Sonny Giuliano Articles - Page 29

Earlier this week, four-star redshirt freshman quarterback Jaden Rashada, who began his collegiate career at Arizona State University after initially committing to the University of Florida, announced that he would be entering the transfer portal. “I’ll be entering my name in the transfer portal, seeking the best for my career,” Rashada wrote on his social […]

With each passing minute, the beginning of the 2024 NFL Draft inches closer, and the expectation among those in the know is that there could very well be some fireworks within the opening ten picks of the night. The only thing set in stone as we speak right now is that the Chicago Bears will […]

In the immediate aftermath of the Oklahoma City Thunder’s 124-92 Game 2 victory over the New Orleans Pelicans, rookie center Chet Holmgren, who scored 26 points and pulled down 7 rebounds in the win, grabbed the microphone and praised teammate Shai Gilgeous-Alexander as the league’s MVP. But once the euphoria of the win and Holmgren’s […]

While there may not be any drama related to what the Chicago Bears will do with the 1st overall pick in the 2024 NFL Draft, it’s still a mystery what general manager Ryan Poles will do with the 9th overall pick. There are theories aplenty out there right now as to what the Bears will […]

The Denver Nuggets kicked off their NBA Title defense with a home win on Saturday night over the Los Angeles Lakers, a 7-seed who the Nuggets defeated in the Western Conference Finals just one year ago. Playing in his 283rd career Playoff game, LeBron James scored 27 points and chipped in with 6 rebounds and […]

You can feel the tide beginning to turn. Like evolution, it’s slow and gradual, but make no mistake, it’s happening. The stranglehold that Michael Jordan has had on the title of Greatest Basketball Player of All-Time — one given to him by David Stern immediately before he announced his retirement for the first time in […]

In four of the past five NFL Drafts, Eagles general manager Howie Roseman has been aggressive in the 1st round, opting to trade up for his target rather than sitting idly by and taking whatever player was available when Philadelphia was finally on the clock. If you read the tea leaves, it’s possible that you’ll […]

Let me tell you, attempting to sort through all of the different rumors that are out there in the days leading up to the NFL Draft is an absolutely dizzying process. It’s almost like putting together a puzzle, only the puzzle pieces are constantly changing sizes and colors and shapes. And for whatever reason, aside […]

2024 has been one hell of a year for former Michigan quarterback JJ McCarthy. In January, McCarthy helped to lead the Wolverines to their first National Title since 1997, and shortly after, McCarthy announced that like his former head coach Jim Harbaugh, he too was NFL bound. McCarthy was initially pegged as a mid-to-late 1st […]

The road to the NFL Draft has been a long and tumultuous one of Washington Huskies quarterback Michael Penix Jr.. As the Heisman Trophy runner-up prepared to lead his team into the College Football Playoff, news broke that some teams around the league were concerned that the medical evaluations on Penix — who suffered a […]

Well before the 2024 Draft order was even set, the long-held assumption among fans, analysts, scouts and team executives was that USC Trojans quarterback Caleb Williams would be the 1st overall pick in the Draft. And now with the NFL Draft less than one week away, the worst-kept secret around the league is that the […]

Following the departure of head coach Dusty May, the FAU basketball program was hit hard by a transfer portal exodus of some of their biggest stars. Center Vladislav Goldin will be following May to Michigan, while Nick Boyd heads west to join Brian Dutcher’s squad at San Diego State. Johnell Davis, perhaps the biggest prize […]

The Denver Nuggets are the defending NBA champions, and along with the Boston Celtics, the co-favorites to hoist the Larry O’Brien Trophy in June 2024. Their opening test of the postseason is a familiar foe… the Los Angeles Lakers, who the Nuggets have faced in the Playoffs in three of the previous five postseasons. Behind […]

After Game 1 of their 1st Round Playoff series against the defending NBA champion Denver Nuggets, the Los Angeles Lakers are already searching for answers. The issue here is that Nikola Jokic and the Nuggets are not a math equation… there’s no formula the Lakers can actually rely on to find the answers they need. […]

In the last sixteen months, the Los Angeles Lakers and Denver Nuggets have played each other nine times, and in each of those meetings, the Nuggets have come away victorious, including last night in the Nuggets 114-103 Game 1 victory over LA. Rarely in the career of LeBron James have we seen a team so […]

For the second consecutive postseason, the Los Angeles Lakers will be tasked with dealing with two-time league MVP Nikola Jokic and his Denver Nuggets. But as the Lakers prepare to face the defending NBA champions, this time in the 1st round as opposed to the Western Conference Finals, they know all too well that The […]

In a Denver courtroom on Friday afternoon, Coban Porter, a former member of the University of Denver basketball team and the younger brother of Nuggets forward Michael Porter Jr. and recently banned former NBA player Jontay Porter, was sentenced to six years in prison after a January 2023 drunk-driving crash that resulted in the death […]

For the 13th time in Erik Spoelstra’s 16 seasons as the head coach of the Miami Heat, the Hardest working, Best conditioned, Most professional, Unselfish, Toughest, Meanest, Nastiest team in the NBA is playoff bound. The fact that the Heat are here yet again is a testament to the work of the many players who […]

On Thursday’s edition of NBA Today on ESPN, Minnesota Timberwolves star Anthony Edwards confidently told Malika Andrews and former NBA player Austin Rivers that he believed he has only reached 40 percent of his potential at the moment. Quite a statement to make for someone who is coming off a season in which he averaged […]

The 2024 NFL Draft is only one week away, and let me tell you, I’m so grateful that this is the case, because at the moment, the discourse around the league is starting to get a little wonky. Not only do we have legendary former head coach Bill Belichick coming out and saying not to […]

