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Fifty years ago this week, the Oakland A’s were running away with their first American League West title. Having gone into first place in April, and putting everyone double-digit games behind by the Fourth of July, the Swingin’ A’s dynasty was just getting going. They’d win the first of their three consecutive World…Read more...

Albert Einstein is often credited with the saying, “the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results.” The adage could also be applied to football fans and analysts that annually “go insane” about any positive thing that happens during a meaningless preseason game.

We know MLB likes to stick its head in the sand whenever something bad happens and hope it just all goes away. It will probably have to do the same right as the postseason starts in October. That’s when former Angels communications director Eric Kay will go on trial for the fatal overdose of former Angels pitcher…Read more...

Jets fans: Let’s just take some time and relax.Read more...

You can be sure MLB will be pumping this as best it can, given the need and the media market, that the Yankees, now 21 games over .500, can’t lose.Read more...

The Arizona Cardinals come into the 2021 season looking to improve on their 8-8 finish from last season. More importantly, the team needs a playoff berth to help head coach Kliff Kingsbury remove his feet from the fire. In only his third year as head man of the Cardinals, many believe Kingsbury is already on the hot…Read more...

Everyone in the Indianapolis Colts organization should be jumping for joy today with the return of quarterback Carson Wentz to the practice field. It has been just three weeks since Wentz had surgery to remove a broken bone in his foot. Initially, estimates were that Wentz would miss anywhere from 5-12 weeks after…Read more...

It’s time to break down and analyze the latest sports ranking list. This time we have the top 22 (??) point guards in the NBA as ranked by hoopshype.com. Wondering why hoopshype chose to rank the top 22?

Every now and then, sports produce a lightning rod. A polarizing athlete that encompasses all of society’s triggers – race, gender, and creed. Usually, that athlete is Black, which means that invisible battle lines can be drawn down the middle – dividing us by skin color. But, every so often, that athlete can be…Read more...

It’s a Trash Talking Tuesday, and today I’m trashing all those clowns who make a big deal out of NFL preseason games.Read more...

The Big Ten isn’t playing any games with their teams this season.

After all the buzz and excitement that the San Diego Padres’ offseason contained, the goal probably wasn’t staring up at the Cincinnati Reds’ ass on August 23rd. If you’re looking up at the Reds, by definition you’re mediocre or worse. But that’s where the Padres find themselves after losing their fourth out of five…Read more...

Kevin Durant is smoking, er, talking out of both sides of his mouth.Read more...

There was a-doings a-transpirin’ in southern France yesterday. Perhaps in tribute to the release of the documentary “Malice At The Palace,” fans in Nice thought they would reenact it.

For everyone who isn’t a child of Will Clark or Jason Schmidt, watching the Giants hold off the Dodgers in the NL West has been something like watching one of those nature videos of a lion stalking a wounded antelope. It’s not a question of if or when. It’s going to happen.

This season there should be zero roadblocks standing in the Washington Football Team’s way in the NFC East. Yes, that includes the Dallas Cowboys, who have been picked by many to win the division and contend for the Super Bowl. Okay, we’ll see about that.

Well, a problem for anyone who isn’t a Chelsea supporter at least, which the most annoying of my close friends just happens to be. So that’s great. And no, I don’t mean colleague Julie DiCaro, though I’m sure she’ll be rocketing up the list this season. Also great. (Ed. Note: - Blue is the color! Football is the game!…Read more...

Draymond Green and Kevin Durant’s attempt at controlling the narrative behind their sideline argument (almost three years ago) that happened early in KD’s final season in Golden State may be pointless at this juncture.

Why can’t we all just get along?

The idea WWE higher-ups have been pushing that they don’t pay attention to AEW seems as flimsy as ever now.

Manny Pacquiao showed the world on Saturday night that he should want no part of Errol Spence Jr. inside of a boxing ring. The 42-year-old ‘Pacman’ took on WBA welterweight champion Yordenis Ugas for the title, proving that age isn’t just a number. It matters in the world of boxing.

You guys love making things so complicated on the internet.

The Yankees and Twins will not play on Sunday, which was pretty clearly going to be the case since Friday morning, when the National Weather Service issued its first hurricane watch for the New York area in 10 years.

A few days ago, Yankees’ first baseman Luke Voit expressed his concerns with the presence of newly acquired Anthony Rizzo:

We, as a society, have progressed beyond the need for preseason football.Read more...

