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Fresh off adding left guard Ben Powers, the Denver Broncos continued their overhaul of their offensive line in free agency, signing former San Francisco 49ers right tackle Mike McGlinchey to a mammoth five-year, $87.5 million deal with $50 million fully guaranteed, per NFL Network’s Ian Rapaport. Drafted by ninth overall by the 49ers in 2018, […]

For 68 college basketball teams, it’s time for this year’s March Madness; for the other 295, the race for next year’s edition has already begun. For Notre Dame basketball, that mountain just became a lot harder to climb: JJ Starling, Notre Dame’s stud freshman guard, has entered the transfer portal. A five-star recruit coming out […]

Odell Beckham Jr. is back, almost. As the crown jewel of an underwhelming wide receiver NFL free agency class, Beckham is expected to draw widespread interest from prospective contenders once the NFL free agency legal tampering period begins at 12pm EDT. After holding a private workout in front of NFL teams, Beckham seems to be […]

The newly crowned Pac-12 Player of the Year, UCLA forward Jaime Jaquez Jr. harkens back to an earlier, quainter vision of college basketball. He’s an inveterate hustle psycho, chasing down loose balls and throwing himself into box outs; a senior, outlasting and outplaying all the hotshot freshmen and NBA aspirants; a winner, averaging nearly 18 […]

March Madness is an exercise in unfulfilled hope, a bloodless culling of 64 teams down to one. But, for now, the empty NCAA Tournament bracket is a place for possibility, at least for some teams, With the NCAA Tournament being an unpredictable, matchup-dependent beast, here are the winners and losers from Selection Sunday. Winner: Alabama […]

By now, the Golden State Warriors offense is pretty familiar, the rhythms and patterns solidified by nearly a decade of continuity and chemistry between their core players. In their thrilling 125-116 overtime win against the Milwaukee Bucks though, Warriors coach Steve Kerr made a surprising tweak, using the Bucks’ expectations and tendencies against them. In […]

Theoretically, the number one seeds are rewarded with a relatively frictionless path to the Final Four—the basic geometry of the NCAA Tournament bracket ensures that the 1 seed won’t face another top ten team until the Elite Eight. Practically, it’s considerably thornier—just ask Virginia (who lost to 16-seed UMBC in the first round in 2018) […]

Will Wade, pack your bags, both literally and metaphorically. On Sunday morning, the McNeese State athletic department announced that the controversial Wade is headed to McNeese State, his first job since getting axed by LSU in March 2022. “I’m so excited to welcome Coach Wade, his wife Lauren and daughter Caroline to Southwest Louisiana and […]

The thing about Texas football is that, in their mind, they’re never truly “down;” instead, they’re temporarily embarrassed champions. Despite a decade of uninterrupted mediocrity, Longhorns are evidently feeling  oats as they prepare for their final season as a member of the Big 12 before joining the SEC in 2024. With an away game at […]

This year’s NBA MVP race is unique in both its evenness and toxicity. Nikola Jokic, Joel Embiid and Giannis Antetokounmpo are all playing nearly flawless basketball in their own unique ways. Accordingly, their stans are losing their mind as MVP lobbying season kicks into gear. For the last several weeks, the horserace between the Nuggets, […]

New information just came out that embattled Memphis Grizzlies superstar point guard Ja Morant was investigated by cops last fall for assault after getting in a fight at his sister’s high school volleyball game. According to police reports obtained by TMZ Sports, Morant and his associates showed up to a high school girls volleyball game […]

The Buffalo Bills have been one of the best teams in the NFL in recent, winning at least 10 games and making the playoffs in each of the last four seasons. This prolonged regular season success, though, hasn’t carried over to the postseason. Back-to-back losses in the Divisional Round to the Kansas City Chiefs and […]

In college basketball, there’s a notion that sleep is death, that progress is the only way to stave off regress. The players who stick around for four years are the guys who weren’t good enough to leave after one; the schools that aren’t aggressively hunting larger TV deals are the teams that can’t compete. It’s […]

