The Gist looks at some of the best and (worst) moments from NFL Sunday this week.

The Pac-12 is the last Power Five conference to make a return-to-lay decision.

Increased confidence in media protocols and pressure from players, parents, and the president all lead to the Big Ten reversing its decision to postpone fall sports.

This week co-hosts Ellen and Steph discuss the incredibly insensitive and damaging remarks from reporter Skip Bayless on Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott speaking up about his depression. They also touch on radio host Dan McNeil’s wildly sexist remarks about NFL sideline reporter Maria Taylor. So much for the NFL being better this year, eh? Tune in.

With rapid response COVID testing more readily available, it looks like we might see Big 10 college football sooner than later.

Pandemic is affecting fans and start dates for college basketball and football.

The NFL's season starts tonight, even though the preseason was canceled in response to COVID-19.

This week co-hosts Ellen and Steph give #thegist on everything you need to know about the upcoming 2020 NFL season (think COVID-19 implications, BLM initiatives and more) and discuss why Serena Williams continues to be unfairly portrayed by sports media. Tune in, won’t you?

Things are getting messier by the day in the college football world. Since mid-August there’s been a petitionhttps://thegist.createsend1.com/t/t-l-pukjhil-l-g/, a lawsuithttps://thegist.createsend1.com/t/t-l-pukjhil-l-w/, a tweethttps://thegist.createsend1.com/t/t-l-pukjhil-l-yd/ from president Donald Trump and, of course, a pandemic. And you thought The Bachelorette was dramatic.

This week co-hosts Ellen and Steph give #thegist on the sports world’s restart of the restart and discuss whether or not it's time for student-athletes, especially Black student-athletes, to unionize.

Although last week’s wildcat strike of games and practices lasted only a few days, the impacts have long-term potential.

This weekend brought us the day that we all thought might never come: the start of the 2020 college football season!