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When evaluating the college athletic departments that might be leaving programs in the dust or with a slashed budget, Title IX will be a huge factor in their decision.

It’s crazy to think that news could continue to get worse for Pro Bowl safety Earl Thomas.Read more...

The Washington Capitals are getting rid of Brendan Leipsic after the journeyman winger’s Instagram messages were leaked this week, chock full of misogyny, gripes about current and former teammates, and “love” of “coke.”Read more...

A GameStop flash sale, a massively discounted Xbox One X w/ Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order, three months of Game Pass Ultimate, up to 70% off bed and bath items at Wayfair, and a pair of Wicked Audio wireless headphones headline Friday’s best deals.Read more...

Mayor Derek Slaughter is working from home today. You can hear his daughter through the phone, playing with her computer, perhaps between online learning sessions. It’s another unusual Tuesday in a country increasingly accustomed to the abnormal.

Admittedly, the term “high ground” would rarely find a working relationship with pro wrestling. The point of the whole enterprise, or at least a good portion of it, is that it’s not the high ground. It’s supposed to be ridiculous, silly, edgy, and not cause your brain to breathe all that hard if you don’t want it to. …Read more...

The NFL’s schedule release is, well, on schedule.Read more...

Earlier this week, talentless harpy and anti-vaxx shitbird Kristin Cavallari announced that she and Jay Cutler were getting divorced after 10 years. Now she says it’s because Culter was “lazy and unmotivated.”

With the NFL set to release the 2020 schedule Thursday night on ESPN, we took a look at which teams would rise above the rest, if — or when — the players get back on the field.

There are certainly more dangerous videos floating out there in a time when the very fabric of society and humanity might be as vulnerable as it’s ever been. That doesn’t mean the best tennis player in the world using his Instagram account to have a live talk with bullshit-artist/lunatic can’t be dangerous as well.…Read more...

There’s no denying it: College sports programs at all division levels are hemorrhaging dollars right now.

This is a column about three black athletes.

A collection of VPN deals, an Cyberpunk 2077 pre-order discount, a Wayfair pet furniture sale, an Ulta BOGO deal on Hempz lotion, and an Aukey dual dash cam headline Thursday’s best deals.Read more...

The football world is afire with Wednesday’s report of an intense and near-violent domestic incident involving Baltimore Ravens star Earl Thomas.

The killing of Ahmaud Arbery is Travon Martin 2.0.

Some shitty hockey player said shitty things about a bunch of people!Read more...

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has significantly endangered the lives of college students across the country.

Introductions are really important.

I’ll give you all a bit of a glimpse behind the scenes here. We’ve soured on “possible reopening plan” stories. We’re pretty much against running them until something is concrete. You’re probably sick of them, too. They’re just trial balloons or fingers in the wind. They all follow the same formula, and all hinge on…Read more...

Brett Favre holds his share of dubious records, such as the most interceptions, most fumbles, and most times sacked in NFL history. Now he has another, although it’s not his alone.

You’ve seen the commercials, you’ve seen the 30 for 30 — “You Don’t Know Bo.” But here’s a story about Bo Jackson you’ve never heard.

Most every sport faces more questions than simply when will it come back. The obvious ones are about TV revenues and salary cuts/deferments. Others are issues of scheduling next season or drafts etc. But perhaps none will see their future reshaped quite like women’s hockey, and perhaps none will be forced to either.

An Overwatch LEGO set, a Hisense 75" QLED TV, an Etsy terrarium kit, a 2000A jump starter, and more open up Wednesday’s best deals.

Most every sport faces more questions than simply when will it come back. The obvious ones are about TV revenues and salary cuts/deferments. Others are issues of scheduling next season or drafts etc. But perhaps none will see their future reshaped quite like women’s hockey, and perhaps none will be forced to either.

Imagine surveying the world as it is today — a horrifying place, pervaded by joblessness, pestilence, and uncertainty — then having the audacity to wonder:

The melding of one person and one institution each so galactically up their own asses to have quite possibly come around again that is Scott Boras penning an op-ed in The New York Times is so perfect I might vomit up my own scrotum. I can’t believe it didn’t happen until now, honestly.

It’s no secret that the NCAA has a sexual misconduct problem.Read more...

“We had a championship team, we really did,” says former Knicks coach Pat Riley in the book Garden Glory. “We just had the unfortunate experience to come around at a time when Michael Jordan was around.”

The idea of “fixing baseball” is nothing new. Even in non-pandemic times, there have been plenty of suggestions floated, at outlets ranging from public radio stations to Fox News. There’s always a presupposition that the game is somehow broken and that baseball’s decline in TV ratings is emblematic of a fundamental…Read more...

You get what you pay for — and Rick Pitino isn’t worth the hassle.Read more...

A pair of Jaybird headphones, a Gooloo charger, Rachael Ray cookware, an Armor All car cleaning kit, and Star Wars comics are at the top of Tuesday’s best deals.

Last night, some sports fans got an explanation they had been waiting years for.

Earlier today, ESPN announced that it will be showing one KBO, the Korean Baseball Organization, game per day after reaching an agreement with the league. Which means that there will be live baseball to watch. In the middle of the night. Which might lead some of you to ask who would bother to watch baseball in the…Read more...

They oughta ban this guy from baseball forever.

In the basketball world, for sure, Michael Jordan is the G.O.A.T. — the Greatest Of All Time.

I had to be reminded that Don Shula coached the Baltimore Colts once upon a time. It started before the Super Bowl era. And his most-known accomplishment there was losing to Joe Namath’s side-burned and overrated ass. And really, Shula’s legacy will be that he was “there.” Much like a baseball season. Comforting in…Read more...

Don Shula, the winningest coach in NFL history with 347 Ws, and the architect of the NFL’s only perfect season, died Monday. He was 90.

A pair of Taotronics headphones, a Logitech mouse, a NutriBullet blender, homesick candles, an Aukey USB-C charger, and customizable dog collars are at the top of Monday’s best deals. May the fourth be with you.Read more...

We knew it was coming, we just didn’t know when.

ESPN made a bad deal at the wrong time.

Being a Webster’s-worthy definition of “hypocrisy” isn’t anything new for Senator Mitch McConnell. At this point it’s of the same regularity to him as breathing.

Whether it’s in Las Vegas or Orlando or somewhere else, the NBA eventually is going to get back to playing. It’s not something that should happen quickly, and a lot still has to be worked out, including how to protect high-risk individuals in the league, before there’s another game.

Last we saw Major League Baseball, Jake Arrieta picked up a victory, the Tigers blew another game in late innings, and a pair of second-generation studs with the familiar last names of Guerrero and Bichette went yard again for Toronto.Read more...

“The Mountain” can lay claim to being the strongest man in Westeros and on Earth.Read more...

Like a lot of millennial Americans, the first real exposure I had to soccer was the 1994 World Cup. But it wasn’t until four years later that I really got into the sport.Read more...

Don’t be fooled.

If there’s one sport that might benefit from everyone being trapped at home, it’s chess.Read more...

Donald Trump is basically advocating for white violence. His actions continue to prove it.Read more...

Miguel Marte was 30 years old when he died on Tuesday from COVID-19. He was a husband and a father of twins, according to the GoFundMe page arranged to support his widow and children.

If it feels difficult to figure out what’s going on in the fight against coronavirus right now, that’s because it is difficult. As May begins, an already chaotic and confusing time has ratcheted into something even more fiercely inscrutable.