Maybe, but players (and coaches? I’m not sure) in the NBA have more power than in the NFL and that wouldn’t vanish if owners suddenly decided to cater to the MAGA crowd. Labor in the NBA is simply worth more. The owners might try and tell LeBron to shut up but they couldn’t threaten to blacklist him, and I guarantee…

If the NBA fandom suddenly switched from left-leaning millennials to right-leaning boomers, LeBron, Pop and Kerr would all be told to shut up immediately. The market drives what personality they let their actors take. Anybody who thinks the NBA is “better” than any other league morally is either being intentionally…

In a shocking development, Adam Silver and the NBA are no more socially conscious or woke than Goodell and the NFL. It’s just that their pressure points come from mainland China rather than MAGA jorts territory.

No surprise that Tillman Frittata only cares about collecting more eggs.

The slowness by which Bills fan bystanders tend to him (not to mention the fact they held onto their beers) is as 1:1 on-brand as it gets.

It would be a teeny tiny first step if Braves fans did literally any other chant / cheer, or if the PA prompted them to do anything else, at any point during a game.

I know that the Braves are young and fun and St. Louis is Public Enemy #1 in the Deadspin style guide, but as a Giants fan who will thus almost certainly* be cheering for the winner of this series against the Bums in the next round, I would very much rather align myself with the humorless smug fartsniffing Cardinals…

An underrated sports joy is being the visiting fans and having the stadium ring out with “DE=FENSE” when the home QB is on the field.

Alum and former football player at this high school.

I work on the NFL Concussion Settlement every day, and seeing names come across my desk that I recognize always makes me wince.  I have never once felt celebratory about a guy coming to us because of brain injuries.   And yet.......

After his ejection, the Raiders captain ran off the field blowing kisses to the booing crowd.

Fool me 13 times shame on you ...

If spearing a stationary player that is down on one knee directly in the head with the top of your helmet is not egregious, would anything short of going Last Boy Scout and shooting a player in the middle of a play be egregious?

No, the punishment doesn’t fit the crime. The punishment fits because it’s fitting both this crime and all the other incredibly dangerous similar crimes he’s gone out of his way to commit on the field over the past decade. You get one DUI, you get a year in jail. If it’s your sixth one, the judge isn’t going to be…

He’ll probably learn his lesson this time.

This will be Burfict’s 14th suspension in his NFL career, and his third for an illegal hit. After his ejection, the Raiders captain ran off the field blowing kisses to the booing crowd.

If he’d only knocked a woman unconscious instead, they’d have him back in a month at worst.

It would be so fucking confusing, as the lines are strictly political and don’t really confine themselves to regions or even states.

I’ll always appreciate him because he was the first pitcher to win the Cy Young despite not winning many games thus pissing off all the old baseball people. 

“That guy, the one who’s huge and totally ripped and considered a great athlete by NBA standards, that’s the dude I’m gonna pick a fight with!”