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There is significant pressure on the Minnesota Vikings this season, and much of that has to do with the way the team has played defense for the past three seasons. On the surface, the Vikings are coming off an impressive 13-4 regular season in which they cruised to the NFC North title. The team appeared […]

They are breathing easy in Washington these days, as a dark cloud has been lifted from the Commanders franchise. Daniel Snyder is no longer associated with the team, and there is hope that new owner Josh Harris and his group can return the team to its past glory. Nobody is expecting that to happen overnight, […]

It was the thrill of a lifetime for El Segundo, California’s Louis Lappe. His game-winning home run in the bottom of the sixth inning gave the United States representative the Little League World Series championship with a 6-5 victory over Curacao. CALIFORNIA WINS THE #LLWS WITH A WALK-OFF HOME RUN FROM LOUIS LAPPE 😱 pic.twitter.com/5iPMjaaBWj […]

Deion Sanders may have left the Jackson State football program, but the Tigers are no about turn away meekly and become an ordinary football team. Jackson State opened the season with head coach T.C. Taylor replacing Sanders, and his team opened the season in impressive fashion. The Tigers were victorious over rival South Carolina State […]

Mookie Betts made his return to Fenway Park this weekend and it was clearly a major success. Betts and the Los Angeles Dodgers won two of the three games in the series. Betts reminded Red Sox fans of just how damaging a player he is by raking the ball throughout the series. As a result, […]

Week 1 of the college football season is just days away, and predictions for honors and awards are flowing like syrup from the maple trees in Vermont. No honor is bigger than the Heisman Trophy, and Marvin Harrison Jr. of the Ohio State Buckeyes has been tabbed as one of the elite players in the […]

The New York Giants hope they can carry the momentum they gained in 2022 into the start of the new season. This was a team that surprised most observers by making the playoffs last year in the NFC East and actually winning a postseason game on the road against the Minnesota Vikings. Their season ended […]

Red Sox fans have long lamented the departure of Mookie Betts. When the Red Sox traded him to the Dodgers in 2020, Red Sox fans took the move like a gut punch and they have never gotten over it. Betts is in the middle of one of his best season as he stars for the […]

After becoming the first female trainer to saddle a Triple Crown winner when Arcangelo won the Belmont Stakes, Jena Antonucci backed up that achievement in a huge way with a triumph in the Travers Stakes. ARCANGELO wins the 2023 Travers Stakes (G1) with @jjcjockey aboard for trainer @jenaantonucci! #Saratoga pic.twitter.com/o4QXc9SUqx — NYRA (🌳) (@TheNYRA) August […]

There is little doubt that the Dallas Cowboys have one of the most challenging assignments in the NFL, as they have to compete with the defending NFC champion Philadelphia Eagles in the NFC East. The Cowboys know what they are up against, and quarterback Dak Prescott says the team is determined to overcome its long […]

If the Green Bay Packers are going to overcome expectations this season and compete for the NFC North title, it will largely be the result of a strong defensive presence. The Packers had the best defense of all their NFC North competitors last year, and they are hoping that Rashan Gary and De’Vondre Campbell can […]

The majority of the top college football teams in the nation are days away from starting legitimate competition, and ESPN’s GameDay crew is getting set for the season by making its predictions for the year. It may not be much of a surprise that ESPN’s Desmond Howard selected Michigan as one of the 4 College […]

The Dallas Cowboys know they face a tall task this season. They have high hopes of going to the Super Bowl for the first time since the 1995 season, but in order to make that happen, they will have to overcome their NFC East rival Philadelphia Eagles. That will not be easy, because the Eagles […]

Tennis fans are hoping that Rafael Nadal can make a return to the ATP Tour now that he has returned to the practice court. Nadal will not be participating in the U.S. Open after undergoing surgery on his hip in June, but he is making a game effort to get back to the ATP Tour […]

The Baltimore Orioles are going through a resurgent season, as they currently hold the top spot in the American League East. Excited crowds have returned to Camden Yards with the hopes that the Orioles will continue their success into the postseason. Young stars like Adley Rutschman and Gunnar Henderson have taken leadership roles, but the […]

If you listen carefully, you can hear the whispers throughout college football that Alabama is not going to be the roaring powerhouse it has been for so many seasons under head coach Nick Saban. While there are no predictions that the program is going through a severe downturn, many observers believe that the Crimson Tide […]

The Chicago Blackhawks will begin a new era in the coming weeks when the team starts its training camp and eventually competes in the 2023-24 season. After several disappointing seasons, they have a chance to be one of the more exciting teams in the league as No. 1 draft pick Connor Bedard will make his […]

There’s a battle going on at Ohio State for the QB1 position, and with the start of the 2023 season just days away, fans are waiting for head coach Ryan Day to make his decision on whether Kyle McCord or Devin Brown will get the start against Indiana. While Ohio State supporters may be getting […]

The 2023 season appears to be a season of great opportunity for the Michigan Wolverines. This was a team that performed brilliantly in 2022 — until the College Football Playoff when the Wolverines met the upset-minded TCU Horned Frogs. The final score of 51-45 indicates that Michigan got edged in a high-scoring game, but the […]

