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UFC Vegas 73 took place on May 20, 2023, at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas. The event featured a total of 12 fights, with four fighters earning $50,000 bonuses for their performances. Diego Ferreira’s crushing KO of Michael Johnson was among the highlights of the night. DIEGO FERREIRA PUT MICHAEL JOHNSON TO SLEEP 😱 […]

UFC Vegas 73 kicked off the prelims with a welterweight matchup between Themba Gorimbo and Takashi Sato. Gorimbo was out working Sato early in the fight and then dropped him in the second round almost getting the finish. He seemed winded as the fight progressed into the later rounds but he was able to outlast […]

The Golden State Warriors’ two-timeline approach to team-building is officially kaput. Just because James Wiseman has already been traded, Jordan Poole’s future is suddenly in flux and Jonathan Kuminga fell out of the playoff rotation following an eye-popping regular season, though, hardly means Moses Moody isn’t on his own upward trajectory with the Dubs. Steve […]

The UFC kicks off today’s fight night card UFC Vegas 73 with some fireworks, especially in the women’s flyweight division with a fight between Natalia Silva and Victoria Leonardo. It wasn’t a fight that lasted long as Silva dispatched her in 2:58 of the first round via a standing TKO finish. https://twitter.com/bjpenndotcom/status/1660024906883518464?s=20 Natalia Silva has […]

The New York Jets don’t open training camp for another two months or so, but Mekhi Becton is already champing at the bit to get started. “This is the most excited I’ve ever been going into training camp,” Becton told Newsday on Saturday. The 24-year-old offensive tackle is entering his fourth NFL season. A first-round […]

The 2023 NBA free agency period will be a crucial one for the Philadelphia 76ers. An extreme urgency to revamp the roster looms over the Sixers following yet another postseason dud. Part of making the roster a strong one is to simply keep some of the key players that are already in place around Joel […]

The Brooklyn Nets have several veterans who could be packing their bags this summer. Royce O’Neale, Dorian Finney-Smith and Spencer Dinwiddie should all have trade value to contenders, and depending on the direction Brooklyn takes, could be on the move. O’Neale increased his trade value the most out of those three during the 2022-23 campaign. […]

Team executives, scouts, coaches, general managers and others from around the NBA made their yearly expedition to Chicago this past week to not only attend the NBA Draft Combine, but to see who would be awarded the first overall pick in the 2023 NBA Draft. This year’s NBA Draft Lottery was the most anticipated draft […]

The book on the New England Patriots’ 2019 NFL Draft class has officially closed. Offensive tackle Yodny Cajuste has been released, the team announced Thursday. The Patriots initially placed an original-round tender on the offensive tackle earlier this season, but it wasn’t a guaranteed contract. With the move, the Patriots cleared $2.743 million in cap […]

The depth and culture the Los Angeles Lakers spent the last several months establishing have guided them to the Western Conference Finals. To advance past the Denver Nuggets, — “Level 3”, as the Lakers call it — they’re going to need LeBron James and Anthony Davis to be at their absolute best. The Lakers lost […]

LeBron James assured the public that the twisted ankle he suffered in the Los Angeles Lakers‘ Game 2 loss vs. the Denver Nuggets will not keep him out of a must-win Game 3 on Saturday at Crypto.com Arena. “They’re still there,” he said about his ankles. “A little ankle isn’t going to stop me. … […]

FOXBOROUGH – The 2023 season marks a new year for Josh Uche. The New England Patriots linebacker doesn’t want to focus on 2022, in which he recorded a career-high 11.5 sacks, or beyond the 2023 season, where he’s currently set to become a free agent. All of Uche’s focus is on the 2023 season. He’s […]

The Philadelphia 76ers’ offseason is underway after once again losing in the second round of the playoffs. The reality of having to trade Joel Embiid hasn’t truly arrived but it’s still getting too close for comfort. The Sixers have to get it right this offseason. While the possibility of James Harden going to Houston still […]

The Los Angeles Lakers were optimistic after dropping Game 1 of the Western Conference Finals to the Denver Nuggets. They were outscored by 18 in the first half but clawed to within three in the final minute. The comeback was made possible by Darvin Ham’s call to move Rui Hachimura (17 points) onto Nikola Jokic. […]

Coming off of a 48-34 season, their most wins since the 2004-05 season, the Sacramento Kings are a dangerous team on the rise in the Western Conference. Led by two All-Stars in Domantas Sabonis and De’Aaron Fox, this season proved to be a major success for the Kings and now, they could be gearing up […]

The Philadelphia 76ers have another long, uncertain offseason ahead of them. Firing head coach Doc Rivers has to be a move that they make to improve the team, not the move. This offseason should see the Sixers make numerous other attempts to build a better team. The roster around Joel Embiid and James Harden (whom […]

Aaron Rodgers is the New York Jets quarterback now but that doesn’t mean Alex Smith will stop roasting them for how he perceives they mishandled Zach Wilson. A former NFL quarterback who’s now an analyst, Smith took shots at Jets coach Robert Saleh recently on NFL Network Radio. “Yeah, Robert Saleh, you’re a great defensive […]

CAMDEN, NJ — Joel Embiid came up short in the playoffs again. The Philadelphia 76ers and their fans are tired of hearing that same old song but it’s the loudest tune in the city after a no-show in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Semifinals against the Boston Celtics. Improvements to his scoring repertoire weren’t […]

CAMDEN, NJ — The Philadelphia 76ers’ 2023 offseason began with the departure of one key figure: head coach Doc Rivers. The rest of the Sixers’ offseason will largely be defined by whether James Harden also skips town. Rumors of his interest in returning to the Houston Rockets are flying around left and right following another […]

