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What has this Big Ten season been for, anyway?
Northwestern is the 19th-ranked team in the country and on the way up after taking control of the Big Ten West with a 17-7 win over No. 10 Wisconsin on Saturday. The Wildcats’ remaining games are at Michigan State and Minnesota, and home against Illinois — three teams that have combined to win as ma...
Ohio State should thank their lucky stars they beat Indiana
Justin Fields threw clunkers Saturday in the worst game of his short career, but that didn’t matter in the end against a game Indiana side. Ohio State still pulled out a 42-35 win....
Florida State runs away from Clemson game … because the Tigers have COVID
In a page straight out of the 2020 storybook, Clemson and Florida State “mutually” agreed to postpone their Saturday conference matchup hours before kickoff, after both teams’ medical staffs could not agree to move forward with the game. The teams had been scheduled to play at noon. ...
Penn State coach James Franklin can't mask what is going on in his program
Penn State just can’t help itself. This football program is clearly out of control, but head coach James Franklin is trying his best to disguise it....
More 2020 things that suck: Klay Thompson out for the season
Because the Bay Area sports teams haven’t endured enough injuries this year, add Klay Thompson to the mix. The three-time NBA Champion suffered a season-ending Achilles tear on Wednesday in a workout with other league players, ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reported....
The other 29 teams in the NBA should be doing everything they can to stop the Warriors from drafting James Wiseman
During the final scenes of the 1985 cult classic “The Last Dragon,” Bruce Leroy finally reaches his full potential in a battle against his nemesis, Sho’Nuff. By achieving “The Glow,” Leroy became unstoppable. ...
40,000 voted at Atlanta's State Farm Arena, but now what about the Senate runoffs?
In a 2020 Presidential election decided by uncomfortably slim margins in swings states, remember the number 40,000. That’s the approximate number of people who voted early at State Farm Arena in Atlanta, Georgia....
That Cajun accent and ‘loveable charm’ won’t save Ed Orgeron from what’s happening at LSU
When USA Today drops an exclusive report on you, then you know it’s real. Just ask USA Gymnastics, Michigan State, and Larry Nassar....
These Nits are the pits
Penn State was No. 7 in the preseason AP college football poll. That is not where the Nittany Lions will finish the year....
LSU’s Koy Moore being ‘violated’ by police is another example why we can't relax on fighting injustice
LSU wide receiver Koy Moore says he was “violated numerous times” during an incident with Baton Rouge Police on Saturday night....
Tom Izzo becomes latest in irritatingly long list of sports figures with coronavirus
College sports are having a day....
Gritty takes center stage after Trump campaign's weird Philadelphia press conference
As the Trump era begins to wind down in America, there’s still plenty of embarrassment available for everyone involved, as was shown Saturday morning when the outgoing president tweeted that his team would be holding a press conference at the Four Seasons in Philadelphia....
Deion Sanders' kid commits to play with his Prime Time pop at Jackson State
Shedeur Sanders’ Friday announcement to change his commitment from Florida Atlantic University to Jackson State caught people by surprise....
No, a college football team can't beat pros, but could a Pee Wee team beat '20 Kansas? Jury's out.
With Trevor Lawrence out due to coronavirus and top-ranked Clemson needing a furious comeback from an 18-point halftime deficit to avoid being upset at home and beat Boston College, 34-28, we can put aside for a moment that classic silly question of whether the Tigers beat the New York Jets....
World Series sure was fun last night, but good baseball it wasn't
Game 4 of the World Series had barely ended on Saturday night when the hyperbole hit, courtesy of Red Sox writer Ian Browne....
If America’s racial reckoning were real, violent lunatic Gregg Marshall would already be fired
A few months ago, white athletes and coaches were marching and standing alongside their Black teammates and players in unity. They had supposedly seen the light. It was finally time for change....
Kelly Loeffler’s endorsement from QAnon supporter shows how far America has fallen
In a different America, Kelly Loeffler and her financial transactions — that sure as hell look like she was trading on privileged information — would be the political scandal of the year, if not the decade....
Herschel Shills for Charlatan; The OSU Unranked! Mamba Remembered
The Atlanta Hawks’ website has a video titled “ELDRIDGE RECASNER HIGHLIGHTS,” whose description is: “Watch some of Eldridge Recasner’s best moments with the Atlanta Hawks.”...
Drilling Down on Thursday's NBA Draft Lottery
The moment seemed it would never come because of COVID-19, but the 2020 NBA Draft lottery is here. We’ll finally get this year’s draft order. ...
We Can Usually Count on Ohio State to Produce Top-Tier Oblivious Athletes
If you ever need to find someone who doesn’t get it, you can generally consult Ohio State to come up with a candidate for you. That’s what we have currently with quarterback Justin Fields starting a petition, which currently has 200,000 signatures, to get the Big Ten to reverse its decision to not p...