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Watching sports from home with few options to visit stadiums may be necessary to curb the pandemic, but one fan in the City of Champions wasn’t having it. On Sunday, a fan snuck into Fenway Park while the Boston Red Sox took on their arch-rivals, the New York Yankees. The man was somehow able to climb the Green […]
The Milwaukee Bucks have started a movement. One day after Toronto Raptors guard Fred VanVleet and Norm Powell revealed that the team was considering a boycott of Game 1 of the Eastern Conference semifinals against the Boston Celtics on Thursday in wake of the shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin, the Bucks decided to not show up for warmups prior to Game […]
On Sunday, prior to their teams clashing in Game 4 of their first-round playoff series, the Clippers‘ Montrezl Harrell apologized to the Mavericks‘ Luka Doncic for some shit-talk caught on camera in Friday’s Game 3. For the uninitiated, the comments that led to this exchange was Harrell calling Doncic a “bitch ass white boy.” For you amateur […]
The Oakland A’s and bench coach Ryan Christenson have issued an apology after he used a Nazi salute twice during a game on Thursday. “I made a mistake and will not deny it,” Christenson said in the statement, while maintaining that the gesture was unintentional. He threw up the salute at the end of the game, […]
Some players on the St. Louis Cardinals, who are one of a few teams dealing with a COVID-19 outbreak that appears to be putting the baseball season in serious jeopardy, reportedly hit up a casino prior to the virus spreading around a sizable chunk of their roster. On Monday, MLB Network’s Jon Heyman reported that rumors stating a […]
Usually, there’s no grey area when it comes to punks and heroes, but there are always exceptions to the rule. And in the year of our baseball Lord 2020, with the national pastime gloriously blessing us with games again, that’s Joe Kelly in a nutshell. Real fans know the Dodgers reliever has a bit of […]
Last week, President Trump said he was going to be throwing out the first pitch before a Yankees home game, probably on August 15, after being asked to do so.“Randy Levine is a great friend of mine from the Yankees,” Trump told reporters on Thursday, referencing the Yankees’ president. “And he asked me to throw out the first pitch, […]
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, took to the mound to throw out the ceremonial first pitch ahead of tonight’s MLB season opener between the New York Yankees and Washington Nationals. It wasn’t pretty. Fauci’s woeful first pitch was soon being compared to other horrendous attempts, most notably being 50 Cent’s […]
The Boston Red Sox expressed their solidarity toward the Black Lives Matter movement by erecting a Black Lives Matter banner on the exterior of Fenway Park on Wednesday night. This act was met with heavy pushback and anti-Black Lives Matter rhetoric, however, from some fans of the team who were upset that the Red Sox showed support […]
Baseball is officially back after the owners and players came to their senses following yet another episode of the sport’s perpetual labor bullshit. But we’ll holster any residual animosity from the two sides needlessly delaying the start to the 2020 season and revel in the fact we finally have meaningful games. Sure, baseball should’ve been back […]