Injuries once again plagued the Los Angeles Clippers this season, as they fell in the first-round of the playoffs without All-Stars Kawhi Leonard and Paul George. Now, questions regarding head coach Tyronn Lue’s future are being asked after what has been an already eventful NBA offseason for head coaches. Prominent names such as Doc Rivers […]

The Phoenix Suns are operating with the mindset that Chris Paul will open next season as the team’s starting point guard, according to Bleacher Report’s Chris Haynes. Haynes also reported the Suns are likely to full guarantee Paul’s $30.8 million salary. Wednesday’s news seems to be a change of posture for Paul’s status with the […]

Matthew Dellavedova has spent nine seasons in the NBA, most recently playing for the Sacramento Kings during the 2022-23 season. Turning 33-years-old in September, the Australian guard will be leaving the NBA to once again play for Melbourne United in the NBL. “I’m really excited to be coming back to Melbourne United,” Dellavedova said, per […]

In what was the most anticipated NBA Draft Lottery ever, the San Antonio Spurs came out as the ultimate victors on Tuesday night. For the third time in franchise history, the Spurs will own the first overall pick in the NBA Draft and will be taking French big man Victor Wembanyama.  The Spurs have had […]

The Los Angeles Lakers ran into a Denver Nuggets buzzsaw at the outset of the 2023 Western Conference Finals. They adjusted and fought back, but it wasn’t quite enough. The Nuggets prevailed, 132-126. For the first time in the NBA Playoffs, the Lakers failed to steal Game 1 on the road. Seeding aside, the Lakers […]

Nets owner Joe Tsai is under fire from Brooklyn fans after announcing the Barclays Center will host a showing of “38 at the Garden,” a documentary of Jeremy Lin’s breakout 2012 season with the New York Knicks. A film about a thrilling Knicks moment screened in the Nets home? https://t.co/thfNpJdZOn — Stefan Bondy (@SbondyNBA) May […]

The San Antonio Spurs have won the NBA Draft Lottery 2023 and will own the rights to the first overall pick in the 2023 NBA Draft on June 22 in Barclays Center. This is the 3rd time in franchise history that the Spurs have held the No. 1 pick in the NBA Draft and just […]

The Golden State Warriors have only just begun turning the page from a failed and tumultuous title defense in 2022-23. As a potentially franchise-altering summer looms, though, widespread trade speculation surrounding Jordan Poole seems a bit premature—at least if you believe Steve Kerr. The Warriors met with the media on Tuesday for the first time […]

For the third time in four seasons, the Boston Celtics are squaring off with the Miami Heat in the Eastern Conference Finals. While the matchup is the same, the seeding is very different. The Heat were the top seed last year but now find themselves as an eighth seed. And even though the C’s are […]

As long as Stephen Curry is wearing blue and gold and playing near the peak of his powers, the Golden State Warriors’ top priority should be chasing more championships. What does that mean for Draymond Green’s future in San Francisco as free agency looms? For Steve Kerr, at least, it’s virtually impossible to imagine his […]

Not every season can end in winning a championship, but for the Phoenix Suns, this is their expectation after trading for superstar Kevin Durant. Firing Monty Williams after a handful of successful seasons as their head coach, the Suns are entering an offseason in which they will also have to re-evaluate Deandre Ayton’s long-term future […]

The Francis Ngannou sweepstakes has finally come to an end and he has signed with the PFL for one of the most lucrative deals in MMA history. Many believed that Ngannou fumbled the bag so to speak when he declined one of the biggest contracts in UFC history. As the reports have come out, it […]

Desmond Bane has been getting better and better for the Memphis Grizzlies and this past season, he really took a major step forward in terms of proving he can be one of their stars for years to come. He averaged career-highs in almost every category during his third NBA season, but he missed a handful […]

Ray Allen, one of the greatest shooters of all-time, and LeBron James, one of the greatest talents of all-time, won a championship together with the Miami Heat in 2013. A ten-time All-Star and now a member of the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame, Allen was recently asked about who he would put on his all-time […]

Back in the Eastern Conference Finals for the fifth time since 2017, the Boston Celtics will face a very familiar foe in the Miami Heat, who they defeated in the conference finals a season ago. Playing around with his rotations lately, Celtics head coach Joe Mazzulla recently made the move to have center Robert Williams […]

The waiting is finally over as the biggest free agent in combat sports, Francis Ngannou has a new home. He has officially signed with the Professional Fighters League and as the kids say “got the bag”. This was by far the most lucrative contract for any MMA fighter out there and he got more than […]

The Los Angeles Lakers and Denver Nuggets begin the Western Conference Finals on Tuesday at Ball Arena. As with the Miami Heat-Boston Celtics series, it’ll be a rematch of the 2020 conference finals in the bubble. The Lakers won in five, although LeBron James, Anthony Davis, Nikola Jokic, Jamal Murray, and Michael Porter Jr. are […]

The 2023 Western Conference Finals between the No. 7 seed Los Angeles Lakers and No. 1 seed Denver Nuggets tips off Tuesday at Ball Arena. The stakes, intrigue, and quality of play both teams are bringing into this bubble rematch are Mile High. The Nuggets have been the class of the West all season, while […]

The most important players for the Los Angeles Lakers in their Western Conference Finals matchup against the Denver Nuggets are, wait for it … LeBron James and Anthony Davis. The depth the Lakers have accrued has refreshingly eased the playmaking/scoring burden from LeBron and AD, but they’ve won two rounds, first and foremost, because of […]

Former Glory kickboxing world champion Cedric Doumbe was a hot commodity when he turned to MMA after his kickboxing career was finished. He finished his Glory career as the 2-time welterweight champion with a professional kickboxing record of 75-6-1 (45 KO). "CÉDRIC DOUMBÉ PROMISED US A KNOCKOUT AND IT ONLY TOOK SECONDS TO DELIVER IT" […]