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Now, everything is completely gone," Tamara Awartani tells me of the afterschool programs her organization, Palestine Sports for Life (PSFL), had established in Gaza for young children (especially girls) who otherwise had no access to football or physical education. I was able to check on one girl in one of our...Read more...

Cincinnati's Ja'Marr Chase thinks he is the best wide receiver in the league.Read more...

The NBA's inaugural In-Season Tournament has been worth it for all involved. For the Los Angeles Lakers, many men who could use a $500,000 direct deposit got it. Tyrese Haliburton emerged from the tourney as the newest NBA superstar. Also, a real inter-division rivalry is budding. The Indiana Pacers and Milwaukee BucksRead more...

As we mentioned last night, the San Francisco Giants are in full ass-covering mode after missing out on their third prime free agent. They whiffed on Arson Aaron Judge, couldn't get over Carlos Correa's ankle, and then Shohei Ohtani figured out life is pretty easy when you don't have to move and you can still get $700...Read more...

There was a lot of excitement surrounding what was supposed to be the debut of the new Phoenix Suns Big Three" of Kevin Durant, Devin Booker and Bradley Beal. TNT's Reggie Miller was so geared up for it that he had to be notified live on air that Durant had been ruled out of the Suns' matchup against the Golden State...Read more...

If you ask Santa for anything this Christmas, ask for the Tanking Super Bowl. The Detroit Pistons, losers of 20 in a row, and the San Antonio Spurs, losers of 17 straight, play each other Jan. 10. That's a little under a month away, and if both teams continue this dismal form, Detroit and San Antonio's runs of...Read more...

What a typical response to racism from the head coach of Illinois State men's basketball. During a home game on Saturday, Ryan Pedon got in an altercation with Norfolk State head coach Robert Jones. A situation that was none of Pedon's business, because Jones was not even talking in the direction of his team.Read more...

That dull roar you hear in the distance would be the momentum of the Edmonton Oilers. They're kind of out there, admittedly, which is why your house isn't shaking. Only so much a team can do from the hinterlands of Alberta.Read more...

On Monday, I wrote a column about being sick of the Kansas City Chiefs. As far as the things I write go, it was fairly light-hearted. No one was accused of anything heinous, it was mostly me whining about Patrick Mahomes throwing a fit at the end of Sunday's game and how it's impossible to avoid Travis Kelce anywhere...Read more...

The Oklahoma City Thunder are getting a new arena and the team's ownership group is contributing $50 million of the $900 million tab. The reputation of owner Clay Bennett, who was responsible for killing the Seattle Supersonics, preceded him, and 71 percent of Oklahoma City voters didn't want to call his bluff, so...Read more...

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Mike Vrabel is hoping some reverse psychology will work with his rookie QB.Read more...

The Florida State playoff snub saga continues.Read more...

Updated Dec. 13: ESPN's Adam Schefter is reporting that the NFL is preparing to play future international games in Spain and Brazil, according to the league's executive vice president Peter O'Reilly.Read more...

The Chicago Bulls just can't stop living in the past.Read more...

When the Los Angeles Chargers and Las Vegas Raiders meet on Thursday night in a game that will determine who'll be third and fourth in the AFC West, Al Michaels and Kirk Herbstreit will more than certainly find time to discuss the NFL's biggest priority for the next two weeks - diversity."Read more...

A high school in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. has banned a transgender girl from playing on its girls' volleyball team for 11 months due to the Fairness in Women's Sports Act," which states that transgender women and girls can not compete on girls' public school sports teams.Read more...

The NBA season is now a three-part campaign. The NBA Cup is the opening sprint featuring teams working Usain Bolt hours to determine the NBA's 100-meter champion. It's fitting that this season the finale whittled down to the league's fastest team and the oldest player in the league. The rest of the season is an...Read more...

Twenty-one players on the PGA tour announced this week that they have hired lawyers and sent a letter to the PGA Tour Policy Board asking for full disclosure of details of proposals by potential capital partners.Read more...

Two of Washington D.C.'s teams are likely leaving the city.Read more...

They could have at least tried.Read more...

I largely do not have a problem with Draymond Green's antics. Sports are supposed to be entertainment. As long as he is not undercutting players driving to the basket or trying to sprain the ankles of jump shooters, I could care less if he chokes Rudy Gobert in a scrum. When he clocked Jusuf Nurki during the Golden...Read more...

For some pro franchises, when it rains, it most certainly pours. The Washington Wizards entered the season with seemingly new life behind the acquisition of former Golden State Warrior Jordan Poole. Thus far, the tandem of Poole and Kyle Kuzma has been underwhelming, to say the least. The Wizards fell to 3-19 Monday...Read more...

The pace of NFL Sunday slows down during the late window. Usually three or four games kick off between 4 and 4:25 p.m. EST. One of those is a featured matchup, like Kansas City Chiefs vs. Buffalo Bills, with all of the brilliant throws and yelling about a wide receiver being rightly flagged for lining up half of his...Read more...

The Kansas City Chiefs can point to a myriad of issues behind their offensive struggles, including Matt Nagy's playcalling, but their rapid disarmament over the last two years has hit them where it hurts. If you're searching for a culprit for Kansas City's offensive demise and fall from top 10 in scoring for the first...Read more...

Last week, Zach Wilson's hometown newspaper, the Deseret News, reported that the New York Jets plan to trade the quarterback during the offseason.Read more...

It hasn't been the smoothest season for the Colorado Avalanche. They still lead the Central Division, because the Central is the division where everyone has mittens pinned to their jackets year round. There's the Dallas Stars, sort of, and then a bunch of teams trying to figure out how doorknobs work.Read more...

