Epic upsets, stellar QBs, and the most notable sports moments of the first half of 2023
Photo: AP That damn hockey. No. 8 seeds advancing is far more common in the NHL than MLB and most certainly the NBA. Still, the…
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MLB scheduling change making it easier for American League East to assert its dominance
Six months or so after the NFC East was the best division in football, the American League East has overtaken MLB. No team is below…
Roberto Firmino will play his last game for Liverpool as my heart aches
The shelf life for soccer players might just be the shortest around. Baseball would like to get there, but in the world of football it…
Patrick Mahomes, arguably the NFL’s top QB, fine with not being paid accordingly
Being the best quarterback in the NFL is always going to pay handsomely. That player will have one of the highest salaries in professional sports…
Greg Kelly thought he was protecting baseball, but he clearly doesn’t watch
I can’t even claim to really know what Newsmax is, other than it has a name that sounds like something a satire show would come…
La Liga has a racism problem
American sports certainly have a lot of problems. Fan culture here can be violently toxic, and sometimes the teams can be complicit in it (hi…
The Miami Heat kicked the Celtics in the head in Game 3
I have seen some ass whuppings administered in my lifetime. I remember in the fifth grade baseball playoffs beating the top overall seed by about…
Brentford’s Ivan Toney breached FA rules 262 times for betting
262 breachesPhoto: AP Breaking the rules once is bad. “But why stop there,” you could imagine Ivan Toney saying, probably, because he breached FA rules…
The NBA Playoffs have earlier start times from here on out — God is good
In 2015, I was in Los Angeles for the annual Online News Association Conference. It meant that as a Michigan native, I was up at…
No NFL team wanted Matt Ryan, so he joined CBS
He’s not retiring, but it doesn’t sound like any teams wanted himPhoto: AP After failing so miserably with the Indianapolis Colts last season, free agent…