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We’re nearly two and a half months clear of February 2nd, but for Atlanta Falcons fans, the upcoming 2024 NFL Draft must be feeling like some sort of hellish, football version of the movie Groundhog Day, because for the third consecutive year, the Falcons find themselves picking 8th in the 1st round of the NFL Draft. […]

The 2025 College Football season may seem like it’s still an eternity away, but Ohio State Buckeyes head coach Ryan Day is making moves in the present that will keep the Buckeyes in the National Title picture in the future. The best way to go about doing that is by ensuring that Ohio State’s 2025 […]

Draymond Green is no stranger to finishing games with unorthodox stat lines. In fact, to paraphrase the soon-to-be thirty-year-old Academy Award winning film Forrest Gump, a Draymond Green box score is like a box of chocolates… you never know what you’re gonna get. The Golden State Warriors forward is one of just 15 players in […]

Chicago comes into the 2024 NFL Draft with only four picks — 1, 9, 75 and 122, but I fully expect that Ryan Poles will find a way to acquire more picks over the course of the three days of the Draft. And as you’ll soon see, my line of thinking lines up nicely with […]

After being bounced out of the NCAA Tournament in the 2nd Round for the second consecutive year, the Kansas Jayhawks basketball program could use a big-time win this spring. But because it will be over six months until their next game is played, that means the Jayhawks need a win in the recruiting game, which […]

John Calipari hasn’t even been in Fayetteville, Arkansas for 48 hours, but he’s already busy at work. As Calipari noted in his opening address as the new head coach of the Arkansas Razorbacks, roster construction is his number one concern. The Razorbacks currently have just three players on their roster and as Calipari noted, all […]

Now on one hand, anyone could’ve seen this coming. We’ve never had a player like San Antonio Spurs rookie sensation Victor Wembanyama come into the NBA and deliver on the hype so impressively and so quickly, and any time a player remotely near Wemby’s caliber comes into the league, he is going to be nurtured […]

Just when we thought Tom Brady was out, he pulled us back in! 46-year-old former NFL quarterback Tom Brady — not looking a day over 26 years-old, mind you — has once again captured the attention of the NFL world, despite the fact that it’s been a little over a year since Brady announced his retirement […]

Joe Alt is the son of thirteen year NFL veteran John Alt, a two-time Pro Bowler who, like his son, played offensive tackle. And ever since Alt’s standout sophomore campaign for the Fighting Irish, the widespread assumption has been that the 6’9″ 321-pound second-generation offensive tackle would be among the top picks in the NFL […]

Just days after the surprising departure of former head coach John Calipari, who leaves Lexington to head to Fayetteville to coach the University of Arkansas Razorbacks, the University of Kentucky moved quickly to narrow their coaching search to just one initial candidate. And the one candidate the Wildcats had closed in on was someone who […]

The 2024 NFL Draft kicks off in Detroit, Michigan just two weeks from today, and what makes this year’s draft so intriguing is not just the top end prospects who will soon see their NFL dreams realized… it’s that for the most part, we still don’t know what will happen on Draft night after the […]

Since John Calipari stunned the college basketball world earlier this week, deciding to bolt from the University of Kentucky after fifteen seasons to become the head coach for the University of Arkansas basketball program, details have begun to trickle out about the increasingly volatile relationship between Calipari and his former employer. And even though Kentucky […]

The 2024 NCAA Tournament has been whittled down to just two teams, and tonight, the Connecticut Huskies and Purdue Boilermakers will square off in what has all the makings of an iconic National Championship Game. While UConn attempts to become the first team in seventeen years to repeat as National Champions, Purdue aims to “pull […]

The NCAA Tournament is known for being unpredictable, but over the last two years, the Connecticut Huskies have been anything but. In fact, it’s fair to argue that UConn has become inevitable. It’s a rare quality that only some of the greatest teams of all-time have managed to possess. But then again, with a win […]

On Monday night the UConn Huskies and Purdue Boilermakers will take the floor in Glendale, Arizona to determine who will win the 2024 NCAA Tournament. It’s fair to say, given how dominant both the Huskies and Boilermakers have been this year, and how drastically different their experiences in the 2023 NCAA Tournament were, this could […]

It’s commonplace for basketball coaches to use boxing analogies when talking about their own team’s mindset or formula for success. The Sweet Science offers no shortage of valuable lessons that could be applied on the hardwood, in the boxing ring, or in life. Now admittedly, I don’t have a whole heck of a lot of […]

The NCAA Tournament is a unique sort of star-making machine. While success in March is by no means a guarantee of success at the next level, nor does it promise a long-lasting stay in the spotlight, it does however provide those who manage to capture the spotlight for even the briefest of moments a seat at […]

Well friends, it’s Final Four weekend, and that means tonight, two teams will punch their ticket to Monday’s National Championship Game in Glendale, Arizona. But before the confetti falls, before the nets are cut down, and before we’re treated to the velvet voice of Luther Vandross singing “One Shining Moment,” we need to take a […]

The biggest (no pun intended) and most undeniable star of the 2024 NCAA Tournament is NC State center DJ Burns Jr., whose million dollar smile, carefree attitude and methodical destruction of opponents inside of the three-point arc have made him a household name in the span of three weeks. Burns has been the catalyst of […]

On a random Wednesday night in early April, with the NBA season winding down and Denver Nuggets center Nikola Jokic closing in on what will be his third MVP Award in four years, former NBA All-Star Gilbert Arenas decided to fire off a misguided hot take like it was a heavily contested three-ball way back […]

