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The first week of the NFL season always gives us some unexpected performances from players all over the field. Some exceed expectations and some fall flat, and this is especially prominent at the quarterback position. If a quarterback doesn’t meet expectations, it often costs their team the game because of how important the position is. […]

Week 1 of the 2021 NFL season is basically complete aside from Monday Night Football, and we saw some great performances from quarterbacks all around. Some of these performances were expected, especially from guys like Tom Brady and Patrick Mahomes, but some players shocked us with their performances. Let’s get into the four quarterbacks who […]

The Sparks took advantage of a Stewart-less Seattle Storm defeating them 81-53 on Sunday to keep their playoff push afloat. Defeating the Storm has surprisingly still kept the Sparks in playoff contention. They currently sit last in the Western Conference and 9th in the playoffs. They are tied with the New York Liberty with an […]

The Champions League is starting this week and football fans around the world could barely wait for the competition to be back. After Chelsea won the final against their compatriots Manchester City in May of this year, the best teams around the continent were anxious to get that title from the English team. Two of […]

Two European giants will meet in the opening week of the UEFA Champions League. Catalan pride Barcelona will meet Bavarian giants Bayern Munich at the Camp Nou on Tuesday and it was the opening of the world’s biggest club competition everyone was dreaming about. Not only are these amazing teams, but there is major recent […]

In 2014, I was blogging about the Houston Rockets for a local Houston sports blog. The Rockets had just come off of a crushing defeat to the Portland Trail Blazers in the playoffs and missed on signing Chris Bosh in free agency so fan morale was down. I pitched a story to my editor titled, […]

When most fans think about a Champions League final, three games spring into mind: 1999, when Manchester United scored two goals in the dying minutes of the game to win it over Bayern Munich; 2014, when a Sergio Ramos header in the 94th minute denied Atletico Madrid their first CL title in club history; and, […]

Fresh off their Thursday night thriller against the Dallas Cowboys, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers will look to start off their season with back-to-back wins heading into Week 2. In the hopes of winning another championship in 2022, the Bucs are looking to be the first back-to-back Super Bowl champs in almost 20 years. With a […]

Ben Wallace was finally inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Basketball diehards were reminded of Wallace’s defensive dominance in the early 2000s with the Detroit Pistons. While it feels like a lifetime ago, his brand of play hasn’t aged one bit. In fact, there are three good reasons why Big Ben would […]

Every so often, an NBA player comes out of nowhere to win MVP, defying all betting odds and experts’ educated guesses. It’s a tough award to predict, particularly now that an aging LeBron James has proven to be just as vulnerable to injuries as the rest of the league. The top five candidates in terms […]

The Los Angeles Clippers had a respectable showing last season. They were able to make it deep into the 2021 NBA playoffs. However, they still failed to reach the NBA Finals and fell short in attaining their title aspirations. Their top player in Kawhi Leonard, who sat out the latter end of their postseason campaign, […]

After a disappointing exit in the Wild Card Round of last year’s playoffs, the Pittsburgh Steelers will be back with a vengeance in 2021 and looking to do some serious damage in the hopes of making one last Super Bowl run before Ben Roethlisberger decides to hang up his cleats. Hoping for a better outcome […]

Week 2 of the college football season is in the books and there were plenty of shocking results and finishes that will change the landscape going forward. Let’s predict the new top 10 in the college football rankings going forward following Saturday’s chaos. College football rankings (Predictions) 1.) Alabama (2-0) The Crimson Tide had a […]

A multi-sport beef brewed between Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James and AC Milan striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic earlier this year. Months after, it seems Zlatan stands by his take. Back in February, Ibrahimovic went at King James. The Lakers star eventually responded to the pointed shot at him, which was a virtual “shut up and […]

Now that DeAndre Jordan has signed with the Los Angeles Lakers and Marc Gasol has been traded to the Memphis Grizzlies, the Lakers have two open roster spots following a blockbuster summer of turnover. The Lakers will keep one spot open for a buyout candidate. Not only does that provide flexibility, but the money owed to […]

There’s little doubt that Houston Rockets fans are excited for the 2021-22 NBA season. After a 17-win campaign this past season, it’s hard not to believe that there’s nowhere left to go but up. Houston also fast-tracked their youth movement by drafting four rookies in June. The natural question head coach Stephen Silas has to […]

One of the biggest gripes some fans have over the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame is that it’s the furthest thing from being impenetrable. The institution that’s supposed to safeguard the history of the NBA and basketball as a whole is filled with borderline stars and unknown names to the common fan. Take Calvin Murphy, […]

The Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame is a prestigious honor. Only the best and the most iconic players in the history of basketball are granted entry into this exclusive list. Every year, a select group of players, coaches, and other notable figures in basketball are allowed entry into the Hall and are immortalized forever in […]

The San Antonio Spurs are one of the most storied franchises in recent memory. Their constant level of success with coach Gregg Popovich and with the trio of Tim Duncan, Tony Parker, and Manu Ginobili is something that is almost impossible to replicate. However, ever since the core retired, the Texan franchise never fully recovered. […]

