Grand Canyon’s Oscar Frayer killed in California wreck days after dream run to NCAA Tourney appearance

It ain’t been a banner year for women’s hockey (and men’s ain’t been so hot either)

It’s not as if women’s hockey wasn’t facing enough obstacles in normal times. It fights for attention and funding at every level just like women’s sports have always done, and that’s a fight that is still very much a hard one. So what it doesn’t need is to have that be joined by self-inflicted wounds […]

Albert Pujols’ career wasn’t supposed to end like this

Albert Pujols’ lifetime numbers are utterly staggering. He has 667 home runs, that’s more than Willie Mays. 3,253 hits, more than all but 14 players, more than hitting machines like Rod Carew, Tony Gwynn and George Brett. More than some guy named Napoleon Lajoie, who played 120 fucking years ago and was so good that… […]

MLB safety’s plan for 2021 has a major minor hole in it

For all the trouble that the NBA and NHL are having with their current seasons, it’s all the more remarkable what Major League Baseball was able to achieve outside of a bubble last year. Read more…