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Will Media Access Ever Return to Normal?
Days before the entire sports world fully shut down because of the coronavirus pandemic, the leagues in North America put a major social distancing measure into place. Although that measure very much proved to be an attempt to shut the barn door after the horses were miles down the road, it was seen...
Introducing the MLB COVID Index: Ranking Each Baseball Team’s Coronavirus Schedule Score
The coronavirus pandemic gets worse by the day in the United States. Giants icon Buster Posey is the latest player to opt out of playing this season. Mike Trout, the best player in the game, remains uncertain about what to do. But Major League Baseball presses on, having announced its 60-game schedu...
Riley Cooper Is Why DeSean Jackson’s Situation Is Complicated For The Philadelphia Eagles
DeSean Jackson crossed the line....
DeSean Jackson Shares Anti-Semitic Social Media Posts, Eagles To Take 'Appropriate Action'
Over the past few days, Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver, DeSean Jackson, has shared a string of anti-Semitic social media posts and praised anti-Semitic extremist Louis Farrakhan....
HBCUs Need More than Makur Maker, They Need NBA Money Makers, Too
The only thing Historically Black Colleges and Universities need more than a five-star basketball recruit like Makur Maker is cash....
5-Star Recruit Makur Maker Committing to Howard Could be Game Changer for HBCUs
Maybe Makur Maker’s decision will be the spark....
Mike Trout, Baseball's Best Player, Might Sit Out Season to Be With Pregnant Wife
Major League Baseball’s plans to get the 2020 season started are going about as well as could be expected, which is to say, not very well at all....
Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest: Your Guide to the Most Important Sporting Event of July 4
I am pleased to inform you that the Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog eating contest has not been canceled. The freakshow will go on as scheduled on July 4, as usual. It is one of the few live American sporting events currently slated to play on the nation’s birthday....
Disney World’s Stupid ‘Athlete Bubble’ Is Already Contaminated
It’s already bursting....
Pitino is the Voice of Reason: Delay College Hoops Until January
One of college basketball’s most contentious coaches is speaking out on the start to the 2020-21 season in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic....
It’s All Going Wrong for Barcelona and Messi Can’t Save It Any More
It was a big ask for any football club to hang on to whatever they had before the shutdown due to coronavirus. A three-month break is larger than the normal offseason these teams get. When everything was on ground as shaky as Barcelona’s lead in La Liga, it was probably always doomed. The only thing...
An Open Letter to MLB America: Embrace the 2020 Season, Be All In
Don’t listen to them....
Happy Bobby Bonilla Day! The Mets are still paying $1.19M each year to a guy who retired decades ago
July 1 in baseball is Bobby Bonilla Day, when the Mets pay $1,193,248.20 to their former third baseman, who hasn’t set foot on a major league diamond since 2001, as part of a deferred payment plan. It’s a check the Mets have been cutting annually since 2011, and they will send a seven-figure sum to ...
Hawks Busy Doing Real Work in Atlanta as Other Teams Sit Behind Empty Words
There has never been a major city in the United States that’s enjoyed a longer run as America’s “Black Mecca” than Atlanta....
What If That Fake Patrick Mahomes Tweet was Real?
For a few hours on Saturday, things got uncomfortable for the ownership of the Kansas City Chiefs....
UFC’s Poirier Delivers Instant Classic En Route to Emergency Room as Dana White Tweets About Fight Island
If you like a good, old-fashioned fistfight, we got an instant classic for the “Just Bleed” crowd last night in Las Vegas....
The NWSL Takes a Knee
Twenty-two starters clothed in Black Black Lives Matter T-shirts from the North Carolina Courage and Portland Thorns knelt during the national anthem before the National Women’s Soccer League kicked off their first game of the Challenge Cup Saturday. ...
American Christian Pulisic’s Magisterial Goal is a Must See
Hey, remember back in 1990 when you were super-stoked to watch American John Harkes be a non-factor for non-factor Sheffield Wednesday? He was the first American to play in the English Premier League and we were all amazed. Don’t pretend you weren’t....
Ultimate Frisbee Cancellation Deals Crushing Blow to Morale of Nation's Dudes, Bros
“Ugh. Not cool, dude.”...
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WNBA’s McCoughtry Wants to Put Names of Police Brutality Victims on Jersey Backs [UPDATED]
The WNBA has put it out on Main Street: This is the time. Their words match their actions. Three of the WNBA’s biggest stars, Imani McGee-Stafford, Natasha Cloud and Renee Montgomery will not be competing in the WNBA’s 22-game hoop bubble season next month in Bradenton, Fla, citing this being the ti...