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Minor hockey league pretends it’s going to have an almost normal 2020-21 season
In case you’re thinking that life is going to get back to normal anytime soon, minor league hockey has provided the first reminder that it’s absolutely not....
The NFL must start handing out forfeits
It’s clear by now that the league is winging it....
Dumb football players are going to ruin football
Athletes hate being called dumb jocks, but sometimes the title fits....
Even in the ‘Year of the Black QB,’ a double-standard remains
Ten Black quarterbacks – the most ever – started Week One of this NFL season, and it seemed that a new era might finally be dawning. It was a positive measure of progress that rang in “The Year of the Black Quarterback.”...
Wisconsin axes stadium voting in Milwaukee, but says it's just fine in lily-white Green Bay
This is what voter suppression looks like. ...
WNBA caps off its wildest, most impactful season ever with the founding of a dynasty
Something special is brewing in Seattle....
Is it racism? COVID-19? Incompetence? What <i>IS</i> the Football Team's secret to constantly stepping on rakes?
Here are three mystery quarterbacks:...
It’s all going wrong and the NFL’s malice could cost lives
The recklessness from the NFL is mind-boggling. ...
Three years ago, Kentavious Caldwell-Pope was balling with an ankle monitor, last night he helped LeBron James take a 3-1 lead in NBA Finals
Role players are imperative to a team’s championship run....
Bill O'Brien is gone - which trash coach will be next?
It’s that time of the NFL season. Four games into the year, the heartbeat of what teams are — and aren’t — is being rounded out and presented for all to see, and it’s time to make some hard decisions....
Talk about superspreaders! Millions of dollars showered on Prez, GOP by NFL owners who allow fans in stadiums
So far this season, there have been 12 NFL teams that have allowed fans into games. Obviously, they’d all like to open their gates, and a lot of whether they do comes down to state and local regulations amid the coronavirus pandemic, but thanks to Donald Trump and his cabal of derelict ignorance, sa...
Trash Odell Beckham Jr. at your own risk
It’s Trash Talking Tuesday and today, I’m trashing all those in NFL America who said WR Odell Beckham Jr. was washed up....
Bill O’Brien was trash at everything, and it was time for him to go
Bill O’Brien is finally out as head coach and general manager of the Houston Texans....
Jon Gruden won't keep the damn mask on
Week by week, NFL coaches are learning to wear (or defog) their face shields and have mostly been keeping their masks on. But one head coach remains especially careless when it comes to covering his face....
In post-#SpeakingOut world, WWE decides hiring Barstool demon bro apologist Erika Nardini is the way to go
It would be the deepest fantasy to expect WWE to make major changes after the #SpeakingOut movement a couple of months ago, where numerous male wrestlers and coaches around the industry were outed as rapists, harassers, assaulters, misogynists, and general dickheads. ...
LSU forgets that COVID still exists and decides to get rid of CDC wellness checks at games
LSU announced that it will ditch CDC medical wellness checks as a requirement for entry to their stadium on game days, encouraging fans to administer their own self-assessment prior to going to Tigers games in order to thwart the spread of the deadly virus....
Division Series playoff preview: Where the hell are we?
Baseball has gotten back to the playoff rounds we remember, sort of. The wild card round, which everyone thought was going to produce some real chaos and be totally unfair, only threw up one true upset: the Marlins beating the Cubs, because the Cubs can’t hit fastballs, which seems like it’s on the ...
Cowboys defense nonexistent like Trump’s COVID protocols, Ramsey and Tate try to 2-piece each other, and the NFC East is a joke
COVID-19 was the story for the league this week as multiple positive tests forced teams to shut down facilities and games to be postponed. ...
For the NFL’s smartest team, this seems remarkably dumb
I’ve been staring at this bit of information for at least 10 minutes to see if I could find the logic. Maybe I’m like that guy from “Mallrats” who can’t see the fucking schooner. ...
Here’s what the Bears-Colts game means for the 2020 presidential race
Yes, they suck. But we were all Bears fans today....