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NFL Draft Day provides a welcome rebuke to the NBA’s player empowerment era

It’s a widely known fact that Kyrie Irving is delusional. He’s a man of the people while walking among them unvaccinated. He thinks the Earth is flat, and has the particular NBA figured out even though he’s essentially a losing gamer without LeBron James. However, when he said he was going to keep “managing” the […]

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No NHL stars, but plenty of drama for Team USA men’s hockey

It’s obvious that the inclusion of the NHL at the 2022 Winter Olympics would’ve given a facelift to the United States men’s hockey roster competing in Beijing. Leaving Auston Matthews, Connor Hellebuyck and plenty of others at home takes away some associated with the best in the world. The Americans are far from the particular […]

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Death, taxes, and Kirk Ferentz

Speculation about Kirk Ferentz retiring from coaching has been going on since the Obama Administration , when Iowa inked its longtime head man to an extension through 2025. Even with the caveat that it was “a few years off, ” we’ve seen ideas tossed out for who might eventually take the helm in Iowa City […]

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I for one don’t welcome our crappy new robot umpire masters

Do you remember the part in Iron Man 2 where Tony Stark was in court and the United States government was essentially trying to take the Iron Man technology for themselves and their argument was that other countries were developing the particular same technology, then Stark hacked the monitors and showed a video of Justin… […]

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Bonds’ and Clemens’ last year on the Hall of Fame ballot will set precedent for today’s spider tack pitchers

2022 will be Barry Bonds’ and Roger Clemens’ final years on the Hall of Fame ballot. The two baseball superstars of the ‘90s and ‘00s have garnered more and more votes each of their last eight years on the ballot — increasing their percentages from about 35 percent each in 2014 to approximately 61.5 percent […]

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Twins’ Josh Donaldson says pitchers are cheating – and he’s got proof

Three-time All-Star and 2015 AL MVP Josh Donaldson is in year two of a four-year deal worth $92 million with the Minnesota Twins. In just over a year with the club, Donaldson is slashing just .225/.343/.422, for an OPS of .765 with Minnesota — a far cry from the numbers the star third baseman was […]