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The Golden State Warriors have been one of the best teams in the NBA so far in the 2021-22 season and that has been mostly without their second-best player, former NBA All-Star, Klay Thompson. As Thompson slowly regains his footing after two and a half years away from the court due to injuries, he is […]

After starting the 2021 NFL season with an unbeaten 7-0 record, Arizona Cardinals head coach Kliff Kingsbury was garnering some much-deserved coach of the year talk. After that point, however, the Cardinals would go on to win just five more games all year, finishing with a 12-6 overall record and as the losers of five […]

When the charges were filed earlier this season against Las Vegas Raiders wide receiver Henry Ruggs for (among other charges) D.U.I resulting in death, many assumed that this would be a wake-up call to everyone involved with the NFL. The message was hopefully going to be ingrained in each player that there is no reason […]

While the 2022 NFL playoffs may be proceeding without Jarvis Landry or the Cleveland Browns, Landry is not continuing on without the NFL. That is especially true with his former LSU and Browns teammate, Odell Beckham Jr. (OBJ), having the best playoff game of his career on Monday night. As OBJ lit up the Cardinals […]

After the Dallas Cowboys lost at home in the first round of the 2022 NFL playoffs to the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday, the fans in the stadium were not ready for the game to be over. A terrible spotting infraction by the referees cost the Cowboys one final shot at the endzone and the […]

Heading into the 2022 NFL off-season, the Dallas Cowboys are in a very precarious situation. They have a head coach that seemingly should be on the hot seat except for the fact that his coordinators are both rock stars. That sets off another tricky setup for the Cowboys where they are seeing those coordinators, Dan […]

The New York Giants are heading into one of the biggest off-seasons in franchise history. Not only do they not have a general manager (GM), but their quarterback situation with Daniel Jones seems murky and they are also without a head coach. While the Giants say that they will be hiring a GM before they […]

It has been over ten weeks since we last saw Arizona Cardinals pass-rusher J.J. Watt on the field with his teammates due to a shoulder injury. That is all going to change on Monday Night Football, however, as Watt is set to return just in time for the Cardinals’ road playoff matchup with their division […]

Former NFL defensive lineman Junior Siavii died in prison on Thursday, although the cause of death for the 43-year-old has not yet been released. Siavii was in federal prison at Leavenworth while he awaited trial on federal drug trafficking charges. The former Kansas City Chiefs draft pick and University of Oregon standout was originally arrested […]

The New York Giants are heading into a very eventful off-season, one that will see them hire a new general manager and a new head coach. They also have a few free agents that they would like to keep around if they can. While the downtrodden franchise might be toiling away as one of the […]

In what ended up being his first winning season since taking over as head coach of the UCLA football team, Chip Kelly has earned a contract extension. Initially set to see his contract expire at the end of the 2022 season and with no buyout remaining on his deal, Kelly risked entering the season in […]

The Los Angeles Rams NFL Wild Card playoff matchup with the Arizona Cardinals is a divisional battle between two teams that split the season series. Both teams won on each other’s home field, something the Rams are hoping to change when they host the Cardinals at SoFi Stadium on Monday night. The Rams lead the […]

In roughly two decades as an NFL coach, Jim Caldwell has gotten two chances to be the head man. If it were up to Phoenix Suns point guard Chris Paul, however, he would be getting a third chance and it would be during this hiring cycle. The NBA All-Star took to Twitter on Friday to […]

To the surprise of absolutely no one, Minnesota Timberwolves guard Patrick Beverley was involved in yet another heated moment on the court, this time he was punching way above his class as a basketball player and getting into the face of Memphis Grizzlies superstar guard Ja Morant on Thursday night. pic.twitter.com/5ZlamJAC6g — Rob Perez (@WorldWideWob) […]

Novak Djokovic has taken some heat recently due to his unvaccinated status against COVID-19 and subsequent immigration issues as an unvaccinated foreign national in Australia. Djokovic has been able to skirt some of the local laws in the country regarding COVID and quarantining and is tentatively still scheduled to compete in the 2022 Australian Open […]

The Indianapolis Colts are fortunate in the fact that they do not have a lot of impending free agents that will make a huge detriment to the team if they are not brought back. Sure, there are some offensive linemen that Johnathan Taylor would like to have back after he led the NFL in rushing, […]

When NFL Wild Card weekend rolls around and the Pittsburgh Steelers get set to take on the Kansas City Chiefs, they are hoping to have all hands on deck. That includes stud rookie running back Najee Harris, who is currently nursing an elbow injury. Harris has yet to practice this week and that has his […]

Not many people around the NFL expected the Pittsburgh Steelers to be playing this weekend, and one of them was starting quarterback Ben Roethlisberger. Possibly already into his retirement brain and thinking of Cabo — or wherever Midwesterners go on vacation — Roethlisberger was brutally honest in an interview with ESPN earlier … and the […]

Earlier on Wednesday, Washington Wizards rookie forward Corey Kispert drew the ire of his teammate, Kyle Kuzma, for passing up a shot that would have given Kuzma his first career triple-double. They say lightning doesn’t strike twice but in this case, it probably did as later on in the night, in a different game, Tyler […]

So far, 2021 has been the best season of Washington Wizards forward Kyle Kuzma’s NBA career. He is averaging career-highs across the board and seems to have taken the next step that always alluded him on the Lakers. Those steps have not included his first career triple-double just yet, but on Wednesday night, Kuzma was […]

