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Tom Brady is many things. He’s a legend of the game, the greatest to ever play in the NFL. He’s a competitor, a student of the game. But behind the seemingly robotic facade, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback also has a softer side to him. After the Bucs thoroughly dismantled the Chicago Bears at home, […]

Friday’s game between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Phoenix Suns was pretty uneventful basketball-wise. It was a 115 – 105 rout that isn’t as close as the final score suggests. The biggest events from that game were Chris Paul’s historic achievement, Rajon Rondo getting ejected for finger-shooting a fan, and Dwight Howard and Anthony […]

It’s just the second game of the season, but it’s looking like LeBron James is in end-of-season form already for the Los Angeles Lakers… in a bad way. While the Lakers were down 87-55 in the third quarter against the Suns with 2 minutes left, James successfully stopped a Cam Johnson dunk attempt. After that… […]

The Boston Celtics are not off to a good start this season. Ime Udoka and his new team have now lost two games in a row. The first Celtic loss was a double-overtime thriller on the road against the New York Knicks. This one, though, was a lot more rough: they were thoroughly blown out […]

Phoenix Suns Chris Paul has been dubbed as the “Point God” throughout his entire career. Now, this historic milestone all but cements his spot among the league’s greatest. Against long-time friend LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers, Paul joined a group of players with 20,000 points and 10,000 assists in their career. No one […]

Basketball is a fun game, and that’s true even at the highest levels of the sport. We see it all the time in the NBA, where players from opposing teams jabbing and cracking jokes with each other. However, it seems like some people didn’t get the memo for this, like this New York Knicks assistant […]

Jon Gruden has come under fire in recent weeks for his leaked emails. The emails contained racist, homophobic, and sexist language directed staff members and players of the NFL. According to former player of Gruden, the ex-Las Vegas Raiders coach has been struggling with this issue for quite a while. John Lynch, former Tampa Bay […]

We’re barely a week into NBA action, and we’re already getting some hot takes from analysts. Exhibit A: this tirade by Skip Bayless about Los Angeles Lakers point guard Russell Westbrook about what his role with the team should be. In an earlier episode of Undisputed, the infamous analyst declared that Westbrook should come off […]

Russell Westbrook’s debut with the Los Angeles Lakers couldn’t have gone more horribly. He only had eight points, five rebounds, and four assists along with four turnovers and 4-of-13 shooting. This terrible performance got him in the limelight, as Twitter fans roasted him and the Lakers for that awful performance. In a media session after […]

The Inside the NBA crew has always had hilarious comedic interactions with each other. Now, with the release of the NBA Top 75 list, Charles Barkley has found another way to mess with Kenny Smith. In the most recent episode of the Academy Award-winning show, Barkley roasted Kenny Smith for not making it to the […]

The Golden State Warriors were one of the greatest teams to ever play in the NBA. They were an unstoppable force during their hey-day, winning three titles in four years. That’s why it came as a shock to some fans when Klay Thompson and Draymond Green, two key figures for that Warriors dynasty, weren’t included […]

With the NBA Top 75 Greatest Players having been released recently, many fans and former players have chimed in on their potential snubs. Fans are calling out the NBA for not including this and that player on the list. Active players are vouching for either fellow players or themselves, saying they deserve to be on […]

Carmelo Anthony is finally getting the recognition he deserves. The Los Angeles Lakers forward was named as part of the NBA’s Greatest 75 Players list released these past few days, alongside fellow Banana Boat buddies Chris Paul, LeBron James, and Dwyane Wade. Melo was understandably ecstatic at the news. The Lakers forward took to Twitter […]

Imagine having the exact same name as the greatest player of all-time in a particular sport. Kind of freaky right, that’s a lot of pressure. Now imagine playing a completely different sport while representing the city that the said GOAT came from. That’s exactly what Carolina Panthers guard Michael Jordan is feeling right now. The […]

The recent NBA offseason had two headlines dominating the entire time. One was Ben Simmons’ dramatic saga with the Philadelphia 76ers. The other was Kyrie Irving’s desperate fight against the COVID-19 vaccine. Some fans might have enjoyed the shenanigans these two players caused, but a recent survey revealed that most people didn’t like their antics. […]

Being one of the greatest, if not the greatest, players of all time has to be draining. Chicago Bulls guard Alex Caruso knows this all too well. After all, he was in the presence of LeBron James for his entire career before he signed with his new team (forming a close bond with him in […]

The Seattle Seahawks just can’t shake the injury bug this season. They already lost star quarterback Russell Wilson to a gruesome finger injury. Now, they have another man down, this time coming from the defensive team. In the last moments of the Seahawks’ Week 6 match against the Pittsburgh Steelers, defensive end Darrell Taylor was […]

The Phoenix Mercury ended their season in one of the worst ways possible. Down 1-2 on the road against the Chicago Sky, Diana Taurasi and the Mercury had a chance to bring the WNBA Finals to a deciding Game 5 in Phoenix. They held a big lead entering the fourth… only to succumb to Candace […]

Dak Prescott and the Dallas Cowboys continue to ride their hot start to the season. This time, the Cowboys survived a late charge from Bill Belichick’s New England Patriots to edge them out 35 – 29 in overtime. It might just be one regular season win, but this is a little more special to long-time […]

What was supposed to be an instant classic match instead ended in a sour note. Ole Miss vs Tennessee was shaping up to be a good one, as two of the top college football teams duked it out. Instead, some salty fans had to ruin the moment by injecting themselves into the game. How’d they […]