After a ton of player movement and roster reshuffling that took place across the league this summer, there are now a plethora of NBA teams that are looking to make a playoff comeback in 2022, including the Golden State Warriors. Given that the regular season can be tiresome and daunting to the more inexperienced teams […]

The Memphis Grizzlies had a successful 2020-21 NBA season, going 38-34 and making the postseason. Although they lost to the Utah Jazz in the first round, it was still a great year for the young squad. Star guard Ja Morant absolutely balled out and he had good support in guard-forward Dillon Brooks and center Jonas […]

The Orlando Magic are entering another NBA season ready to be a potential landmine for the top teams in the East. The Florida franchise will be looking to improve on the limited success they enjoyed last season, with a somewhat revamped roster. Rather than having Aaron Gordon and Nikola Vucevic, this roster is now led […]

The Indiana Pacers will be looking to enter the playoff picture this coming season after missing the postseason for the first time in six years in the 2020-21 campaign. It is clear that injuries, inside problems, and a coaching change affected the team last season. But with a clean slate coming into the new season, […]

The Oklahoma City Thunder did not have much success in the 2020-21 NBA season. After making the Playoffs in each of the five seasons prior to that and 10 times in the last eleven years, the squad went 22-50 last year, as they focused more on the evolution of their young guns. The leader of […]

The Chicago Bulls went for it. You can disagree with some of the moves they made this offseason, but you can’t fault the front office for lack of trying (shoutout to the Blazers) as they head into a critical season for franchise face Zach LaVine. The team already made a splash before last season’s trade […]

The ping-pong balls dropped the Detroit Pistons’ way as they took home the no. 1 overall pick in the 2021 NBA Draft. With it, they selected Oklahoma State star Cade Cunningham in the hopes that he could be the man to lead their franchise over the next decade. In this post, though, we’re looking at […]

Last season, the Baltimore Ravens fell short in their playoff run as they got eliminated by the Buffalo Bills in the AFC Divisional Round. Head coach John Harbaugh and his men have another shot at redemption as they commence the new season when they go up against the Las Vegas Raiders come Week 1. In […]

The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame inducted its greatest collective group ever when Kobe Bryant, Kevin Garnett and Tim Duncan take their place among the greatest luminaries in basketball history later this year. Nonetheless, in this post we’re going to explain how the 2020 Hall of Fame class is the best ever. Bryant, Duncan and […]

Former Boston Celtics superstar Paul Pierce and his pooping wheelchair game will stand the test of time. But still, the Paul Pierce poop drama is a bit more complicated. The Poop stain. The Wheelchair. And The Truth? Move over Flu Game. Here’s the Poo Game. Paul Pierce, the Celtics’ No. 1 guy of the previous […]

The Cleveland Cavaliers are in full rebuild mode. The team from Ohio is looking to replicate their successes from the last decade, where they famously reached four NBA Finals in a row. However, that was mostly due to a roster centered around all-time great LeBron James and if this generation of Cavaliers players can replicate […]

The Los Angeles Rams are ready to win. They’ve replaced their weakest link, Jared Goff, with Matthew Stafford who appears to be the missing piece for the team. Now, they are set to start the 2021 campaign with high hopes of a better showing this time around. Of course, there are questions the Rams have […]

If not for the much anticipated debut of the number one overall pick Trevor Lawrence this game wouldn’t have a ton of appeal. The Jaguars were literally the worst team in the league last season and they’re set to take on the unanimous worst team in the league this season, the Houston Texans. Luckily we […]

The New Orleans Saints are one of the most fascinating teams in the NFL because no one is completely sure what to expect from them. The defense should rank in the top half of the league and the offensive line should be in the Top 10. Those two things usually make a playoff team, but […]

The Dallas Mavericks are the definition of a team that is considered “one piece away”. The Mavs have a one-of-a-kind generational talent in Luka Doncic, and they’ve already seen decent success in the regular season. The next phase for them is, of course, win in the playoffs, but that’s easier said than done. After two […]

The New York Giants are welcoming the Denver Broncos into their stadium for Week 1 and it’s shaping up to be the most boring close game in NFL history. The Giants led by Daniel Jones are taking on the Broncos led by Teddy Bridgewater. Both teams have a chance to be playoff teams after missing […]

The Cleveland Browns are in Kansas City looking for a big upset in Week 1 against the Chiefs. Both teams have extremely high hopes for this season but only one will come out victorious. Baker Mayfield will be leading the offense with his main weapons back and Odell Beckham Jr. returning from injury. The Browns’ […]

There are always a few rookie wide receivers making the transition into the NFL that ride the wave of potential, and not all of them are first-round picks. For Terrace Marshall Jr. and the Carolina Panthers, while he may be looked at as the fourth option in the passing game, he has the traits to […]

Kyle Lowry further weaponizes the Miami Heat, but if they’re going to win the Eastern Conference, let alone the NBA Finals, they need a little more oomph. That oomph is a healthy Victor Oladipo. Injuries have held back Oladipo for the better part of the last three years, as he has suffered two season-ending knee […]

The Utah Jazz are entering another NBA season ready for contention. The core of Donovan Mitchell and Rudy Gobert has been together for a couple of years now and with Mitchell entering his prime soon, they must feel like time is running out. While they have had limited success in the last couple of years, […]