Steve Silverman Articles - Page 2

Quarterback Fernando Mendoza is coming off a dream-like and brilliant season in college football. He won the Heisman Trophy as the best college football player and led the upstart Indiana Hoosiers to an undefeated season and the national championship. His performance in the College Football Playoff Championship Game included a spectacular touchdown run that gave […]

John Harbaugh has a new opportunity. The long-time coach of the Baltimore Ravens found himself out of a job when his former team failed to make the playoffs after a season in which Lamar Jackson was not healthy nor at his best when he was in the lineup. The Ravens came to the conclusion that […]

Justin Jefferson is not about to give up his unofficial title of being recognized as the best wide receiver in the NFL. Jefferson has been a star for the Minnesota Vikings for the first six years of his career, and he has been to the Pro Bowl in 4 of those seasons. He did not […]

After the Chicago Bears climbed from last place to first in the NFC North Division, the team has become a very attractive for many of its players. Running back D’Andre Swift led the Bears with 1,087 rushing yards and averaged 4.9 yards per carry while scoring 9 rushing touchdowns. He would like to remain with […]

Caleb Williams came a long way in his second season with the Chicago Bears. He led the team to first place in the NFC North and a victory in the Wild Card playoff game. He earned a reputation for his ability to come through in the late stages of the fourth quarter in many of […]

Seth Jarvis of the Carolina Hurricanes is a late addition to the Canadian Olympic hockey team. He will replace Brayden Point of the Tampa Bay Lightning. Point has been out of action with an undisclosed injury and he had hoped to make it back into action before the break for the Winter Olympics. However, he […]

The Boston Red Sox offseason has been filled with regret. They could have signed slugging 1st baseman Pete Alonso at the start of free agency but they stood idly by as the division rival Baltimore Orioles deemed him more important to their team than the Red Sox did. The Red Sox let Alex Bregman find […]

The 2025 season marked the end of an era for the Steelers. Head coach Mike Tomlin stepped down after the Steelers were beaten convincingly by the Houston Texans in the Wild Card round of the AFC playoffs. The Steelers had somehow managed to win the AFC North with a 10-7 record, but there was no […]

The Chicago Bears are coming off a fantastic season, one that far exceeded most predictions as the season got underway. The primary hope for the Bears was that first-year head coach Ben Johnson would be able to do two things in his first year. The first and most important would be to turn second-year QB […]

At this time last year, there was quite a bit optimism with the Minnesota Vikings. They were coming off a 14-3 season and a victory in their last regular-season game would have given them the No. 1 seed in the NFC playoffs. They had a brilliant quarterback in Sam Darnold, a superior defensive coordinator in […]

The Cleveland Guardians are a team that seems to linger in the background until it’s time to play the most important games. The Guardians are led by Jose Ramirez, one of the best all-around players in Major League Baseball, and the Guardians rewarded him in the offseason with a 7-year, $175-million contract extension. The Guardians […]

The Tampa Bay Lightning are on an incredible roll. They are coming off a remarkable come-from-behind 6-5 triumph over the Boston Bruins in the NHL’s outdoor game at Raymond James Stadium. That game has already been declared by many observers as the best outdoor game in NHL history because of the Bruins’ surge, the epic […]

The New England Patriots go into Super Bowl 60 as 4.5-point underdogs to the Seattle Seahawks. This is not a surprise because the Seahawks finished the regular season getting the best of the Los Angeles Rams and the San Francisco 49ers in the NFC West and earning the top seed in the NFC playoff structure. […]

The Chicago Blackhawks appeared to be a team on the rise well into the third month of the 2025-26 season. Young phenom Connor Bedard was showing off his eye-catching speed and his wicked wrist shot and the Blackhawks appeared to be a team on the rise. However, when Bedard went down with a shoulder injury […]

The Philadelphia Flyers were making quite a bit of progress through the first three months of the season. After failing to make the playoffs during the last five seasons, head coach Rick Tocchet had his team in a position to challenge for one of the top three positions in the Metropolitan Division or an Eastern […]

The Tampa Bay Lightning and the Boston Bruins are going all out to make their outdoor game Sunday at Raymond James Stadium a memorable affair. The host Lightning have attempted to pay tribute to their hosts, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, by wearing the NFL team’s original uniforms as they made their way into the venue. […]

The Pittsburgh Penguins were expected to be bottom feeders at the start of the NHL season. They had failed to make the playoffs in each of the last three seasons and they had not appeared to make the kind of major moves in the offseason that would have changed that perspective in 2025-26. It wasn’t […]

The Chicago White Sox are hopeful of having a respectable team in 2026. The South Siders have been struggling for years, setting a record for losses two years ago. There was improvement last year under manager Will Venable and the team appears to be moving in the right direction. The White Sox finished in last […]

Miguel Rojas delivered the most unexpected home run of the year during the 2025 season. Rojas is a role player for the Dodgers and he was batting 9th and playing 2nd base for manager Dave Roberts in the 7th game of the World Series against the Toronto Blue Jays. He came to bat with the […]

