Tom Ley

Saudi Arabia looms uncomfortably behind just about every major sports league in the world. Seeking to reinforce this position, a member of the Saudi royal family is now using Deshaun Watson as a shill.

For the third time in three seasons, Everton has escaped relegation in dramatic fashion. In 2022, they erased a 2–0 first-half deficit against Crystal Palace to win the game 3–2 as Dominic Calvert-Lewin's bullet header in the 85th minute clinched survival with one game left to play and

Here was the situation when the Atlanta Falcons were on on the clock to make the eighth overall pick in last night’s NFL draft: After going 7-10 in three consecutive seasons while shuffling through a sparse deck of subpar quarterbacks, the team had decided to bite the bullet and sign franchise-lite quarterback Kirk Cousins to […]

The Twins can’t lose. Sunday’s 11-5 win over the Angels was their seventh in a row, and the team that started 7-13 is now above .500. However, the fact that this streak is happening is less interesting than why it is happening. It is happening because of the sausage. Back on April 22, the Twins […]

The playoffs are not good for you. If they were, it wouldn't be so hard to answer this question: Would you rather trade places with a Knicks fan or a Sixers fan right now?

If you've spent a decent amount of time watching the NBA playoffs, you have been driven insane by at least one of the commercials that have been packed into the ad breaks. There's the "What A Pro Wants" commercial, of course. That one's pretty bad. I personally hate the one with the guy in big jorts who jumps into the sky. The Ringer's Bill Simmons is not a fan of one that features a few lines from "No Flex Zone," by Rae Sremmurd.

Certain blowout playoff losses can be flushed from the mind. When the other team takes 45 three-pointers and makes 26 of them, you are free to shrug your shoulders and blame shooting variance. When a defending champ starts the game a little sleepy and lets a win get stolen from them, you can excuse some […]

During the regular season, it was common to hear pundits and analysts fret about the Oklahoma City Thunder's lack of size. Much of this fretting gave way to advice-giving: The Thunder should crack open their treasure chest of picks and acquire a big man at the trade deadline. The Thunder didn't do that, but so far all the worrying seems to have happened without cause, as evidenced by the fact that the Thunder are now 5-0 in postseason play following last night's Game 1 victory over Dallas.

Former LSU teammates and current NFL rookies Malik Nabers and Jayden Daniels got themselves a lot of attention this week , when they revealed that they had placed a $10,000 bet with each other over which of them would be named Rookie of the Year. Well, now the bet's off.

Too many things happen over the course of an NBA game for it to be possible to ever point out one particular play, or even a sequence of plays, as the reason the final score ended up where it did. But sometimes a sequence is too big, too noticeable, and too well-timed to be seen […]