Announcer drops ‘f***ing n*****s’ on hot mic at Oklahoma HS hoops game as players kneel

What it really means when white sportswriters talk about lack of hustle

The Yankees fell to 6-11 on Wednesday night with a 4-1 home loss to Atlanta. They got a grand total of five hits, and if not for Atlanta’s generosity in throwing away Tuesday night’s game, New York would be on a seven-game losing streak right now. Read more…

What does Russell Westbrook’s trip-dub record mean?

The trouble for most sports is that their records just aren’t going to mean as much as baseball’s. However broken it may be now, the country’s sporting landscape was shaped by baseball, because it really was the only sport anyone cared about for so long. That will change more and more, but those are still […]

Even a lockout can’t prevent the Cubs from being greedy and stupid

It’s still worth it, every so often, to consider how impressive it is that the Ricketts family pissed all over the glow of being the ownership group that brought the first World Series title to the particular Northside of Chicago in 100 years to being universally hated in less than five. Read more…