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Imagine for a moment, you’re Todd Gurley. You spend your entire life playing football, and you’re dominant. Four-star prospect coming out of high school, state champion, recruited by the University of Georgia. After three years in Athens, you depart the program second on the school’s all-time list in both rushing yards and touchdowns. Despite an […]

As the Alabama football program prepares for the start of the 2024 season, much has changed in Tuscaloosa. With the proliferation of the transfer portal, this is not abnormal, but what Alabama is undergoing is a whole different story. After seventeen seasons and a staggering six National Championships, Nick Saban stepped down as head coach […]

The biggest move of the night during the 1st Round of the 2024 NBA Draft was the Minnesota Timberwolves’ decision to trade two future 1st Round picks — a 2030 swap and an unprotected 2031 1st rounder — to the San Antonio Spurs in order to move up to the 8th overall pick. With that […]

Metta Sandiford-Artest, previously known as Metta World Peace, Ron Artest, and The Pandas Friend — bet you forgot about that one — had his share of on-court anger issues during his . Whether it was nearly coming to blows with Kobe Bryant before they were Lakers teammates, elbowing James Harden in the head for seemingly […]

Typically when Dwight Howard name-drops one of his former NBA comrades on Twitter, it’s because he’s recruiting them to come play or coach in Taiwan. But on Wednesday night, Howard’s basketball-related musings remained in the Western Hemisphere, as he pitched a former teammate, Rajon Rondo, as a head coaching candidate for the Detroit Pistons. The Detroit […]

David Griffin is not a stranger to the rigors of being in an NBA front office. Before he took over as the Executive Vice President of Basketball Operations for the New Orleans Pelicans in 2019, Griffin had spent nearly seven years with the Cleveland Cavaliers, struggling through four seasons without LeBron James, and then encountering […]

History may have taught us that Michael Jordan’s NBA Finals resume is unassailable, due in large part to the fact that MJ’s Chicago Bulls were a perfect 6-0 when the Larry O’Brien Trophy was on the line. And while nobody can take that perfect 6-0 record away from Michael Jordan, we can simply point out […]

Just months after what was the best season of his young NFL career, San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Brandon Aiyuk is at the center of what has been the most tumultuous and tense standoff between player and organization this offseason. What started back in April around the NFL Draft, when rumors were rampant that the […]

Los Angeles Rams head coach Sean McVay hasn’t hid his excitement about the addition of Michigan running back Blake Corum. Corum, the 3rd running back off the board in the 2024 NFL Draft, was selected with the 83rd pick by the Rams following his senior season at Michigan in which he scored 27 rushing touchdowns, […]

With the Big Ten expanding this season thanks to the additions of USC, UCLA, Washington and Oregon, life is bound to only get more difficult for teams in one of the nation’s premier basketball conference. That includes the Illinois basketball program, which under 8th-year head coach Brad Underwood is enjoying something of a program renaissance. […]

Even after the departure of long-time head coach Jim Harbaugh, the Michigan Wolverines continue to rack up wins in 2024. Their run started in the beginning of January, with wins over Alabama and Washington in the College Football Playoff, a pair of victories that brought the National Title to Ann Arbor for the first time […]

Heading into the 2024 NFL Draft, the assumption around the league was that the Las Vegas Raiders may be in business for a rookie quarterback. Sure, Vegas had just recently signed Gardner Minshew and second-year signal-caller Aidan O’Connell played reasonably well down the stretch during his rookie season, but neither of these guys were viewed […]

Each year since 1999, many of the country’s best high school quarterbacks converge on Beaverton, Oregon — the home of Nike World Headquarters — to compete in an event known as the Elite 11, which gives these young QBs the opportunity to showcase their skills in a variety of events. At the end of the […]

Nobody can question the talent and accolades of New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers. Over the course of his illustrious NFL career, Rodgers has won four regular season MVP’s, been named to the Pro Bowl ten times, and brought Green Bay their fourth Super Bowl title in 2011. For his career, he’s fifth in total […]

By now it’s no secret that the short-lived Russell Wilson era in Denver did not go all that smoothly. In fact, even as Wilson was still starting at quarterback for the Broncos last season, the widespread expectation around the league was that there would be no circumstance in which Wilson would be returning to the […]

The Chicago Bears enter the 2024 NFL season with expectations as high as they’ve been in the last half decade. With the selections of Caleb Williams and Rome Odunze in the NFL Draft, D’Andre Swift and Kevin Byard in free agency, and Keenan Allen via trade with the Los Angeles Chargers, the Windy City is […]

As the NBA offseason gets under way, just two teams around the league are left without a head coach. The Detroit Pistons, who went 14-68 and endured the longest losing streak in league history early in the 2023-24 season, fired their head coach Monty Williams earlier this week. Meanwhile, the Cleveland Cavaliers made the decision […]

Long before Cam Newton won the NFL MVP Award, led the Carolina Panthers to a 15-1 regular season record and carried the team to their second Super Bowl appearance in franchise history, he was a five-star prospect being recruited by some of the best college football programs in the country, including Oklahoma, Georgia, Virginia Tech […]

Although the folks in Lexington would want you to believe otherwise, the Kentucky basketball program hasn’t always sat atop the college basketball world. In the midst of countless high points over the last 80 or so years, the school has also had their lulls in success, including most recently, the four year window prior to […]

