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When Michelle Obama said, When they go low, we go high," she wasn't talking about Kim Mulkey. Class and decorum have never been her thing. On Sunday, No. 1 South Carolina remained undefeated and won its eighth SEC tournament title after defeating LSU, 79-72. It was a rematch of their January showdown in Baton Rouge,...Read more...

The fire hydrant has been busted open and money is spewing in the streets of college sports. Mens' college basketball saw the success of the Inaugural 2023 NBA In-Season Tournament and has decided to start one of its own.Read more...

Sometimes, there's no choice but to cover a vile person in sports because they are doing something that can't be ignored. Trevor Bauer is not that, but that didn't stop Bob Nightengale from auditioning to get on his payroll, next to Rachel Luba, whatever it is she does other than be the occasional bullhorn.Read more...

Work Hart, not smart, has been the New York Knicks blueprint since the end of January. While injuries to Julius Randle and OG Anunoby have kept their front court stars out of the rotation, Tom Thibodeau has turned to his tried-and-true method of working his blue collar contributors until they're dog tired. His most...Read more...

It's cap casualty season. The new league year begins on March 13, and every team in the league has to be under the hard salary cap by 4 p.m. EST on that date. Teams across the league are bleeding talent to reach the $255.4 million number.

During the course of an NBA season, we get quite a few wow moments in many different ways. If it's not a defender getting crossed up so badly he hits the canvas, it's a rim-shattering dunk that makes folks rise up out of their seats. Sometimes it's us watching in awe as players like Stephen Curry or Damian Lillard hit...Read more...

It's Oscars Week, which feels like as good a time as any to draw up the NBA storylines and characters which could double as Oscar nominees.The Minnesota Timberwolves' deceptive seasonhas been one of the hottest topics in the West so let's start there.

The explosion in three-point shooting ushered in by Stephen Curry, alongside fellow splash bro Klay Thompson, has literally changed the game we all know and love over the past decade. Once Golden State proved that you could win a championship playing largely on the perimeter offensively, the entire league attempted to...Read more...

The North Carolina Tar Heels won their first outright regular season ACC title in seven years with an 84-79 win over archenemy Duke on Saturday. The annual season finale for the conference is one of the best things going in college basketball, yet there's a sinking feeling that fans should relish this rivalry, and ACC...Read more...

Renowned aggravator Rudy Gobert pissed off another group of people Friday night, and though getting T'd up isn't newsworthy in itself, it's what the Frenchman did to earn a technical that's interesting. In the closing seconds of the Cleveland-Minnesota game with his team ahead by a point, the Timberwolves center was...Read more...

Update March 9: Stephen A. Smith says there's no beef between him and fellow ESPN talking head Pat McAfee.

Updated March 9: Antonio Brown has been ordered by a Los Angeles Superior Court judge to pay Shuki International, the creator of the crystalized finger cover jewelry $1,095,000 because Brown has failed to return the borrowed pieces to their owner.Read more...

Are you looking for traditional flavors with a Japanese flare, a stunning lounge with a live DJ, bowling lanes, exotic hookah, a nightclub, and bottomless J. Harden Wine prosecco all in one convenient, classy one-stop shop? Well look no further than Thirteen Houston, James Harden's new restaurant venture.Read more...

We realize the enormity of saying the most CONCACAF game ever," as this particular region of the soccer world is literally where people throw ducks at balloons and nothing is the way it seems. Just about anything can happen when the North and Central American Federation is in charge, and boy did it on Wednesday...Read more...

It was natural to think the New York Rangers got it" after they traded in the misguided clenched jaw ways of Gerrard Gallant behind the bench for the usually up-tempo ways of Peter Laviolette after the Devils essentially skated them out of the building last spring in the first round. The Devils were clearly faster,...Read more...

After yet another Spring in which Trevor Bauer posts pics of himself at Spring Training and tries to convince us all that he has just tons of support and interest among MLB teams who want to hire him but can't, Bauer has finally been signed - by a Japanese travel team called Asian Breeze. - Julie DiCaro Read MoreRead more...

