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Rudy Gobert being the biggest name to change teams during free agency made this iteration feel like an overhyped, under-delivered trade deadline. While there’s still quite a bit of time left in the offseason, all but a star is running it back with last year’s team. Unless the Brooklyn Nets find a trade partner willing…Read more...

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It’s starting to feel like 2023 and beyond will see a pretty definitive shift in baseball, with an amount and degree of rules changes that are at least an attempt to change how the game is played instead of pawing at the edges. A pitch clock seems a near certainty. An automated strike zone won’t be joining us, but it…Read more...

Before I get started, whatever controversy came out of the trailer for Friday’s episode of The Shop is proof of how disingenuous and dumb Americans can be. First, it’s a trailer. No one has any context of what LeBron James said about Brittney Griner, or the actual full statement except the people in the room and…Read more...

There’s been a new development in the Brett Favre welfare payment scandal from 2020. Nancy New, a defendant in the welfare fraud case that involves millions of dollars worth of Mississippi state welfare funds being embezzled and misdirected, said that the former governor of the state, Phil Bryant, directed her to give…Read more...

Since the dawn of time, mankind has had but one goal: “I. MUST. GO. FAST.” Whether it be speedrunning Super Mario 64 on Twitch, Joey Chestnut wolfing down 70-plus hot dogs in 5 minutes (You could never!), or Lightning McQueen going for the Piston Cup, speed has always dazzled onlookers and made for an exhilarating…Read more...

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The Deebo Samuel trade talk that was a hot topic earlier this offseason has cooled over the past month. The further away we’ve gotten from the draft, it feels like the less we hear about Samuel being anywhere besides the Bay Area this fall. That is until former Dallas Cowboys scout Bryan Broaddus weighed in on the…Read more...

My adult life has been littered with the word privilege. When I was growing up, it was first discussed when my parents explained why my Sega Genesis was off limits as well as the living room television. Privileges can be held over a child, and if that child goes above and beyond acceptable behavior, then special…Read more...

With COVID now an American institution along the lines of hot dogs and baseball, stories about rising case counts, new variants, and unvaccinated athletes tend to go unnoticed. If you’re waiting for masks to go away before you go on vacation, you’re never going to leave your house. Anti-vaxxers bristle about being…Read more...

I know that booking for WWE is its own complicated process with unique factors that no other company would ever have to worry about. I also know that even with those factors, the guy who does it is bad at it and evil. I also know that it doesn’t matter, because it’s simply too big to fail. But those factors, like…Read more...

Who could have ever seen this coming from a family like the Ricketts?

If you were up and at ‘em at 2:00 a.m. this morning for the Open Championship tee-off, props to you. I was sound asleep, of course — I love golf, but not that much. As we groggily tune in to the later tee time groups today, it will be fun to see how everyone does on the 17th hole on the Old Course at St. Andrews —…Read more...

It feels like Albert Pujols has received more attention this season than he did during his entire stint with the Angels. He was named an All-Star for the first time since 2015 under MLB’s new special selection designation. The Cardinals let him pitch during the ninth inning of a blowout. His peers advocated for a…Read more...

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The distasteful actions/inactions of cops in Texas when it comes to dealing with kids are in the news again. Where have you heard this before?Read more...

Former White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen has never been one to mince words. If he doesn’t like you, he’ll say it to your face. While that “I don’t give a toot” attitude is admirable in some circumstances, it often lands Guillen in hot water with baseball fans — and especially the media.Read more...

Veteran NFL running back Le’Veon Bell recently announced his intention to skip the 2022 season to focus on his boxing career. Bell will make his ring debut on July 30 against Adrian Peterson in a battle of the backs. You have to wonder about Bell’s decision to forgo this NFL season. Is it because he’s focused on…Read more...

If you’re from the East Coast, it probably isn’t all that hard to find Calgary a tough place to live. It’s in a different country, you have to hear about the Tragically Hip all the goddamn time (or whatever country band they like in Alberta, probably the Tragically Hip’s illiterate cousins), it’s way far from the…Read more...

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At least the price was right for the Chicago Bears to acquire N’Keal Harry.

Zach Wilson is not going to win the MVP award this year. I know, wild prediction. That’s probably the hottest take I’ve ever put forth. Am I a hero for making such a bold statement? I wouldn’t call myself that, but I’m sure other people would. Don’t tell Vegas that I’m making that statement though. Ever since the news…Read more...

Former Bears linebacker and Hall of Famer Brian Urlacher (to the younger generation: The guy whose hair grew back on all those billboards outside O’Hare Airport) has decided to gatekeep chronic traumatic encephalopathy, the degenerative brain disease better known as CTE, saying in a podcast appearance this week that…Read more...

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Even a veteran Hollywood screenwriter couldn’t have scripted the Jacksonville Jaguars’ 2021 campaign to be more tumultuous.Read more...

