data-mm-id=”_79gb2cgqt”>Major League Baseball has announced major changes to its joint drug agreement with the players' association that will modernize the league's drug testing program. The sweeping changes reflect the changing national attitudes towards and issues with certain drugs.The news making the most headlines is the league beginning to test for opioids and cocaine. But perhaps as significant is the league's changing view on marijuana. The drug will no longer be considered a "drug of abuse." It will now be treated the same way as alcohol as part of the program's changes. Significantly, there will no longer be suspensions for marijuana use in the minor league testing program.As part of a new agreement on opioids being negotiated between Major Leagu…
data-mm-id=”_36rhy0j68″>Despite the looming threat of coronavirus, college basketball conference tournaments are underway — with fans in attendance. To whit, Miami and Clemson faced off in the second round of the ACC Tournament on Wednesday afternoon on ESPN. The broadcast team decided to something different this time around: use a spidercam for a basketball game. And here is what a basketball broadcast with spidercam looks like. pic.twitter.com/THfPqOaFkt— Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) March 11, 2020Thanks, I hate it. This is not the first time a spidercam has been used to film a basketball game, but to my knowledge, no network has used the angle in an actual broadcast yet. It's just a weird angle to watch a basketball game. I mean, would you rather watch from the perspective of …
data-mm-id=”_9173rrp4n”>Who is to blame for the end of the Chicago Bulls dynasty? There are plenty of options, but even after a 10-hour documentary about The Last Dance, the ultimate culprit remains unclear. So let's just start at the top.Jerry Reinsdorf allowed Jerry Krause to repeatedly say that the '97-'98 season was the last with Phil Jackson as coach. And then it came true as coaches and players went their separate ways while Reinsdorf and Krause oversaw a disastrous rebuild. Reinsdorf points the finger at Jackson in a piece on ESPN.com published this morning:””I asked Phil to come back,” Reinsdorf said. “And he says, ‘No, it’s time.’ That was the expression he used, ‘It’s time.'””In the final episode of The Last Dance Jackson does seem to confirm that he was done. …
data-mm-id=”_bj3flhr9f”>Dom Cosentino is a senior features writer covering the NFL for theScore, the popular sports news and scores app. He joined the Press Pass podcast to discuss his journey through sports media and how he ended up at theScore starting all the way back in Pittsburgh, where he'd publish a sports newsletter out of his parents' basement as a young sports fan. After taking a job with a videoconferencing company out of college, Dom broke into the industry on a local township beat and wrote pieces like profiling the town's favorite pig dying. He moved on to the high school beat for a decade before deciding to try his hand at the online media industry, joining Deadspin as an editorial assistant. From there, he transitioned to covering the Jets as a full-time …
data-mm-id=”_6qbwkxgch”>Roy Williams announced his retirement the morning of April 1st, but it was not a joke. After 18 years at North Carolina and another 15 at Kansas, Williams is hanging up his sports coat at 70-years-old. The big question now becomes who will replace Roy Williams at one of college basketball's most prestigious jobs.Hubert DavisThe current UNC assistant coach played for Dean Smith from 1988 to 1992. He has been on Williams' staff since 2012. Davis has been coaching the current players that are recruiting future Tar Heels. At 50-years-old, he's never been a head coach, but maybe Williams has been grooming him.Wes MillerIf Carolina wanted to expand their search a tiny bit, they can look in the University of North Carolina school system and find Wes Mill…
data-mm-id=”_mu1pjx6m8″>Aaron Rodgers thought he had scored a touchdown on Sunday against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and immediately launched into a celebration that confused a lot of viewers. It's hard to describe what he did so we'll just show you the video:Good score but what was this celebration?pic.twitter.com/qAZ4gS5Tvz— Dov Kleiman (@NFL_DovKleiman) October 18, 2020A lot of people watching realized immediately that Rodgers was paying homage to the Hingle McCringleberry sketch from Key & Peele. It's one of the show's litany of classic bits:It's worth noting that Rodgers was in a Key & Peele sketch in 2015, so it's not shocking that he'd reference the show in a celebration:Unfortunately the touchdown wound up being called back as Rodgers&…
data-mm-id=”_m1m6o0a6s”>With only 69 seconds remaining in last night's Sacramento Kings-Charlotte Hornets matchup, it seemed the Kings would stroll to a nice Sunday evening victory. Sacramento was winning 123-115. De'Aaron Fox had just stolen a bad inbounds pass thrown by Terry Rozier and taken it coast-to-coast before he was fouled on a dunk attempt. After review, the foul was found to be flagrant. The scene is now set. The Kings are winning by eight points with 1:09 remaining. Per flagrant rules, Fox now had two free-throw attempts and Sacramento would be given the ball. Usually, being up eight with less than a minute and a half left in a game means victory is all but assured. It was not for the Kings, who somehow managed to squander that eight-point lead entirely in that t…
data-mm-id=”_j0zf6s1ar”>Jalen Hurts and DeVonta Smith had a big play wiped out by instant replay late in the first half of Super Bowl LVII. As officials took an especially long time reviewing the play to make sure no angle was left unwatched during the most watched broadcast of the year, Eagles coach Nick Sirianni motioned to someone, possible the officials, to come back. Hurts quickly grabbed his coach's arm and pulled it back down.😂 pic.twitter.com/FLhVlTESRt— Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz (@LeBatardShow) February 13, 2023For those of you wondering who the adult in the relationship is, it appears to be Hurts. Perhaps he didn't want Sirianni to antagonize the officials. Sirianni then flashed one of those ain't I a stinker smiles. READ NEXT: 30 Best Spor…
data-mm-id=”_d9yqaj7rw”>Donald Trump surrendered to authorities in Atlanta on Thursday to be booked on more than a dozen charges related to his attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election in Georgia. We've already seen his mugshot, but as part of his booking, Trump was asked his height and weight, his answers were hilarious. And the Internet isn't buying it. Here's the official booking record including Trump's "self reported" height and weight:Donald J. TrumpHeight: 6’ 3”Weight: 215 pic.twitter.com/sYNXyJu8QO— Anna Bower (@AnnaBower) August 24, 2023Yeah, that's right, Donald Trump says he's 6-foot-3, 215 pounds. People went nuts when reading that because, let's be real, it's objectively hilarious. Here's a very rece…
data-mm-id=”_auzfpenxc”>The Dallas Cowboys and Los Angeles Chargers met for Monday Night Football in Week 6. The Cowboys came into the game having lost two of their last three games while the Chargers have won their last two. While the game was in Los Angeles, the stadium was full of Cowboys fans, but if there were any Chargers fans in attendance, they must have felt tense. And that tension obviously spilled over onto the field before the game when the Cowboys and Chargers players got into a big fight during warmups. The Cowboys and Chargers got into it ahead of #MNF 😳 pic.twitter.com/0y7dVEjsWF— ESPN (@espn) October 16, 2023Who knows what started it – no doubt someone disrespected someone or something – but it looked quite violet there in the eye of the storm. Facemasks…