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The arrest of Kevin Porter Jr. on charges of felony assault and strangulation related to the beating of his girlfriend Kysre Gondrezic early Monday at the Millenium Hilton in Manhattan. was the last straw for the soon-to-be-former Houston Rocket. Prosecutors say Porter punched Gondrezick with an open fist and didn't...Read more...

The 2022-23 season was supposed to be the revenge of the Milwaukee Bucks. Their championship defense in 2022 was cut short when Khris Middleton was injured in the first round against the Chicago Bulls. A season that had already been dampened by Brook Lopez missing all but 13 regular-season games. Giannis Antetokounmpo...Read more...

The Chargers opened the 2023 regular season in a thrilling game in Los Angeles against the Miami Dolphins, where they came up short, 36-34. Austin Ekeler did his part for the Chargers, rushing for 117 yards, a touchdown, and adding four receptions for another 47 yards. Ultimately, this wasn't enough, and the Chargers...Read more...

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Count Dallas Cowboy linebacker Micah Parsons among those who thought Daniel Jones should've been relieved, at some point, during the Cowboys thrashing of the New York Giants on Sunday night. Speaking on his podcast that I will never listen to, Parsons - who recorded one of Dallas' seven sacks of Jones - said Brian...Read more...

As we and many others stress, international friendlies are weird. Especially when everyone has to fly over from Europe for two games that don't count for anything while trying to not get hurt. And for the USMNT, there weren't really too many players trying to carve out a role, or a bigger role, within the team. The...Read more...

Week 1 of the NFL season is in the books, and as usual, we've got some extreme overreactions to some of the action. We see this every year early on when teams play far above their expected output or well below. So, let's figure out which teams may have fooled the masses during the opening week of this 2023 campaign.Read more...

The sizzle of the grill, the smell of the pizza, the crack of the beer can, and the sound of brass bursting through the speakers, are all signs that football season has arrived. While activity and news from the sport are followed year-round, nothing replaces a week of real game action.Read more...

There hasn't been a performance-enhancing drugs scandal in basketball. At least, not to the level of, say, the likes of BALCO and Major League Baseball. As close as we came was when the NBA started testing players for HGH before the beginning of the 2015-16 season. The trendy thing to do online at the time, was to...Read more...

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The problem with Wrexham becoming such a story within the soccer world, thanks to the efforts of Ryan Reynolds, and Rob McElhenney making them so, is that the suspense is kind of removed from Season 2 of Welcome To Wrexham. We know how this one ends. Wrexham win the National League, and get promoted. Which has been...Read more...

Josh Allen's trio of picks thrown to New York Jets safety Jordan Whitehead and his two fumbles on one play, were the kiss of death for the Buffalo Bills in their loss to a New York Jets team whose Super Bowl aspirations disappeared after Aaron Rodgers went down with a torn Achilles. However, being humbled by the Jets...Read more...

It's always interesting to see how leagues and players' unions react to injuries. Zaza Pachulia stepped under Kawhi Leonard's foot, and now NBA defenders can't impede a shooter's landing zone. Buster Posey getting blasted by Scott Cousins led to MLB banning plays at the plate. On Monday, Aaron Rodgers tore his Achilles...Read more...

Stephen A. Smith has two options. Stand by his man and deal with the consequences, or apologize and hold Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones accountable for past and present racist allegations that have become too big to ignore.Read more...

Perhaps it's because the higher-ups at MLB have wanted to discount the Steroid Era for so long and so passionately, with the hopes that we might erase all the numbers from our memories. Back then 50 homers was pretty much a buy-in. Some pretty silly names got to the mark. My favorite is probably Brady Anderson. Still,...Read more...

David Stearns coming back to New York to become president of baseball operations for the Mets was about one of the worst-kept secrets in baseball. The Mets asked to talk to him after he stepped down from his post in Milwaukee and were denied access after last season, but it didn't take a cocaine-addled private...Read more...

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It's time. Point blank. The Los Angeles Angels need to deal Mike Trout and rebuild. It's a layered dynamic that'll have people around Hollywood already upset that their beloved American superhero doesn't figure into future plans. It'd have more substance if Mike Trout had ever been a part of a team that has won a...Read more...

