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The Edmonton Oilers appear to be on the verge of securing the services of Ryan Nugent-Hopkins for almost a decade more. According to a report by Ryan Rishaug of TSN, the Oilers and the forward are nearing the conclusion of a lengthy extension deal negotiation that would have Edmonton as Nugent-Hopkins’ NHL home for the […]

It’s hard to imagine Damian Lillard playing for another team other than the Portland Trail Blazers, but if you ask the New York Knicks, they’d tell you how great the point guard would look in their threads. That being said, there’s little to no certainty when it comes to whether Lillard would eventually ask for […]

Not a few disgruntled Washington Football Team fans have been begging for owner Daniel Snyder to sell the team. But not only is Snyder showing no signs of intent to do that, but he also appears to be doubling down on his grip on the franchise, with his wife, Tanya, now a co-CEO, making her […]

The Los Angeles Clippers will live to fight for at least another game in the 2021 NBA Playoffs after Paul George and company put up a valiant effort to snatch a 116-102 win in Game 5 against the Phoenix Suns Monday night. People will talk about George’s heroics in that game, but what Marcus Morris […]

The Montreal Canadiens are rolling into the 2021 Stanley Cup Finals riding a pumpkin ride. Will they be able to complete their Cinderella run in the Finals against the Tampa Bay Lightning? Who gets the early 1-0 series lead?  It’s time to continue our NHL odds series and make a Canadiens-Lightning Game 1 prediction and […]

Justin Verlander won a World Series with the Houston Astros, but it’s with the Detroit Tigers where he built the foundation of his legendary career in the majors.  With him bound to become a free agent, it doesn’t come as much of a surprise that people are wondering whether he can call Comerica Park home […]

Baker Mayfield and the Cleveland Browns have yet to work on a deal that would guarantee the quarterback a longer tenure with the team. That being said, the general consensus from both sides is that there’s going to be an extension deal offered for Mayfield down the road. What’s certain for now is that Mayfield […]

Former Boston Celtics executive Danny Ainge might not be away from the NBA for long. According to the sources of The Athletic’s Tony Jones, Ainge is being eyed as a possible addition to the Utah Jazz’s front office. This information comes after Dennis Lindsey stepped down from his executive vice president of basketball operations position […]

Notwithstanding the way they performed in the playoffs, Tom Thibodeau and the New York Knicks are still among the best stories of the 2020-21 NBA season. Now, the Knicks look to build on their recent success, as they plan to address some roster issues to sustain their momentum going forward. One of the items on […]

The Atlanta Hawks are arguably the biggest surprise of the 2021 NBA Playoffs. They have gone way further in the postseason than even what most of their fans projected the team to reach before the start of the 2020-21 NBA season. After upsetting the New York Knicks in the first round and making Ben Simmons’ […]

For the fourth time in the history of franchise history and second since 2020, the Tampa Bay Lightning have won the Prince of Wales Trophy and are going to the 2021 Stanley Cup Finals after edging the pesky New York Islanders in seven games in the semis. Their mission is clear: to become the newest […]

Tom Brady, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback with seven Super Bowl rings and a seemingly perfect life, had something to say about a particular take by Los Angeles Lakers forward LeBron James.  Guesting recently on HBO’s The Shop, Brady got asked about his thoughts on LeBron saying that the quarterback is the greatest football player […]

The Montreal Canadiens are not supposed to be playing this deep in the postseason. They are the NHL team that has drawn the most “what are you even doing here?” reactions the most since the postseason started. Heck, two teams that didn’t even get the chance to play beyond the regular season had more points […]

Gordon Hayward’s basketball career is filled with ups and downs, especially after he turned pro back in 2010. Now in his 30s, Hayward remains a valuable asset for his team, the Charlotte Hornets, who got him after the Boston Celtics signed him to a four-year deal worth $120 million and traded him to Michael Jordan’s […]

The MLB trade deadline is just a little over a month away, but as early as now, Scott Boras wants the rest of the majors to know what it would take for Washington Nationals ace Max Scherzer to waive his no-trade rights for a possible trade to the Chicago Cubs, as an example. Asked about […]

Vasiliy Lomachenko can’t wait to get back into the ring after losing all his belts to Teofimo Lopez in October 2020. He will get his wish on Saturday, as he looks to return to his winning ways when he takes on Japanese contender Masayoshi Nakatani in a lightweight fight at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas.  Nakatani […]

The Tampa Bay Lightning are trying to avoid a collapse in their semifinals series against the New York Islanders. The Bolts entered the series as the favorites in the matchup and even took  2-1 and 3-2 leads after three and five games. respectively. They had a chance to take out Barry Trotz’s pesky Islanders squad […]

There will be a Game 7 in the NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs semifinals series between the New York Islanders and the Tampa Bay Lightning after Isles’ winger Anthony Beauvillier buried the game-winning goal in overtime of Game 6, Wednesday night.  The Isles’ victory spoiled a historic night by Brayden Point, who became the first Lightning […]

Losing a game, let alone one in the playoffs, is not exactly the best precedent to making jokes, but that’s exactly what Patrick Beverley and the Los Angeles Clippers did after absorbing a bitter loss in Game 2 of the Western Conference Finals at the hands of the Phoenix Suns. It wasn’t because they were […]

Of the four teams that made it to the conference finals stage of the 2021 NBA Playoffs, the Phoenix Suns and the Atlanta Hawks were two teams thought to be unlikeliest to get this far prior to the season. And after the Suns burned the Los Angeles Clippers Tuesday night on the strength of Deandre […]

