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As Christian McCaffrey starts to get back into form and the 49ers’ offense is slowly beginning to resemble an elite squad again, it’s worth a jog down memory lane to remember that two of their key weapons — Brock Purdy and George Kittle — are only there thanks to a simple twist of fate and […]

As Jerry Jones’ usual temperamental inflexibility spells curtains for another Cowboys season, star receiver CeeDee Lamb has to be a bit jealous as he looks over to Miami, where the Dolphins’ owner has quite a different approach to his players’ comfort when dealing with the sun. For those living under a rock (to avoid the […]

There was a lot of media attention paid last week to how historically bad the 2024 NBA rookie class has been, statistically speaking, through its first three games of the season. Well, luckily for Zaccharie Risacher, game number four on the schedule came around Wednesday night, and it offered an encouraging outlier in the lackluster […]

For those who thought the DeMar DeRozan-Drake beef began and ended with DeMar DeRozan appearing in Kendrick Lamar’s Not Like Us music video and live LA concert performance earlier this year, think again. The feud between the rap mogul and NBA superstar is actually one of the more complex, intriguing celebrity standoffs in recent memory […]

Mike Eayrs might look to you like a genial grandpa and former statistics teacher, and you’re not wrong — but he’s also the guy responsible for Aaron Rodgers’ only NFL title. Mike Eayrs is known as the grandfather of NFL analytics, and while his story hasn’t been adapted into a blockbuster Hollywood movie with Jonah […]

It’s good to be a BYU fan these days — with the college’s football team currently undefeated at 8-0 and ranked 9th nationally. Now, there’s huge news on the basketball front too, with the Cougars reportedly a serious contender to land the No. 1 overall high school recruit in the country for the 2025 class, […]

The name Robbie Avila — the breakout, viral college basketball star for Indiana State from the 2023-24 NCAA season — might not ring a bell. He’s better known by his slew of inspired nicknames based on his gawky, bespectacled appearance: Cream Abdul-Jabbar, Larry Nerd,  Larry Blurred and Steph Blurry (to name the most popular ones). […]

Let’s be honest — it wasn’t a great week to be Oscar León or Omri Amrany, the artists responsible for the debacle of a Dwyane Wade statue in Miami. It’s also not a great week to be Aaron Judge, The Washington Post or racist comedian Tony Hinchcliffe — but that’s neither here nor there. Let’s […]

Watching Kevin Garnett give commentary on Netflix’s hit basketball show Starting 5, it’s hard not to wish the series had been around back in Garnett’s heyday — following around players like him, Kobe Bryant, and well, young LeBron James. It also brings to mind one of the biggest “what if”s in NBA history involving the […]

No matter how many times Americans are hit over the head with facts about how serious the homelessness crisis is in this country, little seems to be done to change the status quo. Now, one of the greatest boxers of all time, Floyd Mayweather — who knows a thing or two about being hit in […]

As an NBA Hall of Famer, Rick Barry is probably most well known for his “granny style” free throws. Now he’s showing off his skillset in another sport dominated by granny style (of a slightly different variety) — pickleball. It should come as no surprise that an 80-year-old retiree is interested in playing pickleball. What […]

It should come as no surprise that Bronny James and Shedeur Sanders are two of the highest-earning NIL athletes in the world — they have name recognition, media savvy and famous dads who have already proven sports superstardom runs in the family. Nico Iamaleava’s rise to NIL millionaire was a far more hot-button issue — […]

New arena, same Clippers. That seems to be the vibe as the Clippers are facing yet another season with Kawhi Leonard‘s health in question, leaving James Harden as the primary option. So the question becomes, can James Harden still be that guy for the Clippers? Harden made basketball look easy when he joined the Houston […]

ESPN’s forecast for the San Antonio Spurs chances this NBA season is a bit of a good news/bad news situation for the storied franchise. On the plus side, they’ve got Victor Wembanyama, who’s added 25 pounds of muscle this offseason and is sure to build on his already promising skillset from his Rookie of the […]

Yao Ming’s origin — as the product of two basketball prodigies pushed into marriage by the Chinese government, in hopes of giving birth to a world-renowned athletic talent someday — might sound rather unique and specific to Yao Ming. It is. However, the backstory on how Ming made it to, and thrived in, the NBA […]

Chances are, if you’re Jewish and have ever questioned why you don’t go to school or work on Yom Kippur, you’ve been told the story of Sandy Koufax not pitching on the holiest of Jewish holidays during the 1965 World Series. Now, a new generation of Jews has an alternate, more controversial sports metaphor to […]

One again this offseason it seems some key NBA players lost a substantial amount of weight… while others found it. In most cases, the scaled tipped in the right direction to benefit the players and their teams, but those Nike uniforms might be fitting a little snugger or looser on opening night. The biggest, most […]

During a recent ‘Playing Cupid’ segment with Latto and Mariah the Scientist on her Unapologetically Angel podcast, Angel Reese announced her dating criteria for her next possible suitor. “He gotta be tall… 6’7″, 6’8″,” Reese explained. And when Mariah asked whether that had to be someone in the NBA, Reese confirmed “Yeah, NBA.” Reese has […]

Remember when Disney bought the Star Wars franchise from George Lucas for $4 billion and everyone thought it was an absurd amount of money to spend, then the company quickly recouped that cost and reported a 2.9 times return on investment? The Dodgers seem to be experiencing a similar sensation with their superstar Shohei Ohtani. […]

