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The Oakland Athletics move to Las Vegas is no closer to completion, as the Nevada State Education Association (NESA) is preparing to file an injunction to block the $380 million in public funds for the A's, on the grounds that it is unconstitutional. - Mackenzie Meaney Read MoreRead more...

Could Bronny James score a bucket against his father, LeBron? Kevin Garnett certainly doesn't think so. - Criss Partee Read MoreRead more...

Earth to Sean Payton: Russell Wilson is still on the Denver Broncos' roster. There is nothing the Denver coach can say to make that $85 million in dead salary go away. The NFL salary cap for the 2024 season will be $255.4 million. That dead money would account for a third of their cap space, and the best that they can...Read more...

College football might follow in the footsteps of the NFL as the NFL mulls taking a page out from soccer. After the Michigan sign-stealing scandal, in-helmet communicators could be coming to FBS programs, as well as a two-minute timeout. The Shield meanwhile might eschew the chain gang for optical tracking technology...Read more...

The NFL Scouting Combine is the first sign for everyone to get serious about draft talk. It gives football fans just under two months to prepare for a new name to walk across the stage as Roger Goodell says, With the first overall pick..." Will they become the new face of the league? Or will they flame out before the...Read more...

Josh McCown might wind up being an offensive guru. Josh McCown could be a Super Bowl-winning head coach one day. Over the last few years, Josh McCown has been a highly sought-after candidate in NFL coaching circles. The only thing is, Josh McCown's coaching resume is skimpier than the meat that new employees put on...Read more...

The NFL Scouting Combine is a place for rumors, wind sprints, and stage-setting before the two-month blitz of the NFL offseason. It also produces some of the most bizarre quotes you'll get at any point in the NFL calendar.Read more...

Tyreek Hill's lawyer is claiming that the Miami Dolphins wide receiver didn't break Sophie Hall's leg - instead saying the model/influencer was injured tripping over a dog.Read more...

Welcome to the first edition of Idiots of the Month for 2024 (we may have been overwhelmed with idiocy in January, and declined to choose five from the nominees - or we may have been distracted by the Super Bowl). Luckily for us, February brought us a fresh, new crop of idiots, and one idiot who is quickly approaching...Read more...

Victor Wembanyama and Chet Holmgren play for teams that occupy two very different places in the Western Conference standings. The San Antonio Spurs are going to be in the running for a second-consecutive No. 1 overall pick. The Oklahoma City Thunder are a game behind the Minnesota Timberwolves for the top seed in the...Read more...

Coming off the high of 2023, the 2024 NBA Draft class is destined to be one of the most lifeless in modern history, which explains the predicament men's college basketball has found itself in here in 2024. While the women are pumping out household names such as Caitlyn Clark, JuJu Watkins, Paige Bueckers and Angel...Read more...

For the most part, fans these days accept that a player signing a generational wealthy contract with a team is more than enough of an end to itself. Few players, out of the very few who make the majors at all, get to take the opportunity of free agency and set themselves up for the rest of their careers. While there's...Read more...

Iowa's Caitlin Clark has declared for the WNBA draft today, forgoing her final year of eligibility, she confirmed in a post on her social media account.Read more...

The first Magic Johnson and Larry Bird matchup in the 1979 NCAA Men's Basketball National Championship Game is the most viewed college basketball game of all time. Being that more than 35 million people watched, certainly a few of them have wondered over the years what happened to the Indiana State Men's Basketball...Read more...

Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones will be forced to take a paternity test as part of an ongoing legal dispute with a 27-year-old woman who claims to be his daughter.Read more...

Miami Heat frontman Jimmy Butler is out here living his best life despite the recent brawl (which got him suspended) he was involved in on the court. Not even going to NBA jail could bring down the Heat star as his cameo in Fall Out Boy's" new music video, So Much (for) Stardust" debuted this week. Butler plays an...Read more...

What is one thing synonymous with a day spent at a baseball park? A hot dog. The Phillies had seemingly cracked the code on making that perfect partnership happen while maximizing its value for fans with their Dollar Dog" night, where every hot dog sold was - you guessed it - a dollar.Read more...

It's easy to say that MLB gets too caught up in its past and tries too hard to be the game it once was. A major part of baseball's charm is its connection to its past. While the other sports don't look anything like they did even 20 or 30 years ago, baseball doesn't ever move too far from what it's always been. The...Read more...

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Portland Timbers CEO Heather Davis just gave other pro sports teams a master class in how to handle problematic people tied to the club and, according to her, it wasn't even a tough decision.Read more...

The Tush Push is here to stay. During an appearance on PFT Live, NFL executive Vice President of Football Operations Troy Vincent that the Philadelphia Eagles' fourth-and-short play will not be banned by the league's Competition Committee.Read more...

Former NFL quarterback, Dan Orlovsky, has become one of the better analysts on ESPN programming over the past few years. Despite not having the best NFL career he knows the game and can break it down in a way that's easily digestible for viewers. Orlovsky sounded off on Jerry Jones and the Dallas Cowboys Thursday...Read more...

Oh, Jets. Jets, Jets, Jets. Can't you do anything right? Current Chief and former Jet Mecole Hardman was accused by various former New York teammates of leaking offensive game plans to opponents, including Kansas City and Philadelphia. That's a juicy rumor even if it's not true, and my guess is it'll never be...Read more...

With the news that Paul Pogba has been suspended for four years (pending appeal), it almost certainly ends his career. Should he have to serve the full four seasons, he'll be 35 and not have played in forever. The question of whether he's a legend or left far too much on the table would depend on what kind of scarf...Read more...

