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The Minnesota Vikings will get the 2023 NFL season underway in Week 1 when they host the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on the league’s opening Sunday. There are several Vikings trades that the team could make before then. They could look to improve their running back group or add depth to the defensive line. But the […]

The Buffalo Bills close Week 1 of the coming NFL season with a Monday night matchup with the New York Jets on September 11. This game is a must-win right out of the gates in the loaded AFC East, so Buffalo has to put its strongest team on the field, especially on defense. And that […]

The ACC conference is giving “serious consideration” to adding three schools — Stanford, Cal, and SMU — as college football realignment and conference expansion continues to reshape the college sports landscape. With the once-mighty Pac-12 in shambles, other conferences are picking its bones. The latest defection may be Stanford University and the University of California, Berkley […]

The latest NFL rumors are that the Indianapolis Colts have put a clock on Jonathan Taylor to find a trade destination, and now the All-Pro running back and his camp have just less than a week to find a new team willing to give the Colts the picks they want and Taylor the contract he […]

The Chicago Bears kick off Week 1 of the 2023 NFL season on Sunday, September 10, against their NFC North rivals, the Green Bay Packers. As the team’s roster starts to come together just over two weeks before the season, there are still moves general manager Ryan Poles can make to improve the squad. With […]

After a summer full of Manchester City transfer rumors, the latest news is that Bernardo Silva is signing a new contract and not going anywhere. The 29-year-old Portuguese star is now officially staying on the blue side of Manchester for this English Premier League season, and for a long time to come. On Wednesday, Bernardo […]

New York Giants tight end Tommy Sweeney suffered a “scary” “medical event” at training camp on Wednesday but is awake, alert, and in stable condition, according to reports coming out of New Jersey. While details aren’t yet known about exactly what happend, Sweeney did miss time in 2020 with a heart issue related to COVID-19. […]

The latest Kyle Filipowski injury update from Duke basketball coach Jon Scheyer after the sophomore big man had surgery this offseason will get Blue Devils fans fired up for the upcoming 2023-24 college basketball season. Filipowski, Duke’s 7-foot sophomore center, underwent arthroscopic surgery on both hips this offseason, and The Athletic’s Brandon Marks reports that […]

The Indianapolis Colts could make a Jonathan Taylor trade with the Baltimore Ravens now that the running back is officially allowed to test the market. For the Ravens, this deal would provide Lamar Jackson and new offensive coordinator Todd Monken more weapons to work with and give Baltimore one of the most dangerous offenses in […]

August 23 is a bittersweet day in the NBA world. That’s because it is Kobe Bean Bryant’s birthday. The all-time great Los Angeles Lakers star would have been 45 years old in 2023. Despite being gone for over three-and-a-half years now, Bryant’s legacy lives on, and his wife, Vanessa Bryant, helped remind us all of […]

Miami Heat sharpshooter Tyler Herro and new Washington Wizards wing Jordan Poole are inextricably linked as 2019 draftees and players who both signed massive contract extensions in the 2022 offseason. Los Angeles Lakers guard D’Angelo Russell was a guest on The Pat Bev Pod with Rone, hosted by NBA veteran Patrick Beverley, and he said […]

The breakup between new Houston Rockets head coach Ime Udoka and his longtime partner, actress Nia Long, is getting uglier and now includes a legal custody battle over their 11-year-old son. TMZ is reporting that Long filed documents in a Los Angeles court to request “primary legal and physical custody” of the former couple’s son, […]

The Indianapolis Colts have granted permission for disgruntled star running back Jonathan Taylor to seek a trade. The running back’s current team will be asking for a first-round pick in return — which may be too much for most teams — but several franchises could use the All-Pro back. Here are the four best Jonathan […]

There is one last Seattle Seahawks preseason game to go before their Week 1 matchup against the Los Angeles Rams to start the 2023 NFL season. In that time, the team will have to cut down the current squad to make the 53-man roster for the upcoming season. There are several competitive position groups on […]

New Washington Commanders owner Josh Harris got his first taste of the white-hot NFL (preseason) spotlight as his awkward handshake with Monday Night Football announcer Joe Buck went viral. The next day, Buck tried to make things better for Harris, but even he admitted that the response from Troy Aikman made him laugh. Harris joined […]

There is one Los Angeles Rams preseason game to go before their Week 1 matchup against the Seattle Seahawks to open the 2023 NFL season arrives. In that time, the team will have to cut down the current squad to make the 53-man roster for the upcoming season. There are several competitive position groups on […]

Troubled former NFL wide receiver Antonio Brown is again facing arrest, this time for unpaid child support. The former Pittsburgh Steelers and Tampa Bay Buccaneers wideout can have the arrest order expunged, but he has to pay up. TMZ is reporting that a judge in Miami-Dade County ruled that Brown missed a $15,000 child support […]

Stephen A. Smith had a lot to say about Sage Steele leaving ESPN. The often controversial Sportscenter anchor settled her lawsuit against ESPN and Disney and then decided to leave the company so she could “exercise [her] first amendment rights more freely,” and now the First Take pundit has weighed in on the situation. On […]

Retired NBA star Lamar Odom was just watching a basketball game on TV, and he wanted to share that fact with his Twitter followers. However, when he tweeted out a picture of his television tuned into the USA basketball vs. Germany FIBA World Cup tune-up, fans focused on the TV itself, not what Odom was […]

