds is certainly intriguing....
It's not Adam Silver's fault that Joel Embiid & Ben Simmons couldn't play in the All-Star Game, but the pregame public relations nightmare is on him
On Saturday, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver asked for grace and time....