Reporting on Mattress Mack McIngvale's gambling addiction is akin to covering those competitive vaping contests featuring Gen Zers trying to see who can blow the biggest cloud/contract lymphoma the quickest. I guess there's a human-interest angle, but it also glorifies sports betting to a disgusting degree. Sure,...Read more...

Shohei Ohtani announced on Instagram Thursday that he had gotten married in the offseason. The announcement came seemingly out of nowhere and read like a press release, but was also so characteristically Ohtani to announce his wife to the world with a Notes app-style document.Read more...

Zion Williamson's tantalizing game made him a household name after one season at Duke where he established a new NCAA record for 2-point field goal percentage. Up until this juncture in his career, Williamson has been a gas-guzzling, flying tank in a league stacked with electric convertibles. As a rookie, he was...Read more...

(Update, 11 am EST, Feb. 29, 2024: Cristiano Ronaldo received a one-match suspension after rubbing opposing players' merch on his genitals, according to the Disciplinary and Ethics Committee of the Saudi Football Federation.Read more...

Quarterback is the most important position in all of sports. The Falcons are on the hunt for a new one. And not only does their next signal-caller need to be a perfect match for the team, but for the city. Atlanta is Black as hell, which means their next starting quarterback probably will be, too.Read more...

France and Juventas midfielder Paul Pogbahas has been banned for four years from football for a doping offense.Read more...

The PWHL has accomplished a lot even though it's only been in existence for a few months. It has set records for attendance. It has sealed the cracks in women's hockey that had formed. It has given momentum to women's hockey below the international level, which had been stuck in neutral thanks to splits between groups...Read more...

When an opportunity comes along in life, sometimes you just throw caution to the wind and go for it. That's what Chris Paul should have done when he was approached about becoming part of the Heatles in Miami, alongside LeBron James and Dwyane Wade. It never came to pass, though, and all because Paul and Wade couldn't...Read more...

Minnesota Vikings star receiver Justin Jefferson is facing a paternity lawsuit and allegedly pressured the child's mother into getting an abortion.Read more...

The New England Patriots are not a family-friendly organization. Color me surprised.Read more...

Scoring in the NBA has ticked up at an exponential rate in the last decade. It doesn't take Hercule Poirot to figure out what killed NBA defenses. This is a shooter's league now.Read more...

The Winnipeg Jets are in first place. The Jets have a legitimate shot at the Stanley Cup. They have the league's best goalie, they have depth scoring. They can win a track meet if opponents want to play that way. They can grind out chances along the boards and in the corners if that's what's asked. For most of our...Read more...

We need a more menacing term than sports washing because it's not working. Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund and the ATP tour agreed to a five-year sponsorship Wednesday, with courtside ads slated for the season-ending ATP Finals, Indian Wells (of course), Miami, Madrid, and Beijing.

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Xavier Babudar, better known by his wolf-themed Kansas City Chiefs superfan alias ChiefsAholic," pled guilty to one count of bank robbery, one count of money laundering, and one count of transporting stolen property across state lines on Wednesday.Read more...

Could Bronny James score a bucket against his father, LeBron? Kevin Garnett certainly doesn't think so.

The NBA has a whole lot of movement. Even Michael Jordan couldn't finish his career with the Chicago Bulls. Even the most iconic multi-team NBA players have a short stint on a team you would swear they never played for. Here are some iconic NBA players in weird places.Read more...

Since Tyreek Hill was traded away from the Kansas City Chiefs, he allegedly smacked a guy at a marina, said he wants to be a pornstar, said he wants to fight Jake Paul, aired out his former organization multiple times, had his mansion burn down due to a child playing with fire, had his attorney accidentally file...Read more...

In football, the line of scrimmage is where the rubber meets the road." In politics, it occurs inside the voting booth. Roger Goodell's recent comments on politics and sports are proof that the league could be on the verge of repeating the same mistakes it did during the Colin Kaepernick era, as the presumed...Read more...

Denver Broncos head coach Sean Payton announced Tuesday that the team's decision on the fate of quarterback Russell Wilson will come in the next two weeks. Tell that to the rest of the league.Read more...

Complaints about NBA defensive intensity have littered sports debate television, podcasts, and columns all season. As of Tuesday, the top five teams in offensive rating will have the five highest marks in that category in NBA history. Six players have scored 60 or more points this season. Luka Doni is leading the...Read more...

While see-through pants have been the talk of spring training so far, that might not matter as much to fans (at least non-evangelical ones, Woe to Cardinals Nation), as fans don't tend to want to buy the pants the players are wearing. Maybe you've got use for baseball pants in your everyday life, and I'm not here to...Read more...

Tyreek Hill is being sued by social media influencer and model Sophie Hall, who alleges that the Miami Dolphins WR broke her leg in a football drill at his Florida home last summer.

Detroit Pistons head coach Monty Williams was furious following Monday night's 113-111 loss to the Knicks. The officiating crew for the game missed a blatant foul with 8.6 seconds remaining in the game following a Pistons steal while Detroit led by one. The missed call was so bad that the most novice casual fan could...Read more...

Earth to Sean Payton: Russell Wilson is still on the Denver Broncos' roster. There is nothing the Denver coach can say to make that $85 million in dead salary go away. The NFL salary cap for the 2024 season will be $255.4 million. That dead money would account for a third of their cap space, and the best that they can...Read more...

The NHL has seen some greats that stick out for their time with one specific franchise. What if we told you that they didn't only play for that one team? Remember when Bruins Legend Bobby Orr was a Blackhawk? Us either. Here is a list of players you might not remember making the rosters of other teams.Read more...