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The Los Angeles Rams enter the NFL‘s 2022 offseason as Super Bowl champions but with little room to improve the roster. Currently sitting at 27th in the NFL in available salary-cap space (-$10 million), the team also has the impending retirement of Andrew Whitworth and possible contract extensions for Matthew Stafford, Cooper Kupp, Aaron Donald, […]

Immediately after Matthew Stafford and the Los Angeles Rams won Super Bowl LVI on Sunday, the talk about Stafford shifted from “Can he win the big game?” to “Is he a Hall-of-Famer?” The opinions vary across the board depending on how you view modern quarterbacks against ones from the past. You have to take into […]

As we enter the 2022 NFL offseason, the Los Angeles Rams are trying to put themselves in a position to repeat as Super Bowl Champions. No team has successfully defended its title since the New England Patriots did so in 2003 and 2004. Since then, it has been a different team than the previous year […]

Los Angeles Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford had a huge celebration at Disneyland on Monday to celebrate his Super Bowl 56 victory, but he started the day off with a less conventional celebration: a fully-clothed pool plunge. The jubilation was captured by his wife, Kelly Stafford, and went viral for the enjoyment of fans of the […]

As we enter the 2022 NFL offseason, the Super Bowl champion Los Angeles Rams are in a precarious position. They surely want to bring as many players back from this year’s championship squad as they possibly can, but they are near the bottom of the league in available cap space. While there are a few […]

As Super Bowl 56 unfolded, it was certainly a momentous occasion for fans of the Los Angeles Rams and the Cincinnati Bengals. There was one other fanbase, however, that was cheering their hearts out, the Detroit Lions. That is because their former quarterback Matthew Stafford, one of the five greatest players in the history of […]

As we enter the 2022 NFL offseason, the Super Bowl Champion Los Angeles Rams have the 27th least amount of available salary-cap space (-$10 million). They also have 12 players set for unrestricted free agency, five restricted free agents, and one exclusive right free agent (John Wolford). The team must allocate $6 million towards their […]

The PGA Tour needed a fire to be put out on Monday, and of course, it was Bryson DeChambeau that was at the center of it all. At least he was the one who put out the flames this time, even though it was reported that he started it all anyways by telling some people […]

Luka Doncic was on a roll on Thursday Night during the Dallas Mavericks (Mavs) 112-105 victory over the Los Angeles Clippers. To start, he had 32 points in the first half, making it the highest-scoring first half across the league this season 2021-22. The numbers didn’t end at halftime, however, as Doncic ended up thrashing […]

As the Los Angeles Rams get set to face the Cincinnati Bengals on Sunday in Super Bowl LVI at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles, they also have a slight bit of their attention on the NFL‘s regular-season awards, which have been being released on Thursday night. Aaron Donald missed out on his fourth NFL Defensive […]

The Toronto Raptors may have started this 2021-22 NBA season as an average team, but over their past eight games, they have kicked it into high gear and won all eight of them. The wins have shot them up from a below .500 team to second place in the Eastern Conference’s Atlantic Division. Their 30-23 […]

The NBA trade deadline came and passed on Thursday and there was one deal that towered above all others. That trade was the swap of Ben Simmons for James Harden that has the Philadelphia 76ers pairing The Beard with Joel Embiid as they search for their first championship since the days of disco. The trade’s other […]

Coming off of a heartbreaking road loss in the AFC‘s Divisional round to the Kansas City Chiefs–the team that has eliminated them from the playoffs for three straight years–there is no time for the Buffalo Bills to sit around and lick their proverbial wounds. They must immediately get back to the drawing board and figure […]

Fans of ESPN’s popular “Manningcast” version of Monday Night Football were given some good news on Wednesday when the Manning brothers secured a deal to keep their show on the air for at least the next three NFL seasons. As an alternative to the regular version of Monday Night Football that features Steve Levy, Louis […]

When the Pittsburgh Steelers enter 2022 NFL free agency, they are likely going to want as much cash as possible. One would think that’s the case so they can get a veteran quarterback to replace retired legend Ben Roethlisberger. However, that is not the case. The Steelers made it well known at the year’s Reese’s […]

There was some NCAA basketball history that was made on Tuesday night down in Arkansas when the number one ranked Auburn tigers (22-2), strolled into the home of the Arkansas Razorbacks (19-5), and left with twice as many losses as they came in with. The 80-76 overtime victory was the first time that the Razorbacks […]

The Los Angeles Lakers are having a painful 2021-22 NBA season, to say the least. They have failed to come anywhere close to their preseason expectations and seem likely to have an early from the playoffs this year. On Tuesday night, though, during yet another excruciating loss for the Lakers–this one to the Milwaukee Bucks– […]

The Dallas Cowboys head into the 2022 NFL offseason with the third least projected cap space in the league (-$21 million) and need to make improvements to a roster that was playoff-worthy in 2021 but fell short of a postseason victory yet again. The Cowboys have won just four playoff games since 1995, in contrast, […]

When the New Orleans Saints announced on Monday that they were promoting defensive coordinator Dennis Allen to head coach, it made it so that all nine of the head coaching openings in the NFL had been spoken for. Eight coaches have signed on the dotted line and Los Angeles Rams offensive coordinator Kevin O’Connell will […]

