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The Seattle Seahawks are entering a retooling phase. It's not quite a full-on rebuild but there's enough movement within the organization on and off the field that the team will look quite different next season. It was announced on Tuesday that the Seahawks would be releasing three-time Pro Bowl safety, Jamal Adams....Read more...

Updated March 5: The suspect in the YMCA attack - 20-year-old Malik Ali Smith of Farmington Hills, MI - has been charged with assault with intent to murder.

It was only slightly over a year ago that New Jersey Devils fans were apologizing en masse to Lindy Ruff. They had called for his head early last season, and then when the Devils caught fire they all were ready to admit they had egg on their face. New Jersey would go on to the second round of the playoffs with...Read more...

With free agency around the corner, the NFL is currently engaged in its age-old tradition of taking some of the best names off the market. The franchise tag period allows teams to hold onto premier players just a bit longer, extending the negotiation window for a long-term deal while still maintaining team control.Read more...

The Los Angeles Clippers have been a delightful surprise in the NBA since bouncing back from a rough start once James Harden joined the team at the end of October.Read more...

Remember when NBA Twitter, now NBA X, spent an entire season obsessing over where Ben Simmons would be traded? It ended up being Brooklyn, and that ended up being the last time he was relevant to professional basketball. The latest update is there is no update, just Simmons' agent, Bernie Lee, falling on his client's...Read more...

Vince McMahon made more than $400 million yesterday after selling over five million of his shares in TKO Group Holdings, the parent company of WWE, according to documents provided to the New York Post by the Securities and Exchange Commission.Read more...

It's official. According to NFL Network's Ian Rapoport, the New York Giants will not give running back Saquon Barkley the franchise tag. He will hit the open market for the first time since entering the league in 2018.Read more...

It's simple. Since America loves an underdog, America should be applauding Rajah Caruth.Read more...

Iowa's Caitlin Clark surpassed Pete Maravich as the NCAA's all-time leading scorer in college basketball - and continues to add to her legacy in her final collegiate season before entering the WNBA Draft.

Need any more evidence that Gilbert Arenas' bellyaching about Europeans and foreigners ruining basketball with their sweet outside strokes is all hot air? I'll give you one: Josh Giddey. Now that his legal woes appear to be in the rearview mirror, the whispers about his liabilities in the Oklahoma City Thunder's 5-out...Read more...

Updated March 5: Drew Eubanks revealed that he had suffered bloody gums and his teeth feel looser since getting punched by Isaiah Stewart on Feb. 14 before their game.Read more...

It is tempting to say that the Milwaukee Bucks turned a corner on Monday night. Without Giannis Antetokounmpo in the lineup, they were still able to defeat the Los Angeles Clippers, 113-106, and remain undefeated since the All-Star break. Damian Lillard did not play his best game of the season in Antetokounmpo's...Read more...

One can't help but wonder if Russell Wilson had just thrown that last pass in Super Bowl 49 into the third row how the rest of it might have played out. Seattle would likely have had consecutive Super Bowls, he'd be a god in the PNW, and perhaps everyone would have had more patience for the mountain of up-his-own-ass...Read more...

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have decided to keep wide receiver Mike Evans in the fold for a couple more years, announcing an agreement on an extension Monday. Now Baker Mayfield is sitting around waiting for that same call or text from his agent with the same news Evans received. It only makes sense after the duo's first...Read more...

Mike Evans is a Hall of Fame talent. His 1,255 receiving yards last season makes him the only player in NFL history to record 1,000 receiving yards in each of his first 10 NFL seasons. Regardless of whether the starting quarterback for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers is Tom Brady, Jameis Winston, Baker Mayfield, Ryan...Read more...

Darby Allin crashed some 20 feet through a plate of glass onto the floor, spent a good five to 10 minutes having ringside medical staff picking shards out of his back, leaving Sting to perform his last-ever comeback and win, and it might have only been the third or fourth best match on the card for AEW's Revolution"...Read more...

