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There was a not insignificant period of time, in my tweens and teens, when I wanted to be an astronaut. I obsessively watched “Space Camp” (still a great movie), bought books on aeronautics and aerospace that I didn’t understand, and dreamed of the day I would don an unflattering blue jumpsuit and blast off for parts…Read more...

If you turned off the TV, put down your phone, and went to bed after the Dodgers won their first title since 1988, you missed the drama that will forever mark this weird, neutral-site World Series, at the end of this weird, pandemic-altered baseball season, in this weird, hellish year.Read more...

Before Tuesday night, the idea of the Dodgers as “failures” was, by any measure, save one, patently ridiculous. They’ve won the division eight years in a row, piled up over 100 wins in two of the past three seasons (three of the past four if you go by the rate they had this year), and were appearing in their third…Read more...

There is no winning the argument. Having the argument is probably the point. It’s been dominating baseball for the past 20 years. What the spreadsheets say, what baseball logic says.

Blake Leeper was born with no legs, and he’s one of the fastest humans on earth.Read more...

If 2020 has taught us anything, it’s that rules were made to be broken and that plans were made to be changed.Read more...

It’s really funny to picture Son Heung-min as the Dread Pirate Roberts, because he might be the Premier League’s jolliest player. Anywho...Read more...

After getting Amy Coney Barrett confirmed to the Supreme Court on Monday, Mitch McConnell went to the Senate floor to spike the political football that he’d gotten over the goal line, locking in a 6-3 conservative majority on the highest court in the land.

Update (3:20 PM EDT): Sam Dekker responded to J.R. Smith’s comments in a now-deleted tweet.

The Big Ten wrapped up Week One. Yay!Read more...

It’s Trash Talking Tuesday and today I’m trashing all those who, somehow, believe Browns’ quarterback Baker Mayfield has arrived because he beat the lowly Bengals - again.Read more...

Monday Night Football hasn’t been A THING in many years. Probably not since NBC took Sunday Night Football and made that the game of the week. The games on Monday night usually suck and are typically between two teams that aren’t all that good, with ESPN’s overwrought and over-sweaty broadcasts making the whole…Read more...

After spending a rookie season behind Leonard Fournette in 2019, Ryquell Armstead was supposed to contend for the Jacksonville Jaguars’ starting job. Yesterday, ESPN reported that the second-year back will miss the remainder of the season due to COVID.

Look good. Feel good. Play good.Read more...

The Arizona Coyotes aren’t good at anything. Their on-ice product has sucked for a decade. They bilked Glendale into paying for their arena, but forgot that no one wants to drive to Glendale to see their shit-ass product.

Part of the reason we love sports is watching girls and guys live out dreams that we’re not capable of. And sometimes they do it in more of a baller fashion than we’ve ever conceived. Most of it takes place on the field — a great play with a dash of swag that only comes from the confidence of being the best in the…Read more...

After another week of football in the National Football League, we have had the pleasure of seeing some outstanding teams battle.

After another week of monitoring COVID results, tracking injury reports, and watching the NFC East make a mockery of football, Week 7 in the NFL is nearly concluded.Read more...

ARLINGTON, Texas — There are baseball stories. There are Hollywood stories. This is both.Read more...

It’s one of the oldest cliches in baseball, which means it’s one of the oldest cliches in American society. But it happens to be true. Whatever happens in the previous game doesn’t really carry over. We just assign that after the fact when it fits to try and make sense of a game that rarely doesn’t make any sense. And…Read more...

That headline is a doozy, isn’t it?Read more...

Let’s face it. Dave Roberts’s job is pretty simple, while also being impossible. In normal times, he doesn’t really have to do much over six months. The roster is turn-key, and as long as he or someone else doesn’t sneak peyote into his coffee before the game, he can’t really abuse it in any way to keep it from 100…Read more...

In appreciation of the Los Angeles Dodgers losing Game 4 of the 2020 World Series in spectacular fashion, reminding us all that defense — bad defense — can decide baseball games, we thought we’d take a look back at the worst fielders we’ve ever seen.Read more...

Over/Under: 49.5Read more...

ARLINGTON, Texas — Epic, indeed.Read more...

We’re almost halfway through the NFL regular season and the Sunday’s are still scary — and not for betting reasons.

