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Dan Orlovsky spent a whole decade as an NFL quarterback. He only threw 15 touchdown passes from 2005-15 with the Lions, Texans, Colts, and Buccaneers, along with 13 interceptions while being sacked 29 times. But the man made a good living, knows the game inside and out, and now talks football on ESPN.

Five seasons. Sixty-eight games. That’s all it took for Gale Sayers to prove to everyone he was one of the greatest running backs in football history (at the time only Jim Brown would have been argued to be in the same stratosphere). Just five, and those five seasons still hold up today to put Sayers into the…Read more...

I’m fully aware that Bill Belichick has been dressing for decades now like he was raised by cavemen.

MLB will have you believe that this was a dramatic night in the last week of its season. And on the surface, it does look like that. Teams got more bunched, there were walk-offs and extra innings and standings swings and such. However, flip up the hood and you’ll see the engine is just a hamster taking a smoke break…Read more...

It’s never too early to overreact to NFL win totals.

“Republicans buy sneakers too” is always going to be part of Michael Jordan’s legacy, and there’s no getting away from that, because Harvey Gantt’s not walking through the Senate door.Read more...

Much like Skip Bayless, the person he used to sit next to before that became yet another gig in the litany he’s fucked up and lost, Jason Whitlock’s purpose in media and in life is merely to billow pollution. It doesn’t really matter what it’s about or how marooned it is from logical or defendable, it’s point is to…Read more...

Back-to-back losses to start the season.Read more...

New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft is likely off the hook for allegedly paying for sex in a Florida massage parlor in February of 2019.Read more...

Luis Suárez is destined to play for Inter Miami. It might not be happening now, even though there were reports of talks last month to make it happen, but the universe eventually needs Suárez to assume his final form as a Florida Man.Read more...

Every Stanley Cup Final, and really any championship series, ends up being some sort of referendum on where that league and sport is. Because original ideas generally are treated like an infestation of Asian Longhorned Beetles by 75 percent of every front office, no matter the sport, and whomever wins the championship…Read more...

For more than 25 years I have made my living placing words on paper, which means I should be able to express how I feel at this precise moment.

It’s Trash Talkin’ Tuesday and today, I’m trashing the Detroit Lions.Read more...

It can be startling to remember that Gareth Bale has only been something of a punchline for two seasons. And we should all be so lucky to be considered a joke when making over $37 million per year to live in Madrid and not do a whole bunch. We’d all accept a pretty healthy share of laughs at our expense for ... well,…Read more...

Brett Favre’s surprise visit to Tampa Bay on Sunday sparked controversy around the football world.

It’s been a mangled, peeps-in-the-chili baseball season, and anyone who tries to tell you different is either selling something, thinks the sky is green (not when it’s actually been orange), or is just clinging to one of the pillars of their life so desperately in order to believe that something, anything is normal…Read more...

After initially deciding to sit this season out due to a deadly virus, last week the Big Ten reversed course.Read more...

The Atlanta Falcons stink.

Week 2 of the NFL season is nearly complete and it has left us with some must-see plays from some of the biggest names in the league.

It’s likely that before you enter a playoff series against LeBron James, you understand there might be a game or two that’s going to be taken from you (unless you’re the Warriors, in which case it’ll be three games in a row you’ll never live down no matter what you do). He’ll go supernova, shoot something like 7-for-9…Read more...

If you had to wager which stadium would see a fan quite possibly risk his life, merely for the opportunity to yell at everyone around and act like a yahoo to an audience of no one, Fenway Park most definitely would have been the chalk.Read more...

Update (4:00 PM Eastern) - CBS has confirmed Saquon Barkley’s injury as an ACL tear. The team says he will be further evaluated tomorrow in New York, but this is very, very bad for the Giants.Read more...

Chiefs Head Coach Andy Reid will be rocking his famous COVID-19 protective face shield again in week 2 against the Chargers.Read more...

If you tune into ESPN’s “Sunday NFL Countdown” for any other reason than to watch a bunch of old guys laugh uncomfortably or stand around screens they don’t entirely understand how to work, then I assume it’s for information. Who’s injured, who’s being replaced as a starter, who got caught putting their dick in a…Read more...

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Sometimes, it’s good to just scream your problems away?

Gambling is a risk. And with risk comes reward… or bankruptcy.Read more...

Welcome back to Project ShaqBox, where you can get 10 baseball cards in the mail, free, just by letting us know where to send them, and can get 10 cards from the team of your choice by making a donation to charity.Read more...

Reigning Cy Young winner and future Hall of Famer Justin Verlander will need Tommy John surgery, ending his 2020 season and most likely his 2021 season as well.Read more...

The nation went to bed Friday and woke up Saturday mourning the loss of not only a brilliant legal mind, but an absolute icon of feminism — and badassery.Read more...

Earlier this summer, “The Last Dance” gave the world a look at how Michael Jordan used every slight, real or perceived, as motivation.Read more...

Quarterbacks have had a pretty significant impact on the history of the NFL. They are often the most important players on the field on any given Sunday.

Bob Kelly, the traffic reporter for Fox 29 in Philadelphia, has a few questions about some Philadelphia traffic plans for this weekend.Read more...

The outrage is comical.

The Bengals need to be careful.Read more...

The Lightning won the Prince of Wales trophy as Eastern Conference champions, and dared to touch it — they kept the superstition five years ago, and lost the Stanley Cup Final to Chicago — after beating the Islanders, 2-1, on Anthony Cirelli’s overtime goal that bounced off the post, then Semyon Varlamov’s pad, and…Read more...

The Celtics’ season is going down the toilet.Read more...

LeBron James’ group, More Than A Vote, released its first ad today. The thirty second spot aims to recruit young poll workers for the upcoming election.Read more...

The Yankees have hit a lot of home runs.

Super Bowl champion Kansas City was one of two NFL teams, along with Jacksonville, to allow fans to attend their Week 1 game. The official attendance was 15,895 to see Patrick Mahomes and Co. dismantle the Houston Texans last Thursday night.

Welcome to this circus, Big Ten.

Big Ten football is coming back in October, much to the delight of Donald Trump and the universities that will get to resume cashing in on unpaid labor.

What brought back Big Ten football from the brink? Was it pressure from state legislators? Democrats overplaying a hand? Money?Read more...

The Big Ten is back from the dead.

Well, the Big Ten finally cracked.Read more...

In five weeks, the most historic conference in college football history will return. The Big Ten is back.Read more...

Rob Manfred says this season’s expanded baseball playoffs are likely to remain in place for 2021 and beyond, and everybody hates it.Read more...

Maya Moore helped free an innocent man who was wrongfully imprisoned for 22 years – and got a husband in the process.Read more...

There will be no greater takedown of the Los Angeles Clippers, who blew a 3-1 series lead in which they held leads of 16 and 19 points in Games 5 and 6, than the one delivered by Magic Johnson, the only completely sincere and benign person on Twitter.Read more...