Obvious trap game before Chicago next week.

Is this considered plagiarism? @bencollins.bsky.social

And that people are craving it.

A take I've been sitting on for far too long. ftw.usatoday.com/story/sports...

Protect Denis at all costs. I need to see these films.

I don't know what the big deal is. The Red Sox AI bot was just asking very normal questions.

We have peaked as a society

Scott Podsednik’s walkoff makes so much more sense now.

Maybe we can have it all!?

Has the new pope been to Ceres? Things I need to know.

Need Ray Clay to introduce the Chicago Pope

A loss so cruel and shocking you simply have to wonder how it didn’t happen to the Leafs.

Special Ambassador to Hollywood Mel Gibson about to get more calls from LA today than the last 10 years combined

Can we just talk about the statement for a minute? ftw.usatoday.com/story/sports...

Mike Sykes is correct, per usual. ftw.usatoday.com/story/sports...

RIP Mongo

Sinners (2025)

Struggling to believe there wasn’t also a gun in Noem’s bag

Who else can you text that won’t have to testify against you?

Ask 2008 Memphis about 9 point leads in San Antonio.

This feels like payback for Peter Bondra scoring his 500th goal as a member of the Blackhawks

My word. (📸Alex Slitz/Getty Images)

"The reality is that if you’re not a straight, cis white man, you’re more likely to have to work twice as hard to gain half the ground. Jackie Robinson knew that too." a must-read from Sykes.

I can't remember the last time I saw an article just focus on this. Not that they've bent the truth or misrepresented a few facts a little, but that every single solitary thing that the GOP says on the topic is a stone cold lie with absolutely no basis in reality. ftw.usatoday.com/story/sports...

Always read Mike Sykes

First look at Brad Marchand as a Panther

Send the interns

Law people help me out: Can’t the AP submit this as evidence of infringement on its first amendment rights?

Thinking about how a reply-all hellscape here could do more damage to DOGE than anything else so far

Pete Alonsdough will probably be one of the more popular sourdough starter names in New York this summer.
 ftw.usatoday.com/2025/02/brea...

And now a stange tale of a fake betslip, a viral tweet and a question of inside information. ftw.usatoday.com/2025/02/vict...

It's only Stanley Cup Playoff OT rules if there are no commercials

Oh you like the 4 Nations? Name the other two.

Seeing Mike Eruzione in a Johnny Gaudreau jersey drives home the point that it would have been really cool if this tournament had been about Johnny Gaudreau instead of Donald Trump.

What on Earth does Miracle have to do with this game besides both being Disney...wait nevermind I got there.

Welp. The PGA has got to really regret these merger talks. golfweek.usatoday.com/story/sports...

Not to add more to the heaping pile of bad news but gutting an award-winning student newspaper that has provided a launch pad for some of the best journalists in the country is so outrageously fucked I don't know where to begin. www.kansan.com/news/student...

Bears vindicated.

PLAY NECK

Anyone who misses watching Succession, tune into the Chicago Bears, where a family on the brink of losing ownership now has to convince a dozen kids to hold onto their stock

The Grizzlies have an interesting decision to make about Jake LaRavia before the NBA trade deadline. “Some stuff might not even be in the stat sheet,” Ja Morant told me. “But it leads to winning.” Read my feature about the 23-year-old Memphis forward:

A year ago the American Gaming Association projected $23 billion would be wagered on the Super Bowl. This year that projection is $1.3 billion. Why? Because before now they kinda just made it up. ftw.usatoday.com/2025/02/supe...

A lesson from watching NCAA enforcement that very much applies to politics right now: those who cooperate thinking they’ll get off easy typically get hurt the most. The ones who tell investigators to fuck off, typically wind up fine.

Many people did not read The Jungle and it shows.

It’s funny until you remember what his views on sex education are. And then it’s terrifying.

Whoever told Drake to schedule tour dates in Australia this week deserves a massive raise

And so begins one of the worst weeks of Drake’s existence

Yep it sure would be a shame if Canada cut the power to Pennsylvania during the Super Bowl.