There is one Carolina Panthers preseason game to go before their Week 1 matchup against the Atlanta Falcons to kick off the 2023 NFL season arrives. In that time, the team will have to cut down the current squad to make the 53-man roster for the upcoming season. There are several deep positions groups on […]

There is one Las Vegas Raiders preseason game to go before their Week 1 matchup against the Denver Broncos to kick off the 2023 NFL season arrives. In that time, the team will have to cut down the current squad to make the 53-man roster for the upcoming season. There are several deep positions groups […]

Sha’Carri Richardson did it. After testing positive for THC (marijuana) and being suspended before the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, the US track sprinter shocked the world at the World Track and Field Championships in Budapest, Hungary, winning the women’s 100-meter gold medal on Monday, upsetting Jamaicans Shericka Jackson and five-time champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce by. […]

There is one Detroit Lions preseason game to go before their Thursday Week 1 matchup against the Kansas City Chiefs to kick off the 2023 NFL season arrives. In that time, the team will have to cut down the current squad to make the 53-man roster for the upcoming season. There are several deep positions groups […]

The Chicago Bears stayed relatively healthy through most of the preseason and training camp so far, but with the regular season rapidly approaching, the injuries are piling up a bit. First, there was the news that starting guard Teven Jenkins is possibly out for the Bears’ Week 1 matchup with the Green Bay Packers. And […]

The latest Joe Burrow injury update doesn’t get into specifics about the health or the status of the Cincinnati Bengals’ quarterback. But if you believe what head coach Zac Taylor has to say about his franchise QB, Who Dey Nation has nothing to worry about when it comes to Burrow starting the Bengals’ Week 1 […]

The 2023-24 English Premier League season is barely underway, and defending treble winners Manchester City are already struggling with injuries. John Stones is out until the international break, and Kevin De Bruyne is likely on the shelf for four to five months. That’s why the latest Manchester City transfer news comes at such a great […]

There is one New York Giants preseason game to go before Week 1 against the Dallas Cowboys arrives. In that time, the team will have to cut down the current squad to make the 53-man roster for the upcoming season. There are several deep positions groups on the Giants’ roster, which means that there will […]

Former Northwestern football head coach Pat Fitzgerald was fired on July 10 in the wake of the Northwestern football hazing scandal. Now, dozens of former athletes are coming to the former coach’s defense, saying that the school did not give Fitzgerald his due process before it let him go. “By willfully ignoring due process, Northwestern […]

Mason Greenwood and Manchester United will officially be parting ways after authorities dropped charges and the club cleared the 21-year-old English football player of rape accusations. Now the question is, what’s next for the young English Premier League star as the transfer window deadline nears? Greenwood, a promising young talent who was a rising star […]

A Damian Lillard trade to the Miami Heat is seemingly on hold during the dog days of the NBA offseason right now. The Portland Trail Blazers star is seemingly focused on other things, too, as he dropped a new rap album, Don D.O.L.L.A., on Friday. Miami is seemingly still on Lillard’s mind, though, as he […]

Bryce James is the next member of the James family who is making news in the basketball world. The son of Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James and brother of incoming USC basketball freshman Bronny James is 16-years-old, and tearing up the court this summer. And when a Bryce James highlight video went up on […]

The NFL and Commissioner Roger Goodell talk a big game about how player health and safety — specifically head injuries and concussions — are the league’s top priority. They’ve even implemented some rules and mandates to help this epidemic in the game. However, while players wearing Guardian Caps over their NFL helmets in training camps […]

New Houston Texans head coach DeMeco Ryans is “proud” of the preseason performance so far of his rookie quarterback, CJ Stroud, but apparently, the QB hasn’t done enough yet in the games of Texans training camp to officially earn the Week 1 starting job over Davis Webb. Houston took Stroud No. 2 overall in the […]

The Stan Van Gundy and Dwight Howard era with the Orlando Magic did not end well as the coach and player infamously clashed at the end of Howard’s tenure with his first team. However, Van Gundy will still stand up for his former player and his place in NBA history today, saying it’s “ridiculous” to […]

The transition from college football to the NFL is tough, especially in the NFL preseason where the football isn’t as sharp as in the regular season. Dallas Cowboys superstar Micah Parsons knows what it’s like to be a rookie in training camp and even to struggle (a tiny bit) in his first year, which is […]

It may be the NFL preseason, but San Francisco 49ers and Denver Broncos fans seem to be in regular season form when it comes to brawling in the bleachers. The 49ers and Broncos fans’ fight got captured on video, and it included a fan in a Jerry Rice jersey pummeling another spectator, leaving him bloody […]

The New York Jets lost their third preseason game 13-6 to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to fall to 1-2 this year. That was with Tim Boyle and Zach Wilson at quarterback and without Aaron Rodgers starting. When the Jets face the New York Giants in their final preseason tilt, it will be a different team […]

Former Indianapolis Colts punter Pat McAfee is taking his wildly popular sports talk show to ESPN this fall, and we now know the Pat McAfee Show premiere date on the Worldwide Leader. The former NFL player will launch his show on the network the same day the 2023 NFL season kicks off. On Thursday, Pat […]

Lionel Messi is the GOAT, and he is taking Major League Soccer by storm, scoring nine goals in his first six appearances for Inter Miami. If that doesn’t prove that he’s the greatest of all time, maybe the fact that he gleefully took a shot at his current league and the existence of turf fields […]