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Cristiano Ronaldo apparently didn’t like hearing chants for his rival, Lionel Messi, in a Saudi Pro League match between his Al Nassr squad and Al Shabab. Following Al Nassr’s 3-2 win, where the 39-year-old superstar scored a penalty goal, rival supporters were chanting “Messi” at the legendary goal-scorer. That’s when Ronaldo seemingly broke out his […]

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers can build on a surprisingly good 2023 season with a strong 2024 NFL Draft. The Bucs brought in Baker Mayfield to replace Tom Brady, and believe it or not, it was not the disaster that many thought it would be. If Tampa Bay can bring in a few pieces during the […]

The Carolina Panthers were the worst team in the league in 2023, but they will not pick first in the 2024 NFL Draft. That’s because they traded that pick away to the Chicago Bears last season for the honor of drafting Bryce Young No. 1 overall. That means the only way to improve this offseason […]

The Seattle Seahawks 2024 NFL Draft will be the first since 2010 without Pete Carroll and the first of the Mike Macdonald era. Couple this with the fact that the Seahawks are a borderline playoff team right now — making the postseason in 2022 and missing in 2023 — and this draft becomes crucial to […]

New York Giants offensive tackle Evan Neal was one of the worst players at his position in football. The No. 7 pick of the 2022 NFL draft ranked 80th out of 81 qualified OTs in PFF grades this season. Despite saying he was born to play tackle, his veteran teammate, Justin Pugh, who once switched […]

The Duke Blue Devils basketball team heads towards March Madness as one of the best handful of teams in the country. The Jon Scheyer-led team is 21-5 overall, 12-3 and in first place in the ACC (despite the blowout loss on the North Carolina Tar Heels), and currently a No. 3 seed in the NCAA […]

After years of waiting, the fans at the intersection of college football and video games are finally getting what they’ve long asked for. With the release of the first EA Sports College Football 25 trailer in mid-February, the popular video game (then NCAA Football) that went away in 2013 is finally here. However, questions remained […]

New Alabama football coach Kalen DeBoer is filling out his staff in Tuscaloosa, and he’s bringing in a lot of familiar faces to do so. The latest addition to the Crimson Tide sideline is Mitch Dahlen, who was on the Washington Huskies football staff before this latest move. “Alabama adds analyst who was part of […]

The Las Vegas Raiders have some clearly defined needs in the 2024 NFL Draft, starting with quarterback. Antonio Pierce’s team also needs help on the offensive line, with three starters becoming free agents, and on defense at cornerback and defensive tackle. Due to these needs, the two sneaky good players the Raiders must take in […]

Former Miami Dolphins executive vice president of football operations, Mike Tannenbaum, wants his old team to make a Jaylen Waddle trade. While the deal Tannenbaum floated would improve the Dolphins defense by bringing in Kansas City Chiefs cornerback Trent McDuffie, it would also downgrade one of the team’s biggest strengths, its wide receiver corps. “Trent […]

The New York Giants have a lot of needs they can address in the 2024 NFL Draft. In fact, you’d be hard-pressed to name a position they couldn’t take at any pick throughout the proceedings. Unfortunately, their draft position likely disqualifies them from getting one of the Big 3 quarterbacks this year without a massive […]

The New York Giants paid quarterback Daniel Jones last offseason, but after an injury-shortened season, the team is still looking for a franchise QB. While many mock drafts have the top three QBs off the board by the time the Giants pick at six, the latest Daniel Jeremiah mock draft on NFL.com has Heisman-winning signal-caller […]

Former New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning may be just as good a craps player at the casino as he was an NFL quarterback. The Super Bowl-winning star made a late-night visit to the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida, and had a massive stack of chips in front of him during […]

The Buffalo Bills pick at 28 in the upcoming 2024 NFL Draft, and this selection weekend may be the most important one of the Josh Allen/Sean McDermott/Brandon Beane era. This franchise is capped-out this offseason, and unless they make a blockbuster trade, the only real way to add top-tier talent is in the draft. That […]

New Seattle Seahawks defensive coordinator Aden Durde is a lot different than most prominent NFL coaches, as he hails from Middlesex County in England, which is considered a part of Nort London. As such, he is a big fan of that other type of football, and West Ham United is his favorite team. This led […]

We have a Stephen A. Smith injury update from NBA All-Star Weekend. The ESPN firebrand is coaching one of the teams in the NBA All-Star Celebrity Game, and during practice, Dallas Cowboys linebacker Micah Parsons hit him with a vicious crossover dribble that may have literally broken Smith’s ankle. “This is not confirmed by Adrian […]

The Atlanta Falcons are under new management, with Raheem Morris as the new head coach and his former Los Angeles Rams colleague Zac Robinson as the offensive coordinator. With a new crew in charge, rumors are heating up that the Falcons will take a quarterback at No. 8 in the NFL Draft despite still having […]

At Thanksgiving, NFL veteran Logan Ryan was on a Disney cruise with his family. Just over two months later, he was playing in the Super Bowl for the San Francisco 49ers with his family watching. Despite his team’s loss to the Kansas City Chiefs, the 33-year-old thought the whole thing was a pretty cool experience, […]

South Carolina football coach Shane Beamer just hired a tight ends coach for the Gamecocks’ upcoming season, which would usually rank fairly low on the news scale, even among diehard SC fans. However, this coach was now-former Georgia State head coach Shawn Elliott, who shockingly left his FBS program in the lurch to take a […]

The Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl parade was shockingly interrupted on Wednesday afternoon by shots fired. Chaos erupted at the scene and Kansas City police announced that there was gunfire around Union Station, where the parade celebrating the Chiefs’ Super Bowl 58 victory was being held. “Shots have been fired around Union Station. Please leave […]

