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I tried to do some quick math, but math was never my strong suit, so forgive me if my estimates here are slightly off. But by my calculations, there’s about two tons of weight colliding at the line of scrimmage on any given “Tush Push” play, or as the Philadelphia Eagles appropriately call it, “The […]

There’s no shortage of examples throughout an NFL season where we learn that ordinary folks like you and I, we’re not cut from the same cloth as the dudes who go out there and compete on Sundays. This is one of those examples. During the Las Vegas Raiders loss to the Detroit Lions on Monday […]

Among a rookie class that has already produced no shortage of high-quality pass catchers, one receiver who has flown under the radar in comparison to his contemporaries is Indianapolis Colts’ 3rd round pick Josh Downs. Downs, who had back to back seasons with over 1,000 yards at North Carolina, is third among rookies in receiving […]

It’s hard to believe that it’s been over thirteen years since LeBron James took his talents to South Beach to join the Miami Heat. In four short seasons, LeBron (along with Dwayne Wade and Chris Bosh) created the modern free-agency-built super team, became the biggest villains in professional sports, put together a 27-game winning streak, […]

Sometimes the world does you a kindness, and throws you a slow pitch right down the center of the plate. It hangs there in the air, just waiting for you to make contact. All you need to do is swing, and most likely, you’ll knock it out of the park. Today is one of those […]

Jim Harbaugh and the Michigan football team have easily handled all opponents they’ve faced on the field so far this season. The Wolverines are currently 9-0 and have outscored their opponents 366-60 in those nine games. Their three toughest tests are still to come, with road games at Penn State and Maryland the next two […]

Welcome to Bracketology at ClutchPoints, the one-stop shop for you sickos out there who are consumed by all things March Madness. It may only be November 6, but the 2023-24 college basketball season starts today, so that means the 132-day march to Selection Sunday is officially underway as the UConn Huskies look to defend their […]

Bill Belichick’s 24 seasons as the head coach of the New England Patriots is the fifth-longest tenure of any coach with any team in NFL history, trailing only George Halas (40 seasons with Chicago), Curly Lambeau (29 seasons with Green Bay), Tom Landry (29 seasons with Dallas), and Don Shula (26 seasons with Miami). He’s […]

When the Kansas City Chiefs faced off with the Miami Dolphins in Frankfurt, Germany this morning, the Deutscher fans must’ve been expecting a high-octane shootout that would have them singing “Danke Schoen” after the game concluded. And though it wasn’t the kind of performance we’re used to seeing from Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes, […]

Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce is having one heck of a 2023, isn’t he? It started when Kelce won his second Super Bowl title in February, then he hosted Saturday Night Live in March. From there, he starred in commercials for Campbell’s Soup, Pfizer, and Bud Light. Now, halfway through the 2023 season, […]

Minnesota Vikings quarterback Jaren Hall will become the 9th rookie QB to start a game this season. Surely, the 25-year-old BYU product will be thrilled to get the first start of his career, as one would rightfully expect him to be, but he’s doing so under very difficult circumstances. In all likelihood, this will be […]

The 2023 season started out so promising for the Colorado football program. Deion Sanders showed up in Boulder with that trademark Prime Time swagger and confidence, breathing life into a program that had been dormant for two decades (the Buffs have only had one 10-win season in the last twenty years). When Coach Prime and […]

Michigan football coach Jim Harbaugh is certainly no stranger to awkward post-game handshakes — so much so that when Harbaugh was asked after the game about his icy handshake with Purdue head coach Ryan Walters, Harbaugh remarked it was a “typical postgame handshake.” Yeah, that sounds about right. Whether it was following a blowout win […]

The old saying goes, “What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas,” but that apparently does not apply to the Las Vegas Raiders. Not only is Josh McDaniels not “staying” the Raiders head coach, but now the details of a contentious team meeting prior to McDaniels’ firing are trickling out, proving that not everything that happens […]

Long before he was able to claim the title of Greatest Of All Time and establish himself as one of Father Time’s greatest rivals, Tom Brady was just another quarterback for the Michigan football program. Actually, perhaps that is a little unfair to TB12. When Brady left Michigan in 1999, he did so with the […]

Just about everything went right for the Minnesota Vikings during the 2022 NFL season. Every random bounce of the ball, and every one possession game went their way, and they rode that luck to a 13-4 record, which was tied for second-best in the NFC (let’s just call it what it is, because year to […]

Less than a week after acquiring Montez Sweat from the Washington Commanders, Chicago Bears second-year general manager Ryan Poles was able to lock the 27-year-old edge rusher to a long, lucrative extension that will presumably keep him in Chicago for the next half decade. A rare W in the Windy City this season. Montez Sweat […]

There are a handful rivalries in the NFL that, for whatever reason, carry more weight than most others. We’re talking Bears vs. Packers (one-sided, I know, but as the NFL’s longest rivalry, this one is grandfathered in), Ravens vs. Steelers, Brandon Staley vs. analysts who have an aversion to analytics, and of course, Cowboys vs. […]

Mike McDaniel is one of the most interesting men in the NFL. After serving as either an intern or an assistant coach in the NFL nearly every year since he was 22-year-old kid fresh out of Yale, now at the still-very-young age of 40, McDaniel is in his second season as head coach of the […]

The latest update in the Michigan football sign-stealing scandal came out of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, of all places today. On-site for ESPN’s College Football Gameday at the campus of the University of Alabama, ESPN Insider Pete Thamel was interviewed by Gameday host Rece Davis, discussing the latest on a potential punishment for Jim Harbaugh, dished out […]