Former Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim has many admirable qualities. He’s one of the best and winningest college basketball coaches of all time, for starters. But over his 47 year career, he was never known for his grace and never had much grace afforded towards him as a result. As he slinks off into retirement, this […]

The NBA is home to some of the greatest athletes in the history of the world. Lebron James, Steph Curry, Giannis Anteokounmpo, Kevin Durant: you know the type. It’s also full of lots of other guys too, a grab bag of lesser stars and sub-stars and role players and sub-role players who form the majority […]

Ever since coming to New York from Portland at the trade deadline, Josh Hart has thrived with the Knicks. In his 10 games with his new team, the Knicks have gone 9-1 with a league-leading +11.5 net rating over that span. Averaging 11.2 points, 5.9 rebounds and 3.1 assists per game, Hart is a perfect […]

Way back in 2003, Aaron Boone hit one of the most famous home runs in MLB history, clubbing a walk-off shot in Game 7 of the ALCS against the Boston Red Sox to send the New York Yankees to the World Series. 20 years later, Aaron effing Boone still has the effing juice 20 years […]

Jim Boeheim might not be the only former Big East legend to be shown the door this year. After a brutal 80-48 loss to Villanova in the first round of the Big East Tournament served as a fitting denouement to a 7-25 season, Georgetown Hoyas basketball coach Patrick Ewing is seemingly on the chopping block—and […]

Not even six months removed from getting fired from the University of Texas for being arrested for domestic violence, Chris Beard is in line to become the new Ole Miss head coach to replace the recently fired Kermit Davis. Beard and the Rebels are nearing an agreement, per Stadium’s Jeff Goodman and ESPN’s Pete Thamel […]

Through the first few weeks of its roll out during Spring Training, the pitch clock has been almost unanimously praised. It’s going great! Fans should be grateful! It’s the best thing since sliced bread! But don’t tell that to Los Angeles Dodgers shortstop Miguel Rojas. “I hate it, man,” Rojas vented to Chris Rose on […]

The only thing harder than making it to the Super Bowl is making it back to the Super Bowl. The Philadelphia Eagles could figure this out the hard way. After riding their incredible depth to a 14-3 record and an NFC championship, the Eagles are at risk of losing defensive stalwarts like interior defensive lineman […]

Nobody knows what the 2023 Arizona Cardinals will look like, but they certainly won’t look anything like the 2022 iteration. Coming off a disastrous 4-13 campaign, the Cardinals have spent the early portion of this offseason completely reimagining their franchise, hiring former Philadelphia Eagles defensive coordinator Jonathan Gannon to replace head coach Kliff Kingsbury. Beyond […]

Giannis Antetokounmpo, consider your stats unpadded. In a shameless effort to record a triple-double in the dying moments of a 117-111 win against the Washington Wizards, Antetokounmpo intentionally missed an unguarded, wide open layup and grabbed the miss, seemingly giving the Bucks forward a triple-double. The audacity: astounding. NBA Twitter: abuzz. The rebound: fraudulent! “The […]

The SEC is the best football conference in college football and they know it—just listen to the clangorous “S-E-C!” chants at pretty much any bowl game for proof. And with Oklahoma and Texas set to join in 2024, the conference should get even better. While the SEC powers-that-be debate moving to a nine-game conference schedule […]

It’s a cliche at this point: if you have two quarterbacks, you have none. But the San Francisco 49ers are not afraid to dream, daring to ask the question: what if you have three? With incumbent starter Brock Purdy set to have Tommy John surgery in his throwing elbow on Wednesday and 2021 first-rounder Trey […]

Zach Freemantle, the starting power forward for the #19 Xavier Musketeers, will undergo season-ending foot surgery, according to Adam Baum of the Enquirer. While Freemantle hasn’t played since Jan. 28, there was initially hope that he could return in time for the Big East Tournament. Sadly for Xavier, that won’t be the case. Although Xavier’s […]