After leaving the LIV Tour and making his return to the PGA, Brooks Koepka was not sure what kind of reaction he would get from players, fans and officials. He is competing in the Farmers Insurance Open in La Jolla, California, and he told interviewers that the return has been going better than he expected. […]

The 2026 season will mark Mookie Betts’ seventh season with the Dodgers. Betts spent the first 6 years of his career with the Boston Red Sox, and he was one of the best outfielders in Major League Baseball during the first part of his career. He continued to play outfield after joining the Dodgers, but […]

The Los Angeles Dodgers remain both a hungry and powerful team as they are in pursuit of their third consecutive World Series title in 2026. The thought of putting the strongest team available on the field is foremost in the minds of the Dodgers management staff, including team president Andrew Friedman. Roki Sasaki said it […]

The Washington Capitals went into the 2025-26 NHL season as one of the more believable teams when it came to winning the Metropolitan Division of the Eastern Conference. They had been dominant last year, running away with the division title and also having the best record in the Eastern Conference with a 51-22-9 record for […]

The Minnesota Vikings are entering a new era as they prepare for key offseason activities including free agency and the NFL Draft. They unexpectedly fired general manager Kwesi Adofo-Mensah after a disappointing season that saw the Vikings finish with a 9-8 record that left them tied for third place in the NFC North with the […]

The Boston Red Sox appear to be a team that is ready to do business. They did not re-sign 3rd baseman Alexs Bregman and they failed to bring in free agent Bo Bichette. As a result, it seems clear that they need help in the infield. They appear to have potential holes at 2nd and […]

The New York Rangers are in the process of tearing down the house as they endure a lost season and the Florida Panthers may be a beneficiary. The Rangers were a Stanley Cup favorite just a few short seasons ago and the belief was they would have a bounce-back season this year after failing to […]

The Denver Broncos thought they were in the perfect position to advance to the Super Bowl when they emerged from their divisional playoff battle against the Buffalo Bills with an overtime victory. As the Broncos danced off the field with the 33-30 triumph, they knew they would be hosting the winner of the game between […]

The Buffalo Bills may have a similar look and game plan to the one they had last year when the 2026 season kicks off. Josh Allen will remain at quarterback — barring a blockbuster trade — but Sean McDermott will no longer be on the sidelines. A change at the head coaching spot usually means […]

Macklin Celebrini is in the middle of a season to remember. The second-year center of the San Jose Sharks has become one of the NHL’s top superstars. He has helped raise his team dramatically in the Western Conference standings. "Tonight, I hope he doesn't do anything, and in a week, I hope he does a […]

The Minnesota Vikings had a brilliant season in 2024 as they ran through their schedule and finished the regular season with a 14-3 record. That was the most wins for any team that did not win a division title. The Vikings finished second to the Detroit Lions and lost the NFC North title when they […]

The Montreal Canadiens have shown dramatic improvement in each of the last two seasons. They made the playoffs a year ago and pushed the Washington Capitals hard before losing in the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs. Head coach Martin St. Louis has seen the improvement continue this season behind the incredible play of […]

The Los Angeles Rams appeared to be the best team in the NFC for the majority of the season. However, a couple of major mistakes on specials teams cost them in a crucial regular-season game against the Seattle Seahawks, and it cost them even more in the NFC title game against those same Seahawks. In […]

The Colorado Avalanche have been the NHL’s dominant team as the regular season nears the Olympic break. during the majority of the first four months of the season, the Avs played so well that they only had two regulation losses. They have slowed down a bit in the last three weeks, but this is clearly […]

The Boston Bruins have been one of the most prominent surprise teams in the NHL this season. After a long run as a Stanley Cup contender, the Bruins were a last-place team in the Atlantic Division a year ago, and it seemed like they were destined for several seasons of rebuilding before they could return […]

The Boston Red Sox were a playoff team a year ago, but they lost in the first round to the New York Yankees. They won the first game of the Wild Card series at Yankee Stadium behind the power pitching of Garrett Crochet, but their hitting failed them in the final two games and they […]

The Super Bowl is about much more than determining the champions of the NFL every year. While that is the basic reason for the game, the Super Bowl is the event that more Americans have in common than anything else. It is the most watched event on television every year, and the biggest plays in […]

The New England Patriots are going back to the Super Bowl. They may not have played an artistic game in beating the Denver Broncos 10-7 in the AFC Championship game, but they did just enough during the brutal weather conditions in the second half to earn their spot in Super Bowl LX. The Patriots will […]

The Toronto Maple Leafs had high hopes of climbing into the Eastern Conference playoff race when they returned home from a road trip last week. Instead, they have gone 0-3-1 in their current 5-game homestand, and they have gone 1-4-2 following an 8-0-2 run. William Nylander has apologized for flipping the bird to the camera […]

The New England Patriots are going to the Super Bowl under head coach Mike Vrabel, and the team appears to be well ahead of schedule. New England outlasted the Denver Broncos 10-7 in the AFC Championship game, taking advantage of the winter weather conditions just bit more than their hosts. Mike Vrabel on the Patriots' […]