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On October 11, the Washington Commanders had the ball in overtime with 55 seconds left, a kicker on the roster, and a field goal about 41 yards away that would have won the game. They tied instead. Here’s how you do that. Washington ran Rachaad White for two yards at the 55-second mark, then the …
Lamar Jackson is out again today at Cleveland, his second straight miss, and two weeks ago nobody in Baltimore made it sound like a big deal. After the Tennessee game, coach Jesse Minter described it as “a little bit of an ankle” issue, then tacked on “we hope.” He also said, “We don’t know enough …
On paper, all 30 teams had a shot at Yoshinobu Yamamoto. On paper, I also had a shot at dunking on LeBron. Technically true, completely useless. When he came over from Japan, the Dodgers landed him for 12 years and $325 million, plus a posting fee of just over $50 million to his old team, …
Baseball wants to give back eight games a year and I’d take that deal before they finish the sentence. The playoff part of the pitch, though, is where they lose me. Here’s what MLB put in front of the players union today: a 154-game regular season starting in 2029, a best-of-seven Division Series, and a …
Every player, captain, and assistant captain at this week’s Presidents Cup collected a $250,000 check before a single putt dropped. Add up both rosters and that’s $8.5 million handed out for an event that still bills itself as an exhibition played for pride, not pay. Nobody bothered updating the pitch. The money itself isn’t new. …
In August 2023, the Women’s World Cup final aired for free on Fox, and it drew the biggest U.S. television audience a Women’s World Cup final has ever pulled in. Four years from now, watching the next one will cost you a Netflix subscription. FIFA and Netflix just made it official. Netflix is now the …
I never expected to write a sentence defending baseball’s owners. But here we are, six months into MLB’s ugliest labor fight in a generation, and I keep landing on the same uncomfortable conclusion: this time, they might actually have a point. Formal CBA talks between MLB and the players’ union started on May 12. The …
Major League Baseball is on pace for about 0.5 errors a game this season. That would break the record of roughly 0.52 a game set just two years ago, and five of the lowest error-rate seasons in the sport’s 150-year history have all landed since 2021. Nobody got better at catching a baseball. Scorers did. …
I sat through a full month of NFL preseason football. None of it counted. Most of it was ugly. I’d do it again. That’s not sarcasm, either. Preseason has a well-earned reputation for being close to unwatchable, third-string quarterbacks throwing to receivers who won’t have a job by Labor Day, offensive lines that look like …
Nine teams got hit with a luxury tax penalty after both the 2024 and 2025 seasons, the most in the sport’s history, a level of tax-dodging math that would embarrass anyone else’s business plan. The Dodgers alone paid $169.4 million of it last year. They still won. That’s the whole argument for a salary cap, …
A base is fifteen inches square. That’s plenty of room for a runner’s hand to lose contact with it for exactly one video frame — and somehow, that’s apparently enough for a stadium full of people who just watched a guy get to the bag safely to be told, actually, no, he didn’t. That’s not …
Gary Woodland is playing East Lake this week, and I want you to sit with that sentence for a second before I tell you why it matters. Three years ago, Woodland had brain surgery to remove a tumor. That’s the kind of sentence that usually ends a career, not launches a comeback. It didn’t end …