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Fernando Tatis Jr. won the NL MVP award yesterday
Fernando Tatis Jr. won the National League’s Most Valuable Player award on Sunday....
Viral photo depicting entire ‘AAU team’-turned-pro is fake news, but here’s the real story behind the squad in it
Ever heard the one about the entire AAU team that made it to the NBA? Of course you haven’t, because this isn’t the beginning of some corny joke....
Can we please not overreact to the NFL preseason? (Oops, too late)
Let’s please remember that the season hasn’t even started yet....
Jake Paul pulls stunt to promote mediocre boxing exhibition: Take 1,027
Whether we like to admit it or not, or agree with their tactics (and around here we will never let readers not remember that they’re “horrendous human beings”), the Paul brothers are injecting some much-needed life back into the world of boxing....
Hear me out: LiAngelo Ball has proven he belongs
LiAngelo Ball has earned an opportunity to be on someone’s NBA roster....
That's baseball: Saturday night, West Coast, no-no edition
Tyler Gilbert made his major league debut on August 3 against the Giants, mowing ’em down 1-2-3 with a pair of strikeouts in the eighth inning of the Diamondbacks’ 3-1 victory. He then made two other appearances out of the bullpen: an extra-inning loss thanks to a Giants ghost runner scoring on Augu...
Is Logan Thomas the steal of your fantasy draft?
Great question posed in this tweet:...
The Mets are walking into schedule hell at the worst possible time
The National League East race is tighter than a triple-knotted shoelace. The Phillies, Braves, and Mets are all in contention, with the first two currently tied for the division lead. The Mets are just half a game back and with less than 50 games remaining on each team’s schedule, every game matters...
The remaining free agents who just might help your favorite team
Some important players have signed to teams late in the second or even third week of NBA free agency in recent years. It may happen more often than we even realize. Marcus Morris famously had an agreement in place with the San Antonio Spurs, and apparently was offered even more to join the Los Angel...
Hey, Jumbo: That Cup isn’t happening
Joe Thornton is a pretty divisive player in NHL circles. Some people love him, love his beard, and consider him a sure-fire Hall of Famer. Others believe Jumbo Joe to be a quietly dirty player citing examples like incessantly sticking his finger in Henrik Sedin’s eye during a game in 2011 and his hi...
Where should Ben Simmons ultimately land?
He has to get traded, doesn’t he?...
Don’t overdo it, MLB
Quick, where was the last NHL Winter Classic?...
Bring back Lance Stephenson, we don’t care where
Can you believe Lance Stephenson is only 30 years old?...
I hope Tyreek Hill accepts Usain Bolt’s challenge... and gets smoked
Imagine having so much confidence in your abilities that you’re willing to put one of your most-prized possessions on the line to prove you were the best. That’s what Usain Bolt just asked Tyreek Hill to do during an interview on The Dan Patrick Show yesterday. ...
From the Clippers, Kawhi still deserves whatever he wants
No one ever really knows what Kawhi Leonard is thinking, but he’s now reportedly under contract with the Los Angeles Clippers for the next few seasons. The deal is reportedly worth $176.3 million over the next four years, which includes a player-option for the final season....
At the Field of Dreams, baseball’s Black and brown stars have A-MAIZE-ING night
In the whitest – and corniest, if you will – place in this country, brothers stole the show....
The Dak Prescott storyline is going to make or break ‘Hard Knocks’
In the first scene of the first episode of this season of HBO’s Hard Knocks, viewers got a taste of what originally made the show such a big hit — classified information....
I’m not sure what MLB was getting at, but it sure looked cool
As with most everything in baseball these days, the Field Of Dreams Game generated a truly annoying debate before it even began with people who are old enough to have seen Zeppelin live. Much like baseball itself, Field of Dreams was a movie most of us loved as a kid and then we get older and see al...
Kyle Shanahan is talking crazy
During his time as an offensive coordinator and now as head coach of the San Francisco 49ers, Kyle Shanahan has been known for his innovative football mind, and for not being afraid to try something new or different (and for blowing a 28-3 lead in Super Bowl LI as the Falcons’ OC).....