Need any more evidence that Gilbert Arenas' bellyaching about Europeans and foreigners ruining basketball with their sweet outside strokes is all hot air? I'll give you one: Josh Giddey. Now that his legal woes appear to be in the rearview mirror, the whispers about his liabilities in the Oklahoma City Thunder's 5-out...Read more...

Back in 2021, Britt Reid, then the Chiefs' linebackers coach and son of celebrated Kansas City Chiefs head coach Andy Reid, left team headquarters drunk, smashed his truck into two cars stopped on the side of the interstate at 84 mph, and put five-year-old Ariel Young into a coma. Young sustained a traumatic brain...Read more...

Leave it to the A's and John Fisher to be three months late on the renderings for a ballpark that still feels like it has a better chance of being built in Narnia than it does in Vegas, and then to have it leak out a day after they meant it to: - Sam Fels Read MoreRead more...

It was natural to think the New York Rangers got it" after they traded in the misguided clenched jaw ways of Gerrard Gallant behind the bench for the usually up-tempo ways of Peter Laviolette after the Devils essentially skated them out of the building last spring in the first round. The Devils were clearly faster,...Read more...

After yet another Spring in which Trevor Bauer posts pics of himself at Spring Training and tries to convince us all that he has just tons of support and interest among MLB teams who want to hire him but can't, Bauer has finally been signed - by a Japanese travel team called Asian Breeze. - Julie DiCaro Read MoreRead more...

Need any more evidence that Gilbert Arenas' bellyaching about Europeans and foreigners ruining basketball with their sweet outside strokes is all hot air? I'll give you one: Josh Giddey. Now that his legal woes appear to be in the rearview mirror, the whispers about his liabilities in the Oklahoma City Thunder's 5-out...Read more...

Back in 2021, Britt Reid, then the Chiefs' linebackers coach and son of celebrated Kansas City Chiefs head coach Andy Reid, left team headquarters drunk, smashed his truck into two cars stopped on the side of the interstate at 84 mph, and put five-year-old Ariel Young into a coma. Young sustained a traumatic brain...Read more...

On Monday, the Pittsburgh Pirates told No. 1 overall pick Paul Skenes that he will begin in the minor leagues. While it is disappointing we get robbed of seeing one of the league's most exciting pitching prospects right out of the gate, the move is not unprecedented. In the history of the MLB, only 23 players have...Read more...

As the women's March Madness tournament approaches, there will be tons of talented players looking to make history. Whether it is in scoring a lot of points, or winning the title, there are countless players who set the standard of postseason women's college basketball and went on to continue their careers in the...Read more...

Every year in the March Madness tournament, some school you have never heard of from the middle of nowhere qualifies. They almost are never expected to win, but sometimes, they have one ringer who can carry them very far. Here are some of the best players from mid-major colleges that have dazzled the competition when...Read more...

The 2024 NFL league year is around the corner. That gives us one full year's sample size to judge last year's free agent class. Among all the teams who spent big in free agency last season, whose money made the most for them? These 2023 free agents were hugely important to their teams' success and are proof positive...Read more...

The Florida man in Amit Patel - the Jaguars' employee who embezzled $22 million from the team - was very strong. You'd expect that much ill-gotten cash would be spent on things that the cast of The Italian Job would buy, but this is the land of Parrot Heads, so the preferred route is to go hog wild at the sportsbook,...Read more...

Major League Baseball is on the precipice of a pitching crisis.Read more...

Yesterday, Jake Paul and former Heavyweight champion Mike Tyson announced that they would be fighting in July at AT&T Stadium and streaming live on Netflix.Read more...

As the women's sports movement grows, the March Madness tournament grows with it. Things like fan attendance and viewership are all growing because people want to watch these exciting athletes compete in some of the biggest moments of their careers. Each year of the tournament seemingly gets more exciting than the...Read more...

