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

WWE and pro wrestling have always needed a union, but will it ever happen?

Talk of unionizing professional wrestling pops up at least once a year, with it usually coming on the heels of another needless round of WWE releases due to “budget cuts” like my colleague Sam Fels wrote about regarding their most recent cuts last week. Read more…

Mizzou coach sits star running back for bowl game, looks like a helicopter parent

It’s no secret that a lot of bowl games are largely frivolous money grabs created to squeeze revenue out of free labor, profiting off every moment of eligibility until all that’s left to make money off of is sales of nameless jerseys that definitely don’t represent the likenesses of student athletes (because now you… Read […]

If ‘small-market’ teams like the Cubs can’t make it, what hope is there?

If this is the reality of baseball, then something about the system needs to change. Trades of top talent for prospects are nothing new in the game, of course, but you don’t expect to see the teams giving up on frontline starting pitchers to be making those trades when they’re in the middle of a […]