AJ Daulerio's Cultural Oddsmaker runs every Friday. Feel free to email him your thoughts. Ladies who someday wish to grace the sidelines of a major sporting event, take heed: Your knowledge is primary, of course, but you'll also have to be somewhat attractive. This is not breaking news, mind you, but each year it seems more and more women are realizing that just because they know how to read box scores or can talk intelligently about a game, they're still required to be completely boneable to the drooling masses. Take Playboy's America's Sexiest Sportscaster award. Granted, it might be an honor that many female sportscasters don't necessarily aspire towards, but consider this: Playboy has no repeat nominees. So, each year, Hefner and company has to find a…

data-mm-id=”_9cpg2ua4f”>The first NFL offseason of the new decade may alter the landscape of the league as we've known it for the past 15 years. Some of the biggest names in the sport's most important position are up for grabs, including the one who many consider the greatest ever to play the game.10. Eli ManningAside from one playoff appearance in 2016, the latter part of the decade for the Giants has been failure after failure, and those two Super Bowl MVPs must seem like a lifetime ago for the younger Manning brother. While he did help end the Giants' ghastly losing streak last season in an emotional home win, there are better free agent options out there.9. Case KeenumThe 2019 Washington Redskins were stacked wall-to-wall with problems, but Case Keenum was among the …

data-mm-id=”_9isqtjle0″>The genre of digging up old, problematic social media posts from people thrust into the public eye has become a go-to rung on the content ladder, even though the enlightened among us realize it's not exactly a pure-intentioned endeavor itself. Still, it persists and will continue to do so as long as internet connections remain intact. So the NFL, seeing the big ol' handwriting on the wall, has gotten proactive in its messaging to the agents of draft prospects. Per Pro Football Talk: “Per a league source, the NFL therefore has advised agents to “proactively scrub” negative tweets from prospect accounts, to ensure that none of these messages surface “during this critical time.””As someone in a 1990s sitcom would say: Uh, yeah, you think? Any agen…

data-mm-id=”_lcsokz49k”>Skip Bayless is on the verge of flipping on LeBron James. I'm sure of it. The man who has spent the better part of the last decade questioning every move King James makes seems ready to switch sides and start moonlighting as LeBron's hype man. He's been doing it for the last month out of nowhere, even going as far as saying he's "all-in" on LeBron and the Lakers winning the title because of his belief that LeBron is more focused than the rest of the top players. He added to his LeBron-Lakers MC duties today by saying James and teammate Anthony Davis could be the best duo since Shaq and Kobe. Let the dunking begin. "LeBron and AD have the potential to be the best duo since Shaq and Kobe, but they've done absolutely zero tog…

data-mm-id=”_1rydy1ro1″>The NBA season is somehow less than a month away. The return of basketball is imminent, and along with it the return of exciting young talents such as Zion Williamson. We last saw Zion struggling to contribute to the New Orleans Pelicans' push to reach the playoffs in the NBA bubble. It was always a long shot they'd make it anyway, but Williamson's play was a touch concerning. He looked slow and not nearly as explosive as he was before the season was postponed in March. It was a strange time to be playing basketball and there are approximately a thousand reasons one could attribute to Zion's lackluster showing in Orlando that have nothing to do with his short or long-term prospects as an NBA player. At this point, we can still expect to be wo…

data-mm-id=”_ekowrtg2t”>We are currently in an era where early adopters are trying to discover what exactly artificial intelligence is capable of now that it's been handed over to the public to use. It's resulted in some amusing results and lots of bad hands. Garry Gates, who finished fourth at the 2019 World Series of Poker Main Event, asked AI to reimagine all the NFL mascots and the results range from beautiful to funny to ew, what the hell is that? Any of these that are not stolen by NFL teams in the coming years will most definitely end up on The Masked Singer. More Articles About Mascots:…