If March Madness follows the script, Caitlin Clark and the Iowa Hawkeyes will suffer a heartbreaking loss before the Final Four - just like Zion Williamson and Duke in 2019. But unlike that year on the men's side that gave us a lackluster national semifinal that featured the likes of Virginia, Texas Tech, Michigan...Read more...

With March Madness approaching, we are entering the best time of year to be a college basketball fan. To usher in a new year of upsets, stellar performances and champions, here are 15 moments from 2000 to now that are some of the most memorable moments in March Madness history.Read more...

For all the misguided complaints about the melodrama that can be the NBA at times, or the claims that its wokeness" will be its ruin, or how the league beats itself up over load management or whatever else, it still offers something that none of the other three non-NFL leagues can. And that's regular-season games...Read more...

The 2023 World Baseball Classic was fantastic. I was watching the NCAA Men's Basketball tournament at a bar in Los Angeles, when I noticed that most people there had gathered to watch Mexico take on Puerto Rico. The energy in the room was captivating, much of it because Loan Depot Park in Miami was abuzz. I had not...Read more...

This year's NBA Draft has been dubbed the weakest since the Cleveland Cavaliers wasted the first overall pick on Anthony Bennett. There's no consensus prize, or catchy tank phrase. Just the Detroit Pistons, San Antonio Spurs, Washington Wizards, and Portland Trail Blazers vying to see who can most egregiously throw...Read more...

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It's Oscars Week, which feels like as good a time as any to draw up the NBA storylines and characters which could double as Oscar nominees.Read more...

Does a name mean anything anymore? There is a frightening trend of professional sports teams leaving their namesake cities for the suburban sprawl. The Washington Capitals and Wizards have announced moves to Arlington, Virginia. The Tampa Bay Rays are proposing a new stadium built in the St. Petersburg area. Even the...Read more...

After yet another Spring in which Trevor Bauer posts pics of himself at Spring Training and tries to convince us all that he has just tons of support and interest among MLB teams who want to hire him but can't, Bauer has finally been signed - by a Japanese travel team called Asian Breeze.Read more...

The NBA's annual battle of attrition that precedes the playoffs struck again as Minnesota Timberwolves big man Karl-Anthony Towns is out indefinitely with a torn meniscus. It's the same ailment that forced Philadelphia Sixers center Joel Embiid to the sidelines, and one that should be treated with an abundance of...Read more...

No, not that wall. Calm down, Jethro.Read more...

The MLB is one of the oldest leagues in American sports. With that comes some legendary players and names for all of its teams, but nothing is better than watching your team acquire someone legendary from your rivals, or pass on someone who turned out to be a hall of famer because they weren't all that good early in...Read more...

Here is where we look at some of the athletes and sports figures we've lost in 2024.Read more...

A soon-to-be 58-year-old Mike Tyson is returning to the ring to fight none other than loudmouth influencer turned boxer Jake Paul.Read more...

Authentic Brands Group is getting a major payout for severing ties to a licensing agreement for Sports Illustrated, just not the one you think.Read more...

Nathaniel Hackett is who we thought he was, and the last time head coach Sean Payton won a ring the sports world was still a month away from being introduced to Brad Stevens and the Butler Bulldogs. Putting the Denver Broncos' mistakes all on Russell Wilson's shoulders is a cowardly move.Read more...

Fans who attended the Chiefs-Dolphins playoff game on Jan. 13, the fourth-coldest NFL game on record, are being advised to have their affected body parts amputated.Read more...

It's Oscars Week, which feels like as good a time as any to draw up the NBA storylines and characters which could double as Oscar nominees. Next up are the L.A. Clippers and the 2024 season possibly being the culmination of their decade of prosperity.Read more...

The Buffalo Bills gave it their best shot. When they signed Von Miller to that six-year, $120 million contract it was a sign that a Super Bowl or Bust," had been hung on the team bus, plane, practice facility, and on the front of Ralph Wilson stadium.Read more...