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Skip Bayless' Undisputed" has hit a dry spell since the departure of NFL Hall of Famer and current ESPN First Take" analyst, Shannon Sharpe. Bayless' new crew, which includes former NFL stars, rappers and a highly respected media personality, hasn't been able to captivate the nation in the same manner Skip & Shannon...Read more...

While I really shouldn't let my frustration with how MLB has sullied their regular season into my soccer coverage, it was hard not to think about how Rob Manfred just discarded those moments during the regular season that portended to more down the line as I watched Darwin Nunez dig out a Liverpool winner in the 99th...Read more...

Back in 2021, Britt Reid, then the Chiefs' linebackers coach and son of celebrated Kansas City Chiefs head coach Andy Reid, left team headquarters drunk, smashed his truck into two cars stopped on the side of the interstate at 84 mph, and put five-year-old Ariel Young into a coma. Young sustained a traumatic brain...Read more...

Curses run deep. They fester in bloodlines, foundations and scorched Earth and are lamented in prose, lyric and declaration. From Shakespeare to Dostoevsky, curses are a part of the canon of human creativity. After the Boston Red Sox broke theirs in 2004 and LeBron James brought a championship to Cleveland in 2016,...Read more...

After making it known that he wants players to have a voice" in a volatile Election Year, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell still had six months before preseason games started in which he didn't have to worry about any potential on-field demonstrations. But thanks to new San Francisco Giants skipper Bob Melvin, all of...Read more...

The buzz around Caitlin Clark eclipsing Pete Maravich's record on Sunday was enough to get celebs to Iowa City for the occasion. I'm not talking about Travis Scott. Jake from State Farm might be sports' Forrest Gump, but celebs walking into college arenas to dap up the TV insurance guy while neglecting to acknowledge...Read more...

In the salary-cap era of the NHL, no team gets to go out on their shield, really. The Datsyuk-and-Zetterberg era of the Wings fled to the Eastern Conference, took a couple first-round beatdowns, and then slipped into the playoff-less ooze that the organization only might just be emerging from. Ovechkin's Capitals have...Read more...

An 18-game NFL regular season has been looming over the league at least since it was clear that the 2011 lockout was an inevitability. What the league wants, the league - more specifically the team owners - usually gets. The revenue split used to be 50/50 with the players, but now a greater share has gone to the...Read more...

Most of the state of Colorado can't watch the defending NBA champion Denver Nuggets. However, the rest of America is enjoying the show. NBA insider/analyst Ethan Strauss dove into some viewership data for a recent post on his substack.

Why anyone listens to former Memphis Grizzlies guard Gilbert Arenas is beyond me. He could be an entertaining listen if he had the self-awareness to realize where the limits of his sense of humor are. Or he could regale his listeners with stories of what it was like to share the floor with former Defensive Player of...Read more...

Atlanta Hawks guard Dejounte Murray found out the hard way Saturday night about getting on an official's bad side. During Atlanta's 114-102 loss to the Brooklyn Nets, Murray was given a technical foul during a timeout while sitting on the sideline. Apparently, NBA referees have resorted to handing out techs for not...Read more...

The next player to eclipse 40,000 points in the regular season will have a chance at the title of the NBA's GOAT simply because the numbers LeBron James will retire with are going to be near impossible to top. It'll either be someone with freakish longevity, or the most prolific scorer ever. At 40,017 points, 10,847...Read more...

The NFL Draft cannot get here soon enough. In its effort to monetize every second of every month, we have to wait and sit through months of speculation and evaluation with narratives conjured out of dead air. What are the Bears going to do with Justin Fields? Why are all the elite athletes opting out of the Combine?...Read more...

Former NFL offensive lineman Chad Wheeler, who, in November, was found guilty of domestic violence after attacking his girlfriend, was sentenced to 81 months in prison.

The NCAA pretty much had its last real vestige of power stripped after the ruling in the Tennessee case last week, and on Friday, announced that it's pausing all investigations into booster-backed collectives or other third parties making NIL deals. Despite the chaos and malfeasance that will continue to grow...Read more...

