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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...

Last week on his podcast, sports media personality Dan Le Batard discussed why he didn't get the chance to interview Miami Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill. Of Hill, Le Batard said:Read more...

New York Jets fans can be mad at a lot of things - ownership, whatever made them a Jets fan, the New England Patriots, Robert Saleh, the sky, the dirt, the turf - but not Zach Wilson. Yes, he's an atrocious quarterback right now, and will probably be as long as he's in New York. He's not a starting caliber QB, but...Read more...

Travis Kelce brought this on himself and he knows that. That was his insistence, at least, on the podcast he hosts with his brother. On this week's episode of New Heights, Jason Kelce and the most-talked-about bachelor in America dove deep into how the Kansas City Chiefs tight end went from a Hall of Fame-bound player...Read more...

Colin Kaepernick did two very important things by allowing rapper J. Cole to publicize the letter he wrote to the New York Jets in pursuit of being signed as a practice squad quarterback. One, he painted Jets owner Woody Johnson into a corner. Two, he showed white people what almost every successful Black person has...Read more...

Though I no longer belong to the Wrigleyville parish, it doesn't mean I have any more patience for tired and overused narratives about the Cubs. I do not find #Cubes" any more entertaining or pertinent than I did when I bled blue. Most, if not all, should have been washed away by the 2016 World Series win. Whatever...Read more...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Do not say Liberty forward Breanna Stewart didn't deserve the WNBA's Most Valuable Player award. Not after the way she backed it up against the Suns Tuesday night in an 84-77 win over the Sun at the Barclays Center in Game 2 of their playoff series.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...

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...

The best player in college football this year is Caleb Williams. USC struggled with now 1-3 Arizona State on Saturday, and the reigning Heisman winner still had 322 yards in the air, and five total touchdowns. While he's currently tied for the best odds to hoist the trophy in New York again this season, it's his to...Read more...

Las Vegas Raiders wide receiver Davante Adams is already fed up with the team. We won't blame him for that because he isn't the first and won't be the last. He should be blamed for wanting to go there in the first place. Adams wanted to be traded to Vegas because he was unsure of Aaron Rodgers' future with Green Bay...Read more...

A decade of experience indicates that Toronto Raptors president Masai Ujiri despises rebuilding. This became immediately apparent after he refused to tank for Andrew Wiggins back when he was still being referred to unironically as Canada's Maple Jordan" before the 2013-14 season. After watching the Raptors get...Read more...

On the court, there's no doubt as to what Kim Mulkey is capable of. She's one of the best in women's basketball, college sports, and probably sports in general. That's why she signed a 10-year, $36-million contract with LSU recently. Off the court, her reluctance to comment on Brittney Griner's detainment in Russia was...Read more...

It's a rough time to be a fan of Chicago sports.Read more...

Whenever the New York Jets are struggling - which is seemingly all the time - talking heads, pundits, and/or beat reporters will immediately turn to Joe Namath for comment. Making The Guarantee," delivering the franchise's lone Super Bowl victory, and being the team's best QB - despite throwing more INTs than TDs -...Read more...

The NHL spent a good decade trying to revolve their league around a Pittsburgh Penguins-Washington Capitals rivalry, and more to the point, a Sidney Crosby-Alex Ovechkin one. Unable to come up with any original ideas, because it's the NHL, it did its best to copy the Bird-Magic dynamic from the NBA in the 80s.Read more...

There's some foul play afoot in the coaching world if Keyshawn Johnson is to be believed. Over the weekend, Oregon beat Colorado thoroughly. It was like a high schooler walloping on a fifth grader, and on Monday,The Undisputed talking head said Ducks coach Dan Lanning had outside help from coaches jealous of Deion...Read more...

On Oct. 1, 2006, Marlo Stanfield infamously told a security guard at a grocery store on Monroe Street in Baltimore, Maryland, You want it to be one way. But it's the other way." Who would have known that 17 years later, the words from one of the most important characters from HBO's best show - The Wire - would apply...Read more...

