
Heartbreaking: White Sox Ground Into Game-Ending Quadruple Play
The Chicago White Sox lost another nail-biter in Toronto on Monday by way of a quadruple play. The Sox were down 2–0 in the bottom of the eighth, two outs,

Lakers Fan Assumed Team Would Have Won Championship By Now
Chase Spencer, a Los Angeles spin instructor and “the biggest” Laker fan, thought that her team would have already won the NBA championship. “Is basketball really still going? we’re the

Report: White House Deeply Disappointed Upon Learning “W” In WNBA Not For “White”
Sources close to the President have confirmed confusion and displeasure. “I love the NBA, everybody loves the NBA, who doesn’t love the NBA? But last night I wanted to watch

Hear Us Out: The Carolinas Should Get A Pro Football Team
Okay: We know the Carolinas are college-basketball country, with Duke and UNC men’s in the North and USC women’s in the South. And we know all about the Durham Bulls

An Apology From Our Editors: The Chicago Black Sox Were Not ‘Ruthlessly Gunned Down’ By Al Capone
The year was 1919, and Sports Riot, while young, was not incapable of error. Holed up on the fourth floor offices of SRHQ Chicago, our sweating, heavily drinking editors made

Why The NBA Switched From Cubic To Spherical Balls In 1973
The debate about cubic versus spherical basketballs has raged for over 50 years. Purists, of course, prefer the cubic ball and decry the modern Michael Jordan era as “soft,” “without

Rockies Highlight Reel Mostly HBPs
The Rockies’ media and video production staff was recently tasked with putting together a team highlight reel, stretching all the way back to 1993, when they joined as an expansion

An Apology From Our Editors: Jim Thome Did Not Direct Black Panther
Here at Sports Riot we take accountability for our mistakes. In keeping with that sentiment, in 2018, we mistakenly reported that MLB hall-of-fame member Jim Thome directed the critically acclaimed

Hear Us Out: ESPN Should Hire One Likable Host
Here we were, scrolling through channels, and we happened to land on ESPN for the first time in a while, and we were caught off guard. It’s like they put