Being a fiery, passionate player can be a great asset on the football field, but there is a fine line, and knowing how to keep one's emotions in check can be an even greater attribute. Seattle Seahawks wide receiver DK Metcalf has gained a reputation around the NFL for being easily agitated. San Francisco 49ers head...Read more...

The entire Turkish football league has been suspended after a club president punched - and hospitalized - a referee after a match.Read more...

Of all the moronic ways the first season of Daniel Jones' four-year, $160 million contract could play out, this might be the dumbest. Not only did he go down for the year after two TDs and six picks in five and a half starts, but the team's third-string QB took over the fanbase and maybe the locker room.Read more...

Los Angeles Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert will miss the remainder of the 2023 regular season after undergoing surgery on a fractured right index finger, according to NFL Network's Tom Pelissero.

With all the hyperbole around Victor Wembanyama being the next generational talent, it's fair no one expected competition against him winning Rookie of the Year Award. But after sitting all last season due to an early leg injury - Chet Holmgren has beaten the injury-prone allegations to emerge as the front-runner to...Read more...

The Toronto Raptors are exploring the possibility of countersuing the New York Knicks, according to The Athletic.Read more...

Ja Morant's life has become a theater of the absurd and that continued Monday. Instead of executing crisp crossovers while Kyrie Irving plays ragged defense, Morant is finishing his 25-game suspension and was taking part in cross-examinations and scuffing up courtroom wood. As a consequence, Morant was forced to go...Read more...

A 19-year-old employee at AT&T Stadium faces a charge of commercial bribery after letting people into the Dallas Cowboys-Philadelphia Eagles game on Sunday night.Read more...

Do you remember where you were when you first saw Sean Stellato?

Adam Silver's attempt to bring more excitement to the NBA's regular season fell a little flat in its first attempt. It's only the first In-Season Tournament, so there are sure to be kinks to work out, but maybe it wasn't the best idea to have the final on a neutral court.Read more...

He pulled up his shorts. That was how Ja Morant explained why he punched a teenager in the face during a game of pickup basketball at his Memphis home in July of 2022. Joshua Holloway, who was 17 at the time of the incident, is suing Morant for hitting him after a game of basketball turned violent, with Morant...Read more...

Patrick Mahomes was visibly upset on the sidelines after Sunday's game against the Bills after Kadarius Toney's game-winning touchdown was called back, Mahomes regrets his behavior towards Buffalo quarterback Josh Allen.Read more...

The numbers finally came in on Shohei Ohtani's deal with the Dodgers and the Dodgers finally announced it themselves, and it's a bit of a doozy. Ohtani will be deferring $68 million of his $70 million annual salary until the 10 years after his 10-year deal. The $2 million salary is fine for him given the bonanza he...Read more...

Part of football's charm is its unpredictability. Any given Sunday," is more than a cliche. It is a phrase that accurately describes the sport as long as you're not literal about the day of the week. There are a large number of moving parts attempting to work in unison while being slammed into by other parts who have...Read more...

Football is a game where some competitors thrive on trash talk. It's like verbal sparring adds the extra motivation needed to complete the task at hand. Usually, we see these exchanges between offensive and defensive players in some form. But sometimes, we get players within the same positional group on opposite sides...Read more...

Around 2017, I realized I was behind the curve by using free Pandora. I still kept my account for another few years out of an irrational attachment to it, long after everyone else had matriculated away from Pandora digital radio towards Spotify. That's how it feels watching Golden State try to counter longer, more...Read more...

There is a whole mess of teams clustered together with 7-6 records in the AFC. One of those teams is not the Cleveland Browns. Joe Flacco stepped in as a starting quarterback for the injured Deshaun Watson and Dorian Thompson-Robinson. Even with Thompson-Robinson now healthy, head coach Kevin Stefanski has named...Read more...

Much like Susie Izzard (Drink!) says chiropractors LIVE FOR THE NOISE!" I too live for the noise of the offseason. We can't get much more than Shohei Ohtani and his reps donated to us, or at least their methods of sending the baseball press into orbit did. There should be much more to come, but the biggest move to be...Read more...

Following the Premier League this year, it feels that the term Mentality Monsters" should be emblazoned on the front of Liverpool's shirts instead of their Standard Chartered sponsorship. Jurgen Klopp coined that term after the hallucination of the 4-0 comeback over Barcelona in 2019, Steve Kerr co-opted it, and it's...Read more...

The Dallas Cowboys finally showed up and not only beat, but dominated, a top-tier opponent on Sunday night in Week 14. Big D put a certified beatdown on Philadelphia, 33-13, in a game the Cowboys controlled from start to finish. Dak Prescott and the Cowboys took all the doubt and threw it back in the face of their...Read more...

Full disclosure, I've never been on board with the Kansas City Chiefs. Sure, they were, for a while, the best team in America, with a young and exciting generational talent under center and a head coach who never had to answer for anything because he wears Hawaiian shirts, has a funny mustache, and struggled with...Read more...

Christmas is the ultimate overlap of entertainment and sports. The year's blockbusters are typically reserved for release on Christmas Day, with a slew of big-budget and indie hits releasing all month. Christmas Day sees the league's best rivalries matched up for primetime holiday viewing.Read more...

There are four weeks remaining in the NFL regular season. I know what many of you are thinking: Damn, I have to buy Christmas presents already. Maybe I shouldn't have spent that weekend in Vegas at the end of the summer." Credit cards are about to be burning the next couple of weeks, but this time of the year is also...Read more...