Steve Silverman Articles - Page 15

The Chicago Bears are clearly at a critical point to their season. Head coach Ben Johnson is trying to put together a consistent team that can compete against the better teams in the league and take advantage of the soft spots. Their Monday Night Football matchup in Week 6 is clearly a test against one […]

Go back to the start of the 2023 season. The Kansas City Chiefs were coming off a Super Bowl triumph and were raising their championship banner in front of their adoring fans at Arrowhead Stadium. The Detroit Lions were the invited guests for the season opener. While head coach Dan Campbell promised his team’s supporters […]

The Tampa Bay Lightning have been one of the most successful teams in the NHL. As they prepare for the start of the 2025-26 season, they have secured a spot in the playoffs in each of the last eight seasons. During that time, they earned back-to-back Stanley Cups in 2020 and 2021. Despite all their […]

The Baltimore Ravens have been a powerful force in the NFL for multiple seasons. They have made the playoffs in six of the last seven years, but they have not advanced further than the conference championship game in that time frame. The 2025 season has been disastrous for head coach John Harbaugh’s team. They went […]

Upsets are often considered the lifeblood of sports. They certainly breathe life into college football. There’s nothing like an up-and-coming home team that has shown improvement throughout the season edging out a top 10 team when it comes calling. However, Penn State’s 42-37 loss to a brutal UCLA team that hadn’t come close to a […]

The Calgary Flames are making progress. They did not make the playoffs last season, but head coach Ryan Huska has seen his team make significant progress. The Flames and St. Louis Blues both finished the 2024-25 with 96 points, but the Blues were awarded the eighth and final position in the Western Conference playoff structure […]

The Buffalo Sabres are hoping to break one of the most ignominious streaks in the NHL. The Sabres have not made the Stanley Cup playoffs since the 2009-10 season, and their long-suffering fans are hoping that this is the year they can get back to the postseason. The Sabres finished last season in sixth place […]

The Seattle Mariners go into the American League Division Series against the Detroit Tigers with one goal on their collective minds. The Mariners, who have been competing in the American League since 1977, have never won the World Series. They have never even been there, since they have not won an American League pennant. This […]

The Boston Red Sox saw their season come to an end Thursday night when they dropped the third game of their Wild Card series to the New York Yankees. They had won the first game of the series behind the outstanding pitching of Garrett Crochet, but they could not take advantage of multiple opportunities in […]

The Florida Panthers have designs on joining the elite teams in NHL history that have won at least 3 consecutive Stanley Cup championships when the 2025-26 season comes to a conclusion. The Panthers have won the title twice in a row, beating the Edmonton Oilers in the Stanley Cup Finals each time. However, the third […]

The Detroit Tigers are breathing easy — at least for the time being — as they have advanced out of the Wild Card round of the American League playoffs and are moving on to the Division Series. The Tigers defeated the Cleveland Guardians 6-3 in the decisive game of the three-game series, and will face […]

The Calgary Flames have decided that they are going forward with Ryan Huska as the team’s head coach for the foreseeable future. General manager Craig Conroy announced that the team and Huska have come to an agreement on a two-year contract extension. The Flames have been quite competitive under Huska the past two seasons, and […]

The Detroit Tigers advanced to the American League Division Series with a series clinching 6-3 victory over the Cleveland Guardians. The Tigers regained their form in the Wild Card series after a brutal end-of-season slump that saw them lose their grip on the American League Central Division title. The score was tied at 1-1 in […]

If one chooses to look at the New York Rangers from the perspective of championships won, it is a rather sad story. The Rangers started doing business in 1926, and they have won just four Stanley Cups since then. When they famously won the title by beating the Vancouver Canucks in seven games in 1994, […]

The Ryder Cup competition at Bethpage Black was notable for multiple reasons. The European golfers dominated the first two days of team competition and built up a huge edge. The final day of singles competition saw a return to form by the United States as many of the top American golfers won their matches. The […]

The Ryder Cup was a blowout for the Europeans for the first two days of competition at Bethpage Black in New York. However, the Americans fought back during the singles competition and pushed the European golfers in dramatic fashion. However, Europe was able to hang on for a 15-13 victory in the biennial event. Ireland’s […]

The Pittsburgh Steelers were undaunted about facing a Minnesota Vikings defense that scored two touchdowns of its own in a blowout victory over the Cincinnati Bengals in Week 3. The Steelers played a significant amount of smash mouth football against that defense as they registered a 24-21 victory in their Week 4 matchup at Croke […]

The Minnesota Vikings started the year with the hope that this would be the season they demonstrate strength in all areas and make a run at their first Super Bowl title. Through the first four weeks of the season, the Vikings are already in survival mode as a result of injuries to the offensive line. […]

The Pittsburgh Penguins are one of the most unique teams in the NHL. There is no team from the league’s original expansion in 1967-68 that can match the five Stanley Cups they have won. In addition to their championship haul, they also have had some of the greatest players in the history of the sport. […]

The Cincinnati Bengals are at a crucial point in their season. They are tied for first place in the AFC North with the Pittsburgh Steelers as both teams take a 2-1 record into Week 4. The Bengals have issues. They won’t have quarterback Joe Burrow at quarterback until December because of his turf toe/tendon injury, […]

