Sports
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Ben Affleck & Matt Damon Are Hosting A Charity Poker Tourney On A Sketchy Offshore Site. What Could Go Wrong?
Matt Damon’s and Ben Affleck’s intentions are good with their online charity poker tournament, but it could end up being a problem...
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Is There Anything More Bill O’Brien Can Do To Destroy The Houston Texans?
The Houston Texans don’t have a first-round pick in 2020. They don’t have a first-round pick in 2021. They don’t have a...
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The XFL Was Mostly Irrelevant, But Don’t Celebrate Its Failure
A blimp in 2001, providing a convenient metaphorPhoto: AP For many football fans, the resurgence of the XFL was simply a way...
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Lazy Hyphens Are Killing The Art Of Cool Sports Nicknames
A-Rod, baseball’s patient zero for lazy nicknames, in 1993.Photo: AP What happened to all the good sports nicknames? My favorite nicknames of...
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Trolling Has Become a Pandemic Sport
The pandemic has brought out trolls everywhere in the sports world.Photo: Getty Patience has never been a virtue in sports. Waiting isn’t...
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Bogus ‘Jets Sign Kaepernick’ Tweet Shows Antsy Nation Desperate to Lose Its Mind Over Anything
For one brief moment Thursday afternoon it was as if a life preserver had been thrown to every weary, locked-down soul with...
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Zion Williamson Shouldn’t Wait To Start Demanding More Talent Around Him
Zion Williamson is the type of talent that can and should push his organization to make better moves.Photo: Getty There are few...
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If Handshakes & High-Fives Die, What Will Players Do? We Have A Few Ideas
Will NHL teams do their traditional post-playoff game handshakes if play ever resumes?Photo: Getty Eventually, the sports world will get back to...
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Fellate-Gate: Why Does The Sports Media Continue To Blow Tom Brady?
Tom Brady has received a career’s worth of fluffing from the media, and now he attacks reporters spreading the word of the...
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Sports Writers Let George W. Bush Off The Hook And It Looks Like They Are Going To Do The Same With Trump
Most sports journalists fell in love with the “sports as healing” narrative surrounding George W. Bush (l.) in 2001. A similar scenario...