The NBA is skewing more European these days in more ways than just players. After the 2021 Olympics, the league adopted some of the leniency those refs showed in regards to seeking out fouls. There were a few objections early in the season, but the complaints pivoted toward inconsistency like they usually do.Read more...

There’s always one transfer story that never dies every summer. It starts in June, and usually takes until somewhere around the window closing at the end of August to come to a conclusion one way or the other, though it feels like years have passed when it does. Even by the time teams return for preseason training in…Read more...

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting a different outcome. That’s an evergreen statement to plenty of things in life but there isn’t a better example in America of it than our psychotic gun culture. The second known shooting in the last three months near a Little League baseball…Read more...

An organization can do everything right during a rebuild: Hire a good, young coach, make shrewd, smart personnel decisions, lead the NFL in rushing, make the playoffs. Those are all signs of a team trending upward.

July is a tough month for sports talk radio. The veterans don’t report to NFL training camp until the end of the month, NBA free agency talk cools after the first week, and this month is the most sluggish and steaming month of the MLB schedule. It’s the only one of the three major American sports leagues in action.…Read more...

I could stop a train with no brakes with Davey Jones in the engine room, I tells ya.

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Chicago White Sox manager Tony La Russa is known for making some head-scratching decisions.

Last week, USC and UCLA confirmed reports that they were making a move to the Big Ten Conference.Read more...

Tiger has finally spoken out on LIV, the Saudi-backed golf league that has seen the likes of Phil Mickelson, Bryson DeChambeau, and Dustin Johnson turn their backs on the PGA Tour. While the R&A will allow them to play this weekend in the British Open, the defecting golfers’ future in the majors is unclear. The most…Read more...

The Steel City is in a bad mood. Hell, I am, too.

It’s mid-July, and we’re getting ever so close to NFL training camps opening, and you can feel the anticipation. Along with that comes a whole host of pundits writing lists ranking players at various positions — most notably, quarterback. ESPN caused an uproar over the weekend when it released its Top 10 QBs heading…Read more...

Jerry Rice is 59 years old and apparently can still run one helluva post route. On the 49ers Talk podcast, he said that while shooting a commercial with Trey Lance he ran routes at full speed. I don’t know if he still runs that infamous hill regularly, but even with a more salt than pepper beard these days, the man —…Read more...

There’s no separating the art form of professional wrestling from out-of-ring actions for Chris Benoit. And I can’t believe I have to type that preceding sentence because it’s so obvious. Whatever goodwill his sports entertainment from Japan, WCW and WWE did for fans of the squared circle was immediately and…Read more...

A fascinating Adam Schefter profile in the Washington Post is gaining traction. While it appears he agreed to it as an attempt to do some damage control on some recent controversies he’s found himself at the center of, it didn’t quite work that way. Because the WaPo got quotes from his ESPN colleagues — anonymously,…Read more...

We’ve already discussed the annual summer tradition of wondering if this is finally it for the Pittsburgh Penguins as we know it. It’s hard to define when this is “it” for a team that’s accomplished so much, as certainly, no group like Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin, and Kris Letang have earned more runway. They should…Read more...

LeBron James, Carmelo Anthony, Kobe Bryant, Dwyane Wade, Kevin Garnett, Dirk Nowitzki, Tim Duncan, John Stockton, David Robinson and, *checks notes* Bradley Beal.Read more...

We all think that the Manchester City machine just keeps rolling on. It may slightly change here and there, update a part or get something cleaned, but the overall automaton basically looks the same as a whole year after year. You may keep waiting for the team to age out of its dominance, or for Pep Guardiola to get…Read more...

Come on, ESPN, you’re better than this! Falling for a parody Twitter account is just sooooo 10 years ago. Especially from Ballsack Sports — at least look for a blue check. That’s a two-second read right there to make sure you don’t get Sacked, and yet here we are. No choice but to make fun of you now, especially given…Read more...

Let’s not kid ourselves. Size always matters.

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Five minutes into the WNBA’s annual All-Star Game, 6-foot-6 Connecticut Sun forward Jonquel Jones casually dribbled across midcourt, took two dribbles toward the left-wing, squared up inside of a circle designated as a 4-point shot, bent her knees slightly, and released a shot from distance that rolled around the rim…Read more...

It’s rarely a good sign when a team attaches two draft picks to get you to take a player. By the time October rolls around and the Maple Leafs once again try to scale the dizzying and deadly mountain of winning one playoff series, most of their fans will have brainwashed themselves of that fact. Because that’s what…Read more...

First, England did unspeakable things to Norway in the Women’s Euro 2022, recording the largest win in the tournament’s history, 8-0. These kinds of scorelines are generally used by knuckle-draggers to try and highlight why no one should watch women’s tournaments. But this wasn’t some minnow making their tournament…Read more...

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