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It’s always said that the NBA Draft process is an imperfect science. Every franchise is looking to find the next superstar when making a draft choice. However, the teams who select later in the draft are trying to find a diamond in the rough with their pick. The past two draft classes have brought some […]

NFL Week 16 featured an exciting triple-header of Saturday games, two overtime contests and a major upset. The Houston Texans and New England Patriots clinched their respective divisions on Saturday. The Texans won the AFC South for the second straight season and fourth time in the past five years, while the Patriots claimed the AFC […]

With the 2010’s set to end in just a few days, we enter a new decade of basketball. Players like LeBron James, Steph Curry, Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook dominated the 2010’s, but who will lead the next generation? It’s likely we’ve already seen members of a 2020’s All-Decade Team on the NBA hardwood. Still, […]

How will the 2010’s be remembered? Well, more than anything it will be defined by the stars of the era and what they did to elevate the game. These fives players (plus honorable mentions), in my opinion, do a solid job of outlining how the past decade went down. Let’s go in order of picking […]

$188.9 million has been added to the payroll of the Chicago White Sox for the next four years, on top of their existing financial commitments – this team is ready to compete for a berth in the postseason. Yasmani Grandal – 4 years, $73 million Dallas Keuchel – 3 years, $55.5 million Gio Gonzalez – […]

For the Toronto Blue Jays, their penchant response to talks of what type of team they are going to be in 2020 have been centralized around building up their core, attempting to become a fringe competitor, but realizing that 2021 or even 2022 may be more in the cards. But with Hyun-Jin Ryu having just […]

There currently are 12 new players on the 40-man roster for the Milwaukee Brewers, signaling a major turnover only one year removed from winning a spot in the Wild Card round of the National League playoffs. While President of Baseball Operations David Stearns seems to always be relying on analytics and statistics to build his […]

The Jason Garrett coaching era in Dallas saw an unusual beginning. Following the departure of Hall of Fame coach Bill Parcels, Jerry Jones hired the Miami Dolphins quarterback coach and former Cowboy backup to be the new offensive coordinator and head coach in-waiting. The problem? The franchise’s next head coach had yet to be hired […]

The Milwaukee Bucks are strolling through the Association with a league-leading 26-4 record. It’s hard to imagine them thinking about tinkering their roster with their blistering start to the season. But as we saw in last year’s playoffs, it doesn’t really matter how good you are in the regular season. What matters is that you […]

Heading into Week 16, the Miami Dolphins are playing better football but still find themselves in a fight for one of the top three picks in the 2020 NFL Draft. This season has been one of many question marks and little answers as the Dolphins mortgaged away their chance of any success when they let […]

College basketball is somewhat broken. One-and-dones come a dime a dozen and all of the other teams are filled with players we never heard of. Fans want to watch star freshmen dominate the collegiate landscape. However, not at the expense of players being a pawn for the NCAA. This has led to now-former Memphis big […]

The 1990s offered NBA fans with some of the most intriguing rivalries in league history. Many of them involved the New York Knicks. The Knicks rebranded themselves as a brash and physical team centered around big man Patrick Ewing. With characters like John Starks and Anthony Mason hounding opponents, they developed bad blood with teams […]

Being selected to the NFL Pro Bowl is an outstanding accomplishment. Players who perform the best during a given season should be rewarded with the nod. The reality is that players’ legacies are partly defined by the number of times they are named to the Pro Bowl. That’s why it’s frustrating when the players who […]

From 2009-2019, powerhouse teams have dominated the playoffs. A team that entered the postseason as a one seed has won it all a whopping 60 percent of the time.  This is the NBA era we live in today. A team that doesn’t have at least two or three superstars is incapable of winning it all. […]

Giannis Antetokounmpo’s latest master class came with a new career-high in 3-pointers made, burying five against the Milwaukee Bucks’ biggest competition to date — the Los Angeles Lakers. If a statement 111-104 win over the West-leading Lakers wasn’t enough, The Greek Freak’s 3-point improvement is just the latest semblance of proof that he’s nearing world […]

LeBron James is one of the best basketball players to ever step on the court. He’s completely transformed the sport since his NBA debut in 2003, with similar players following in his footsteps since. What makes LeBron James a very interesting player to see is how vocal and influential he is off the court as […]

With the National League North division looking to be boasting a plethora of teams that could all be fighting for a postseason berth, it looks as though the Cincinnati Reds are trying to leapfrog some of their divisional counterparts, and use the trade market to their advantage. According to MLB insider Mark Feinsand, the Reds […]

The 2019 NFL season has been a complete disaster for the Cleveland Browns. After an eventful offseason that included the acquisition of superstar wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr., the team was receiving serious playoff and even Super Bowl hype. Of course, it was all hype, but the players didn’t exactly shy away from it all. […]

The New England Patriots are tied for the most Super Bowl victories in NFL history. In about two decades, the franchise went from being Super Bowl-less to a perennial juggernaut. During that time, many great players worked under Bill Belichick and transformed the image of the organization. However, New England had some great players before […]

CHARLOTTE- De’ Aaron Fox made the headline prior to tip-off Tuesday night by returning to action against the Hornets, but the Kings failed to come up with a win in Charlotte. The final score, 110-102, is a little misleading. The Hornets dominated every stat possible for the majority of the game. The Kings failed to […]

