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Joel Kiviranta of the Dallas Stars picked the perfect time to have the greatest game of his young NHL career. The NHL rookie scored a hat trick in Game 7 of the NHL Western Conference semifinal against the Colorado Avalanche, completing the hat trick with a game-winning overtime goal to carry the Stars into the […]

American tennis sensation Coco Gauff, who has overachieved in the early stages of her promising career, lost in the first round of the 2020 US Open on Monday in New York. Gauff lost to Anastasija Sevastova of Lativa in three close sets, 6-3, 5-7, 6-4. A battle on Armstrong 😤 No. 31 Anastasija Sevastova holds […]

Philadelphia Eagles fans have to be furious. Receiver and first-round draft pick Jalen Reagor suffered a shoulder injury in practice on Sunday after making a tackle following an interception thrown by quarterback Jalen Hurts, with Carson Wentz nursing his own injury. #Eagles' star rookie WR Jalen #Reagor leaves scrimmage after suffering injury making a tackle […]

Toronto Raptors guard Kyle Lowry, a centerpiece player on the defending NBA champions, has been ruled out for the remainder of Game 4 of the Raptors’ first-round playoff series against the Brooklyn Nets. Lowry suffered a left ankle injury. Kyle Lowry's return is "TBD," per the team. Turned left ankle. — Blake Murphy (@BlakeMurphyODC) August […]

Philadelphia Eagles head coach Doug Pederson has tested positive for COVID-19, becoming the second NFL head coach to get the coronavirus. Doug Pederson now becomes the second NFL head coach known to have contracted coronavirus, but he is the first one to do it in season, where it takes on a different meaning. In March, […]

Now that Cam Newton is on Tom Brady’s former team, the New England Patriots, the question is irresistible: Which quarterback will make a deeper playoff run in 2020? Cam Newton agreed to a one-year deal with the Patriots on Sunday afternoon, a bolt of lightning in a quiet and uncertain NFL summer, with teams not […]

LeBron James made eight straight NBA Finals and — before that remarkable run — reached the NBA Finals at age 22 in 2007. Let’s rank his best games. 5. 2007 East Finals, Game 5 vs. Pistons Some iconic athletes have a first game — a first moment — in which they leave an unforgettable impression […]

Not every NFL franchise has an obvious “number one most heartbreaking moment,” but the New Orleans Saints do. In a top five list, what are the other four? 5. 1992 NFC Wild Card loss to the Eagles The Saints had not yet won their first playoff game in 1992. They had lost in the previous […]

Everyone knows the most heartbreaking moment in the history of the Indianapolis Colts since the franchise moved from Baltimore in 1984. The real question in search of a top-five list: What about the other four moments? 5. 1999 AFC Divisional Playoff loss to the Titans The Indianapolis Colts under quarterback Peyton Manning earned a wild-card […]

The Denver Broncos defeated the Cleveland Browns in three AFC Championship Games within a four-year period (1987-1990), but few would say the Browns are a foremost rival of the Broncos. Rivalries are defined by hatred, and if you asked any Denver resident about the five main rivals of the Broncos, it is hard to see […]

The Green Bay Packers have 26 members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. A few of them are coaches — Vince Lombardi and Curly Lambeau — but almost all of them are players. From this large group, arriving at the seven greatest Packers of all time and then ranking them becomes a complicated task. […]

If you heard it once, you heard it a million times over the years, from John Madden or anyone else: Great players make big plays in big games. That was Jerry Rice of the San Francisco 49ers. He was consistently great in his towering NFL career, but the reason he is such an icon in […]

The Cincinnati Bengals have collected many NFL Draft steals in just over 50 years as a franchise. Without the deep history of the original NFL teams — founded roughly 50 years before the Bengals were born in 1968 — Cincinnati has forged an impressive track record of finding value in the later rounds of the […]

The Phoenix Suns have not yet won an NBA championship. The stories of their near-misses naturally represent some of the most heartbreaking moments in their 52-year existence, but don’t forget a coin clip which set the tone for a miserable half-century in the Valley of the Sun. 5. The Lost Coin Flip  The Phoenix Suns […]