It’s been a good week for the Ohio State football program. Of course, all of this starts with the mess of trouble that the University of Michigan finds itself in. Then, in a bit of surprising news, the Buckeyes were the top ranked team in the first College Football Playoff rankings of the season. And […]

Connor Stalions, the man behind the Michigan football sign-stealing scandal, is officially no longer with the program, according to Nicole Auerbach, Austin Meek, Katie Strang, and Bruce Feldman of The Athletic. Stalions, a 28-year-old former Marine captain who joined the Michigan football staff just a couple of years ago, was initially suspended with pay on […]

Oklahoma State football coach Mike Gundy is no longer forty, but he is still a man, and as of a today, he’s a man who has been called out by one of his former players. With the 22nd-ranked Oklahoma State Cowboys preparing to face the 9th-ranked Oklahoma football team in the 118th and potentially final […]

As a lifelong fan of the Chicago Bears and a former linebacker myself, it should go without saying that I absolutely love me some solid linebacker play. And nowhere in the NFL right now is there a more prolific linebacker taking the field each weekend than in Indianapolis. At the eight game mark of the […]

When JJ Watt retired from the NFL, he did so as one of the greatest defensive ends in the history of the league. A five-time All-Pro and three-time Defensive Player of the Year, JJ Watt will be able to walk, skip, hop or jump into the Pro Football Hall of Fame the first time his […]

The Alabama football team is well-accustomed to playing in the College Football Playoff. In the nine years the CFP has been in place, Alabama has made the Playoff seven times. Their seven appearances and nine victories in the College Football Playoff are the most of any college football program. However, with a run of success […]

Ryan Poles has plenty of work left to do before it will feel like the Bears are on the upswing again, but re-signing one underrated member of the defense is a good enough start. Though the talk of extensions in Chicago has rightfully been centered around cornerback Jaylon Johnson and newly acquired defensive end Montez Sweat, […]

Another day, another development in the Michigan football sign-stealing scandal, only this development isn’t coming out of Ann Arbor. It comes from Columbus, Ohio of all places, where the hatred for the University of Michigan runs so deep that the Ohio State Buckeyes do their best to cross out all “M’s” during the week of […]

From one year to the next, the NFL can be very volatile. Each season tells its own unique story and teams change with the ebbs and flows of the year. But if you’re a fan of the Buffalo Bills, and you’ve been watching this Brandon Beane/Sean McDermott-led iteration of the team come close to the […]

When the Las Vegas Raiders acquired Chandler Jones and Davante Adams in a span of 48 hours in March 2022, this couldn’t be what Raiders owner Mark Davis envisioned for his team. After having hired Josh McDaniels away from New England a month and a half earlier, the Raiders were loading up on both sides […]

The story of the NFL Trade Deadline often centers around what deals end up getting done, but one trade deadline story worth monitoring related to a deal that wasn’t made in the Windy City. The Chicago Bears were active at the deadline, sending a 2nd round pick to Washington in exchange for Montez Sweat, who should provide […]

It hasn’t even been two weeks since the Michigan football scouting and sign-stealing story initially broke, but it feels like we’ve been discussing it for an eternity now, doesn’t it? Day by day, hour by hour, more news continues to trickle out, and the combination of damning evidence and harsh blowback just keeps building like a massive […]

Former Phoenix Suns center Shaquille O’Neal has a pretty unique relationship with big men, and by unique, I mean mostly combative and strangely competitive. But curiously enough, one center who has earned the support and admiration of The Big Aristotle is Bol Bol, the 7’2″ son of 7’7″ NBA legend Manute Bol. In his first […]

During a recent press conference, Jacksonville Jaguars head coach Doug Pederson expressed a sentiment that was likely shared by many fans and analysts alike before the season began (h/t Michael DiRocco of ESPN, via Twitter). With his Jags riding a five game winning streak to a 6-2 record, sitting firmly atop the AFC South, Pederson […]

This past weekend, the Tennessee Titans, formerly the Houston Oilers, wore arguably the most gorgeous uniforms in the history of professional football. I’ve already professed my love for these throwback Oilers uniforms, so I won’t wax poetic about them here as well. Instead, I present a legal update regarding the University of Houston football team’s use […]

I present you two agriculture-based quotes. One comes from Michigan football coach Jim Harbaugh, and the other from Dwight Schrute of Dunder Mifflin Paper Company. Go ahead and see if you could figure out who said what: Quote A: “House plants, they have their functions. They can be beautiful in the home. They can bring […]

Pittsburgh Steelers fans were introduced to the name ‘Joey Porter’ long before the Steelers made the Penn State cornerback the 32nd overall pick in the 2023 NFL Draft. That’s because Joey Porter Jr. was a ball boy for the Steelers when his father, Joey Porter Sr., was on the Steelers coaching staff under Mike Tomlin. […]

I am endlessly fascinated by incoming USC freshman Bronny James, which admittedly is not saying all that much given the fact that his father, Los Angeles Lakers star forward LeBron James, is the most famous athlete of the 21st Century and has been my favorite NBA player since I was 11 years old. Between Bronny’s […]

The Week 8 game between the New York Jets and New York Giants was an ugly, beautiful, chaotic, boring, unpredictable mess of a game that only the most troubled and masochistic football fans could enjoy. Personally, I loved it. I loved the torrential rainfall. I loved that Tommy DeVito, not to be confused with Joe […]