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This year’s Daytona 500 served up yet another embarrassment for the NBA, smashing the league’s all-star game in the television ratings. Television viewers preferred NASCAR racing by a whopping 41-percent margin over the NBA all-star game, according to Michael Mulvihill, an executive vice-president for Fox Sports. 

Ken Mauer was an NBA referee for 36 years before the league foolishly decided to fire him for not getting the COVID vaccine.

Look out, King James.

Republican members of the U.S. Senate have come out with a bold “11-point plan to Rescue America” if voters put them back in charge of Congress again. In the ninth part of the document, released Tuesday, they pledge to keep men out of women’s sports and women’s locker room facilities.

Syracuse University still has not gotten the memo that masks and COVID screening do not work to stop the spread of the coronavirus.

Sports are a medium through which athletes learn lessons of character: how to work hard towards a common goal with others, how to communicate effectively with peers and those in authority over you, and how to master excelling in the little things to achieve something great.

“Team LGBTQ” did remarkably well in the 2022 Winter Olympics, SBNation Outsports reports. Did you even know there was a “Team LGBTQ?” Well, it exists only in the imaginative minds of Outsports, the blog dedicated to celebrating homosexuality and gender confusion. It’s a mythical team of alphabet soup athletes that won enough medals to allegedly have finished 12^th in the final medal…

Left-leaning, publicly-funded media outlet National Public Radio (NPR), like a large contingent of the American population, loves the fact that trans-woman Lia Thomas is dominating the swimming competition in the Ivy League. They love it so much they are willing to sacrifice basic journalist principles to make sure it's seen as nothing but an accomplishment that everyone should celebrate. 

The 2022 Champions League final was scheduled to take place in Saint Petersburg, Russia, on May 28. But Russia’s increased bellicosity may force the game to move.

The NFL just never makes up its mind on how to handle COVID-19.

Before the Winter Olympics closed on Sunday, China and the IOC had attempted to shut down all attempts to discuss any of the political and cultural controversies that surrounded the host nation. But they could not dodge the questions forever, and they had to face plenty at the final scheduled press conference for the Games on Thursday.

If anyone still needs persuading that LeBron (alias “LeWoke”) James is practically running the NBA, his latest power-broking remarks should sway your thinking in that direction. The man with an ego the size of Saturn has given the league an ultimatum that he will only play wherever his son Bronny plays three seasons from now.

Brian Flores may have sued the NFL for not allowing him to have a head coaching gig, but he cannot complain about being jobless anymore. The former Miami Dolphins head coach got hired as a special defensive assistant and linebacker’s coach for the Pittsburgh Steelers’ on Saturday. However, the hire does not mean that his ongoing legal battle against the NFL is over.

Poll says fans aren't thrilled to Go Commando. Until the George Floyd killing sent corporate America into unreasoning moral panic in 2020, the only people who had a problem with “The Redskins” were weenie Washington Post sports writers and weenie local Dem politicians. The fans loved the name. The owner loved the name. Heck, 90% of American Indians had no problem with the name or the…