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NHL's Lake Tahoe Outdoor event was just thaw-ful

It’s Trash Talking Tuesday, and today I’m trashing the NHL for that debacle outdoor game at Lake Tahoe....

How many workers must die before FIFA moves World Cup?

Actress Shailene Woodley confirms engagement to <em>Jeopardy!</em> nerd Aaron Rodgers

It’s officially official. ...

This is it for Albert Pujols, whatever his wife might say

Not that it needed an announcement, but there was a brief period of time last night when Albert Pujols’ wife had declared this upcoming season the last of his illustrious career. She did her best to walk it back later, as that’s how these things tend to go....

In more optimistic stadium news, England races to host Euro 2020 fans (in 2021)

While the NFL begins to lick its chops about having full capacities for the 2021 season, and MLB try to find every break and crack they can to start getting fans in from Opening Day, across the pond they’re planning for big returns too....

Basketball ignored Rick Pitino’s plea for a delayed season, and now his team is paying the price

Nothing is more infuriating than being ignored, only to be proven right....

Is it too early to be optimistic about the NFL’s stadium capacity optimism?

Tailgates, gameday traffic, long restroom lines, and tens of thousands of people packed in stands sound crazy right now. And it should. But we could be living in a completely different world by September....

Yankees’ Zach Britton shows pro athletes the proper response to teammates who abuse others

It isn’t very often that we see an example of professional athletes expressing their discomfort with a teammate accused of domestic violence, but Zack Britton, relief pitcher for the Yankees, is providing us with such a moment regarding his fellow reliever, Domingo Germån. It’s wildly refreshing....

Deion Sanders’ ego already causing unnecessary drama at Jackson State

Deion Sanders’ greatest strength is also his greatest weakness....

Attention-seeking adolescent apologizes for heckling Cam Newton

Free agent quarterback Cam Newton showed his class over the weekend after being called “ass” by a heckling kid at one of his football camps....

Incomplete Brooklyn Nets are scary good, just ask the Western Conference

The numbers are stoopid....

Mariners President Kevin Mather unleashes torrent of stupidity on Zoom call, then resigns [Updated]

Yet another baseball executive stepped in a big ol’ pile yesterday....

It’s important that the NHL tried Lake Tahoe, even if it didn’t work

It’s always funny, and easy, to laugh at the NHL and their constant failed plans. No league can step on a rake as quickly and thoroughly as this one. And there’s something truly symmetrical about Gary Bettman declaring the sun his enemy. But their “ski weekend” in Lake Tahoe was probably still worth...

Romelu Lukaku is the best striker in the world

Few fixtures suffer from the lack of fans more than the Milan derby, especially this latest iteration. A split stadium, 80,000 fans baying for blood and justice, tifos galore, all in service to a top of the table contest, it would have been an epic occasion. Inter Milan came into this leading Serie ...

Cam Newton puts corny, clout-chasing child in his place after kid calls him ‘ass’

Update (February 22, 2021): The kid apologized....

DeSean Jackson’s free agency will be a revealing tale

Thirty-four-year-old wide receivers aren’t hot commodities in the NFL. But it doesn’t mean they can’t be intriguing....

Yeah, Djokovic, Nadal, and Federer will probably outlast this generation too

Every Grand Slam for the past...well, the years are getting innumerable now, and barely even fathomable, given the unseen greatness and longevity of Federer, Nadal, and Djokovic. Fans keep asking: “Will this be the time?” That is, the time someone else breaks through, someone else rises to the level...

FAU freshman hits back-to-back grand slams in one inning… in his first two at-bats

Sports fans, meet Caleb Pendleton. We already mentioned him in The Mourning After, but I think he deserves his own story....

Naomi Osaka is one of the swaggiest athletes we’ve ever witnessed

Naomi Osaka could be on the verge of becoming a cultural icon....

Sure Draymond imploded, but they didn’t need to give him a tech

Charlotte and Golden State are both squarely on the playoff bubble in their respective conferences. What if their fate at the end of the season comes down to one game?...