The Phoenix Suns shocked the world last season when they made it all the way to the Finals. They had an extremely successful regular-season behind Chris Paul, Devin Booker, and DeAndre Ayton, and nearly won it all before succumbing to the Milwaukee Bucks in June. However, there’s still a lot of questions surrounding this roster […]

Draymond Green has a new goal next season: shoot more than five threes per game for the Golden State Warriors. That was a joke… kind of. Warriors head coach Steve Kerr has been asking the All-Star forward to start shooting more next season, and Green is ready to oblige. (Via NBC Sports) “I’m going to […]

Everyone who’s followed the NFL associates Tom Brady with one number: the number 12. Ever since his days in the New England Patriots, Brady has always worn 12 on his jersey. But when he moved to Tampa Bay Buccaneers last year, the moniker TB12 almost died alongside Patriots fans’ hearts. In an excerpt of the […]

Two years. It’s been two years since Kyle Lowry (now a member of the Miami Heat) and the Toronto Raptors won their first championship. Two years since Lowry put on a clinical Game 6 performance to seal the championship in front of the Warriors home crowd. And yet, time and time again… people seem to […]

The Seattle Seahawks are entering unfamiliar territory starting in Week 6. For the first time in nearly 150 games, the Seahawks will be without star quarterback Russell Wilson. Wilson suffered a nasty injury in their Week 5 tilt against the Rams. With his placement in the Injured Reserve list, other guys have to step up […]

The Toronto Raptors are coming into the 2021 – 22 season with minimal expectations surrounding them. They traded away franchise player Kyle Lowry, one of the clear signs of a team heading into a rebuild. Now, the Raptors are trying to build a team around integral members of their championship run and some interesting young […]

The recent fiasco surrounding leaked emails takes yet another turn. All week long, leaked emails have surfaced of various NFL higher-ups, revealing racist, homophobic, and just generally tone-deaf conversations about players in the NFL. Now, another recent leak emerged, this one just as tone-deaf as the others. TMZ was able to get a hold of […]

Golden State Warriors superstar Stephen Curry has recently released a new sneaker collection with Under Armor, and it took inspiration from a unique source. Curry’s latest shoe collection is based off of the popular kids series Sesame Street, with seven different colorways inspired by various characters in the Sesame Street universe The Warriors point guard, […]

The Chicago Bears and the Green Bay Packers have a storied rivalry against each other. The two teams are the oldest franchises in the NFL, so they’ve had hundreds of games against each other over the years. Now, as the Bears and Packers are set to be facing each other again in Week 6, it’s […]

The Green Bay Packers may have whiffed on Stephon Gilmore, but they have gotten themselves a pretty decent backup option. In an effort to help bolster their defensive lineup, the Packers signed linebacker Jaylon Smith last week. Smith joined the team about a week ago, and fans are ready to see what the Pro Bowler […]

Dwyane Wade has been an outspoken supporter of the LGBTQ community ever since his daughter Zaya Wade came out as trans early last year. Now, the Miami Heat legend is using his resources to help other LGBTQ youth like Zaya live a safe life. Wade, who is now an owner of the Utah Jazz, teamed […]

The Los Angeles Dodgers are through to the National League Championship Series! The Dodgers were able to escape the San Francisco Giants 2-1 in Game 5 of their Division Series, thanks in large part to Max Scherzer’s heroics in the final inning. Shortly after the game, LeBron James, the star of the Los Angeles Lakers, took […]

John Collins and Joel Embiid have some history against each other. For years, Embiid’s antics have bothered Collins, as the Philadelphia 76ers routinely trashed the Atlanta Hawks. But last post-season, the Hawks pulled an Uno reverse card on the Sixers and eliminated them from the playoffs in the second-round. Collins made sure to savor his […]

The Oklahoma City Thunder might be in the midst of a rebuild this season, but that doesn’t mean that there won’t be exciting moments. Case in point: Aleksej Pokuševski, who pulled off this Showtime-esque move in the preseason. Pokuševski channeled his inner Magic Johnson and did this beautiful combo sequence in the Thunder’s preseason game […]

Manu Ginobili was one of the most mesmerizing players to watch in the early 2000s. The Argentine phenom helped the San Antonio Spurs by providing an immediate spark off the bench. Ginobili was a very modern player for his era, which has led fans to dream of what kind of terror Ginobili could do if […]

When the Toronto Raptors drafted Scottie Barnes fourth overall in the recent NBA draft, a lot of Raps fans were confused. “Wait, don’t we have Pascal Siakam? Aren’t the two basically just the same players?” Indeed, a lot of fans and draft insiders were pegging the Raptors to take Jalen Suggs with the fourth pick. […]

New York Giants running back Saquon Barkley has had some terrible luck with injuries recently. Barkley suffered a season-ending torn ACL tear last season, jeopardizing the Giants’ season. Now, just as Barkley was getting back into the swing of things, he’s once again back on the bench after suffering a nasty ankle sprain against the […]

The Kyrie Irving saga has been one of the highlights of this off-season. For the uninitiated: Kyrie Irving, Brooklyn Nets star point guard, hasn’t been vaccinated against the COVID-19 vaccine. It wouldn’t normally be a problem… but New York City laws prohibit Irving from playing in Nets home games. As a result, the eccentric point […]

The Kansas City Chiefs had a humiliating performance in Week 5. What was a highly-anticipated matchup between two top quarterbacks in the league turned into a beatdown, as the home team’s defense just couldn’t stop Josh Allen and co. The result was an embarrassing 38-20 loss, capped by an insane play from Allen that summed […]