Major League Baseball is currently in a lockout and therefore the players cannot be training or rehabbing at team facilities for the time being. That hasn’t stopped the MLB players from finding a place to work out, however, as Britt Ghiroli of the Athletic reports that the MLBPA has reached an agreement with D-BAT Baseball […]

With the recent losses of Chris Godwin to a season-ending knee injury and Antonio Brown to his own demons, many would expect that the Buccaneers X-Factor for their playoff matchup with the Philadelphia Eagles would be Mike Evans. After all, he is by far the Bucs’ best receiver and this team passed the ball more […]

With the February 10th NBA trade deadline approaching in less than four weeks, the trade speculation has been rampant around pretty much every team in the league, but most especially the Philadelphia 76ers. Most of the Sixers trade rumors have been about AWOL superstar Ben Simmons, but recent reports have thrown Sixers forward Tobias Harris […]

As part of the usual NFC West schedule, the Los Angeles Rams and Arizona Cardinals met twice in 2021, with each team winning on the other’s home field. Besides the location change, one of the main differences between the first and second meetings between the two clubs has been the play of Rams running back […]

When the Miami Dolphins fired head coach Brian Flores on Monday morning, the shock around the league was palpable, especially considering the outpouring of support that he received from his former Dolphins players. With Dolphins ownership seeming inept at times, this was being chalked up to yet another Miami blunder. Im Sick Af 😭 — […]

Upon returning home from the Seattle Seahawks season-ending win over the Arizona Cardinals on Sunday night, backup quarterback Geno Smith decided it was the perfect time to drink and drive. Luckily, for all of the other drivers on the road, Smith was pulled over and arrested on suspicion of DUI before posting bail in the […]

Since taking over as head coach of the Los Angeles Rams in 2017, Sean McVay has consistently fielded one of the best teams and coaching staffs in the NFL. The coaching staff has been so brilliant that three of McVay’s former assistants are now head coaches and all of them had winning seasons in 2021. […]

In 28 career games against the Baltimore Ravens over the course of his 18-year NFL career, Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger has come away with 17 wins, countless injuries, and priceless memories. In his last matchup against his biggest rival, Roethlisberger talked to Ravens players on the field after the game and had one common […]

Heading into the 2022 NFL offseason as the fifth-longest tenured head coach in the league (12 seasons), the Seattle Seahawks’ Pete Carroll is in a more precarious position than the four ahead of him on the list. Bill Belichick (22 seasons,) Sean Payton (16 seasons,) Mike Tomlin (15 seasons,) and John Harbaugh (14 seasons) are […]

So far in the 2021 NBA season, Philadelphia 76ers (Sixers) center Joel Embiid had one of the better seasons of his career. On Friday he got his 6th straight 30-point game in a win over the Spurs. In doing so, Joel joins Wilt Chamberlain and Allen Iverson as the only players in 76ers history to […]

In the century-long history of the NFL, a wide receiver has never won the league’s Most Valuable Player Award (MVP.) There have actually been more kickers to win the MVP award than there have been wide receivers and that’s not going to fly around here. While kickers might be people too, they are not more […]

The Los Angeles Chargers Week 18 matchup against their AFC West division rivals, the Las Vegas Raiders, is one of the best games of the week and the easy choice for the NFL to move into Sunday night’s flexible open schedule. The NFL left the last Sunday of the year as an open Sunday night […]

During Thursday’s 25-point comeback win over the Boston Celtics, New York Knicks power forward Julius Randle was given the good ole’ Madison Square Garden “BOOOOOO” when was underperforming. Instead of using the “Boo’s” from the crowd as motivation to step his game up, Randle decided to give the fans the “thumbs-down” gesture. He then followed […]

The New York Giants Week 18 matchup against the Washington Football Team might be one of the worst games of the year. With both teams eliminated from playoff contention already and with just the NFL draft order seeding to be determined…it is fair to wonder: do either of these teams actually want to win this […]

In what is set up to be one of the biggest matchups between the San Francisco 49ers and the Los Angeles Rams in recent memory, the 49ers are still waiting to hear from their head coach, Kyle Shanahan, (even though he already knows) on who will be the starting at quarterback for the game. Will […]

The Pittsburgh Steelers Week 18 matchup against the Baltimore Ravens could be the final game of Steelers quarterback, Ben Roethlisberger’s, long NFL career. In a story that will one day culminate with a trip to be enshrined into the Pro Football Hall-of-Fame, Roethlisberger is hoping to finish the final chapter of his playing career with […]

The New York Knicks achieved the second-biggest comeback of the 2021-22 NBA season Thursday night erasing a 25-point 3rd-quarter lead with a comeback for the ages against the Boston Celtics. Evan Fournier hit 10 three-pointers (tying a franchise record) on his way to a career-high 41 points and in the final seconds, RJ Barrett banked […]

The Dallas Cowboys Week 18 matchup with the Philadelphia Eagles pits two divisional rivals against each other with little still on the line. For the Eagles (9-7), they are locked into a wild-card spot (5-7 seed) regardless of Sunday’s outcomes, and the Cowboys (11-5) are hoping that either the Los Angeles Rams (12-4) or the […]

Both of the NFL franchises in the Big Apple, The New York Giants, and the New York Jets both moved out of New York City–and out of the state–in 1976 and 1983 respectively. They both stayed there when in 2010, when they built their most recent place to play, Metlife Stadium, in New Jersey. Now, […]