The Pac-12 may be disbanding, but the bowl games that have deals with the Pac-12 will still host those teams in the college football postseason. This means teams like Colorado, USC, Washington, Oregon, UCLA, and other former Pac-12 football teams will be in the Alamo Bowl, Vegas Bowl, Holiday Bowl, Sun Bowl, LA Bowl, and […]

The Buffalo Bills head into the 2024 offseason with massive salary cap issues. The team is currently projected to be more than $50 million over the cap before the free agency and the draft even start. That means pretty much all the Bills free agent signings this offseason have to be under-the-radar ones. Luckily for […]

New Syracuse head football coach Fran Brown is not wasting time putting his own stamp on the program. In addition to bringing in a slew of high-profile transfers, the latest news is that 2023’s leading receiver, Damien Alford has been dismissed from the team. “Sources: Syracuse has dismissed Damien Alford, who was the school’s leading […]

The Kansas City Chiefs just repeated as Super Bowl champions for the first time in 19 seasons. Now, Patrick Mahomes, Andy Reid, Travis Kelce, and the rest of the Chiefs will try to make history and become the first-ever three-peat champions. Here is why this won’t happen. Mahomes and the Chiefs are officially a dynasty. […]

After Chip Kelly spurned the UCLA football program to take a job as offensive coordinator for Ohio State, the Bruins have found a replacement. The new UCLA football coach will be a familiar name to the program’s alumni and fans, as former Bruins running back DeShaun Foster will lead the team moving forward. “Sources: UCLA […]

The Seattle Seahawks made an interesting move at defensive coordinator under new head coach Mike Macdonald. They didn’t pick a Texas-raised former NFL player like Aaron Glenn, or a gritty Midwesterner like Mike Zimmer, or even a brainy New England product like Macdonald himself. The Seahawks hired Aden Durde, and Brit who played in NFL […]

Pittsburgh Steelers star TJ Watt lost the NFL Defensive Player of the Year Award to Cleveland Browns pass rusher Myles Garrett. Just ahead of the announcement of the award at the NFL Honors event, Watt took to social media and wrote just five words that show how he thinks he should have been the DPOY. […]

The Los Angeles Lakers couldn’t get Atlanta Hawks guard Dejounte Murray at the 2024 NBA Trade Deadline. However, that doesn’t mean the LA franchise won’t take another run at him this offseason. And when they do call the Hawks this summer, they’ll also apparently be asking about Atlanta star Trae Young. “League personnel expect Los […]

Here we are at the end of the 2023 NFL season. It has been just over 200 days since the first NFL teams opened training camp with 49 preseason, 272 regular season, and 12 playoff games in between. After all this, the truth is, we probably got the two best teams in the Super Bowl, […]

The New York Knicks made arguably the biggest deal of 2024 NBA Trade Deadline day, acquiring Bojan Bogdanovic and Alec Burks from the Detroit Pistons. Las Vegas certainly seems to think so, as the latest Knicks updated NBA Finals odds after the deal makes it clear the oddsmakers think the team is now more of […]

At this point in his career, Patrick Beverley has had beef with a lot of NBA players, so when he gets traded — as he did from the Philadelphia 76ers to the Milwaukee Bucks at the 2024 NBA Trade Deadline — he’s bound to team up with someone who doesn’t like him. The problem here […]

The Dallas Cowboys were one of the best teams in the NFL this season, cruising to a 12-5 record and winning the NFC East. However, in the NFL playoffs, Cowboys head coach Mike McCarthy, quarterback Dak Prescott, and the rest of the team choked in a 48-32 loss to the Green Bay Packers. That happened […]

As the NBA trade deadline heats up on Thursday, teams are rolling with the punches as players get dealt or teams pull them off the trading block. For the Houston Rockets, who were hot in pursuit of Brooklyn Nets star Mikal Bridges, that means pivoting to Bridges’ teammate Royce O’Neale after realizing a trade for […]

The Buffalo Bills head into the 2024 offseason with negative salary cap space, few cut candidates, and little hope of completely overhauling the roster around superstar quarterback Josh Allen. On one hand, this is OK. The Bills have been one of the best teams in the NFL in recent years, and even with an ugly […]

Taylor Swift dropped a bombshell onstage at the Grammys, announcing that her new album, The Tortured Poets Department, will drop on April 19, 2024. While millions of Swifties around the world are dying to hear these new songs, her boyfriend, Kansas City Chiefs star Travis Kelce revealed at the Super Bowl that he’s already heard […]

In the beginning of 2024, LeBron James is a member of the Los Angeles Lakers, and his son, Bronny James, is on the USC basketball team. By the end of 2024, that could all change if Chandler Parsons is right with his NBA draft theory. For years, there’s been a thought that LeBron James has […]

Former NBA and Duke basketball player Dahntay Jones played for coach George Karl on the Denver Nuggets and says the former North Carolina basketball star didn’t trust Blue Devils to play in crunch time. “George Karl, he’d play me the first six minutes of the first, the first six minutes of the third, and it […]

On the eve of the Super Bowl, San Francisco 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan reflected on how Brock Purdy became the team’s quarterback with the final pick of the 2022 NFL Draft. “I was sure Brock was worthy of the fourth round, and we put a fourth-round grade on him,” Shanahan told Peter King ahead of […]

The 2024 NFL Draft is quickly approaching, and with the top overall pick again this season, the Chicago Bears and their decision on USC quarterback Caleb Williams will determine how the rest of the draft goes. Will they take the Trojans signal-caller and trade Justin Fields or deal the pick (again) for a treasure trove […]