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Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger likely concluded an illustrious 18-year career in the NFL after a 42-21 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs in the Wild Card round of the playoffs on Sunday. While the end of a football career is daunting to some, “Big Ben” is incredibly optimistic about what the future holds and is satisfied with what he accomplished in his career.

The organizing committee for the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing has already been closed off to any foreign spectators. Now, the committee has announced that only “selected groups” within China will be given tickets to attend one of the greatest athletic spectacles in the world.

The controversy surrounding transgender swimmer Lia Thomas has dominated the swimming world’s news cycle for over a month. Michael Phelps, the most revered and successful swimmer of all time, has just offered his thoughts on the situation.

Athletes are revered individuals whom we rightfully expect to behave with class and maturity on and off the field, especially when they must accept defeat. Unfortunately, that does not always happen.

Novak Djokovic’s intense battle to have his visa approved by the Australian government took a turn for the worse when Immigration Minister Alex Hawke revoked the tennis star’s visa and threatened him with deportation, even though Djokovic has done nothing wrong.

A week ago, the NCAA published a list of guidelines that communicates their COVID-19 guidelines for winter athletes in the upcoming season. Within those guidelines, the NCAA admitted something that most Americans already understood: natural immunity is an effective way for someone to be protected against COVID-19.

The NFL has championed the cause of wanting to find a way to create healthy relationships between cops and small communities by having both sides work together. Seattle Seahawks quarterback Geno Smith apparently missed the memo.

Howard Stern’s been shocking the world for a living for a long, long time, but on Tuesday, he nearly lost his mind tearing tennis great Novak Djokovic to shreds. The tennis player, he raged, should be banned from, not just the Australian Open but tennis in general, for not being vaccinated.

Minnesota Vikings linebacker Eric Kendricks minced no words when asked how he felt about his head coach Mike Zimmer being fired on Monday.

The New York Yankees have become the latest team in the MLB to hop on the female hiring bandwagon, signing Rachel Balkovec to be the skipper for their Single-A farm system team, the Tampa Tarpons.

Can we ever have a gender-normal Olympiad again? Last summer in Tokyo, it was all about the transgenders. Next month in Beijing, the United States will feature its first-ever non-binary winter athlete.

Social justice warriors have not been successful in eradicating racism in politics like they claimed they would be. So now, their next battleground for attempting to destroy hate is the NHL.

Innocent readers of the sports section of Friday’s New York Times were treated to reporter Matthew Futterman’s judgmental hysteria over vaccines in his story on the controversial case of #1 ranked tennis star Novak Djokovic, who may be denied his chance to defend his Australian Open title for not being vaccinated against Covid. The headline was an eyeroll in itself: “Modern Grudge Match Pits…

What happens when one high school girls’ basketball team comes to compete, and the other team doesn’t? If you are the head coach of the first team, and your squad wins in a wipeout, you are scapegoated and suspended for a game. We’ve seen this sort of ridiculous thing before when a sports team is severely punished for achievement, and it’s never a pretty outcome.