The Little League World Series is fun to watch for a multitude of reasons. The kids involved are usually so passionate about the game, and you can see the joy they have while playing leap off their faces in every moment. Also, it’s fun to see kids realize their dreams. It’s fun to see these great young athletes…Read more...

Giannis Antetokounmpo following in the footsteps of Patrick Mahomes by buying an ownership stake in the local Major League Baseball outlet might mean that we have a trend on our hands of superstar athletes not waiting around until they’re retired, like Michael Jordan or Derek Jeter, to get into the part of sports…Read more...

AEW didn’t mess around, getting straight to the introduction of CM Punk at the very beginning of Rampage on Friday night. They kind of had to, given that it was billed as “The First Dance,” live from Chicago.Read more...

The Coyotes will not play their 2023 home games in the Gila River Arena, after the city of Glendale announced that it would be opting out of the team’s lease agreement — meaning the team will be forced out of their current home on June 30, 2022.Read more...

Competitive imbalance based on team spending has long been an interesting topic in MLB circles. How are teams like the Indians, Orioles, and Pirates supposed to compete with teams spending over $150 million when their owners are only willing to spend $60 million? Well, during a Monday meeting discussing the new…Read more...

SummerSlam is Saturday night, the second-biggest night in pro wrestling behind WrestleMania, and as a casual fan of the grapples, I’ll be tuning in as usual.

Irrational confidence is something that all pro athletes have, as it’s a necessity for anyone that makes it to that level of play. But, sometimes, “betting on yourself” can lead to bankruptcy — just ask Latrell Sprewell.Read more...

Tom Brady’s son getting a job as a Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ ball boy is what’s wrong with the NFL.

Yes, the veteran wide receiver did make eight catches in the playoffs last season, and did score a touchdown in the Super Bowl, but it’s not like he’s anywhere close to the top target for Tom Brady in Tampa Bay.

Let me put this out here now: Trey Lance will be the starting quarterback in San Francisco sooner rather than later.Read more...

Former Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker James Harrison has started a new career, though it isn’t too different from the one he left a few years ago.

Back in my high school days, I’d come home after swim practice, finish whatever work I needed to get done for school, and before any of the teams I followed started playing, I’d plop down on the couch to watch River Monsters. You remember that show? It ran for nine seasons on Animal Planet. In the show, an English…Read more...

Jalen Hurts is going to surprise a lot of people this season.

A California judge has dissolved the emergency restraining order against Trevor Bauer and denied his accuser a permanent restraining order, following a three-day hearing.

This weekend will mark the first time that we’ll see Sha’Carri Richardson on a track since her Olympic dreams were put on hold.

For five years, we’ve watched Stephen A. Smith and Max Kellerman sit at opposite ends of a studio desk and debate hot topics in the world of sports. Smith argues his points with a fiery ferocity that exemplifies: “Being loud helps get the point across.” Meanwhile Kellerman always argued his points with the idea: “Stay…Read more...

A tradition unlike any other. NBA 2K video game ratings begin to trickle out this time every year slowly and on schedule; players are not happy about their ratings and aren’t afraid to tell us about it.

Twenty-eight years later, and Charles Barkley is still right – for once.

Jack Morris wasn’t in the booth for it, because his racist ass was suspended indefinitely from Bally Sports Detroit, but Shohei Ohtani put on a show in Detroit.Read more...

Washington Defenders? Washington Armada? Washington RedHogs?

As great as Joel Embiid has been thus far in his career, he hasn’t exactly been an iron man of any sort during his time in the NBA. That didn’t stop the Philadelphia 76ers from cashing out the player that many think is the best center in the league, with a four-year, $196 million extension.

Lately, it seems like whenever we hear Brett Favre’s name in the news, it’s because he’s said something controversial. This time Favre’s name is in headlines due to a positive message he’s sending out. The topic he is speaking on is significant to those involved with football in any capacity on any level. More…Read more...

(Trigger Warning: sexual assault, choking, violence during sex)

Owners...they’re just like the rest of us(?) Underneath the billions and billions of dollars, they’re just fans like everyone else — prone to disappointment and rage-filled rants on Twitter. Last night, the Mets lost their fifth straight game and fell below .500 for the first time since May 5 (huh, 5 straight losses,…Read more...

LaMelo Ball is spot on about higher education.Read more...