Novak Djokovic, the world’s top-ranked tennis player, has withdrawn from the BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells in California, signaling that his application for a COVID-19 vaccine waiver to enter the United States has been rejected. As a result, Djokovic’s status for the Miami Open later this month is also in doubt. “World No. 1 […]

At this point, Caitlin Clark’s only competition or antecedent is herself—the Iowa Hawkeyes‘ superstar junior point guard is putting up numbers that no player, male or female, has ever approached. And with an obscene 30 point, 10 rebound, 17 assists triple double in Iowa’s 105-72 beatdown of Ohio State to claim the Big Ten Tournament […]

Good news Phillies fans: Bryce Harper is back, sort of. While Harper is still recovering from a November reconstructive elbow surgery, he’s slated to arrive at Phillies’ training camp in Clearwater, Florida on Wednesday and continue his rehab with the team. As of now, there’s no definite timetable regarding when he will return full time […]

Major League Baseball has announced that Chicago White Sox pitcher Mike Clevinger will not be suspended or subject to any discipline from the league, which recently finished a months long investigation into allegations of domestic violence against the pitcher. “The comprehensive investigation included interviews of more than 15 individuals,” MLB said in a statement, “in […]

Houston basketball, we have a buzzer-beater. JAMAL SHEAD MAJOR ONIONS pic.twitter.com/dJafk05zbw — The Field of 68 (@TheFieldOf68) March 5, 2023 Capping off one of the best regular seasons in program history, senior guard Jamal Shead drained a contested buzzer-beater as the top-ranked University of Houston basketball team held off the surging Memphis Tigers. At 26-2 […]

Texas Tech basketball coach Mark Adams has been indefinitely suspended while the university investigates an “inappropriate, unacceptable, and racially insensitive comment” that he made to the team last week. During a conversation with a player, Adams reportedly “referenced Bible verses about workers, teachers, parents, and slaves serving their masters,” according to Stadium’s Jeff Goodman. “I […]

This season, the NBA’s best players have been actually playing seemingly less than ever as load management has transformed from a buzzword to an immutable fact of life. The best way to ensure that your stars can keep playing is to, uh, not let them play. As such, New York Knicks All-Star Julius Randle is the […]

Having already damned the torpedoes by doling out massive extensions to Fernando Tatis Jr., Manny Machado and Xander Bogaerts, the San Diego Padres now hope to extend superstar outfielder Juan Soto and closer Josh Hader, both of whom they traded for at last year’s deadline, per Jon Heyman of the New York Post. The Padres […]

After years in the wilderness as a perennial Pac-12 also-ran, UCLA football is gearing up in a big way for their 2024 move to the Big Ten. Coming off a 9-4 season in which they ranked as high as ninth in the country, UCLA agreed to a long-term extension with head coach Chip Kelly that’ll […]

With March Madness right around the corner, Michigan and UNC could see their bubble burst. In Joe Lunardi’s latest Bracketology forecast of the NCAA Tournament field, both Michigan and North Carolina are listed among the “first four out.” For North Carolina, missing the tournament would be especially ignominious—no preseason #1 has ever missed the Tournament […]

Along with the rest of the Memphis Grizzlies, Dillon Brooks has emerged as the NBA’s biggest heel this season; he’s your favorite player’s least favorite player. In one sense, Brooks fits within the broader lineage of NBA antagonists alongside the likes of Bill Laimbeer, Charles Oakley, Patrick Beverley, and, most prominently, the Golden State Warriors’ […]

Say hello to Antoine Davis, the greatest player in Detroit Mercy history and almost the greatest scorer in NCAA history as well. By scoring 22 points in a loss to Youngstown State in the Horizon League Tournament quarterfinals, Davis heartbreakingly fell three points short Pete Maravich’s career total of 3,667 points, coming up just shy […]

Whereas most athletes are experts in equivocating PR-speak, Draymond Green has never been afraid to let it rip. On the latest episode of his podcast “The Draymond Green Show,” the Warriors firebrand took a thinly veiled shot at European superstars such as Nikola Jokic and Luka Doncic. “I feel like over the last few years,” […]