Game 4 of the World Series had barely ended on Saturday night when the hyperbole hit, courtesy of Red Sox writer Ian Browne.

My Twitter feed today is filled with photos, videos, and reactions to super-duper long lines on the first day of early voting in my native New York and I am just overwhelmed with …

What was Friday’s most impressive sports performance?Read more...

There’s a thing men do that drives women crazy. It’s when, upon becoming fathers, they suddenly care about women, often beginning their soapbox sermons against sexism and misogyny with “as the father of a daughter . . .”Read more...

The sentiment has been echoed a million times on the political right, so let’s just go with the latest one, which earned one-time “Punky QB” Jim McMahon some kudos from The Federalist and revoked any punk cred he ever had:

Here is where the NFL is now with COVID-19. This Sunday, the Raiders’ franchise quarterback very well could be counting on an entire offensive line made up of backups.Read more...

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When the coronavirus pandemic hit America earlier this year, one of the first sporting events to be canceled was college hockey’s Frozen Four. It’s a sign of how badly things have gone here that it’s getting harder and harder to see the way to the event taking place in 2021, because at the moment, the entire season…Read more...

The new iPad Air and Minecraft for Switch lead Friday’s best deals.

Further illustrating how the NFL has outlined our utter failure, if not caused it, was professional and self-appointed morality-sensor Russell Wilson clamoring for the Seahawks to sign Antonio Brown. I can’t really add any more to this than DeArbea already did, but Wilson needing to chime in is truly rich.Read more...

There wasn’t much to choose from on Thursday night, that is if you didn’t opt to stream a show you hadn’t gotten to or finished yet to shut out reality. I hear the new season of Fargo is good. If you were looking for live entertainment, your choices boiled down to which version of two balloon-handed sides that you…Read more...

Yadier Molina is one of the best defensive catchers of all time, his nine Gold Gloves ranking third in baseball history at the game’s most challenging position, behind Ivan Rodriguez’s 13 and Johnny Bench’s 10.Read more...

It’s no secret that the players in the NBA rack up bands during their careers. So, we decided to take a look at which players in the league have been stacking the most cash this year. Here are the top ten, as calculated by players’ 2019-20 salaries and endorsement pay.

Updated on Friday, Oct. 23 at 7:40 p.m.: According to ESPN, Antonio Brown reached an agreement with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers Friday night. The troubled receiver reunites with Tom Brady, and is expected to make his 2020 debut in Week 9.Read more...

There’s nothing more American than college football, racism, and voting against your own self-interest.

Things are so terrible in this country that sometimes you can forget they can be equally shitty elsewhere. And while an interview between Jason Whitlock and President Orangutan may feel like sports “journalism” has completely fallen through the bottom of the well and is hanging out with the rock people at the Earth’s…Read more...

For many hardcore baseball fans (like me, before I began researching this story), the idea of playing in Minor League Baseball is like the dream before the dream comes true. Sure, we know there are long bus rides, the pay is lousy and there’s a good chance you can end up at Sears selling Lady Kenmores and never sniff…Read more...

As a Saginaw, Mich. native and someone who was accepted into that world-renowned university in Ann Arbor, I don’t remember a time in my life in which I wasn’t a fan of the University of Michigan’s football team.

I have to credit Joe Sheehan, who has been using that metaphor for a long while now. Anyway, one of the problems with Dave Roberts as manager, at least in the playoffs, is he just assumes he’ll get production from the back of the baseball card simply because. Mostly, if not solely, this has been the problem with his…Read more...

It is nearly impossible to not turn into your favorite forehead-slapping meme when discussing the Alabama senate race between Tommy Tuberville and Doug Jones. Any logical analyses of it can cause your brain to liquify and drip out of your nose to find the sweet release of non-existence. On the one side, you have…Read more...

Trevor Lawrence should avoid the New York Jets at all costs.Read more...

One of the biggest topics among some coaches, players and others throughout the NFL is a simple question: Will there be a bubble for the playoffs?Read more...

Todd Ricketts is a petulant child, and he’s mad because his awful brother, Tom, gets all the attention as chairman of the Chicago Cubs. Todd and his sister, Laura, also run the franchise, but Todd doesn’t care about Laura. He just wants you to know that he’s one of the people who owns the team.Read more...