The Jontay Porter gambling scandal seemingly came to a close on Thursday, when NBA Commissioner Adam Silver handed down a permanent ban for the Toronto Raptors reserve forward for committing what Silver called, “a cardinal sin,” according to David Aldridge of The Athletic. Not only did Jontay Porter bet on the NBA, he bet on […]

The Oklahoma City Thunder came into the 2023-24 NBA season with high expectations, but even inside of the Thunder organization, becoming the youngest team to ever secure the #1 seed in the NBA Playoffs must’ve seemed like a bigger step forward than they were anticipating. However, even in the loaded Western Conference, the Thunder enjoyed […]

It’s hard to believe, but it was only three years ago when the Atlanta Hawks, a plucky upstart 5-seed, made a run all the way to the Eastern Conference Finals, where they gave the eventual NBA champion Milwaukee Bucks all they could handle over a competitive six game series. The catalyst of all this Eastern […]

The 2024 NFL offseason has been a hectic one in the Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback room. The Steelers ended the 2023 season with Kenny Pickett, Mason Rudolph, and Mitchell Trubisky making up their quarterback depth chart, but now Pickett is in Philadelphia, Rudolph is in Tennessee, and Trubisky is back to serving as Josh Allen’s back-up […]

Tommy Lloyd’s Arizona Wildcats have suffered a handful of key losses already this offseason, losing both Kylan Boswell and Oumar Ballo to the transfer portal, and both Caleb Love and Keshad Johnson to the NBA Draft. And now, the fifth Wildcat starter from the 2023-24 squad, Pelle Larsson, who last season was among the leaders […]

With potentially six different quarterbacks going in the 1st Round of the 2024 NFL Draft, Thursday April 25th is shaping up to be an unpredictable night that has the chance to change the landscape of the NFL in many different ways. We know that for the first time in their franchise history, the Chicago Bears […]

To win, or not to win. That is the question.  Admittedly, these are not the exact words that William Shakespeare wrote over 400 years ago in Hamlet. And as much as I’d like to pretend that the overall sentiment is the same, Shakespeare was writing about Hamlet contemplating the unfairness of life and whether it […]

The upstart Houston Texans enjoyed a surprisingly successful 2023 campaign, winning the AFC South on the final day of the season on the back of Rookie of the Year quarterback CJ Stroud and first-year head coach DeMeco Ryans, building blocks who will likely keep the Texans among the AFC’s best for the remainder of the […]

If you’re a lifelong fan of the National Basketball Association — not just the game of basketball, but specifically the NBA — then there’s no other way around it: the 2023-24 season was a tremendous success. The old guard of superstars (LeBron James, Kevin Durant, Stephen Curry, etc.) is still hanging around and competing for […]

Though the date of the game has yet to be set, the World’s Most Famous Arena, Madison Square Garden, will be the site of a highly anticipated matchup between father and son. No, LeBron James and Bronny James will not be going head to head against each other at MSG. Technically it’s a possibility, but […]

With John Calipari on his way to Fayetteville to coach the Arkansas Razorbacks, it’s the dawning of a new era of Kentucky basketball in Lexington. But for as much excitement as there seemed to be with the arrival of new head coach (and former Kentucky Wildcat) Mark Pope, there is so much work that needs […]

It wasn’t a great final day of the season for the New Orleans Pelicans, or for their star forward Zion Williamson. With a win over the Los Angeles Lakers, the Pelicans would’ve clinched the 6th seed in the Western Conference and assured themselves a spot in the NBA Playoffs. However, the Lakers had other plans. […]

Saturday’s A-Day at Bryant-Denny Stadium marked the beginning of a new era for the Alabama football program. For the first time in nearly two decades, legendary head coach Nick Saban won’t be roaming the Crimson Tide sidelines. Instead, it will be Kalen DeBoer, the former Washington Huskies head coach who parlayed his team’s run to […]

Brock Purdy’s rise from Mr. Irrelevant to legitimate star quarterback for one of the most prestigious franchises in the NFL is a story that the folks at Disney couldn’t have crafted. Yet here we are, less than two years removed from being selected with the final pick in the 2022 NFL Draft, and Brock Purdy […]

Legendary college football coach and current FOX analyst Urban Meyer has three National Championship rings to speak for, so it’s fair to say that his evaluation of whether a team has the looks of a Championship contender is likely a little more reliable than that of an average f465an. (Insert sly Jacksonville Jaguars joke here) […]

Since taking over as head coach of the Illinois basketball program, head coach Brad Underwood has gotten closer to restoring a winning tradition in Champaign than any other coach has since Bruce Weber led the Illini to the National Championship Game in 2005. Underwood has largely been successful because of he and his staff’s savvy […]

After making the Final Four for the first time in program history back in the beginning of April, Nate Oats and his Crimson Tide staff will have plenty of work to do between now and the start of next season in order to keep Alabama near the top of the college basketball world, which is […]

When contract negotiations between Davante Adams and the Green Bay Packers broke down during the 2022 offseason, Adams was promptly traded to the Las Vegas Raiders for a pair of draft picks (a 1st and a 2nd). With Adams on his way, his former college teammate Derek Carr under center, and new head coach Josh […]

Since leaving the Dallas Mavericks in the summer of 2022 to sign a four-year, $104 million deal with the New York Knicks, Jalen Brunson has transformed himself from a winning complimentary piece who contended for 6th Man of the Year and Most Improved Player in back to back seasons in Dallas to someone who has […]