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Time is running out on Thon Maker fulfilling the potential that made him the surprise No. 10 overall pick of the 2016 draft. In fact, any hope of him developing into a true two-way impact player has almost faded entirely. But not every lottery selection can turn out to be a star, and it’s not […]

The Baltimore Ravens announced a series of cuts on Friday, including that of veteran wide receiver Michael Floyd. Also among the notable players released by Baltimore are quarterback Joe Callahan, outside linebacker Shane Ray, and wide receiver Joe Horn Jr. We have made the following transactions. pic.twitter.com/mkX1JiZqA4 — Baltimore Ravens (@Ravens) August 30, 2019 Floyd […]

The Kansas City Chiefs, behind what could potentially be one of the most explosive offenses in NFL history, have as good a chance to win the Vince Lombardi Trophy come February as any team in the NFL. As such, it should come as no surprise that Andy Reid is a frontrunner for Coach of the […]

Tarik Cohen isn’t playing in his team’s preseason finale on Thursday night. Despite sitting out the Chicago Bears’ game against the Indianapolis Colts, though, the dynamic playmaker showed off his unique athleticism during pre-game warmups, catching a pass while performing a backflip. Tarik Cohen is ready for the season. Flip + the catch! (🎥 @ChicagoBears) […]

Lonzo Ball indeed references the Los Angeles Lakers in the first track of “50&30,” the mixtape he released on Thursday. After so much talk of him dissing his former team in the hook of the song “Last Days,” the New Orleans Pelicans guard took to social media to set the record straight. “I’m not dissing […]

The Dallas Mavericks have claimed former Los Angeles Lakers big man Aric Holman off waivers, according to Shams Charania of STADIUM and The Athletic. Holman was released earlier this week as the Lakers made room on the roster to sign former three-time Defensive Player of the Year Dwight Howard. He had been signed to an […]

The Dallas Cowboys could be without Connor McGovern for the entirety of his debut season. According to Clarence Hill Jr. of the Forth Worth Star-Telegram, the rookie guard suffered a setback in his recovery from a pectoral injury, putting his ability to return to the field in jeopardy. Sources confirm Cowboys rookie guard Connor McGovern […]

The Green Bay Packers have traded outside linebacker Reggie Gilbert to the Tennessee Titans in exchange for a conditional 2020 draft pick, the teams announced on Thursday. The deal has already been agreed upon but is contingent on Gilbert passing a physical. ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported that Green Bay will receive a seventh-round pick from […]

NFL players have made it abundantly clear how opposed they are to the owners’ preference of adding an extra two games to the regular season schedule. Fortunately for them, now comes word that the likeliest schedule change to come is a decrease in preseason games, while there’s new momentum for expanding the playoff field from […]

All indications are that Melvin Gordon and the Los Angeles Chargers remain at a stalemate. The sides have made virtually no progress toward a new contract agreement since the Pro Bowl running back began his holdout from team activities in late July, and the Chargers still seem completely unwilling to honor his trade request. As […]

Cordarrelle Patterson has never quite lived up to the hype surrounding his promising NFL debut. Just because he’s struggled to develop as a receiver, though, hardly means the playmaking veteran has been unable to carve himself a niche in the league as one of football’s most dangerous players with the ball in his hands. Now […]

Joe Johnson’s NBA career may not be over after all. According to Marc Spears of The Undefeated, the seven-time All-Star will workout for the Philadelphia 76ers on Thursday. Johnson also has workouts set up with the LA Clippers, Milwaukee Bucks, and Denver Nuggets. Ex-NBA guard Joe Johnson is in Philadelphia and is working out for […]

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was announced on Wednesday as a contributor to an upcoming project by Marvel Comics. According to Bleeding Cool, the Los Angeles Lakers legend will co-write an original story for Marvel Comics #1000, a series celebrating the brand’s 80th anniversary. #MarvelComics pic.twitter.com/80fotWx8cU — Mattia De Iulis (@MattiaIulis) May 9, 2019 Abdul-Jabbar has recent experience […]

The Indianapolis Colts have brought in another quarterback in the wake of Andrew Luck’s shocking retirement from football. According to ESPN’s Field Yates, free-agent signal-caller Brock Osweiler visited the Colts on Tuesday as the team does diligence on the league’s available quarterbacks. Free agent QB Brock Osweiler visited the Colts yesterday, per source. Indy is […]

Shaquille O’Neal and Kobe Bryant got past the feud that ended their partnership with the Los Angeles Lakers years ago. But their long-running disagreement about work ethic and preparation reared its ugly head again this week regardless, when video surfaced of Bryant quipping at a conference in Las Vegas that he would “f****** have 12 […]

The rebuilt Utah Jazz will enter 2019-20 with as good a chance of winning a championship as any season in the last two decades. What better time, then, for the organization to hark back to its prior era of annual title contention? The Jazz released a slick new video on Wednesday featuring stars of past […]

Andrew Luck’s decision to leave football behind rocked the sports world to its core, but the Indianapolis Colts quarterback is hardly the only athlete who stepped away from the game they once loved at the peak of their powers. These are the 10 most shocking retirements in the history of sports. 10. Sandy Koufax The […]

DeSean Jackson isn’t currently expected to miss any time with his finger injury. New details on how the Philadelphia Eagles veteran plans to play through the pain, though, reveal the potential possibility of his performance being affected on the field. In fact, there’s no guarantee he’ll continue playing if the injury proves too uncomfortable. “Source: […]

Antonio Brown’s feet are almost fully healed, and though he lost his second grievance with the NFL, helmet-related absences are apparently behind him. The Oakland Raiders’ best player, finally, should be able to devote most of his focus to preparing for the regular season with his new team. It seems so important to him, in […]

