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David Cone knows first-hand how the clock can strike 12 in a baseball season and strike it out. The YES Network analyst and former Yankee and Met was an MLBPA representative during the hardball negotiations who couldn’t avoid canceling the 1994 World Series. “What comes to mind is that there is a deadline,” said Cone. “The similarities here, the great …

Drew Brees’ apology has not convinced everyone, but two prominent voices in his own locker room have taken the Saints quarterback for his word. A day after Brees said he “would never agree with anyone who did not respect the flag,” sparking anger from a wide range of athletes, including Saints star catcher Michael Thomas, the 41-year-old man. wrote an …

Jamal Adams does not want to hear excuses or apologies. Not from Drew Brees, Jake Fromm, or anyone else who makes racially callous remarks. Jets All-Pro Safety spoke on Twitter, quoting Fromm’s apologies on Twitter and writing, “You and Drew really don’t feel it. Save the bull’s apologies. The truth just came out and you two aren’t the only ones. …

We don’t know when, we don’t know where, and we still don’t know if it will be possible to play hockey during a pandemic, but we do know the format of the imagined NHL Summer Stanley Cup tournament. After talks between the league and the NHLPA Return to Play Committee, it was decided that the four rounds of the 16-team …

After a text message conversation referring to “elite white people” was released, Jake Fromm issued an apology to his new team and the public on Thursday. The Bills’ rookie quarterback, in text messages dated March 2019, suggested that the weapons were “good,” but that suppressors should be “too expensive so only elite whites can get them haha.” An unknown Twitter …

Human nature is a powerful force, albeit unstoppable. Just look at the way people have collectively battled the coronavirus pandemic for the past three months … and the way people have reacted so passionately to the disgusting injustice that ended George Floyd’s life on the Day of the Fallen in Minneapolis. That’s why, despite all the unquestionable good he’s done …

Crisis avoided. A day later, Florida State Captain Marvin Wilson said that he and his teammates would begin boycotting volunteer workouts after deceptive quotes from new coach Mike Novell that he spoke to each player individually about the death of George Floyd and The national protests that have followed, a team-wide gathering seems to have restored order. “We took a …

The Knicks will have to wait until August 25 to find out where they will choose in the lottery. And they won’t be able to choose their new players until October 15. With the NBA voting to restart the season in a 22-team format on July 31 at Disney World, sources confirm that the lottery will be set for August …

Aaron Rodgers was praised for your instagram post that most observers saw Drew Brees as an indirect shot for his opinion of the kneeling players during the National Anthem. However, Martellus Bennett struggled with Rodgers, with whom he played for seven games in 2017 with the Green Bay Packers. Retired tight end Bennett tweeted an old Rodgers quote in which …

Coco Gauff cannot vote, but that does not mean that it cannot make a difference. The 16-year-old American tennis star is doing her part as protests have spread across the country following the murder of African-American George Floyd by a white Minneapolis police officer. Gauff attended a recent Black Lives Matter protest in his hometown of Delray Beach, Florida, and …