The Seattle Seahawks, if you look at their history, have found a lot of gems late in the NFL Draft. The annoying aspect of this reality for Seahawk fans in the 20th century was that these unexpectedly good players made their careers with other teams. They blossomed only after leaving the Pacific Northwest. In the […]

Jace Prescott, older brother of Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott, died Thursday at the age of 31. The cause of death was not determined at press time. Dak Prescott’s brother, Jace, died today at 31 years old, the Cowboys announced. pic.twitter.com/r8Dr4zWxLs — Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) April 24, 2020 Cowboys legend and NFL commentator Michael Irvin […]

The Baltimore Ravens selected LSU linebacker Patrick Queen with the 28th overall pick in the 2020 NFL Draft. With the No. 28 overall pick, the @Ravens select @LSUfootball LB Patrick Queen! (by @Bose) 📺: 2020 #NFLDraft on NFLN/ESPN/ABC📱: https://t.co/G7fI4L8MxF pic.twitter.com/PppZ9G7U6o — NFL (@NFL) April 24, 2020 The Ravens lost two starting linebackers from their loaded […]

Keeping in mind that an injury-plagued career is not an actual reflection on the quality of a player, here are the five biggest Seattle Seahawks draft busts, the players who simply didn’t measure up. One can debate the fifth-biggest draft bust in Seahawks history, but the top four should be unanimous choices, and the worst […]

The sixth-seeded Tennessee Titans shocked the top-seeded Baltimore Ravens on Saturday night, 28-12. The Titans, 9-7 in the regular season, bumped off the 14-2 Ravens in one of the bigger upsets in NFL divisional round history. The Titans move to the AFC Championship Game on Sunday, Jan. 19 against the winner of the game between […]

Beast Mode is back. The Seattle Seahawks signed 33-year-old running back Marshawn Lynch out of retirement on Tuesday, according to his agent, Doug Hendrickson.  My son ⁦@MoneyLynch⁩ is back! Boom let’s go! ⁦@Seahawks⁩ #teamwass pic.twitter.com/rujxV1tbTu — Doug Hendrickson (@DHendrickson41) December 24, 2019 In a remarkable plot twist, Marshawn Lynch returned to the Seahawks after the […]

The Minnesota Vikings and Seattle Seahawks have played a close game on Monday Night Football. It has also been a punishing, bruising contest. Dalvin Cook knows this. Cook, who scored a first-quarter touchdown to give the Vikings an early lead, endured a shoulder injury midway through the game. His status for a return to the […]

The Dallas Cowboys are playing unacceptably bad football, and their defense didn’t thrive against the Buffalo Bills. That includes Michael Bennett. The Cowboys and Bennett should be better than they are. After they lost to the Bills, 26-15, on Thanksgiving Day, Clarence Hill of the Fort-Worth Star-Telegram reported on the Cowboys’ postgame mood: Angry screaming […]

The New Orleans Saints and Atlanta Falcons hate each other. Therefore, when one team humiliates the opponent’s quarterback, it creates a lasting memory in this NFL rivalry. Shy Tuttle created a moment New Orleans fans won’t soon forget when he blasted Matt Ryan with a forearm after picking off the Atlanta quarterback on Thursday night. […]

The New Orleans Saints were kicked around by the Atlanta Falcons a few weeks ago. Kiko Alonso and his defensive teammates are on a mission to gain revenge. Late in the third quarter, they are doing their job, leading 20-9. I blinked and Kiko Alonso was in the backfield pic.twitter.com/LhL6HIOwMi — The Checkdown (@thecheckdown) November […]

One of the most meaningful games in New Orleans Saints history involved a blocked punt early against the Atlanta Falcons. Taysom Hill wrote the same script in 2019 on Thanksgiving Night. Saints fans remember and cherish the first game in the Superdome after Hurricane Katrina. Steve Gleason blocked a punt against the Falcons on September […]

There once was a prime-time soap opera called “Dallas.” There is no J.R. Ewing in this production, but Jerry Jones and the Cowboys are writing a colorful script just the same after a loss to the Buffalo Bills. Clarence Hill has covered the Dallas Cowboys since 1997 for the Fort-Worth Star-Telegram. He has therefore covered […]

