This Week In Hot Takes: Graham Couch refuses to rank No. 1 Kansas, No. 2 Duke, No. 3 Tennessee and more over true...
Couch refused to rank seven teams that wound up in the AP Top 25 thanks to their lack of true road games.
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This Week In Hot Takes: Matt Walsh’s Kareem Hunt take is “She hit him too: what happened to gender equality?”
This week's hottest take came from Matt Walsh using the Kareem Hunt situation to make a dumb gender equality argument.
This Week In Hot Takes: Doug Gottlieb has takes on the NFL not being racist, Mike Freeman not covering Urban Meyer, Baker Mayfield...
Gottlieb brought the fire on multiple fronts this week.
This Week In Hot Takes: Trent Dilfer calls thrilling Chiefs-Rams game “bad ball”
Former ESPN analyst Dilfer was not a fan of Chiefs-Rams.
This Week In Hot Takes: Cheddar’s Jon Steinberg says “Traditional sports are dead,” “nobody knows who won the World Series”
This Week In Hot Takes: Bill James says replacing every MLB player “would make no difference whatsoever” three years later
"If the players all retired tomorrow, we would replace them, the game would go on; in three years it would make no difference whatsoever. The players are NOT the game, any more than the beer vendors are."
This Week In Hot Takes: Phil Mushnick says Michigan-MSU “resembled a prison-yard riot,” Devin Bush was “like a crazed, escaped beast”
"Michigan linebacker Devin Bush ripped free of his teammates’ restraints and, like a crazed, escaped beast, ran to the on-field Michigan State logo to tear and scrape at it with his cleats."
This Week In Hot Takes: Bill Welt calls exit velocity “the most popular fake stat of them all”
This Week In Hot Takes: Phil Mushnick calls Lil Wayne a “low-life rapper,” complains about his “vulgar, N-worded lyrics”
This Week In Hot Takes: Phil Mushnick blames celebrations, ads, and sports TV for kids’ and parents’ poor behavior towards refs
No, Phil, touchdown celebrations don't really seem linked to parents threatening refs.
This Week In Hot Takes: Darren Rovell says Coke gained $3.14 million from Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony
Rovell topped the week for Sept. 21-27.
This Week In Hot Takes: Chris Childers and Aaron Murray say Alabama would beat the Buffalo Bills
Once again, despite all the evidence to the contrary, people are suggesting Alabama could beat a NFL team.
This Week In Hot Takes: Dan Shaughnessy says Serena wasn’t mistreated because his niece said so, Herald Sun runs racist cartoon
The hottest takes from Sept. 7-13 included several on Serena Williams.
This Week In Hot Takes: David Booth on Nike Kaepernick campaign: “does this mean you can fly a plane into a building?”
“Believe in something even if it means sacrificing everything” does this mean you can fly a plane into a building? How can so many people @Nike be this ignorant as to the logical fallacy this entails. This is absolute absurd. I really don’t understand. Why would u support this?"
This Week In Hot Takes: Tom Nichols argues that professional esports are “the ridiculous next step of imperial decline”
Nichols' take on professional esports was the hottest of the week.
This Week In Hot Takes: Jason Smith defends Ronald Acuña beaning, argues Tiger Woods “dominated a BAD era of golf”
"I completely get Ronald Acuña getting drilled. He's led off 3 games w/HR's. Sometimes he showboats a bit. This is how the other team evens the playing field & makes him less comfortable. It all falls under the heading of 'That's baseball.'"
This Week In Hot Takes: Bill O’Reilly says LeBron James should “go to Chicago and help the poor people there”
O'Reilly's take on LeBron James after LeBron opened a school in Akron was the spiciest this week.
This Week In Hot Takes: Doug Gottlieb bashes Tennessee fans over Greg Schiano, argues Larry Bird was better than LeBron
"Do Tennessee fans who are taking delight in Schiano getting passed over for Interim tag realize that their outrage over his hiring has forever tainted him? Congrats?"
This Week In Hot Takes: Michael McCarthy and the Sporting News promote “Reputation Doctor” Mike Paul to bash Garoppolo’s date
"Garoppolo wanted to be different from Brady? Well, mission accomplished. You’re 'Porn Boy' now."
This Week In Hot Takes: Britt McHenry says Jimmy Garoppolo “should have more values and class than parading a porn star”
McHenry's take on Garoppolo's dating life topped the takes this week.
This Week In Hot Takes: Rich Lowry calls soccer “fundamentally flawed,” says baseball’s “purest” because…it’s not subjective?
"In this sense, baseball is the purest sport. It relies less on subjective umpire calls, especially now with replay."
This Week In Hot Takes: David Hookstead says the Browns should be “concerned” Baker Mayfield got engaged
"He hasn’t even thrown a pass yet, and he’s already focused on marrying a woman he’s known for a few months. Seems a bit quick. If I was the Browns general manager or head coach, I wouldn’t be loving this at all. I want Mayfield focused on slinging touchdowns."
This Week In Hot Takes: ESPN’s Alex Shaw argues Japan “shamed the World Cup” by only advancing on fair play rule
"What an irony it was to see Japan celebrate going through to the knockout rounds of the World Cup on Thursday afternoon, under the laughable guise of "fair play". They shamed the World Cup, by literally not even trying towards the end of their 1-0 defeat to Poland."
This Week In Hot Takes: Andy North wants us to think of the children when criticizing Phil Mickelson
"There's millions of kids that look up to Phil Mickelson, and what he did today has got to do damage to a lot of these kids who really looked up to him."
This Week In Hot Takes: Rob Parker and Chris Palmer argue for Kyrie Irving and Lonzo Ball over LeBron James
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