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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...

Mike Ditka did a phone interview with Newsmax, the halfway house for wayward Fox News personalities and dollar store version of Mike Gundy’s favorite ultra-Trumpy “news network” OAN, and told kneeling NFL players to “get the hell out” of America.Read more...

The U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education Labor & Pensions convened today for a hearing on college athlete compensation. Among the many babbling voices in the room, player advocacy was scarce.Read more...

The six-month mark came and went with hardly any notice, but it did come and go. It’s now been more than half a year since Rudy Gobert, days after jokingly touching all the microphones at a press conference, tested positive for COVID-19 and effectively shut down the sports world.

It’s Trash Talking Tuesday and today I’m trashing Bucs’ QB Tom Brady.Read more...

This isn’t a column about kneeling.

What happens when free tuition and free labor collide?Read more...

It seems wild that a department benefiting from nearly $3 billion in funding is asking civilians for financial help to do its job.Read more...

[Update: 2:22 pm ET] Dan McNeil has been fired from WSCR 670 The Score. The station sent the following statement to its employees this afternoon:Read more...

The Vegas Golden Knights were eliminated in overtime by the Dallas Stars on Monday night, 3-2, and an ugly racial incident on the ice appears to have gone mostly unnoticed and unreported.Read more...

Amid western wildfires and hazardous air quality, the MLB and NFL continue to play on. But for how long?

The 2020 U.S. Open will be played for the sixth time at Winged Foot Golf Club in Mamaroneck, New York this week. The tournament offers a different kind of New York Fall Classic, if you will, and one that everyone will be forced to watch from home, as spectators are still not allowed on site. I will not be playing in…Read more...

There are two games left in Week 1 of the NFL.

Let’s get a few things straight off the jump.Read more...

We need to talk about Conor McGregor.