Athletes seek achievements which improve their legacies and add luster to their careers. Ezekiel Elliott of the Dallas Cowboys wishes his team could win, however. Thursday against the Buffalo Bills, Ezekiel Elliott passed the 5,000-yard rushing mark in his NFL career. Ed Werder of ESPN noted how rapidly Zeke attained this personal milestone: Ezekiel Elliott […]

Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills stepped into the national TV spotlight against the Dallas Cowboys, and passed their test with flying colors. Allen scampered into the end zone from 15 yards out to give the Bills a 23-7 lead over the Cowboys late in the third quarter. At press time, the Bills led the […]

Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones is talking about head coach Jason Garrett. It must be late November, because this has become an annual dance in NFL circles. Jones offered these comments on Garrett to 105.3 The Fan before the Cowboys’ Thanksgiving Day game against the Buffalo Bills: “A dream is that something that I might […]

Against the Dallas Cowboys, Josh Allen of the Buffalo Bills became part of one of the most amazing NFL plays of 2019. The act of recovering a fumble in the backfield and then somehow overpowering multiple defenders to get a first down is crazy enough in its own right: Just how we drew it up. […]

Josh Allen of the Buffalo Bills was fired up when he gained a first down late in the second quarter against the Dallas Cowboys. Yes, Allen is a fiery competitor to begin with, but the emotional temperature of this Thanksgiving Day game rose in the first quarter when Xavier Woods of the Cowboys clearly hit […]

Fat guy interception alert! Star Lotulelei of the Buffalo Bills celebrated Thanksgiving Day by feasting on an errant pass by Dak Prescott of the Dallas Cowboys. Dak Prescott received pressure on a screen pass and wasn’t able to lob the ball to his intended receiver. The pass came out of Prescott’s hands with a low, […]

The Dallas Cowboys are not especially pleased with coach Jason Garrett, but they are also not impatient enough to fire him before the end of this season. This is the uncomfortable reality in Dallas as the Cowboys try to hold off the Philadelphia Eagles for the 2019 NFC East title. A division title is a […]

Former NFL receiver Steve Smith never met an opinion he didn’t like. He spoke out about Myles Garrett after the Cleveland Browns’ pass rusher hit Mason Rudolph of the Pittsburgh Steelers with a swinging helmet at the end of Thursday night’s game in Cleveland. Steve Smith bringing 🔥🔥🔥🔥on that bull 💩we just saw. Of Garrett: […]

Mason Rudolph of the Pittsburgh Steelers is lucky he didn’t sustain a severe injury at the hands of Myles Garrett. Rudolph spoke out after the Steelers lost to Garrett and the Cleveland Browns Thursday night, in a game which was overshadowed by an ugly brawl and Garrett’s complete loss of control. Garrett’s use of a […]

Myles Garrett of the Cleveland Browns swung his helmet and hit the Pittsburgh Steelers’ Mason Rudolph late in Thursday night’s NFL game. Maurkice Pouncey reacted to the incident on the field. Todd Gurley reacted off it. 😳😳 https://t.co/H9kQzRJdUw — Todd Gurley II (@TG3II) November 15, 2019 Todd Gurley expressed a reaction everyone else in the […]

Oakland Raiders safety Lamarcus Joyner was injured in the final minute of the Silver and Black’s 26-24 win over the Los Angeles Chargers on Thursday night. . @Raiders Lamarcus Joyner pulled up with what looks like a hamstring. :30 secs left 3rd and 10 at the @Chargers 30 @KPIXtv — vernkpix (@vernKPIX) November 8, 2019 […]

Daniel Jones of the New York Giants lost his seventh fumble of the 2019 season on Monday night against the Dallas Cowboys, tying him with Gardner Minshew of the Jacksonville Jaguars for the most lost fumbles in the NFL. Minshew still leads the NFL in overall fumbles, but Jones tied him in lost fumbles, which […]

The Dallas Cowboys struggled for three and a half quarters against the New York Giants on Monday, but Dak Prescott and Amari Cooper finally landed a knockout punch against Big Blue. A 45-yard pitch-and-catch connection enabled the Cowboys to gain a 30-18 cushion and avoid an 0-2 record in the Meadowlands this year. The Cowboys […]