Only one team in professional sports has an appearance policy worthy of its own Wikipedia page.
For almost five decades, the Yankees have hewn closely to late former owner George Steinbrenner’s attitude toward facial hair. New York’s players are expressly prohibited from growing “any facial hair other than mustaches (except for religious reasons).”
The policy has long polarized opinion among both Yankees fans and baseball fans in general.
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The 2023 LIV Golf Champion, Talor Gooch, has been laughably traded to a new squad, delegitimizing the PGA Tour’s rival.
The PGA Tour may have lost Jon Rahm to LIV Golf, but the rival tour still cannot be taken seriously.
Early Thursday morning, Bubba Watson’s RangeGoats traded Talor Gooch to Brooks Koepka’s Smash GC team. In return, Koepka sent Matthew Wolff back.
This exchange would seem to make sense to a casual golf fan.
The New York Yankees made the splash of the 2023-2024 MLB offseason with their acquisition of superstar outfielder Juan Soto.
READ: JUAN SOTO TO THE YANKEES IS BEING FINALIZED, A BAD MOVE FOR BASEBALL
But the real hero of the Soto deal has to be whoever is running the Yankees’ social media accounts. In an amazing troll of baseball reporter Jon Heyman, the team’s first official acknowledgement of the Soto trade was in reference to last year’s infamous “Arson” Judge tweet.
The NFL is trying its hardest to promote Thursday Night Football. Here’s the problem: the matchup is terrible. Sure, the Pittsburgh Steelers are currently a playoff team, but they are not a fun watch. The New England Patriots are a complete dumpster fire.
So, about five hours before kickoff, the NFL social media team needed to promote the game. Clearly, they can’t try to sell fans a matchup between Mitch Trubisky and Bailey Zappe. They won’t even try, fans are too smart for that.
Buffalo Bills head coach Sean McDermott reportedly once gave a speech to his team centered around 9/11.
That, in itself, isn’t all the surprising. He’s not the first coach to pull some inspiration out of that awful day and he won’t be the last. What law enforcement and firefighters did for this country some 22 years ago was nothing short of heroic. I think we can all agree on that.
Now, here’s where McDermott’s alleged speech went kinda-sorta off the rails …
According to GoLongTD.
The Yankees pulled off a blockbuster trade Wednesday night, acquiring superstar Juan Soto from the Padres.
Soto will form a star-studded duo in the Yankees’ outfield with former AL MVP Aaron Judge, a tandem that already has earned a new nickname from general manager Brian Cashman.
The moniker? “Crazy Eights.”
But why? It’s a reference to baseball scouting verbiage.
“On a pro scouting scale of 20 to 80, how many teams are running out two eights in their outfield?” Cashman asked during his press conference with the media Thursday.
The Outlaws.
No, wait … the Bandits.
Hold on, I’ve got it: the Las Vegas Sinners.
The NBA is back in Las Vegas this week for the Final Four of its in-season tournament, which is a good reason to wonder why the NBA isn’t actually in Las Vegas. Sure, the Summer League has been a fixture in Sin City since 2004, while the IST will likely be there for years to come. And commissioner Adam Silver is fond of pointing out that it was the NBA, in 2007, that actually took to Vegas first.
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Rahm is reportedly ditching the PGA Tour for a massive bag to play on the LIV Golf tour. We dive into what this means.
Jon Rahm has reportedly touched down in New York City. He is going to meet with LIV Golf officials to finalize a deal to join the Saudi-backed golf circuit. This is truly astounding news that will assuredly shake up the landscape of professional golf.
Rahm is the reigning Masters champion and two-time major winner. He is in the prime of his career.
How do you know if it’s a messy break-up? If one party donates the other party’s clothes to a Goodwill afterward.
Former Oregon State coach Jonathan Smith’s school-issued gear was spotted by a fan at a Goodwill store at an undisclosed location earlier this week. And it wasn’t just one or two crewnecks or quarter-zips—it looked like his whole wardrobe.
A TikTok user recently posted a video of himself rummaging through an entire section of Beavers-branded apparel at a Goodwill.
The NBA in-season tournament has added a lot of what the league hoped it would bring to the early regular-season schedule: stakes, eyeballs and a general sense that this season is different than seasons past.
It also has invited something traditionally reserved for April and May: officiating controversy, and more specifically officiating controversy surrounding the Lakers.