On Thursday afternoon, about a month and a half after firing Darvin Ham following a subpar two-season stretch as head coach, the Los Angeles Lakers made the decision to hire JJ Redick as the franchise’s next head coach. It was the expected result from the very beginning of the Lakers’ coaching search, though for one […]

Each summer since 2011, NFL Network puts together their NFL Top 100, a 100-1 countdown of the best players in the National Football League, as voted on by the players. While the list, in its entirety, is yet to be revealed, apparently one player who was hopeful of earning inclusion on this list has already […]

As we inch closer and closer to the official start of NBA free agency, one of the biggest names to keep an eye on as the league’s offseason begins is Los Angeles Clippers forward Paul George. George is a nine-time NBA All-Star who has made over $300 million in his career. He’s a fourteen year […]

Standing 6’4″ and nearly 250 lbs., Indianapolis Colts second-year quarterback Anthony Richardson is a specimen to behold even in a league that’s full of them. Touted as one of the best pure athletes to ever play the quarterback position — a distinction that was backed up by off the charts scores at the NFL Scouting […]

Monty Williams’ very brief and very expensive tenure with the Detroit Pistons came to an end on Wednesday just one year and seventeen days after it began. Following a dreadful 14-68 campaign, which included a 28-game losing streak near the beginning of the season, the Pistons decided to part ways with the former player and […]

After the departure of eleven-year head coach Andy Enfield, the USC Trojans basketball program quickly moved forward, hiring Eric Musselman away from the Arkansas Razorbacks. In Musselman, the Trojans have a head coach with .704 career winning percentage at the college level who has made two Elite Eight’s and a Sweet Sixteen appearance in the […]

Heading into the 2024 NFL season, 31-year-old veteran edge rusher Preston Smith is the only player on the Packers roster in his 30s. It’s a testament to both the amount of young talent that the Packers — a co-favorite in the NFC North along with the reigning champion Detroit Lions — have managed to accumulate […]

The summer of 2024 will be a big one for Los Angeles Lakers superstar LeBron James. This July, for the fourth time in his long and illustrious career, LeBron will be one of the twelve players who are representing Team USA in the Summer Olympics. But weeks before he dons the red, white and blue, […]

For seven seasons, Los Angeles Rams head coach Sean McVay had the privilege of coaching Aaron Donald, a true one-of-one when it comes to interior defensive linemen. When Aaron Donald announced his retirement back in March, he departed with three Defensive Player of the Year Awards, eight 1st-Team All-Pro appearances, and ten Pro Bowl nods […]

The Chicago Bears won’t be back on the practice field until late July, but in limited action in OTAs and minicamps throughout the months of May and June, Chicago’s prized #1 overall pick Caleb Williams has already made a great first impression on his coaches, teammates, and Bears fans alike. Whether it’s Caleb Williams’ magnetic […]

Last summer, nearly to the day in fact, the LSU football program announced that they would be vacating all 37 wins that were accumulated in the 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015 seasons in response to a Level I violation related to the eligibility of four-year starter and 2015 All-American offensive lineman Vadal Alexander. The school received […]

Long-time Pittsburgh Steelers defensive tackle Cameron Heyward made some waves late last week when he suggested that it was a possibility that he could leave the Steel City after nearly a decade and a half and potentially join the Steelers’ bitter AFC North rival, the Cleveland Browns. Heyward noted that both he and his wife […]

For those who were ready to write off the Alabama football program following the sudden departure of legendary head coach Nick Saban back in January, the first few months of the Kalen DeBoer era in Tuscaloosa have proven to be reason for pause. Although Alabama is still over two months away from taking the field […]

While Game 4 of the NBA Finals may have left a whole lot to be desired in terms of on-court drama, off the court up in the 100’s section of American Airlines Center, one of the biggest impending free agency battles of the NBA’s offseason was starting to heat up. Scheduled to make an appearance […]

The Dallas Mavericks came into Game 4 of the NBA Finals facing what has historically been an insurmountable 3-0 series deficit, and from the jump on Friday night, it was clear that Dallas was playing with a far greater sense of urgency than their Eastern Conference counterpart was. In a must-win situation, the Dallas Mavericks […]

For about 72 hours, it looked like the UConn Huskies men’s basketball program was going to soon need to adjust to life without Dan Hurley. With the Los Angeles Lakers preparing to make a “massive offer” to Hurley, and Hurley rumored to have legitimate interest in taking the job after being impressed by LA during […]

Back in April, the Washington Commanders selected Heisman Trophy winning quarterback Jayden Daniels with the 2nd overall pick in the NFL Draft. It was a pick that seemingly signified the beginning of a new era of football in Washington, one marked by the arrival of young, dynamic franchise quarterback — the likes of which Washington […]

The name of the game for the Chicago Bears this offseason has been to revamp an offense that historically has been inept no matter who the quarterback, head coach, signal caller or weapons have been. In selecting Caleb Williams 1st overall in the 2024 NFL Draft and wide receiver Rome Odunze 9th, the Bears took a […]

The Cincinnati Bengals enter the 2024 NFL season with legitimate Super Bowl hopes, but those hopes live and die with the health of quarterback Joe Burrow. Burrow has played four seasons in the NFL, and thus far, when he manages to stay healthy, the Bengals have made deep postseason runs. When his year ends up […]

By any available metric, the first month of the 2024 WNBA season has been a tremendous success. TV ratings are through the roof, with nearly three times as many people watching WNBA games across all networks this year compared to last year. Arenas are being filled to 94 percent capacity, a 17 percent rise from […]