No crash is a good crash, but the worst crash might be when a lot of riders are packed tightly together in a narrow space, as they were just before the finish line of today's Stage 12, which went from Fougères to Tours. The leaders were just a few bike lengths ahead of the pileup. It's not known how many riders sustained serious injuries, but Norway's Edvald Boasson Hagen—a Team Sky teammate of overall leader Chris Froome—did fracture his right shoulder and is done for the Tour. …
data-mm-id=”_ns1bv65f2″>No matter where you stand on the whole NBA-in-China fiasco, one thing we should all know as a common fact is the league is suffering from a series of self-inflicted blows. With the public relations wheel spinning a bit out of control right now, all parties on foreign soil would like nothing more than questions about motion offense or offensive rebounding or, really, anything basketball-related.Everything else? Well, you see, the answer isn't quite so simple. Those tasked with making sure players and coaches don't say something that may exacerbate the controversies are seizing on every opportunity to steer things into safe waters.For instance, here's what happened when Russell Westbrook and James Harder were asked about their willingness to continu…
data-mm-id=”_er8fea029″>The Cleveland Cavaliers dropped their fifth consecutive game on Friday night, losing to the Orlando Magic at home. The loss, their 11th in their last 12 games, came hours after The Athletic published a story citing multiple anonymous players complaining about coach John Beilein. Players were asked about the story after the game and unsurprisingly, no one confirmed the story. Tristan Thompson, one of the few players left over from the second LeBron James era, seemed the most annoyed. Via Cleveland.com:”“Y’all better find them names ‘cause I’ll pull up on ‘em right now,” Thompson said. “You can’t do that s—.
“At the end of the day if you’re going to build a culture and a family, you can’t have that Chatty Patty s— going on. That s— is …
data-mm-id=”_yoj8otbb8″>Bill Walton and Joe Lunardi are ESPN's best rivalry. The face of the network's PAC-12 coverage and their premier bracketologist have a feud that goes back a few years which mainly centers around Walton's belief that every PAC-12 team should be in the NCAA tournament. The two squared off again during Thursday's Washington-Arizona State game with Walton calling Lunardi a "troll."Bill Walton just shredding Lunardi ?. I truly believe he thinks UCLA should be a 3 seed. ?— Paul Lo Duca (@paulloduca16) March 6, 2020Joe Lunardi and Bill Walton do not like each other. Taking verbal jabs at each other on live coverage of the ASU/Washington basketball game on ESPN2— ??FadeMyEnemies?? (@fademyenemies) March 6, 2020"The Conference of Ch…
data-mm-id=”_9f4lbmavx”>Hubie Halloween is one of the most harmless movies ever created. It's appropriately dumb and funny and there are some covertly sweet moments sprinkled in advocating a kinder, gentler, and more understanding existence. Or so we thought. Because this year is awful and spooky in unpredictable ways, today we learn that a brief cameo has cost another journalist their job. Alaina Pinto, formerly a morning and noon anchor at 7News WHDH in Boston, tweeted that her brief appearance in the Adam Sandler flick was a violation of her contract. A violation that ultimately led to her termination. Hi Friends! I have some news to share… Earlier this week I was let go from 7 News. I am posting this because I want to be open and honest with all of you. Last year, I particip…
data-mm-id=”_j9r9xgha6″>The Madden 21 trailer came out this morning. Lamar Jackson is on the cover after winning MVP and emerging as the most exciting player in football by quite a margin. It will not shock you to learn that he looks as difficult to tackle in a video game as he does in real life. The trailer is also not kind to young quarterbacks. I'm pretty sure every first or second-year QB set to start this season was sacked in this trailer. However, as longtime fans of Madden know, getting excited for the new year's edition is an annual exercise in disappointment. The rosters are updated, the graphics are better, and basic mechanics are given tweaks. But nothing really ever changes. It's actually remarkable how stagnant the game has been for over a decade now. That&#…
data-mm-id=”_t1fzt6j11″>The 2020 NFL season is finally here. The Houston Texans face the Kansas City Chiefs on Thursday evening in front of a small crowd of Chiefs fans with many millions more tuning in across the country. Kansas City is kicking off their title defense. Houston looks to avenge last season's playoff loss at the hands of Patrick Mahomes and his cohorts. These two teams are in similar places when looking at the big picture. Both signed their young, superstar quarterbacks to big extensions this offseason and will be building around them for the next five years at least. These two quarterbacks are good enough that both squads have championship hopes. But while the Chiefs are perched on the edge of a potential dynasty, the Texans have a lot to prove in 2020. Specificall…
data-mm-id=”_vm6nct6iw”>The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are tied with the Dallas Cowboys and Detroit Lions with nine dropped passes this season, a stat that Tom Brady would like to see improve a bit but is ultimately helpless to change. A wise person once explained that Tommy cannot throw and catch the balls, no matter how advantageous such a situation would be.A reporting covering the NFL asked Bucs coach Bruce Arians about the extremely normal and not-at-all obscure category during media availability today, as one would do if they were preparing a story for the next day's paper on all the butterfingers out there.Arians reacted this way:"I don't know who the hell makes up these stats," Bruce Arians says when told his team leads the NFL in dropped passes this season.— Gr…
data-mm-id=”_owylfcfwi”>LeBron James is the best basketball player alive. Everyone knows this and has known it for a decade. But most of those years he was not the most valuable player in basketball, according to the people who vote for such things. That is, of course, a silly notion. Between his ability to elevate his teammates and the financial implications of his presence within an organization, there are few athletes in the world, much less the NBA, who are more valuable than LeBron. But the MVP award is about which player was most valuable to their team on the court that season. The 2018-19 season where LeBron missed a good chunk of games due to injury and missed the playoffs is the only year of the 2010s that he definitely was not the MVP. He has a case varying in degree of stren…
data-mm-id=”_zms6c67t1″>Mad Dog Unleashed's annual Super Bowl trivia contest is usually a nice, fun event providing sports radio listeners who have a tremendous amount of knowledge about history an outlet instead of having them cornering uninterested LIRR riders. But this year it's been rocked with scandal. The particulars are a bit unclear to non-listeners yet they don't really matter. Because Chris Russo noticed something untoward happening and laid down the law yesterday as only he can. Here’s radio Hall of Famer @MadDogUnleashed completely losing his mind (and name dropping some guy named Trainer) after someone misrepresented themselves during his Super Bowl trivia contest today. Absolute gold from start to finish. pic.twitter.com/zSxDCiMV3e— Jimmy Traina (@Jimmy…