As we head into Super Bowl week in the NFL, all nine of the head coaching vacancies around the league have now been filled. Of those nine new head coaches, four are retread head coaches and two of them even made Super Bowls. However, of the group, only three of them have ever called offensive […]

When the NBA All-Star reserves were announced last week, it looked like the incredible rise of San Antonio Spurs guard Dejounte Murray was going to fall just short of getting him to the nod. As one of just four players in the NBA this season to average at least 19 points and nine assists per […]

As the Los Angeles Rams prepare for Super Bowl 56 on Sunday against the Cincinnati Bengals, they are also dealing with an annual tradition of theirs: coaching turnover. Since Sean McVay became the head coach of the Rams in 2017, he has lost a coordinator every single year to either a head coaching opening, an […]

The Los Angeles Rams head into Super Bowl 56 against the Cincinnati Bengals on the backs of a huge NFC Conference title game victory over their biggest NFL rivals, the San Francisco 49ers. The Rams needed to get past a 49ers team that had beaten them in six straight contests and was extremely familiar with […]

We have reached the point in the 2021-22 NBA season where all of the posturing and other antics that are done through the media have all been used up and we can get a bit of a clearer picture of who is available, who is not, who needs to make a deal, and who needs […]

The Brooklyn Nets have played ten games in a row without superstar forward Kevin Durant, who is out with a sprained knee. They are 2-8 in that stretch, including a current string of seven straight losses. If the losing streak wasn’t bad enough, according to Statmuse on Twitter, no team in NBA history has won […]

Throughout his NBA career, Dallas Mavericks center Boban Marjanovic has been a man of many different talents. He has been the rim protector, the lob catcher, the ball retriever, and now…the rim fixer. They called in Boban to fix the rim 😂 pic.twitter.com/ITuYWzAryS — ESPN (@espn) February 5, 2022   As you can see in […]

Heading into the 2022 NFL offseason, the Atlanta Falcons are in a similar situation that they faced in the 2021 offseason in regards to their quarterback position. The Falcons are clearly in the midst of a rebuild, but still owe starting quarterback Matt Ryan $91 million over the next two years ($48.662 million cap hit […]

As the Seattle Seahawks enter the 2022 NFL offseason, they find themselves in a bit of a predicament. On one hand, they have one of the greatest quarterbacks of our generation, Russell Wilson, and would like to maximize his late-career Super Bowl window. On the other hand, the team is devoid of cap space and […]

So far in the 2021-22 NBA season, the Minnesota Timberwolves have themselves in the postseason picture with a 27-25 record with just 30 games left. The Timberwolves have been lead by All-Star big man Karl-Anthony Towns, veteran D’Angelo Russell, and second-year star guard, Anthony Edwards. The team is still hoping to add a fourth-star player […]

For the first five years of his NBA career, Toronto Raptors guard Fred VanVleet has had veteran Kyle Lowry to lean on as perhaps the best mentor that any young guard in the league could ask for. Lowry took to his position as the teacher and VanFleet was the ever-vigilant pupil that shined as a […]

The Green Bay Packers enter the 2022 NFL offseason in a bit of a conundrum. On one hand, they are trying to keep a team that was one of the league’s best over the past three seasons, together for one last playoff run. On the other hand, they are also trying to make sure their […]

As part of a marketing event with his 7-11 sponsorship, Pittsburgh Steelers and soon-to-be NFL  free-agent wide receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster and Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott were both at At&T Stadium in Texas. As a part of the tour, Prescott was able to give JuJu an inside look at the Cowboys’ locker room. Once the […]

When Major League Baseball (MLB) said on Tuesday that they would be delivering a counter-proposal for core-economic issues of the next collective bargaining agreement on Thursday, the Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA) took them at their word and waited to hear the news. Then, around one p.m. PST, word came out from Evan Drellich […]

The Chicago Bears enter the 2022 NFL offseason with a new head coach, a new general manager, and a young quarterback that is hoping to take the same second-year leap that Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen, Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson, and Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes all experienced. With Matt Eberflus running the […]

Former Miami Dolphins head coach Brian Flores has thrown down the gloves in his duel against the Miami Dolphins and the NFL and is not stopping there. Flores is suing the NFL for racist hiring practices after numerous different situations over the past few years, indiscretions that finally boiled over to a fever pitch last […]

The San Francisco 49ers drafted quarterback Trey Lance with the third overall pick in the 2021 NFL Draft only to watch him sit and learn behind Jimmy Garoppolo for basically his entire rookie season despite the latter dealing with a thumb injury towards the end. The 49ers do not have any intentions of making it […]

As we enter the 2022 NFL offseason, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers might be in the most precarious quarterback situation in the league. With the retirement of future Hall-of-Famer Tom Brady and just second-year youngster Kyle Trask and veteran journeyman Blaine Gabbert still on the roster, the Buccaneers are in need of a veteran with experience. […]

As we head into the 2022 NFL offseason, The Washington Football Team is in search of two key things: a quarterback and an identity. Those two problems exist due to the lack of a quarterback of the future and the fact that the team is literally still without a name. With rumors circling that the […]

On the court, the Phoenix Suns are currently riding high on the backs of a ten-game winning streak and just one loss in this calendar year. Their 40-9 record so far in 2021-22 leads the entire NBA by four whole games, are third in the league in total defense are doing plenty of scoring on […]