It didn’t take long for Major League Baseball to get the ire of fans, media, and players since it instituted a more serious crackdown on the use of illegal foreign substances on baseballs. Most of the frustrations stem from the delay the inspection is causing, which is already counterintuitive to the league’s goal of speeding […]

It’s hard to imagine being in Ben Simmons’ shoes right now, especially after the way he let the Philadelphia 76ers down with a questionable performance in the second round of the 2021 NBA Playoffs against Trae Young and the Atlanta Hawks. But you know what’s also down? The Sixers star’s current value as opposed to […]

Tim Tebow is an NFL tight end. You could repeat that many times and that may still sound unusual, especially if you have followed his career from college to the pros. But just because he’s now a tight end for the Jacksonville Jaguars, it doesn’t mean that he’s automatically admitted to the “Tight End University,” […]

As of this writing,  Fernando Tatis Jr. and the San Diego Padres are on a four-game win streak, having swept the Cincinnati Reds in a four-game series at home. However, they’re still lagging behind the San Francisco Giants and the Los Angeles Dodgers in the National League West division with a 44-27 record to date.  […]

Jon Rahm is the new king at Torrey Pines after winning the 2021 US Open in dramatic fashion Sunday. To pull off the win, Rahm had to come up with a clutch Michael-Jordanesque performance down the stretch, as he made back-to-back birdies in the 17th and 18th holes to secure his first-ever major victory. So […]

Los Angeles Rams head coach Sean McVay is feeling great about having Matthew Stafford on the team. He couldn’t even stop himself from bursting into a profanity-laced giddiness when he spoke about the team’s new signal-caller during an interview with Sports Illustrated’s Albert Breer. “Bro, this dude’s a bad MF-er,” McVay told Breer, laughing. “Whatever people […]

AJ Green used to be one of the most dangerous wideouts in the game. Well, he’s still a threat downfield, but at 32 and after several injuries, it’s safe to say that his prime is now in his rearview mirror. Now with the Arizona Cardinals, the hope is that Green will have a resurgence of […]

Alvin Kamara has taken his NASCAR fandom to a whole new level. The New Orleans Saints running back just revealed on Sunday that he’s taken a gig at NASCAR. This also came just before the staging of the 2021 Ally 400 at Nashville Superspeedway in Lebanon, Tennessee. https://twitter.com/A_kamara6/status/1406671034003202048 If you’re wondering what this new job […]

Not having Chris Paul for the start of the Western Conference finals is a huge bummer for Monty Williams and the Phoenix Suns, to say the least. Paul is virtually an irreplaceable asset for the Suns, but with the Point God out of commission because of health and safety protocols reasons, Williams knows he will […]

Well, it seems like Vegas Golden Knights goalie Marc-Andre Fleury has completely moved on from his major blunder in Game 3 of the NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs semis against the Montreal Canadiens. In fact, he’s just made fun of it by recreating that forgettable moment for Vegas during practice ahead of Game 4. Fleury re-did […]

The Los Angeles Clippers have just bucked the odds in the second round of the 2021 NBA Playoffs by surviving the Utah Jazz in six games. Now comes another huge challenge for the team, as they will take on the Phoenix Suns in the Western Conference finals without Kawhi Leonard at least for Game 1. […]

The New York Mets are blessed to have Jacob deGrom, who’s been nothing but sensational for them — especially in the 2021 MLB season. But is his insane overall performance on the mound this season a guarantee that he’ll have his contract extended beyond the end of the 2022 season? For the Mets’ big boss, […]

Kyle Kuzma caught a lot of heat on social media following the Los Angeles Lakers’ early exit from the 2021 NBA Playoffs. But Kuzma should have no problem laughing at all the fan vitriol targeted at him online. If you’re getting comforted by a fashion model with a following that’s probably larger than the entire […]

The Vegas Golden Knights have their backs against the wall after three games in their Stanley Cup semifinals series against the Montreal Canadiens. Vegas absorbed a tough 3-2 overtime loss in Game 3 on the road Friday night, with goalie Marc-André Fleury making a crucial mistake in the third period that led to a game-tying […]

Phil Mickelson is still chasing a US Open win. He’s come up short in winning this major a number of times before, and his shortcomings in the tournament are well documented. Well, here he is again, trying to grind out on a weekend to improve his chances of winning the only major trophy missing in […]

Los Angeles Dodgers righty Trevor Bauer has been finding himself on the news quite more frequently as of late, but this one we are about to talk about does not involve anything sticky or spin rate-related. See, Bauer toed the rubber Friday night in the series opener on the road against the struggling Arizona Diamondbacks […]

The Los Angeles Clippers are a bunch of happy people Friday night after they completed a comeback from 0-2 down in the series against the Utah Jazz with a 131-119 win in Game 6. They didn’t even have Kawhi Leonard to help them score the victory, but that’s obviously not to say they are not […]

Count Rory McIlroy as among the number of golfers not in favor of players using green-reading books in tournaments. Prior to the start of the 2021 US Open in which he’s one of the top contenders, McIlroy shared his view of the controversial issue a couple of weeks after The Tour’s Player Advisory Council voted […]

Dwayne Haskins is getting another shot at straightening out his still young career in the NFL with the Pittsburgh Steelers. Although he has yet to take a single snap with his new team, Haskins is already dreaming big about his future with the storied franchise while still being an understudy of Ben Roethlisberger. Via Teresa […]