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5 increasingly unhinged solutions to the NBA All-Star GameAs the NBA has observed its golden era of efficiency proliferate from more streamlined offenses to load management run amok, elements of the league have fallen by the wayside. Marquee hoopers play fewer minutes, fewer games and now they barely expend energy or cross halfcourt during All-Star Weekend...

Oh, you thought you were different, Lions?Really thought you’d built something, didn’t you, Detroit Lions? The uniform change, the positivity, the belief, the empty catchphrases, whatever they were. Thought you’d shed that old Honolulu blue-and-silver skin and become something new, something better, didn’t you? Were sure you’d left the deca...

Nathan MacKinnon & the bra brigade; A requiem for the Bills; Todd Helton's magic actSeeing a four-goal game is perhaps the rarest thing a hockey fan can witness in person. It’s not too far off from seeing a no-hitter. I’ve been going to hockey games for 364 years, and I’ve seen one. Steve Thomas vs. the Devils in March of 1990 at Chicago Stadium. I didn’t have to look that up (well...

Adrian Beltre and Joe Mauer are headed to Cooperstown, while Todd Helton snuck in Vincent Adultman style under their jackets

Wading into Baseball Hall of Fame debates is like diving into a pool full of eels, if the eels were up their own ass (personally, not physically, which eels might be able to do). Everyone’s got their own benchmarks, everyone hates your benchmarks, and never the twain shall meet. At the end of the da...

It doesn’t matter whether NFL playoff games are on Peacock: Millions will tune in anyway

The NFL has outgrown being just a professional football league. It has become America’s favorite TV show. But unlike most sitcoms, dramas or reality shows, Roger Goodell knows that ratings will remain consistent no matter which network/streaming app his production is broadcast on. This league has gu...

East Coast folks, get over yourselves if you can’t stay awake for a late playoff game

I’m well aware that the most visible of the loud sports fans reside between Boston and Washington. In that nearly 450-mile stretch of I-95, there are more than 16 million television households along with ESPN’s two main studios. Of course that will inevitably lead to East Coast griping about sports ...

True Basketball Crime: Justice for Gary Payton II

It was April 14 at 8:35 Central Time on Tuesday in Memphis, Tennessee when a hardwood crime was reported on the FedExForum floor....

2022 NFL Draft: A few thoughts on each pick in the first round

The first 10 picks of the NFL Draft are the Oscars in reverse. The biggest honorees are rewarded first. Fans show up and shout insults at the host and bone-rattling contact with Roger Goodell is encouraged....

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Laremy Tunsil is a visionary, turning public shame into NFT gold

One of the unfortunate results of new technology is that a person’s worst moments live on forever on video. Getting beat up used to only live in the memories of the people who witnessed it, but with camera phones, the entire world can now watch someone get clocked on demand. ...

by Stephen Knox|

|Thu Apr 28 2022

Fictional Hooper Bracket: National Championship

Look at the people getting this one right. For all the moronic governors, members of Congress, and former presidents that who been elected but have nothing better to do than make their constituents’ lives worse — but still win by tapping into those tried-and-true methods of racism, misogyny, homopho...

by Stephen Knox|

|Mon Jun 13 2022

🎵Now, this is a story all about how the life of Seattle Kraken DJ... is awesome🎵

The in-stadium experience is what makes going to sporting events fun. The energy that radiates from other fans of your favorite team, the mascot’s antics, and fan interaction through graphics on the jumbotron and the in-stadium camera crew make attending a live sporting event an unforgettable experi...

by Jon Hoefling|

|Thu Mar 31 2022

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s take on the Will Smith/Chris Rock situation is an outdated view of progress

Sometimes, even the NBA’s all-time leading scorer misses an easy one....

by Carron J. Phillips|

|Wed Mar 30 2022

Fictional Hooper Bracket: The Elite Eight

Welcome to the Elite Eight of the Fictional Hoopers Tournament. All the fat and sinew (Sandy Lyle and Steve Urkel) have been trimmed, and the characters left are all from powerhouse pictures. No one has been able to knock off either of White Men Can’t Jump’s main characters (celebrated last night at...

by Sean Beckwith|

|Mon Mar 28 2022

‘King Richard’ is not a movie to be overlooked during the Oscars

Sports movies often get overlooked during Oscar season. The last time a sports film won Best Picture was 2005 when Clint Eastwood’s Million Dollar Baby took home the night’s most coveted award. Since then, it’s been crickets. Some sports movies and short films have been given some recognition with l...

by Jon Hoefling|

|Sat Mar 26 2022

Let’s talk the Lakers, the Magic and HBO's 'Winning Time'

Before the Los Angeles Lakers drafted Earvin “Magic” Johnson with the first overall pick in 1979, the league was on the verge of a fate worse than death ⁠— irrelevancy. ...

by Staff Report|

|Fri Mar 04 2022

WWE is as stale as it’s ever been, but I’m watching Royal Rumble anyway

It’s a good opportunity for the industry giant to bring back lapsed fans....

by Eric Blum|

|Wed Jan 26 2022

A Hall of Fame announcement we can all get behind

In the past, I’ve tried to remove myself from Hall-of-Fame debates. Because at the end of the day, they’re really no more useful or material than the Oscars or Grammys. You’re basically debating someone’s opinion. And because of the esteem these things have gotten over the years, you’re debating the...

by Sam Fels|

|Mon Dec 06 2021

At Least The Oscars Satisfied Mike Francesa

When the Oscars handed Best Picture to Green Book, the filmic equivalent of saying “I don’t see color,” it was widely seen a goof on the order of Crash winning the same in 2006. Awards shows are stupid, sure, and the Oscars reliably get things wrong in silly and self-conscious ways. But you could at...

by Giri Nathan|

|Mon Feb 25 2019

The Hater’s Guide To The 2019 Oscars

I remember I used to have a hard time waiting for the Oscars to arrive. I shit you not. I would get super jazzed for them, then roll my eyes at the prospect of having to wait for months between the end of the movie year and the stupid ceremony. I, uh, no longer feel this way. The Oscars come around ...

by Drew Magary|

|Fri Feb 22 2019

The 2018 Hater’s Guide To The Oscars

I was asleep last year when Warren Beatty, who last made a good movie before the advent of the steam engine, and Faye Dunaway botched the Best Picture announcement for Moonlight. I have very few regrets about this because I just watched it on YouTube the next day and because, if you go by the analyt...