While see-through pants have been the talk of spring training so far, that might not matter as much to fans (at least non-evangelical ones, Woe to Cardinals Nation), as fans don't tend to want to buy the pants the players are wearing. Maybe you've got use for baseball pants in your everyday life, and I'm not here to...Read more...

The Winnipeg Jets are in first place. The Jets have a legitimate shot at the Stanley Cup. They have the league's best goalie, they have depth scoring. They can win a track meet if opponents want to play that way. They can grind out chances along the boards and in the corners if that's what's asked. For most of our...Read more...

The Oakland Athletics move to Las Vegas is no closer to completion, as the Nevada State Education Association (NESA) is preparing to file an injunction to block the $380 million in public funds for the A's, on the grounds that it is unconstitutional. - Mackenzie Meaney Read MoreRead more...

Could Bronny James score a bucket against his father, LeBron? Kevin Garnett certainly doesn't think so. - Criss Partee Read MoreRead more...

Earth to Sean Payton: Russell Wilson is still on the Denver Broncos' roster. There is nothing the Denver coach can say to make that $85 million in dead salary go away. The NFL salary cap for the 2024 season will be $255.4 million. That dead money would account for a third of their cap space, and the best that they can...Read more...

College football might follow in the footsteps of the NFL as the NFL mulls taking a page out from soccer. After the Michigan sign-stealing scandal, in-helmet communicators could be coming to FBS programs, as well as a two-minute timeout. The Shield meanwhile might eschew the chain gang for optical tracking technology...Read more...

The NFL Scouting Combine is the first sign for everyone to get serious about draft talk. It gives football fans just under two months to prepare for a new name to walk across the stage as Roger Goodell says, With the first overall pick..." Will they become the new face of the league? Or will they flame out before the...Read more...

Josh McCown might wind up being an offensive guru. Josh McCown could be a Super Bowl-winning head coach one day. Over the last few years, Josh McCown has been a highly sought-after candidate in NFL coaching circles. The only thing is, Josh McCown's coaching resume is skimpier than the meat that new employees put on...Read more...

The NFL Scouting Combine is a place for rumors, wind sprints, and stage-setting before the two-month blitz of the NFL offseason. It also produces some of the most bizarre quotes you'll get at any point in the NFL calendar.Read more...

Tyreek Hill's lawyer is claiming that the Miami Dolphins wide receiver didn't break Sophie Hall's leg - instead saying the model/influencer was injured tripping over a dog.Read more...

Welcome to the first edition of Idiots of the Month for 2024 (we may have been overwhelmed with idiocy in January, and declined to choose five from the nominees - or we may have been distracted by the Super Bowl). Luckily for us, February brought us a fresh, new crop of idiots, and one idiot who is quickly approaching...Read more...

Victor Wembanyama and Chet Holmgren play for teams that occupy two very different places in the Western Conference standings. The San Antonio Spurs are going to be in the running for a second-consecutive No. 1 overall pick. The Oklahoma City Thunder are a game behind the Minnesota Timberwolves for the top seed in the...Read more...

Coming off the high of 2023, the 2024 NBA Draft class is destined to be one of the most lifeless in modern history, which explains the predicament men's college basketball has found itself in here in 2024. While the women are pumping out household names such as Caitlyn Clark, JuJu Watkins, Paige Bueckers and Angel...Read more...

For the most part, fans these days accept that a player signing a generational wealthy contract with a team is more than enough of an end to itself. Few players, out of the very few who make the majors at all, get to take the opportunity of free agency and set themselves up for the rest of their careers. While there's...Read more...

Iowa's Caitlin Clark has declared for the WNBA draft today, forgoing her final year of eligibility, she confirmed in a post on her social media account.Read more...

The first Magic Johnson and Larry Bird matchup in the 1979 NCAA Men's Basketball National Championship Game is the most viewed college basketball game of all time. Being that more than 35 million people watched, certainly a few of them have wondered over the years what happened to the Indiana State Men's Basketball...Read more...

Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones will be forced to take a paternity test as part of an ongoing legal dispute with a 27-year-old woman who claims to be his daughter.Read more...