sports
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Hold Up. Is Mike Tyson Really Staging a Comeback?
Mike Tyson is thriving. His podcast, Hotboxin With Mike Tyson, is killing, he’s a best-selling author with a one-man broadway show to his credit and he’s somehow successfully rehabilitated his public image from a feral animal to an innocuous sage in an era where convicted rapists are supposed to be shunned as pariahs. Yet despite…
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In His Own Words: Unpublished Jerry Krause Memoir Reveals He Might Not Be The Villain We Thought He Was
ESPN’s The Last Dance has been hailed by critics and sports fans alike for its thorough examination of one of the greatest dynasties in the history of professional sports: Michael Jordan’s Chicago Bulls. But it’s also been criticized for its unfavorable depiction of former general manager Jerry Krause, who died in 2017 and is unable…
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After The Last Dance: Metta Ford-Artest On the Time He Broke Michael Jordan's Ribs And Somehow Lived to Tell the Tale
ESPN’s The Last Dance has not only captured the entire world’s attention but provided the perfect opportunity for former NBA stars to revisit their own battles with Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls. And while the docuseries captures Jerry Krause’s irrational quest to destroy one of the greatest dynasties in the history of professional sports,…
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NCAA Still Won't Pay Student-Athletes, But It Might Finally Allow Them to Profit From Their Name, Image and Likeness
College athletes have fought for the right to be compensated since the dawn of time, and after years of screwing them out of billions of dollars, the NCAA has finally found its moral compass—kinda. On Wednesday, its Board of Governors announced that it supports rule changes that will allow student-athletes to profit from their name,…
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Dr. Fauci Suggests COVID-19 Could Force Sports Leagues to Skip the Season: 'Safety Trumps Everything'
Dr. Anthony Fauci is kind of a big deal. As the longtime director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, who moonlights as the Justin Timberlake of Trump’s coronavirus task force boy band, anything that comes out of his mouth is as good as gold. So if he says there’s no Santa Claus,…
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NBA Draft Prospect Teshaun Hightower Arrested in Connection With a Georgia Murder
On April 19, 22-year-old Teshaun Hightower declared for the NBA draft. One week later, he found himself behind bars facing some very serious charges. NBC News reports that Hightower was taken into custody in Henry County, Ga.. last Saturday in connection with the April 8 killing of Devante Long. Hightower was arrested alongside his brother…
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Michael Jordan Will Reportedly Make Millions in Proceeds from ESPN's The Last Dance and Donate Every Dime to Charity
When you’re worth billions of dollars, people love to tell you what you should do with your money in order to improve society. But when it comes to living legend Michael Jordan, he apparently has a pretty good idea on where his proceeds from ESPN’s wildly-popular docuseries, The Last Dance, should go: to charity. As…
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Coronavirus Be Damned, Dak Prescott Throws Birthday Bash at Home…And the Cops Might Be Covering for Him
While the rest of us have spent the last month or so trapped inside of our homes trying to escape the wrath of the coronavirus, there are people like Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott who apparently just crack the door open and let the shit right in. In its efforts to curb the spread of…