What would the ShamWow guy say about the latest escalation in the Shams-Woj saga? Probably something along the lines of, “Wow! The Shams-Woj rivalry holds 20 times its weight… in beef!” Because the juicy history between these two involves almost as many twists and as much hand-wringing as the infomercial towel their names together (sort […]

He’s been flying heavily under the radar this season (probably due to the 49ers mediocre 2-2 record), and has taken plenty of criticisms, but numbers don’t lie, and it’s time to ask the question — is Brock Purdy low-key turning into a superstar this season? We all know the criticisms by now: Purdy is a system […]

Over the summer, Sam Darnold created a mini-stir on social media when he added a heart emoji reaction to a Barstool Sports promo for the first public interview of Haliey Welch, better known since her viral infamous video clip as Hawk Tuah Girl. why is this sending me lmfaoooooo pic.twitter.com/9ny8BNd5Sq — smalls (@StephieSmallls) July 1, […]

We all remember the old childhood playground axiom “First is the worst, second is the best,” but could #2 overall NFL draft picks like C.J. Stroud and Jayden Daniels be proving it’s actually true? (We’ll ignore “third is the one with the hairy chest” for now, no need for body-hair shaming in this particular discussion). […]

For those who thought Jaylen Brown’s highly publicized war with Nike was over now that his exclusion from the summer Olympics USA Basketball team has begun to fade from recent memory, think again. Brown just made the next chess move in the standoff between the superstar and sportswear conglomerate to the tune of $50 million. […]

In July of 2023, when Travis Kelce revealed on his New Heights with Jason and Travis Kelce podcast that he tried (and failed) to give Taylor Swift his number at her Kansas City The Eras concert, little did he know how much that fateful reveal would change his life. As Swift revealed in her Person […]

“I’m Trying Jennifer.” Who knew those three little words would prove prophetic internet gold when CJ McCollum uttered them to a Warriors fan talking some trash to him on Twitter in 2018? McCollum had just gone online to vent about players ring chasing in the NBA by joining Golden State. This offended diehard Warriors fan […]

We finally know how the Patriots ACTUALLY got Tom Brady. And Jets fans, you might want to close your eyes. Pablo Torre did some digging on his “Pablo Torre Finds Out” podcast, and uncovered one of the NFL’s biggest mysteries. We all know the Pats took Brady with the 199th pick in the 2000 NFL […]

By now, you’ve probably heard all about the ref so fast he can keep pace with Justin Jefferson, even when the 49ers defense can’t. But now it’s time to put a name on the zebra striped speedster and do a deep dive on the legend that is… Tyree Walton. Walton became the talk of the […]

Devin Funchess is a name that should ring a bell to any Carolina Panthers fans, especially on their run to Super Bowl 50 in 2016. NBA fans would be forgiven if they didn’t recognize the name, but perhaps they should soon. Funchess is trying to make history by becoming the first NFL player to play […]

Are the Chiefs the NFL’s new bad boys? They’re widely regarded as America’s team during this run toward three straight Super Bowl titles, but their troubles with the law seem to be piling up lately. In March of 2024, Andy Reid’s son and former Chiefs assistant coach Britt Reid had his prison sentence commuted by […]

Is there bad blood between Taylor Swift and Brittany Mahomes? It’s surely been at least a fortnight since these two have seen each other, yet there was quite a large blank space between them as they were reportedly, according to TMZ, in separate suites during Thursday night’s NFL kickoff between the Chiefs and Ravens. What […]

Now that we’ve seen the NFL’s new dynamic kickoff rule in effect in an actual regular season game, and had it thoroughly explained to us by Mike Tirico as it was happening, hopefully football fans can finally start to process what it is exactly, and what they think about it. So what’s the consensus? I […]

It’s not often you get to write about someone finding a loophole that actually involves literal loops and holes, but leave it to creative NBA bigman Nikola Jokic to shatter expectations once again. The Denver Nuggets superstar continues to endear himself to romantics everywhere by wearing a banned item at every NBA game he plays in […]

With Shohei Ohtani having such a magical first season for the Dodgers, and now being so close to Hollywood, it’s undoubtedly only a matter of time before he gets his own inspirational Disney+ sports bio pic. The only problem is, sometimes the truth is even stranger than fiction, and Ohtani’s current season might be a […]

You might think it’s time to let the Brooklyn Nets off the hook for making the worst trade in NBA history back on Draft Night 2013, but think again — because this trade continues to cause fallout for all parties involved, and many even not directly involved, such as the Lakers’ somehow-still-not-really-aging superstar LeBron James. […]

We’re not in SoCal anymore, UCLA football players will have to remind themselves this college football season, as it’s been reported by SI.com that their team will be traveling approximately 22,134 miles roundtrip to their six road games. Mileage wise, that amounts to 89% of the way around the Earth. If that seems like a […]

Could a major leaguer really play for two teams in the same game? That’s the question for catcher Danny Jansen, who finds himself in one of the trippiest situations in baseball history. Jansen — who played for the Toronto Blue Jays at the start of this season — was up at bat in their game […]

Someday in the future, we may refer to all Super Bowls prior to SB LVIII as being “B.T.” (before Taylor), and all Super Bowls henceforward as “A.S.” (after Swift). No doubt, Taylor Swift’s relationship with Travis Kelce that emerged early in the 2023-2024 NFL season changed coverage of professional American football — certainly for the […]

For those wondering why there was quite so much Snoop Dogg at the 2024 Paris Olympics, this story may not be for you. The 52 year old rap legend is raising eyebrows both for his reported salary at these summer games, as well as the rumor that he may be back with the same deal […]