Sept. 25 is not a deciding date on the NFL calendar, especially for teams that entered that game undefeated. When the Philadelphia Eagles and Tampa Bay Buccaneers put their 2-0 records against each other in a Week 3 Monday Night Football matchup, the men in the red jerseys, led by Baker Mayfield, fell to 2-1 to Jalen...Read more...

If you've watched enough Justin Verlander starts, there's always a feeling he has one last card to play when he absolutely needs it. That mostly comes from his habit of keeping his fastball velocity just low enough to be a tease early in his starts, and then somewhere later when he really needs it he'll pull out 97 or...Read more...

Sportsman of the year is one of those nebulous awards that checks off boxes by usually honoring a do-gooder, an activist athlete, some stereotypical quarterback, a Finals MVP, Tiger Woods, the fastest man in the world, an American gymnast or some gold medalist in the pool during an Olympic year.Read more...

Well, well, well. I knew it was a matter of time, but wasn't expecting it to happen this soon.Read more...

The playoffs are approaching, and perhaps an indirect benefit of expanding them is that the more flawed teams are competing for them, the funnier it can get.Read more...

The overriding factor in judging Darwin Nunez last year had nothing to do with him. He had the misfortune of being a big-money forward purchased at the same time as Erling Haaland.Read more...

No matter who you are, getting people to read your writing is tough. Ever since the internet happened, beat reporters and columnists have all manner of competition for the audience's eye. To combat the fire hose of content available to readers, journalists have employed all sorts of tactics to draw people in,...Read more...

This morning, the New York Jets and Denver Broncos are searching for someone to blame for their current predicaments: Sean Payton, Russell Wilson, Broncos defensive coordinator Vance Joseph, Nathaniel Hackett, or Zach Wilson? There's only one lightning rod who deserves the most of the smoke though.

The 2023 NFL season is in full swing and, three weeks in, there are already a few teams we can count out - because they're finished. A couple of these teams might shock you, but if you haven't won a game by this point, the odds of making the postseason are slim. Only six teams in NFL history have ever recovered from a...Read more...

If you're looking for a clue that Mel Tucker didn't actually embrace the program rape survivor or advocate Brenda Tracy puts on at college campuses all over the country, look no further than his response to being called out in public for his behavior.Read more...

Tony Womack: 72 (1999)

Troy Glaus: 47 (2000), 41 (2001)

The Miami Dolphins are fast, like heyday Miami Hurricanes fast, in relation to their competition. With his current offense, Tua Tagovailoa must be currently feeling like he did while quarterbacking Alabama - the modern standard for college football athleticism. Back then his weapons on offense included DeVonta Smith,...Read more...

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A lot of poor professional football was played during Week 3 of the NFL season. Going into the first window of games, most of the schedule appeared uninspiring - especially after 4:00 p.m. EST. However, mismatches were not the sole reason for poor play throughout the day.Read more...

Another year. Another Super Bowl Halftime Show with a Black artist. Another opportunity for Jay-Z to receive uncomfortable recognition.Read more...

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While Tua Tagovailoa is opening eyes around the league, he was simultaneously closing out an era as well. During Miami's 70-20 drubbing of the Denver Broncos Tua Tagovailoa ended any hopes of a Russell Wilson Renaissance. It might be time to mummify Wilson. There are still 15 weeks remaining, but he is a dead man...Read more...

The New Orleans Saints have been one of the surprise teams in the early stages of this 2023 campaign. They were well on their way to a 3-0 start to the season against the Green Bay Packers, holding a 17-point lead heading into the fourth quarter Sunday afternoon. If you turned away thinking it was over, you should...Read more...

Travis Kelce deserves one of those Bobby Bonilla/Magic Johnson-type contracts after the money he will soon make the Kansas City Chiefs. His new situationship with Taylor Swift will launch his post-football career into the stratosphere, but that is a long play. In the immediate, he has made the Chiefs the most relevant...Read more...