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Jon Scheyer’s net worth in 2024 is $5 million. Scheyer is the head coach for Duke men’s basketball and should be the man in Durham for a long time to come after signing a six-year contract extension in November 2023. Scheyer, 37, took over two seasons ago for legendary coach Mike Krzyzewski and led the […]

NFL contracts are some of the most convoluted in sports. Not all of the money is guaranteed; it doesn’t all count against the salary cap, and its incentives and bonuses can get…weird. And unlike the other major American sports, teams have to split the money between 53 guys on the regular-season roster, the practice squad, […]

After one of the wildest conference championship weeks in memory, the 2024 NCAA Tournament brackets are finally here. From a fight at the end of LSU and South Carolina in the women’s SEC final to North Carolina State’s incredible five-day run to steal a bid in the ACC men’s tournament, we’ve already had a ton […]

Aaron Donald announced that he is officially riding off into the sunset and retiring from the NFL. Donald’s career will go down as one of the best ever and certainly the most dominant interior lineman in NFL history. Just take a look at his Pro Football Reference page. But what do we know about his […]

Oh, baby, who cares about the Power Five conferences when the Big East conference tournament is right here for us to enjoy? This tournament has it all, including the defending national champs looking to repeat with a number one overall seed in the NCAA Tournament on the line, three top-10 teams and six projected bids […]

The ACC Tournament is underway, as is championship week across the nation’s most prestigious men’s college basketball conferences. Long one of the premier powerhouses in the country, the ACC’s star has faded just a little in recent years. Sure, Duke and North Carolina remain titans of the sport, especially this year, but the depth that […]

Five teams from the Big 12 are in the AP top 25. But that pales in comparison to the whopping nine projected bids to the NCAA tournament they currently have, far and away the most of any conference. Featuring the number one team in the country right now, Houston, riding a nine-game winning streak, and […]

It’s the most wonderful time of the year. It’s getting light out later, the weather is warming up, and the NCAA tournament is just around the corner. Which means it’s now time for conference tournament week! And for the PAC-12, it’s time for one last hurrah for this iteration of the conference. Although the football […]

Championship week in college basketball is an incredibly exciting appetizer to the full NCAA tournament, which starts on March 21. The SEC is one of the most enticing conference tournaments, with five teams in and around the top 15 and two or three others flitting around the NCAA tournament bubble. The SEC Tournament will be […]

March Madness is here, and the NCAA tournament is just around the corner. That means it’s conference tournament season. The Big Ten has several solid teams, not to mention a whole host of bubble teams that can solidify or lose their spot in the NCAA tournament, depending on their performance this week. The Big Ten, […]

College basketball’s most intense rivalry is set to tip off at the end of the regular season with everything on the line. The Tobacco Road Rivalry again features a top-10 matchup between No. 7 North Carolina and hosts No. 9 Duke. Last month in Chapel Hill, the Tar Heels beat the Blue Devils 93-84 to […]

The 96th Academy Awards are on Sunday, March 10. The stars, red-carpet looks, and the most prestigious movie awards of the year are right around the corner. From Barbie and Oppenheimer to Killers of the Flower Moon and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, last year was an incredible year for movies. If you want to keep […]

Zack Wheeler’s net worth in 2024 is $7 million. Zack Wheeler will be in Philadelphia for the foreseeable future on the back of his brand new three-year, $126 million deal. Wheeler has been one of the best arms in the league since 2020 when he joined the Phillies. Wheeler put together three straight seasons with […]

Yoshinobu Yamamoto joined the Los Angeles Dodgers just one week after their huge signing of Shohei Ohtani this offseason. Yamamoto inked a 12-year, $325 million deal to become a Dodger. He follows Ohtani and many other great international players before him, coming in with an absolute world of talent, high-level professional experience, and their sights […]

While Shohei Ohtani was by far the biggest free agent signing of the 2024 offseason, he is yet to make his Los Angeles Dodgers debut in spring training. Ohtani is coming off a UCL injury that cut short his pitching last season. He still won MVP in 2023, but that’s because he’s Ohtani. Despite being […]

What could have been in the 2020 NBA Draft? In this piece, we’ll redraft the lottery from four years ago, with a few changes in the top 14 picks. 14. Payton Pritchard – Boston Celtics Actual draft position: #26 overall to Boston Original pick: Aaron Nesmith Why break something if it’s working? Payton Pritchard went to the […]

The Super Bowl is done, the 2024 NFL offseason is here and every fanbase is back to that sweet, sweet optimism for the future. While the NFL draft is still months away, free agency and trades will largely shape the offseason. Blockbuster trades send waves through the NFL offseason every year. Some are more successful […]

There is no position in sports like the NFL quarterback. Quarterbacks get more control than anyone else on the field, and they often get all of the pressure with success and failure hinged on them. In the modern NFL, a good quarterback is the single most crucial factor in a team’s success, by a wide […]

Finding a franchise quarterback is probably the hardest thing to do in the NFL, especially in today’s league. A close second to it though has to be finding a franchise coach. Over two-thirds of teams in the league have a current coach with less than five years of employment at their current team. And only […]

The Kansas City Chiefs are poised to become the next great NFL dynasty on the shoulders of Andy Reid and Patrick Mahomes. They’re set to play the San Francisco 49ers in a Super Bowl LIV rematch, a game the Chiefs got the better of. Recent history in a Super Bowl rematch favors Kansas City. But […]

The San Francisco 49ers are among the most storied and successful franchises in NFL history. They are on the verge of creating even more history by becoming the first NFC team, and third overall, to win six Super Bowls. First, they must get past Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs. But they’ve obviously been […]

The 2017 NBA Draft is one of the most talked about in recent memory. The Philadelphia 76ers had a chance to pair Joel Embiid with an elite guard or wing player and set the tone for this generation of Philadelphia basketball. The Boston Celtics hit the lottery with Jayson Tatum, and they’re set to contend […]

Four years after their first matchup in 2020, the San Francisco 49ers are looking for revenge and a Super Bowl title against the Kansas City Chiefs. The 49ers and Chiefs join an illustrious group of teams to face off in the Super Bowl multiple times against each other. The list of teams to face each […]

Super Bowl LVIII is set with a matchup between Patrick Mahomes’ Kansas City Chiefs and Brock Purdy’s San Francisco 49ers. The biggest event in United States sports, the culmination of the most popular league in North America, all comes down to one game in February. Here’s everything you need to know about the when, where, […]

Do you ever fully appreciate the good times until they’re gone? That’s the question Liverpool fans will be asking themselves after the bombshell news that longtime manager Jurgen Klopp will be stepping down from his position in pursuit of a more “normal life.” The German manager returned the English club to the height of soccer […]

The Detroit Lions and San Francisco 49ers are two of the most storied franchises in the history of the NFL. However, despite both playing in the NFC and the Lions being founded in the 1920s and 49ers in the 1940s, they’ve met just once in the playoffs. The reason why is actually pretty simple: Neither […]

Since the Baltimore Ravens left Cleveland, stopped being the Browns, and officially became the Ravens in 1996, they’ve been one of the best franchises in the NFL. Across the 2000s, 2010s and now 2020s, they’ve been competitive with the best teams in the league, going deep into the playoffs and even coming away with a […]

The NFL playoffs are now well and truly underway. While there was only one close game last weekend, the energy, entertainment and intensity should only ratchet up from here. The Detroit Lions were the one team that pulled out a nail-biter, edging Matthew Stafford and the Los Angeles Rams in the franchise first home playoff […]

Lionel Messi climbed the last mountain left in global soccer back in 2022, leading Argentina to their third World Cup, the first since the glory days of Diego Maradona. Messi has left European soccer, but Apple TV has stepped in to help facilitate his arrival in MLS and Inter Miami. While one documentary, Messi Meets […]

Monday Night Football on Super Wild Card Weekend is the perfect end to the first few days of playoff action. And while the Philadelphia Eagles playing the Tampa Bay Buccaneers may have been low on the list of fun games to watch about a month ago, now it is quite the intriguing matchup. The Eagles […]

The NBA is the sports soap opera that keeps adding twists as the writers run out of ways to make it normal. Nothing has made that more apparent than James Harden calling out his current General Manager, Daryl Morey, while on tour in China to request a trade from the Philadelphia 76ers, which led to […]

The College Football regular season is over, and the NFL continues its quest to dominate every day of the week with added regular season games on Saturday. One of those Saturday games will be an incredibly important game in the AFC wildcard race as the Pittsburgh Steelers travel to take on the Indianapolis Colts. Both […]

Shohei Ohtani has reset the market for sports’ biggest stars, signing a new contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers for $700 million. Ohtani is one of the most transcendent talents in all of sports history. Normally, a comparison would be drawn to who he’s like. A comparison to the skills of a star in another […]

The Green Bay Packers travel to East Rutherford, New Jersey, to take on the New York Giants in Week 14’s edition of Monday Night Football. Behind some impressive team wins and play by Jordan Love, the Packers are back in the NFC playoff hunt. The Giants are adrift of the playoffs and sitting in a […]

The inaugural NBA In-Season Tournament is almost done. After one incredibly tight and contested semifinal and one…less close semifinal Wednesday Night, the Indiana Pacers and Los Angeles Lakers have punched their tickets to the finals. Despite being met with some apprehension at its announcement, the NBA IST has delivered some of the best early-season games […]

Finally, there is pure, unadulterated chaos in the rankings for the final College Football Playoff rankings. Florida State is the odd team out, making history as the first time in the College Football Playoff era that an undefeated conference power five conference champion remains on the outside looking in. But there’s been plenty of controversy […]

The College Football Playoff is the pinnacle of the sport. For the last ten years, only four teams each year have earned the right to play for a national championship. No two-loss team has ever made the four-team playoff, and they never will. You have to achieve near perfection in the regular season. And because […]

In a season chock-full of incredible college basketball matchups on the men’s and women’s sides, this one may take the cake…for now. Undefeated defending national champions #4 UConn travels to #5 Kansas in a matchup of two of the most exciting men’s college basketball teams of the 2023-24 season. The Jayhawks are playing their second […]

The final day of group play in the first-ever NBA In-Season Tournament is here. Tuesday, November 28, is the date, and 16 teams will play out their group play schedules. Mathematically, just two teams are through to the next round: the Indiana Pacers and Los Angeles Lakers. A third, the Phoenix Suns, look like they’re […]