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Chris Thompson

Pitch-Tipping Savant Alex Bregman Is Inspiring The Rise Of The Intentional Balk

MLB Umpires Association Emerges From Cave To Correct The Record

Austin Hedges, On Unfavorable Replay Review: Inequality Plagues Our World Today

I Am Begging The Los Angeles Angels To Please Just Lose In Normal Ways

Gah!

A sign asking LIV Golf spectators to be quiet.

Golf

Several LIV Golf Pros Eat Shit In Federal Court

Kevin Durant and Steve Nash stand on the sideline of a Nets game.

DurantWatch: Sean Marks Is On The Clock

PGA Tour Antitrust Lawsuit Forces  Silly Battle Lines On Matter Of Whether LIV Golf Sucks Ass

Chefector

Summer Cries Out For The Rise Of Coffee Granita

Mickey Moniak of the Los Angeles Angels is congratulated for his home run with a cowboy hat and cup of water to the face in the ninth inning against the Oakland Athletics

Wow! Look What The Angels Did!

A Perplexing Afternoon At The Saudi-Funded Golf Tournament In Trump’s Backyard

Rams Lawsuit Reveals The Madness Of Personal Seat Licenses

Nationals, I Beg You, Please Do Not Trade This Puke Man Who Makes Me Barf

Allow Me To Offer You This Bounty Of Humiliating Bloopers And Statistics Produced By The Boston Red Sox

Baseball Is Better For Having Just A Little More Chaos

College Football

Jim Harbaugh Had Some Dumb Things To Say At An Anti-Abortion Event

LIV Incursion Fades Away In Satisfying Open Championship

Juan Soto greets his Nationals teammates with a smile on Opening Day, 2022.

Juan Soto Is For Sale

Kelsey McKinney

Barry Petchesky

Patrick Redford

Rays Week

The Read Planet: Let’s Discuss ‘The Martian Chronicles’

Rays Swept By Lowly Reds

To Jump Or Not To Jump, That Is The Question

MIAMI, FLORIDA - JULY 06: Shohei Ohtani #17 of the Los Angeles Angels celebrates a strikeout during the seventh inning against the Miami Marlins at loanDepot park on July 06, 2022 in Miami, Florida. (Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images)

Shohei Ohtani Cannot Possibly Do More Than This

Who Will Replace Baseball’s Maniac Artisans When Starting Pitchers Are Gone?

Racing

Luck Is Everything

A four-square of Brian Windhorst talking, with a little Windy in the middle as well

A Very Strange Thing Happened To The Brain Of Brian Windhorst This Morning. Very Strange.