The Los Angeles Lakers enjoyed plenty of success during Shaquille O’Neal and Kobe Bryant’s time wearing purple and gold. They won three consecutive Larry O’Brien Trophies in the early 2000s, becoming the fifth team in NBA history to three-peat. Still, due to the avoidable dissolution of one of the most devastating superstar tandems of all […]

De’Aaron Fox was the talk of USA Basketball’s training camp, being promoted from the Select Team to the national roster shortly after practices began in Las Vegas. After showing out in a televised scrimmage a week later, it seemed only a matter of time until the Sacramento Kings point guard was named as one of […]

The past few months have undoubtedly been a trying time for Kevin Durant. Fortunately, it seems the notoriously mercurial superstar has managed to hold onto his sense of humor amid so much turmoil. In January 2017, six months after he rocked the NBA by signing with the Golden State Warriors, Durant was on hand for […]

Much of the Kansas City Chiefs’ success this season will be driven by Patrick Mahomes. The league’s reigning MVP is coming off one of the most dominant seasons of any quarterback in NFL history, and is poised to be better in 2019 by the simple fact that it’s only his second season as a starter. […]

Andrew Luck sent shockwaves through the NFL on Saturday night, announcing his retirement from football just short of his 30th birthday. The former Indianapolis Colts quarterback was booed by fans at Lucas Oil Stadium as he walked off the field with his teammates following the Colts’ third preseason game, too, igniting a firestorm of nationwide […]

Kevin Durant is long gone. Klay Thompson won’t return from reconstructive surgery on his knee until the All-Star break at the earliest. Andre Iguodala was traded in a salary dump, and Shaun Livingston seems likely to hang it up. Needless to say, the Golden State Warriors are now a shell of the team they’ve been […]

The Los Angeles Lakers will enter 2019-20 with a better chance to win the franchise’s 17th championship than any season in recent memory. Just because they’re among a handful of teams with legitimate championship aspirations, though, hardly means the Lakers are poised for a dominant regular season. ESPN forecasts Los Angeles to finish fifth in […]

Team USA lost its first game in nearly 13 years on Friday night. In the aftermath of its hard-fought defeat at the hands of Australia, though, the Americans are keeping their big-picture goal of a third consecutive gold medal at the FIBA World Cup in focus. De facto Team USA captain Kemba Walker put his […]

The past partnership between Kobe Bryant and Dwight Howard was doomed to fail from the very beginning. It’s difficult to imagine a pair of all-time greats who ranked toward the top of the league’s individual hierarchy simultaneously comporting themselves in such starkly different manners. Bryant was known for his maniacal work ethic and an unceasing […]

The San Antonio Spurs dynasty has long since been over. But with the retirement of Tony Parker following the 2018-19 season comes a certain finality to one of the best eras in NBA history, even though the future Hall-of-Fame point guard spent his final season playing away from the Alamo City with the Charlotte Hornets. […]

Before Thursday night, Derrius Guice hadn’t taken the field in just over a year. Early in his team’s game against the Atlanta Falcons, the Washington Redskins running back wasted no time showing the NFL what its been missing. Guice was on the field for Washington’s first offensive snap, taking a handoff and bursting through a […]

Preseason football is almost entirely meaningless. Many teams elect against playing their starters in multiple games, and all teams roll out vanilla offensive and defensive concepts that are far from an accurate reflection of the schemes they will employ during the regular season. Exhibition games are used primarily to decide backup roles and the final […]

This certainly isn’t how Drew Lock imagined his NFL career beginning. The Denver Broncos quarterback suffered a severely sprained right thumb on his throwing hand in his team’s preseason loss to the San Francisco 49ers on Monday night, sidelining him indefinitely and potentially leading him to be placed on injured reserve. “Yeah, it could be […]

Former NFL wide receiver Chad Johnson will be in attendance at Hard Rock Stadium on Thursday night when the Jacksonville Jaguars drive several hours south to visit the Miami Dolphins in a preseason battle of Florida’s professional football teams. What’s still unknown as kickoff quickly approaches, though, is for which team the six-time Pro Bowler […]

Ben Roethlisberger has yet to take the field in the preseason. Despite many starting quarterbacks having played in each of their team’s exhibitions so far, the Pittsburgh Steelers are taking a much different approach to the future Hall-of-Famer’s participation in meaningless competition leading up to the regular season. It sure seems like Roethlisberger, though, isn’t […]

President Donald Trump has hardly tried to hide the fact that he chooses many people to be in or recognized by his administration due to their personal approval of him. Boston Celtics legend Bob Cousy knows that, and it’s exactly why he was one of several supporters of Trump who received the Presidential Medal of […]

Derrius Guice will play organized football against an opposing team for the first time in nearly a year on Thursday night. While the Washington Redskins and their fans are no doubt a bit apprehensive about the sophomore runner’s return to the field, a tidbit from a recent practice makes it clear Guice believes he’s at […]

Taven Bryan had a rookie season to forget. Entering his second NFL go-around with a year of experience under his belt and a more simplified role, it goes without saying that the Jacksonville Jaguars defensive lineman should be a far more impactful player in 2019. If Bryan fails to live up to that possibility, though, […]

It’s a new era for the Minnesota Timberwolves. Gone are Tom Thibodeau and others who prevented Minnesota from joining the modern age of NBA basketball, replaced by a combination of forward-thinking decision-makers who both maintain the Timberwolves’ longstanding sense of family and will no doubt stray from that organizational edict to push the team to […]

Frustrated Oakland Raiders fans aren’t the only ones fed up with Antonio Brown’s uncertain status as the regular season draws closer and closer. During a Monday appearance on FOX Sports’ Undisputed, James Harrison, his former teammate with the Pittsburgh Steelers, said that “it’s time” for Brown to give up the helmet-related grievance that’s most recently […]