With Kawhi Leonard and Danny Green leaving in free agency, with a bunch of young players taking on larger roles in their rotation, the defending NBA-champion Toronto Raptors were generally viewed as a team that would sneak into the Eastern Conference playoffs but do little more this season. Well, something funny happened: their youngsters grew […]

Jimmy Butler is now a happy member of the Miami Heat (well, at least for now), but his journey to South Beach was certainly an interesting one. Butler was originally selected by the Chicago Bulls with the 30th overall pick of the 2011 NBA Draft, and while he had a terrific collegiate career at Marquette, […]

Ichiro Suzuki. Hideo Nomo. Shohei Ohtani. Daisuke Matsuzaka. Masahiro Tanaka. Yu Darvish. Kwang-Hyun Kim. Jae-Hwan Kim. Yoshitomo Tsutsugo. Shun Yamaguchi. Ryosuke Kikuchi. Wei-Yin Chen. Tzu-Wei Lin. Jen-Ho Tseng. Wei-Chung Wang. These are just a few names of players that were either born in or played in the MLB from the countries of Japan, South Korea, […]

With the Los Angeles Angels having made one major splash in free agency with the signing of Anthony Rendon, their failed pursuit of a second, Gerrit Cole and Madison Bumgarner, has made them look a different direction. According to Jon Morosi, the Angels are highly motivated to make a move to upgrade their starting pitching, […]

The 2019 NFL season is coming to a close. The postseason race is heating up as teams jockey for playoff positioning. In this NFL week review, we examine two players who are leading their squads to AFC hierarchy.  We also look at an AFC club that has fallen flat on its face following lofty preseason […]

Free agency can put players in a weird bind, setting them up to struggle to find the right place for them to continue their MLB careers. But for third baseman Josh Donaldson, he has been on a voyage full of hills and valleys throughout his professional career. Donaldson currently finds himself a free agent after […]

As the free agency period moves along, there are a few big names still available on the market, looking for the right team to make them an offer they cannot refuse. With the winter of 2019-20 looking a lot better financially for most players than the offseason of 2018, starting pitcher Hyun-Jin Ryu is seeing […]

The New York Knicks need stability, and the worst way to accomplish that is by firing two head coaches in the same season; the Knicks should stick with interim head coach Mike Miller through this season. Since the Knicks fired David Fizdale, the team’s head-coaching future has been the central talking point to the public […]

From worst to first, here’s our ranking of NBA owners. 30. James Dolan, New York Knicks Possibly the worst owner in professional sports today, Dolan has been the driving force behind the NBA’s most dysfunctional franchise over the past few decades — the New York Knicks. The blue and orange have made the playoffs just […]

The Dallas Cowboys have lost four of their last five games and seven out of their last ten. To say things have gone off the rails following a promising 3-0 start would be an understatement to put it lightly. While Jason Garrett has received the brunt of the criticism, the team’s problems go beyond the […]

The Baltimore Ravens have come on strong to assert themselves as one of the most dominant teams in the NFL. Now standing with an 11-2 record, they are atop the AFC at the moment. In fact, they are one of just two teams in the entire NFL with that record, the San Francisco 49ers being […]

With the centerpiece of the franchise re-signing for what seems to be his final contract before retiring, the Los Angeles Angels have to be happy. They made it through countless years of struggling, stinking, and middling performances, and were still able to retain their best player, Mike Trout, for the long haul. But with the […]

There were less than 40 seconds left in the game when Devonte’ Graham carried the ball up to the Brooklyn Nets logo. The score was 108-106. Spencer Dinwiddie was tightly guarding him, and the rest of the Nets were on alert about the six-foot-one guard who already dumped 37 points on their heads. There was […]

The New York Knicks have had more than enough time to get their organization back on track. After the fallout from the Isiah Thomas era, Carmelo Anthony ushered in a new one. While the wins did come, there was still no NBA Championship to show for it. Fast forward to 2019 and the Knicks are […]

They are the villains of the NBA. NBA refs have one of the toughest jobs in sports. They make calls to the best of their ability and receive the brunt of the criticism when their judgment is incorrect. The main issue, though, isn’t with refs making mistakes. It’s with holding them accountable for those mistakes. […]

The Pittsburgh Steelers are one of two franchises in NFL history with six Super Bowls. Famously, the team won Super Bowls in the 1970s with one of the best collections of drafted players ever assembled. However, the Steelers have their fair share of impactful free agent signings. Pittsburgh heavily favors drafting and developing its future […]

Going into the NFL Draft every year, there are the players who dominate in college, run a 4.3 forty or impress scouts with physical attributes and in-game technique. This kind of player usually gets drafted in the first or second round. Whether those players pan out is a different story, but where great teams are […]

In 2012, the Orlando Magic sent their star center Dwight Howard to the Los Angeles Lakers in one of the craziest trades in NBA history, one that still has ramifications in the league today. At the time, Howard was undoubtedly the best center in the league. The 6-foot-10 big man had just won three consecutive […]

The Baltimore Ravens defeated the Buffalo Bills in Week 14. That moved their winning streak to nine straight games, and gave them an 11-2 record, best in the AFC and tied for best in the NFL (San Francisco 49ers are also 11-2). Baltimore has a new test in front of them in Week 15, in […]