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Women NFL fans everywhere knew the tweet was coming. A superstar female paramour, an NFL player, middling play from his team. We've all seen this play before. It was ESPN's Mike Greenberg who showed up, right on time:Read more...

Whether VAR is still in its teething stages, and this is season five so it's really debatable whether or not it should still be having growing problems, it will never be able to escape its fatal flaw. And that is it is still administered by humans. So it's still going to be susceptible to human error, which the whole...Read more...

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Courtesy of ill-time mistakes, Chicago remains the biggest joke in the NFL. Before kickoff, Chase Claypool was ruled inactive after complaining about his usage to the media, the last straw in an assembly line of Claypool's missteps. Fortunately, Fields had a Cole Kmet and DJ Moore at his disposal.Read more...

What a difference a year makes. No race for the American League home run record. The reigning MVP Aaron Judge missed significant time due to injury - and this year's likely runaway winner Shohei Ohtani's season ended with him on the IL. The Cy Young and Rookie of the Year races were pretty much decided with time to...Read more...

If you pass on an established Black head coach and don't bring in the best offensive coordinator in the NFL - who also happens to be Black - it means the white guy you hired better be good. Well, Matt Eberflus sucks, Eric Bieniemy is still one of the best play-callers in the game, and Jim Caldwell is an assistant with...Read more...

Now we move on to the National League, where the MVP debate will have writers at each other's throats for months. It's Miggy vs. Trout all over again, where the shiny, identifiable accomplishment is pitted against the better overall season without some benchmark to point to. The Cy Young will come down to whatever...Read more...

The offensive struggles from the first week of the NFL season feel like they were three months ago instead of three weeks. Points were piled up at a furious pace during the Week 4 slate of games. The Miami Dolphins did not repeat their Week 3, 70-point performance. Instead, Josh Allen played his best game of the...Read more...

There is reason to question if Zach Wilson has learned how to play the quarterback position better since last season. What he has been able to do, though, is learn to drop his stank attitude and go over the top in accepting blame in defeat. Wilson fell on his sword in front of the media following the New York Jets'...Read more...

Saturday night completed the field for the MLB postseason, and then Sunday sorted out some seeding and matchups. And while most of the questions will be can Atlanta cap off one of the more dominating regular seasons we've seen, or Houston turn it on once again in October, or which start will Clayton Kershaw meltdown...Read more...

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This article is based on data from Sportradar. Text was compiled by an AI engine that was then reviewed and edited by the editorial staff.Read more...

This article is based on data from Sportradar. Text was compiled by an AI engine that was then reviewed and edited by the editorial staff.Read more...

I've had little to no problem with the coverage of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce.Read more...

Entering Week 4, the Miami Dolphins were the talk of the league, riding high after hitting the Denver Broncos with 70 points and beating them by 50 at home. But we know how quickly circumstances can change in the NFL. One week later, the Dolphins stomped into Buffalo feeling good and got smoked before they knew what...Read more...

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The Chicago Bears are 0-4 to start the season. It's certainly not the first time the Monsters of the Midway" have started the season with multiple losses. After all, we lived through the John Fox era, but somehow, after several seasons of big expectations, and devastating results, this season's start feels worse than...Read more...

There was a moment, back in 2021, that should have given the Bears a long pause before trading for Chase Claypool, if not put them off him entirely. But then, as we've established, the Bears are incapable of making good decisions.

Nearly a quarter of the NFL season is in the books, and you can't help but wonder about some of the people and decisions that have dominated the headlines to this point. One major storyline entering the season was Sean Payton taking over and potentially turning Denver around. Thus far, the team has been worse under...Read more...

If you've been online at all during the past 48 hours, you've heard about ESPN's Toy Story broadcast. Here's how Disney (ESPN's parent company) described the AI-generated animation:Read more...

Hey, you! Yeah, you! Time for a pop quiz! There's only one question, but it's a bit tricky, so take your time and make sure you've really thought it through before continuing on.Read more...

College football fans still waiting for USC to play a real team will have to wait at least two more weeks, and after the way Notre Dame looked against Duke, I'm not sure if that's accurate either. Caleb Williams got his first real closeup of the season, lighting up Deion Sanders and the Colorado defense for 403 yards,...Read more...

The Oregon State Beavers and coach Jonathan Smith were shunned by their Pac-12 brethren before the season as every school but Washington State abandoned them for greener conferences, and now everyone (but Wazzu) is subject to the ire of Corvallis. On Friday night, DJ Uiagalelei and the No. 19 Beavers knocked off...Read more...

Even if you're famous, having someone to cuddle with at night is still a priority. It's harder in the public eye to keep who your bedmate is on the down low, and in some cases, wondering how these pairs came together is more interesting than their relationship itself. Have we seen a more notorious alliance in recent...Read more...

In the history of NBA talkers, Draymond Green is top five. He's burrowed into the heads of far more opponents than vice versa, but it's always the ones closest to you who know how to hurt you, and though Jordan Poole didn't say anything that offensive to get decked in the face, it was enough.Read more...

One of the unintended side effects of the pandemic as it relates to college football is the extra year of eligibility for players, especially quarterbacks. There are a number of transfer portal QB1s making a name for themselves, and a case for an NFL team, with an added year of experience. Notre Dame's Sam Hartman,...Read more...

