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LA sports championships and a racially divided presidential campaign – we’ve seen this before
A dominant Lakers team, led by a charismatic, 6-foot-9 generational talent and a uniquely gifted big man, captured the NBA title. The Dodgers win a World Series featuring one of the most amazing game-endings ever seen. It’s a presidential election year featuring a Republican candidate appealing to h...
Trump’s long history of trying to stick it to sports: A timeline
Today is Election Day, and in a few hours (or days) we, hopefully, we will know the results of the most important Presidential Election in modern times....
If you want championship teams to visit the White House again, vote For Biden/Harris
Steph Curry is generally liked by everybody. Well, unless you’re this guy......
Week 8 Powerless Rankings: Poor Trevor Lawrence
Another Sunday of NFL football has concluded....
In preview of what could lie ahead for MLS and the NFL, USL cancels championship as squad faces COVID outbreak
The USL, the country’s second-division soccer league, canceled its championship game yesterday between the Tampa Bay Rowdies and Phoenix Rising, due to multiple players and staff on Tampa Bay testing positive for COVID-19. The decision was made because of the amount of time and the amount of players...
Sue Bird & Megan Rapinoe's engagement is just what we needed
This has been a long, exhausting, Zamboni fire of a year. And a month, for that matter. And a week....
For A.J. Hinch, looks like crime does pay as Tigers' gig looms
While White Sox fans, and the actual White Sox for a good portion of the time, have always considered the Cubs their main rival, the way baseball works is that your real enemy resides in the division. That’s who you compete with for playoff spots after all. So while the Sox were having their owner e...
White Sox fill manager slot by exhuming corpse of Tony La Russa
It is impossible to accurately describe how confounding the White Sox hiring of Tony La Russa as manager is. That adjective is not even close to properly illustrating the shock, confusion, and anger of just about anyone around the club today. It’s like staring at a car crash, but both vehicles were ...
MLB billionaires have waited years to screw working-class staff at altar of profit, & here it is
It’s no accident that before the World Series came to its conclusion, MLB was getting it out there just how much of a financial disaster this season was for the owners. You’ve got to lay the groundwork, and MLB wants all its fans to know why its owners will be non-tendering some pretty big names to ...
Baseball’s winter of cost-savings discontent begins as cheapskate Cards cut Wong
It used to be the hot stove, and fans used to get excited about it right after the last out of the World Series. A ray of hope, provided by the wishful thinking that it could be your team ending the season on a podium with Rob Manfred as he gets booed next year. But in a preview of what’s to come ar...
Rob Manfred does what he does best: Pass off responsibility
Nobody’s right if everybody’s wrongIt’s an oldie, but still true. Perhaps it’s unfair to the Dodgers that perhaps the enduring image of their World Series win will be Justin Turner returning to the field to celebrate after testing positive for COVID-19. Maybe that’s what Turner and the Dodgers deser...
Daryl Morey got a new job, but he still hasn’t addressed his Hong Kong tweet
Daryl Morey is Teflon....
Donald Trump and Justin Turner chose to be COVID-19 Superspreaders
Seven days before the 2020 Presidential Election ends, and on the night that the 2020 World Series Champions were crowned, two selfish and privileged white men that had, and have, tested positive for the coronavirus, decided that Tuesday night was the perfect time to expose people to a deadly virus....
WTF Justin Turner
If you turned off the TV, put down your phone, and went to bed after the Dodgers won their first title since 1988, you missed the drama that will forever mark this weird, neutral-site World Series, at the end of this weird, pandemic-altered baseball season, in this weird, hellish year....
Blake Leeper is breaking Oscar Pistorius' records, but Olympic gatekeepers don't want him to compete
Blake Leeper was born with no legs, and he’s one of the fastest humans on earth....
Jeff Garcia’s white mediocrity on full display in dumb Cam Newton comments
Look good. Feel good. Play good....
The NFL rewards men who put their hands on women
That headline is a doozy, isn’t it?...
Wilson spouting off on humanity of Antonio Brown is insulting and, yes, even DangerRuss
Further illustrating how the NFL has outlined our utter failure, if not caused it, was professional and self-appointed morality-sensor Russell Wilson clamoring for the Seahawks to sign Antonio Brown. I can’t really add any more to this than DeArbea already did, but Wilson needing to chime in is tr...
Minor League Baseball players are justifiably sick of earning ‘$4 an hour’
For many hardcore baseball fans (like me, before I began researching this story), the idea of playing in Minor League Baseball is like the dream before the dream comes true. Sure, we know there are long bus rides, the pay is lousy and there’s a good chance you can end up at Sears selling Lady Kenmor...