The Boston Red Sox are fighting desperately to remain in contention for a Wild Card spot in the American League. They helped themselves with back-to-back road victories over the Houston Astros, including an overpowering 17-1 triumph Thursday. Recent minor-league call up Wilyer Abreu had 4 hits, including a huge home run in the second inning. […]

The Cincinnati Bengals have high hopes of dominating in the AFC North division and making a run at the Kansas City Chiefs as AFC champions. If they can meet those expectations, they will get an opportunity to win the first Super Bowl in the organization’s history. The Bengals made it all the way to the […]

The Michigan Wolverines will start the college football season as the No. 2 team in the nation and they have high hopes of making a run at the national championship. They are a team that has a number of star players, including running back Blake Corum, wide receiver Cornelius Johnson, defensive tackle Kris Jenkins and […]

The Tampa Bay Lightning have been an elite team in the NHL for nearly a decade. They made the Stanley Cup Final in 2015, and they followed that appearance with two Stanley Cup titles in 2020 and 2021. There is little doubt that their core players have allowed them to stay at or near the […]

San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich is regularly thought of as the best coach in professional basketball, ranking with the game’s all-time greats including Red Auerbach, Phil Jackson and Pat Riley. There’s a lot more to Popovich’s game than analyzing talent and laying out the X’s and O’s when designing game strategy. Spurs big […]

Viktor Hovland stormed his way to the BMW Championship, taking the second leg of the FedEx Cup playoff by firing a record 61 in the final round in order to edge Scottie Scheffler and Matthew Fitzpatrick by 2 strokes in the tournament at the Olympia Fields Country Club in Illinois. Hovland has been close in […]

Dynamic Coco Gauff has been one of the rising stars in the WTA for the last few seasons. The 19-year-old defeated Karolina Muchova 6-3, 6-4 to win the Cincinnati Open and gained the first WTA 1000 title of her career. COCO GAUFF WINS HER FIRST WTA 1000 TITLE 🏆 She is the youngest player ever […]

The Dallas Cowboys have high hopes of competing with the Philadelphia Eagles and potentially taking away their status as NFC East champions this year. However, nothing that happened in the Cowboys 22-14 loss to the Seattle Seahawks in the team’s second preseason game is going to make owner Jerry Jones and head coach Mike McCarthy […]

As the Minnesota Vikings prepare to defend their NFC North title in 2023, they appear to have one of the more dynamic offensive teams in the NFC. Start off with wide receiver Justin Jefferson and quarterback Kirk Cousins, and it’s clear that the Vikings have to be taken seriously. Jefferson is widely perceived as the […]

The Chicago Bears are intent on delivering a significant jump in the standings this season. They finished with the worst record in the NFL last season at 3-14, and that allowed them to gain the No. 1 pick in the NFL Draft. Since they already had their quarterback of the present and future in Justin […]

Damian Lillard created one of the biggest splashes of the NBA offseason when he went forward with a trade request from the Portland Trail Blazers. Lillard has been the team’s star for the last 11 seasons, but the Blazers have not been a dominant team and the star guard would like an opportunity to compete […]

Ohio State is hoping to get back to the top of the Big Ten and regain another position in the College Football Playoff. To get back to the top of the conference, the defense will have to take a step up and the Buckeyes will have to find a way to beat Michigan after 2 […]

The Florida Panthers were one of the most impressive stories in last spring’s Stanley Cup Playoffs. It took them until the final days of the season to clinch a spot in the postseason, and they went into the playoffs as the No. 8 seed in the Eastern Conference. Despite that lowly status, the Panthers proved […]

The Chicago Blackhawks were the big winners of the NHL’s offseason. After a brutal season in which they struggled to score and were even worse at preventing goals, the Blackhawks won the lottery. The Draft Lottery that is. The Blackhawks did not have the worst record in the league — they were third-worst — but […]

Terron Armstead was carted off the field with a leg injury Thursday during a joint practice session with the Houston Texans. At the time, it looked like it was a scary injury that could require surgery, but NFL insider Ian Rapaport tweeted that Armstead will not need surgery and the big offensive tackle is working […]

The Minnesota Vikings don’t appear to have earned much respect in the last year. The team finished the 2022 season as the NFC North champions with a 13-4 regular season record, but they lost their home Wild Card game to the New York Giants. In that game, the defense made New York quarterback Daniel Jones […]

Julio Rodriguez is the go-to guy in the Seattle Mariners lineup and figures to maintain that position for years to come. He joined two of the team’s luminaries Thursday when hebecame the 4th Mariner in team history to reach 20 home runs and 30 stolen bases in the same season. Julio Rodriguez joined Alex Rodriguez […]

The Seattle Seahawks were in a very nice position last year at the wide receiver spot with big and powerful DK Metcalf and explosive Tyler Lockett. Both receivers had impactful seasons, and much of that was due to the unexpected success of quarterback Geno Smith. Prior to last season, Smith had endured a career of […]

Every team in the NHL has some degree of hope during the summer and once training camp begins. However, reality often takes hold and a veteran coach can get a good idea where his team stands less than a couple of weeks into the regular season. That was almost certainly the case last year for […]

It turns out that truth is not stranger than fiction. Perhaps it would have been if a proposed “cage match” between Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg had come to pass, but it seems the two tech giants will not be meeting in any kind of physical confrontation. Apparently, Zuckerberg seemed quite serious about getting inside […]