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Sorry, Phoenix: The reward for your historic season is a first-round series against the world's best player and his championship team
Man, the Phoenix Suns are fantastic, so this isn’t to say they can’t do it, but it sucks that awaiting them in the first round after their fifth-best regular-season ever are LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers....
Ionescu continues to live up to the hype, and it’s exactly what the WNBA needs
Avengers: Infinity War, Machu Picchu, and Flex Tape....
Tim Tebow is REALLY competitive, y'all... So what?
Urban Meyer says Tim Tebow is “the most competitive maniac you’re ever going to talk to.”...
Women investing in women's sports is a game changer
There is a new financial model emerging in women’s sports, one that doesn’t depend on the traditional gatekeepers to coverage. ...
A shoutout to memorable mom moments in sports history
None of the athletes we talk about would be where they are without their mothers, so to commemorate, here’s a list to honor some of the most memorable mom moments in sports history. It’s not necessarily a top 10, but a collection of highlights (and yes, one lowlight) to honor Mother’s Day 2021....
NBA will respond to Zion injury in way NHL has yet to learn
David Griffin can expect to find himself writing a check to the NBA after the Pelicans executive blasted the league over the lack of calls for Zion Williamson in the paint, now that the star big man will be out indefinitely with a broken finger....
In case you forgot, Justin Herbert had a historic rookie season
A lot of people are aware of the fact that Justin Herbert is what we in the sports word like to call “good,” but it doesn’t seem like the brilliant start to his career is being talked about enough....
The teams and matchups we most wanna see for the NBA’s Play-in Tournament
Contrary to what LeBron James says, the NBA Play-In Tournament was a great idea. Because of the strange circumstances the NBA found itself in after COVID-19 wrecked 2020, the league had an opportunity to try out some goofy new ideas to make up for the fact that the fans were only getting a 72-game s...
Zion can prove this season he's ready to be a superstar
It’s time for Zion Williamson to show us he’s ready for the next step....
Baseball didn’t anticipate this odd rash of no-hitters, which there are more of than 'count' because 'rules'
John Means pitched this season’s third no-hitter on Wednesday afternoon in Seattle, except it was really the fourth, as Major League Baseball keeps finding out that whatever oddities are available to be achieved, someone eventually will achieve them....
Adidas allegedly paid Zion's family a few Gs when he was in high school. Who cares?
In a time in which we should be getting closer to college athletes making money off their name, image, and likeness (NIL), some folks are still fixated on the wrong things....
Famous basketball robot set to drop a track with Rod Wave and NBA YoungBoy
Every day it feels like we know less and less about Kawhi Leonard....
The Broncos got the best running back in the NFL Draft
The best running back in the 2021 NFL Draft wasn’t Najee Harris. And it wasn’t Travis Etienne. It wasn’t a running back that played at Georgia, or Ohio State, or Alabama, or LSU. It wasn’t a running back that played in the national championship, or was recruited out of one of the hot-beds for high s...
Get ready for the end, old folks (and James Robinson)
My head is spinning with the amount of new data to process from the NFL Draft. I love the draft. I’m that nerd that keeps his own spreadsheet to track picks, and you bet I’m looking at it right now for this article. New players mean new competitions for playing time, so let’s take a little spin arou...
Dominic Smith and José Alvarado almost brawled, so here's the tale of the tape
In case you missed it, New York Mets first baseman turned outfielder Dominic Smith wanted to fuck up Philadelphia Phillies pitcher José Alvarado. ...
The NBA fined Kevin Porter Jr. for potentially saving Sterling Brown’s life
“Family on three. 1-2-3, FAMILY!”...
It's 4:20 on 4/20, let's fire one up for the sports heroes who smoke weed
With every 4/20 that goes by, sports leagues seem to care less and less about weed. As they should....
The Atlanta Hawks are 17-6 since changing coaches and have a guy shooting 50/50/100
Tony Snell is still being memed for famously putting up zero points, rebounds, assists, steals or blocks in 28 minutes of play while with the Milwaukee Bucks four years ago. The accomplishment dubiously fell 21 seconds short of the NBA’s record for most minutes in a game without scoring, which Joel ...
Duke vs. Gonzaga, both loaded with 5-star recruits, is already college hoops’ biggest event next season
Less than a month after the season ended, and seven months before the next one will begin, college basketball fans are already circling their calendars for a non-conference matchup that will be the highlight of the 2021-2022 season....
Roger Goodell is still bad at his job, any fool could print money for the NFL with gambling deals
Pump the brakes on all the praise for NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell....