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The Los Angeles Lakers are no strangers to exciting offseasons. This 2023, however, was not one of those. Though it wasn’t, that doesn’t mean the Purple and Gold did not have an outstanding offseason. In fact, it was one of the better ones the franchise has had in recent seasons ever since the summer of […]

There isn’t a such thing as an ugly win, even though that’s exactly the result Florida State football persevered to escape with last week on the road against Boston College. Despite entering the game as the third-ranked team in the AP Poll, Florida State was barely able to survive and escape with a 31-29 win […]

No team had as busy an offseason as the Washington Wizards. The Wizards new front office, led by president of basketball operations Michael Winger and general manager Will Dawkins, did what the previous regime never wanted to in the nation’s capital: blow it up. They traded away the face of their franchise, Bradley Beal, to […]

It felt like eons ago when Damian Lillard’s trade request from the Portland Trail Blazers went public back on July 1st. ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski has reported that the Miami Heat are Lillard’s preferred landing spot. But it’s been 2.5 months and there has been zero movement on that trade front whatsoever. There hasn’t been much […]

The Los Angeles Lakers are the most historic franchise in all the NBA. One could make arguments for the Boston Celtics or Chicago Bulls, but no franchise has enjoyed as much sustained success as the Lakers. Dating back to the league’s onset in the 1940s, there have been only two decades in which Los Angeles […]

Remember when Damian Lillard requested a trade from the Portland Trail Blazers roughly 2.5 months ago? It has been radio silence on a potential Lillard trade since. Lillard prefers to be traded to the Miami Heat. however, that has yet to materialize. That means a team other than the Miami Heat could swoop in and make […]

Remember the trade request Damian Lillard made to the Portland Trail Blazers roughly on July 1st? It’s bascically been crickets on the Lillard trade front ever since. Everyone knows the seven-time All-Star’s preferred destination is the Miami Heat. That’s fine and all, and it certainly is Lillard’s prerogative to try to basketball for the team […]

Remember Damian Lillard’s trade request from the Portland Trail Blazers? Yeah, the one that happened roughly two-and-a-half months ago? Well, nothing has happened about that since. There’s no doubt Lillard’s preference is to be traded to the Miami Heat. However, no substantive talks between the Blazers and Heat have taken place as 2023-24 fast approaches, […]

Week 3 of the 2023 college football season promises some intriguing matchups. There are no head-to-head matchups between ranked teams, but there are a lot of games where a ranked team is traveling on the road to square off with an unranked team in their home building. A series of these games will kick off […]

The Texas Rangers are on a four-game win streak after beating the Toronto Blue Jays on Tuesday. Those wins have come at the right time. The Rangers were in the lead in the American League West entering the All-Star break and have been there for most of the season. But the second half of their […]

The New York Mets entered the 2023 season with a ton of hype and expectations. With good reason too. The Mets won a whopping 101 games in 2022, good enough to make a Wild Card appearance. Unfortunately, the Mets lost a three-game series to the San Diego Padres and were quickly eliminated from the postseason. […]

The New York Yankees have had a season to forget in 2023, and that is putting it kindly. Not much, if anything, has gone right for the Yankees this season. It all started back on June 3 when Aaron Judge got injured with a broken toe. The Yankees were 35-25 after a win over the […]

Well, that’s more like it! Clemson football looked like the dominant program the nation watched them grow into this week in their 66-17 blowout win over the Charleston Southern Buccaneers. While, yes, it’s only Charleston Southern, but Clemson was favored to beat the Duke Blue Devils by two touchdowns in Week 1 in a game […]

The standard for Alabama football is unreasonably yet deservedly high: National championship or bust. When a coach like Nick Saban wins six national titles from 2009 to 2020, of course that’s going to be the standard from the media, from Alabama fans and alumni, and anybody who watches college football in general. Everyone expects Alabama […]

The New York Liberty entered the 2023 season with a ton of hype. And rightfully so. Already with burgeoning superstar Sabrina Ionescu on their roster after drafting her first overall in the 2020 WNBA Draft, the Liberty made major moves in acquiring two former MVPs last offseason. One of which was Jonquel Jones. Jones won […]

The Houston Rockets are one of the more historic franchises in all of the NBA. They rank tenth all-time in winning percentage in the NBA with a 51.5% mark. Only the San Antonio Spurs, Boston Celtics, Los Angeles Lakers, Utah Jazz, Phoenix Suns, Seattle Supersonics, Oklahoma City Thunder, Portland Trail Blazers, Milwaukee Bucks, Miami Heat, […]

The Seattle Supersonics were an iconic NBA franchise. Their fanbase is still one of the best in the NBA, and Seattle remains the primary breeding ground for elite hoopers from the Pacific Northwest, too. Players like Jamal Crawford, Zach LaVine, Paolo Banchero, Isaiah Thomas, Jason Terry, Dejounte Murray and more all hail from the area. […]

The Portland Trail Blazers’ history of draft selections has mostly revolved around who they *didn’t* draft more so than who they did take. Yes, they’re the team that didn’t draft Michael Jordan and drafted Sam Bowie instead. They also drafted Greg Oden over Kevin Durant 33 years later. Ouch. That doesn’t mean that the Blazers […]

The Alabama Crimson Tide and the Texas Longhorns both made it through Week 1 unscathed in relatively clean and nondescript victories. Alabama football ran over Middle Tennessee State 56-7. Texas took down (but did not cover) in-state foe Rice 37-10. Mission accomplished. Both teams handled their business in their warm-ups for their season and their […]

Colorado won the hearts of America in Week 1 when they went into Fort Worth and took down the TCU Horned Frogs 45-41. Nebraska football, on the other hand, made headlines of their own in Week 1. The Huskers got a head start on their season by kicking off on Thursday night before the calendar […]

The Colorado Buffaloes were the talk of college football after Week 1. They hired Deion Sanders to turn around their once-renowned football program. Coach Prime responded by totally overhauling their roster and making over 80 transfers in the transfer portal. His hire and approach were met with a mixed bag; he didn’t have much head […]

It took seven months, but NFL football finally returns with a treasure trove of marquee matchups. Unfortunately, the Arizona Cardinals-Washington Commanders matchup is not one that oozes intrigue. The Cardinals are down Kyler Murray, who remains on the PUP list while he rehabs a torn ACL suffered late last season. The Commanders begin their new […]

The NFL season is finally here. The Lions-Chiefs game opened the season on Thursday and gave way to a series of great and intriguing Week 1 matchups on Sunday. Plenty of division foes square off this weekend, including the Green Bay Packers taking on the Chicago Bears, the Dallas Cowboys facing the New York Giants, […]

The AP College Football Top 25 poll for Week 2 was released on Tuesday. After the fireworks that came from Week 1, there was plenty of movement in the poll. Clemson dropped from nine to 25 after their upset loss at the hands of the Duke Blue Devils, who are now ahead of them in […]

Deion Sanders was the biggest winner of Week 1 of the 2023 college football season. After completely overhauling Colorado’s roster in the offseason, the Buffaloes squad rolled into Fort Worth, near Sanders’ former stomping grounds of Dallas, Texas when he was high stepping into end zones for the Dallas Cowboys, and took down the 17th-ranked […]

College football’s opening weekend delivered like it normally does. The fireworks began on Saturday afternoon when the Colorado Buffaloes took down the TCU Horned Frogs. But that wasn’t it. Texas State pulled off a big in-state upset when they beat Baylor. Florida State beat LSU in the only ranked head-to-head matchup of the weekend. And […]

College football’s opening weekend delivered the numerous fireworks college football is good for on a weekly basis. The fireworks began on Saturday afternoon with Colorado football, headlined by their offseason hire of Deion Sanders and the extensive work they put into the transfer portal. But the fireworks didn’t end there. Baylor lost to Texas State […]

The Oakland Athletics have endured a season from hell that everyone wishes to forget and move on from. They’re 42-96. The Kansas City Royals are 43-96 but there isn’t anybody else in Major League Baseball with fewer than 50 wins on the season. The Athletics’ -297 run differential is 93 runs worse than the second-worst […]

The Pittsburgh Pirates haven’t had the best 2023 season. They still aren’t out of it yet; they’re 13.5 games behind the leaders of the NL Central: the Milwaukee Brewers. But there’s less than a month in the season and the Pirates are fourth in their division and seven games back from a possible NL Wild […]

Of all the teams in Major League Baseball that likely won’t make the playoffs, one could argue the Detroit Tigers could have the quickest path to get to the postseason next season. They still aren’t out of the playoff race, but it is unlikely they get there. They’re only eight games back from the Minnesota […]

College football is finally here. Every team ranked inside the AP top 25 poll played this weekend. That includes the Ole Miss football Rebels, who are ranked 22nd. Their matchup against FCS school Mercer wasn’t the most notable game of the Week 1 slate. But it did serve as a nice warm-up game for their […]

No team in College football’s Week 1 made a bigger statement as Deion Sanders and the Colorado football team, so much so that several of its players generated a ton of buzz in the aftermath. Colorado made the biggest and buzziest head coaching hire of the offseason when they lured Sanders away from Jackson State […]

The Los Angeles Chargers finished the part of training camp that every NFL team wishes they could do without: roster cuts. Every NFL team wants to keep as many players as they possibly can. They believe in these players and want to see them flourish and want them to help the team win football games. […]

The Seattle Mariners are one of the hottest teams in baseball right now. When the MLB season resumed after the All-Star break, the Mariners were the definition of mediocrity. As Thanos yearned for, the Mariners’ record was perfectly balanced at 45-45. They were well behind their division foes Texas Rangers and Houston Astros. The Mariners […]

College Football is mercifully back! Week 0 gave everyone their college football fix and routine back after a seven-plus month-long hiatus from the sport. But now, almost everyone makes their return to the gridiron. Every team ranked in the top 25 is playing this week. Of those teams, only the Utah Utes won’t be playing […]

The Denver Broncos’ roster cuts are over, and fortunately for the team, it looks like they have found some diamonds in the rough heading to the 2023 season. One player on the Broncos’ 53-man roster who survived the roster cuts and could make an impact right away is second-year wide receiver Brandon Johnson. Broncos roster […]

The Dallas Cowboys finished the part of training camp that every NFL team wishes to avoid: roster cuts. Every team wishes they could keep all of the players they bring into camp. All these players wish they could stay on the roster and help that team out in some way, shape, or form. Unfortunately, that […]

The Miami Dolphins managed to get through the part of training camp that every NFL team wishes to avoid: roster cuts. Every team wishes they could keep every player they bring into camp, and all these players wish they could stay on the roster and help their team out in some way, shape, or form. […]

The Carolina Panthers just finished the part of training camp that every NFL team dreads: roster cuts. Cutting so many players that teams believe in and perhaps ending some players’ careers is rough for everybody. Some of those guys could impact the team’s roster immediately. Fortunately for the Panthers and every other NFL team, there […]