Cam Ward should be studied by science. Right now researchers are perfecting the usage of metamaterials to manipulate the path of light through material to create in essence, the illusion of invisibility. It's the technology you don't see coming. Likewise, Washington State quarterback Cam Ward's career to date is a...Read more...

To the victor go the spoils, unless you're an MVP in the WNBA.Read more...

What, you thought Apple was going to pay for Lionel Messi's deal? The other MLS owners? C'mon now, you know how this works.Read more...

The Miami Dolphins are clearly operating on another level offensively than most of the NFL. Scoring 70 points against Denver last week minus their second most dynamic player, Jaylen Waddle, is indicative of that. Tua Tagovailoa and the crew look like world beaters as the only remaining undefeated AFC team. Tagovailoa...Read more...

Whatever happens to the Tampa Bay Lightning this upcoming season, it'll all have been worth it.Read more...

I guess you saw those numbers, Mark Cuban.Read more...

If making headlines for acting as inhumanely as possible could be a goal in life, Curt Schilling is having an impeccable week.Read more...

In the aftermath of the Damian Lillard trade to Milwaukee, all the pieces involved still aren't secure in their places. It's being reported by multiple sources that former Bucks point guard Jrue Holiday is highly likely to be continuing his NBA journey with an team other than the Portland Trail Blazers. Several...Read more...

The shocking part wasn't hearing that an Ohio high school football coach used the word Nazi" to describe a play call over the weekend. It wasn't shocking it took an opposing team from a community that according to the latest survey from the Jewish Federation of Cleveland, published in 2011, was around 90 percent...Read more...

You've heard that guy at the other end of the bar. It's impossible to miss, given the volume, and sincerity with which that particular message is always delivered. It's always along the lines of, These refs are in the bag!" Here in Chicago, it's pronounced more like, Dese jagbag refs are in da baaag!" Whatever the...Read more...

For years, the NBA Republic imagined a union of Steph Curry and Giannis Antetokounmpo. However, the partnership of basketball's greatest gravitational forces would only happen unless Antetekounmpo initiated a desire to play in Golden State before he signed a supermax contract in 2020. Six months later, he won his...Read more...

It's no surprise that a Philly sports fan popped a nickel into my back and pulled the cord for a rant, because I don't think Wally the alligator is cute, and am not amused by attention seekers. And that's what people who bring their pets everywhere are: Banal humans who have to trick others into interacting with them.Read more...

Hating is not a good color on anyone. As long as people don't use unscrupulous methods to achieve success, they should be patted on the back for it. The Philadelphia Eagles have perfected their version of the quarterback sneak, the tush push. They run it well. They run it often and it also does not make them a perfect...Read more...

The Phoenix Suns traded DeAndre to pay Paul in the three-team deal that sent Damian Lillard to the Milwaukee Bucks. If you didn't catch the turn of phrase, or are confused, allow me to explain why the Suns merely shifted problems instead of solving them. Yes, they shored up much-needed depth, but now have a center...Read more...

The NFL likes to think of itself as apolitical, but as most fans know, that's only sort of true. Check out which political campaigns NFL owners donate to or the military-industrial complex fever dream that still kicks off multiple games every Sunday.Read more...

Before Wednesday, it wouldn't have been crazy to think that some Bucks fans were on the precipice of panic. Their star - Giannis Antetokounmpo - had publicly stated that he won't sign an extension until he gets a title commitment from the front office. And their new co-owner - Jimmy Haslam, who is also the majority...Read more...

What gets to the heart of baseball, and to the heart of a baseball season, is that 162 games is supposed to be enough for any anomaly or bit of screwiness a long enough timeline to flatten out. Anyone can get hot, but no one can get unreasonably hot for 162 games and six months. Every team is going to have a hot...Read more...

There's a time in most people's lives when they think they have it figured out. This job is perfect, this partner is my soulmate, this athlete will deliver us to the promised land, and then after an extensive, intimate, and complicated relationship, the bottom drops out. You're left sitting on the floor of your condo,...Read more...

Reaction to the Damian Lillard trade to Milwaukee should be plentiful the rest of the week. Jimmy Butler of the Miami Heat was one of the first NBA stars to react on social media, and immediately jumped online to hate on the trade. While it was in a playful manner, Butler appeared to call out the Bucks for tampering...Read more...

Ding-dong, the strike is dead. The Deadspin staff's WGA brethren have come to an agreement with the AMPTP that financially acknowledges the importance of the brains and fingertips that are part of the foundation of entertainment.Read more...

In a move nobody saw coming, the NBA has stolen the NFL's thunder one more time with a blockbuster trade. As reported by Shams Charania of The Athletic and Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN, Damian Lillard is headed to the Milwaukee Bucks as part of a three-team trade, along with the Phoenix Suns.Read more...

If multiple NFL franchises hadn't combusted three weeks into the NFL season, more people would be talking about the Green Bay Packers, who appear to have another franchise quarterback. Jordan Love's numbers aren't eye-popping, yet he has a 7-1 touchdown to interception ratio and already plays with the poise of a vet.Read more...

In the revenge game of Week 4, Ezekiel Elliott visits Dallas for the first time as a visitor with New England.Read more...

It didn't take long for SSC Napoli to crash from the dizzying heights of their third-ever Scudetto last spring. First, manager Luciano Spalletti left the club and eventually took the Italian national team manager's job. And then the team got off to a very wonky start this season in Serie A, collecting only eight...Read more...