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Sports satire illustration of Caitlin Clark going in for a layup.

Caitlin Clark shooting a layup.

Sports Satire: Caitlin Clark’s Reverse Tanking

In sports satire, Caitlin Clark edition, she is being investigated by the FBI for the crime of being too good at basketball in a league… Read More

Sports betting illustration of a basketball super imposed over a roulette wheel.

Place your bets.

Sporting Life

NBA Embraces Sports Betting

T.J. Eckleburg sporting life 11 months

Where to begin with sports betting and the grand spectacle that is the NBA turning its broadcasts into an interactive carnival of “place-your-bets” and “live-those-odds”?… Read More

A basketball player in a teal jersey releases a free throw as the ball sails wide left of the rim, missing entirely, with the hoop and net clearly visible—symbolizing the absurdity and collapse at the heart of the NBA betting scandal.

"I really hope the feds weren't watching that."

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Fastbreak to Federal Court: The NBA Betting Scandal

T.J. Eckleburg sporting life 11 months

The hardwood has become slippery. Forget alley-oops and logo threes, the NBA betting scandal now finds The League tangled in a full-court press of federal… Read More

Illustration of sports fans’ patron saints with foam fingers, relics, a keg, and a working grill in mock-religious style.

"We will, we will, rock you."

Sporting Life

Top Ten Patron Saints of Sports Fans

T.J. Eckleburg sporting life, top ten lists 11 months

“We will, we will, rock you.” In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was Score. And lo, people by the tens of thousands… Read More

In this illustration of the NBA’s New Load Management Rules, a tired basketball fan sits in a team-decorated man cave, slumped in a worn recliner with a 24-ounce beer.

Taking a well-deserved timeout from yelling at the refs.

Sporting Life

The NBA’s New Load Management Rules for Fans

philmaggitti sporting life 11 months

ðŸ€ In a bold move designed to protect the emotional and physical well-being of its prize demographic–people who care deeply about millionaires with bad hair in shorts–the… Read More

A surreal humorous illustration of a tabby cat’s brain chemistry at work — the cat in a tiny white lab coat and goggles perched on a woman’s head, holding a glowing pink oxytocin flask with sparkling mist and floating molecular bubbles swirling around them against a whimsical painterly background

“Behold… one more tweak to the human’s brain chemistry and she will order the deluxe Tesla scratching post.”

Music Sporting Life

Coldplay Criticized for Lily White Super Bowl Message

philmaggitti music, sporting life 11 years

NEW YORK—British musical act Coldplay may have graciously yielded the stage at the Super Bowl 50 Halftime Show to Bruno Mars and Beyonce Knowles, but… Read More

Red "All operators are busy" message, 666 SATAN

Sporting Life

Tim Lincecum Sues Minor-League Mascot “Dog Cy” for Identity Theft and Emotional Distress

Chip Hilton dog, sporting life 15 years

Former Cy Young winner Tim Lincecum has filed what experts are already calling “the most delightfully avoidable lawsuit of the season” against Dog Cy, the… Read More