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Baker Mayfield tweets he ‘almost 100 percent’ saw a UFO in Texas

Photo by from Leander Hutton, via Creative Commons (CCO) Article by Jack Baer, Yahoo! Sports Baker Mayfield was on track for the most boring offseason of his NFL career. No coach getting fired, no offensive overhaul, just sitting back and seeing how the Cleveland Browns handle free agency...

Opinion: NBA Needs to Permanently Abolish Marijuana Testing

Photo by Mark J. Terrill, via AP Images Article by Jeff Zillgitt, USA Today No more than five players have been suspended for violating the NBA’s and National Basketball Players Association’s marijuana policy in the past four seasons. The issue isn't if NBA players do or don’t use...

Jamaican Bobsleigh Team Push a Mini to Keep Olympic Dream Alive

Photo from piqsels.com, via Creative Commons (CC0) Article by Reuters, The New York Times The Jamaican bobsleigh team is used to training without snow, but the coronavirus lockdown has seen its male athletes resort to pushing a car around the streets of an English city to stay in...

How FC Barcelona Is Paving The Way For Women’s Soccer

Photo by Steffen Prößdorf via Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) Article by Michael LoRé, Forbes Lieke Martens played soccer with boys until she was 16 years old. Some opposing players would maliciously kick out at her because she was a girl. Some would pull her ponytail because she was a...

How the NFL took over America in 100 years

Photo by James Flores (©GETTY IMAGES) Article by Anthony Gulizia and Jeremy Willis, via ESPN Prior to his death in 2005, Hunter S. Thompson, a foremost chronicler of America's last 50 years, once wrote the following for ESPN: "We must have football. What would this country be without...

Real Madrid approve women’s team for 2020

Photo by vmiquilena via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0) Article by Adriana Garcia via ESPN Real Madrid confirmed on Tuesday evening they will have a women's team compete in Spain's top flight beginning in the 2020-21 campaign. The club's board approved the acquisition of Madrid-based women's club CD Tacon...

Shining a Light on the Other Half of Humanity

I like to know what’s going on in the world—I read the news online most of the time. And yeah, I was getting some news, or as I call it, half the story. But, it dawned on me that all I was being fed was...

A confident, never arrogant Jaime Munguia embraces role as the future of Mexican boxing

Photo by Steve Marcus (Getty Images) Article by Roberto José Andrade Franco, via Yahoo! Sports Less than a year ago, Jaime Munguia fought in Cancun, Mexico, on an undercard headlined by Miguel Berchelt. The 21-year-old’s aggressive, fan-friendly style was clear even if he remained raw. “Offensively, Munguia is a monster,” Carlos...