Three weeks from today, the Chicago Bears will select Caleb Williams with the 1st overall pick in the 2024 NFL Draft. I say this as if it is a virtual certainty, and that’s because if they don’t, it will instantly become one of the most stunning and memorable moments in NFL Draft history. This is […]

It’s likely that by now you’ve heard that 2024 NBA Draft class is being panned by draft experts as one of the weakest in recent memory. In truth, this has been the case ever since the San Antonio Spurs selected Victor Wembanyama 1st overall last year. Every few years this just happens to be how things shake out, […]

When you talk about Alabama vs. Auburn, the image that pops into your head is likely one that takes place on a football field. Cam Newton’s 24-point comeback. The Kick Six. Jalen Milroe’s 4th and 31 touchdown pass to Isaiah Bond to keep Bama’s College Football Playoff hopes alive. But in recent years, there’s has […]

While the rest of the college basketball world eagerly awaits the showdown between Purdue’s Zach Edey and NC State’s DJ Burns Jr. in one Final Four matchup, the fastest rising prospect in the country is a big man on the other side of the bracket. In March 2023, UConn Huskies center Donovan Clingan was a […]

Bill Simmons knows a thing or two about hoops. The man who is called an “NBA-hole” by frequent podcast guest Cousin Sal Iacono and wrote “The Book of Basketball” in 2009, which spent over 700 pages throughly breaking down the elaborate history of professional basketball, is one of the preeminent voices in basketball media. Simmons […]

Packers head coach Matt LaFleur has been the man in charge in Green Bay for five seasons now, and there arguably hasn’t been a player who has been as consistent or as reliable in that time as running back Aaron Jones. Jones, a seven-year NFL veteran who has spent the entirety of his NFL career […]

In 25 days, the Chicago Bears will likely use the #1 pick in the NFL Draft to select USC quarterback Caleb Williams. For longtime fans of the Bears, myself included, the idea of selecting a quarterback who is widely considered to be a generational prospect feels a little bit like an April Fools Day joke. […]

San Antonio Spurs rookie center Victor Wembanyama hasn’t been able to escape the spotlight ever since the Wemby Sweepstakes kicked off some time around October 2022. But in his extended stay in the spotlight, the 20-year-old Rookie of the Year frontrunner has done nothing but impress at every turn. He’s avoided poor performances and off-the-court […]

Following Kansas’ 2nd round loss to Gonzaga in the 2024 NCAA Tournament, longtime Jayhawks head coach Bill Self turned some heads when he proclaimed that for the previous month, he had already found himself thinking about the 2024-25 season. Perhaps in today’s NCAA landscape, keeping an eye on the next season is necessary. To the […]

One of the most successful seasons in the history of the Illinois basketball program concluded on Saturday night, when the Fighting Illini fell to the UConn Huskies, who extended their run of double-digit NCAA Tournament wins to ten games at the expense of the Illini with a 77-52 win. The Huskies used an unprecedented 30-0 […]

With just a minute and a half to go in the 1st half of their Elite Eight matchup, Dan Hurley’s UConn Huskies and the Illinois Fighting Illini were tied at 23 points apiece. For the Illini, to be tied with the defending national champions at this point in the game had to be considered an […]

Following a Thursday and Friday that featured five upsets, we’re down to eight teams left in the 2024 NCAA Tournament. Which four teams will punch their ticket to the Final Four in Glendale, who will fall one game short, and hey, while we’re here, you ever think about if we’ve seen Elite Eight matchups like […]

After one of the most successful seasons in program history, the Utah State Aggies are paying the price. Danny Sprinkle, who had come to Logan just a year ago after leading Montana State to back-to-back NCAA Tournament appearances, departed for the University of Washington less than 72 hours after Utah State’s 2nd round loss to Purdue. […]

45 years ago, Kelvin Sampson got his first crack at coaching as a graduate assistant at Michigan State. From there, Sampson’s coaching career took him to Montana Tech, Washington State, Oklahoma, and Indiana before he took half a decade detour as an assistant coach in the NBA following allegations of NCAA recruiting violations. In 2014, […]

This story begins back in 1998, when Keith Dambrot was named the head coach at St. Vincent-St. Mary High School in Akron, Ohio. Until this point, St. Vincent-St. Mary was your run of the mill private Catholic school in Northeast Ohio, but that wouldn’t be the case for much longer, because soon enough a transformative […]

How’s this for a complicated coaching triangle — with SMU departing the AAC and swapping out that second ‘A’ for a second ‘C’, the Mustangs entered the offseason with the intention of making a splashy hire at head coach. Enter Andy Enfield, who shot to fame as the head coach of FGCU’s Dunk City squad […]

Only sixteen teams remain in the 2024 NCAA Tournament, and the Sweet Sixteen is chock-full of intriguing matchups between an unusual number of Power 6 powerhouses at this stage of the tournament. What should you be looking for on Thursday and Friday nights, and who should you be backing in each of the eight matchups? […]

You ever been inside one of those funhouses at a carnival? You walk in there, there’s music playing, you’re a little lost, and at some point you come across a mirror. Only this mirror doesn’t reflect back your typical perfect mirror image. Because the mirrors are curved, the image it reflects back is vaguely similar, […]

Well friends, four days of March Madness are in the book, and all that remains are sixteen teams. A very sweet, and surprisingly predictable sixteen if you ask me, but sixteen teams nonetheless. Today, I’ll be re-ranking the sixteen teams left in the field, and admittedly, this is an inexact science… sort of like the NET […]