The Seattle Mariners are on a tremendous roll, one that could take them to their first World Series championship in team history. Instead of getting close to the Houston Astros but finishing in second place in the American League West, the Mariners played their best baseball in the last month of the season and roared […]

The Ryder Cup competition offers fans an opportunity to get behind their nation’s golfers and offer their vocal support. It also gives those same fans an opportunity to get under the skin of their opponents. Hard to see if Rory McIlroy is waving to a fan or flipping them the bird here!#OurTimeOurPlace #RyderCup #RyderCup2025 #McIlroy […]

The Florida Panthers have reeled off two consecutive Stanley Cup championships and they are the envy of the 31 other teams in the NHL. They are a talented and confident group and they are hopeful of making it three Stanley Cups in a row this year. However, head coach Paul Maurice knows that winning a […]

The Toronto Blue Jays have been in first place in the American League East since midseason, but with just four games remaining on the regular-season schedule, their position is in jeopardy. The Blue Jays have seen the New York Yankees tie them for the top spot. The Blue Jays have the tiebreaker edge because they […]

The Minnesota Vikings (2-1) are moving into unprecedented territory in Weeks 4 and 5 when they play consecutive games on European soil. No NFL team has ever played overseas games in back-to-back weeks. The Vikings have a huge overseas following, and that’s one of the reasons that owner Zygi Wilf agreed to send his team […]

The Philadelphia Flyers have long been one of the most impactful franchises in the expansion era. The NHL was not a sure bet to be successful in Philadelphia when the league expanded from six to 12 teams in 1967-68, but owner Ed Snider loved the sport and was willing to do anything to make it […]

The Boston Bruins are hoping that last year’s disastrous finish as the last-place team in the Atlantic Division was a one-off. The Bruins have been one of the most consistent teams in the league since 2008, but they fell apart last season. New head coach Marco Sturm is hoping he has the players and the […]

It’s difficult to imagine that things could go this badly for the Detroit Tigers. They were the dominant team in the American League through the early part of September, but manager A.J. Hinch’s team has lost its way and their position at the top of the American League Central is in extreme jeopardy. AJ Hinch […]

The Minnesota Vikings faced significant pressure as they hosted the undefeated Cincinnati Bengals in Week 3 at U.S. Bank Stadium. Backup quarterback Carson Wentz had to take over for injured QB1 J.J. McCarthy, and he had joined the team  just a few weeks earlier. Head coach Kevin O’Connell had faith that Wentz could lead the […]

The Cincinnati Bengals were hopeful that they could continue their undefeated season when they traveled to U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis to take on the Vikings. They were playing their first game without quarterback Joe Burrow, but the team had faith that backup signal caller Jake Browning could handle the assignment and figure out a […]

The Boston Red Sox have been struggling throughout the month of September largely because their lineup has been unable to come up with key hits in clutch situations. That has been the case since star rookie Roman Anthony suffered an oblique injury and his bat was taken out of the lineup. The Red Sox are […]

Clayton Kershaw is nearing the finish line of his brilliant career. He made his last regular-season start at Dodger Stadium Friday night, and he went out with a flourish when manager Dave Roberts came out to get him with one out in the fifth inning against the San Francisco Giants. The Dodgers earned a 6-3 […]

The Montreal Canadiens are the most successful team in the history of the NHL. While they have not been able to add to their total of 24 Stanley Cups (23 as members of the NHL) since 1993, they have been the glamour franchise of professional hockey. When it comes to North American sports championships, the […]

Matthew Tkachuk may be the engine behind the Florida Panthers winning back-to-back Stanley Cups, but he is a also a college football fan. "I did do homework for the first time since I think ninth grade." Matthew Tkachuk is ready for his College GameDay debut 🤓🔥 pic.twitter.com/NbL2unW1Fm — College GameDay (@CollegeGameDay) September 20, 2025 Tkachuk […]

The Dallas Cowboys had a disappointing 7-10 record last year and there was not a lot of optimism at the start of the season. They traded All-Pro pass rusher Micah Parsons to the Green Bay Packers and they dropped their season opener. They rebounded with a 40-37 overtime triumph in Week 2 against the New […]

The New York Rangers fell apart during the 2024-25 season and did not even make the playoffs. Head coach Peter Laviolette was fired because the team seemed to coast much of the year and they rarely played with the kind of effort that would have been needed to take them on a significant run in […]

The Boston Red Sox are hoping to survive the final nine games of the season and earn a spot in the American League playoffs. They have endured a difficult slump without the production of star rookie Roman Anthony (oblique) and they have lost eight of their last 12 games. The Red Sox are starting their […]

The Minnesota Vikings hoped to start the season the same way they did a year ago. Head coach Kevin O’Connell installed a new quarterback in Sam Darnold, and his team ran off to a 5-0 start. O’Connell groomed untested quarterback JJ McCarthy to take over as the team’s signal caller this year after missing the […]

Garrett Crochet and the Boston Red Sox are fighting for a spot in the American League playoffs. At the start of September, they appeared to have a good chance of coming away with the top Wild Card spot and the possibility of running down the Toronto Blue Jays in the American League East. With a […]