White America doesn't accept racism until they've seen it broken down in percentages, watched an innocent Black man be murdered by police in Minneapolis - on repeat - or read a document that encompasses just how systemic this country's original sin is. The claims in Jim Trotter's racial discrimination/retaliation...Read more...

Alabama football rarely takes L's, but that may not be the case this season, and it's a good thing because, by god, are they sore losers.Read more...

Hockey doesn't even need to start to be stupid, especially when it comes to a needlessly recycled coach like Mike Babcock. If you don't recall Babcock since he got fired from the Leafs, you may remember him from such episodes as making Johan Franzen's life an utter hell or tricking Mitch Marner into throwing all of...Read more...

On an early first down Monday night, 38-year-old New York Jets left tackle Duane Brown attempted a poorly executed cut block that resulted in Buffalo Bills edge rusher Leonard Floyd getting a free shot at Aaron Rodgers. New York's pricey new quarterback lacking time in the pocket to operate behind a good left tackle...Read more...

In the wake of Aaron Rodgers' New York Jets career coming to a screeching halt after just four plays, Gang Green's front office has some quick decisions to make. We now know Rodgers suffered an Achilles injury on Monday Night Football, so his season in NYC is over. Now, the Jets must scramble to decide who else...Read more...

This morning, Pro Football Talk tweeted out the first look NFL fans have gotten at longtime NFL reporter Jim Trotter's discrimination suit against the NFL.Read more...

Trying to predict the NFL season was a lot easier when Tom Brady was on the New England Patriots, but that didn't stop ESPN from trying. The Worldwide Leader went all in on Aaron Rodgers coverage - from letting lead network host Mike Greenberg lust after gangrene, to giving Pat McAfee $85 million for his inside access...Read more...

For the second year in a row, Art Briles' name has been associated with a college football program. And for the second year in a row, it's because an idiot, posing as a coach, brought him around. Hue Jackson, meet Jeff Lebby.Read more...

Updated Sept. 12: Aaron Rodgers tore his Achilles and is done for the 2023 season, per ESPN.Read more...

You're already hearing it. New York Jets fans pointing out that, on a night when their final piece" quarterback made it four plays before his decaying body snapped, and on a night where the Bills clanked a game-tying field goal off the post and in, the fact that they still pulled it out on an overtime punt return TD,...Read more...

As the leader of America's quarterback delegation, Patrick Mahomes had to comment on social media following Aaron Rodgers' grand opening, grand closing debut as the New York Jets' starting quarterback.Read more...

Remember when the Dallas Mavericks concluded an embarrassing 2022-23 season by not dressing Kyrie Irving and Luka Doni instead of attempting to qualify for the Play-in Tournament? The Mavericks were fined $750,000, and I think that the NBA reached a breaking point in its never-ending saga of star-player rest.Read more...

The Los Angeles Rams were unwatchable last season. Injuries depleted the team, and after starting the 2022 campaign at 3-3, the Rams lost their next six games and were out of the division and playoff hunt by mid-November. Just one year after climbing to the NFL mountain top and winning Super Bowl LVI, the Rams...Read more...

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In February 2020, Mark Dantonio - by far the most successful football coach in Michigan State's history - retired. The stress of managing 120 student-athletes every year wore on him, Dantonio said. He wanted to make his life less complicated, so he was stepping away from football and East Lansing.Read more...

The Eagles entered this season in a position of luxury and everyone knew it.Read more...

LeBron James is back to doing what he does best, flexing those roster construction muscles as the league's greatest shadow GM. According to Shams Charania and Joe Vardon's report in The Athletic, an effort to recruit Steph Curry, Kevin Durant, Anthony Davis, Jayson Tatum and Draymond Green, is being led by none other...Read more...

Jordan Love may have quieted the naysayers for at least one week. In his first start as the Green Bay Packers' unquestioned starter, Love passed for 245 yards and three touchdowns. While he only completed 55 percent of his throws, he didn't give the ball away, which any coach will tell you is most important for a...Read more...

There's been a lot to get excited about in the American League, and a lot of new.Read more...

Two years ago, Mel Tucker blazed a trail for Black head coaches. One day ago, Mel Tucker set them back.Read more...

Was it as good for you as it was for me to hear Scott Hanson say, seven hours of commercial-free football."Read more...

There are a lot of ways to win in tennis. Novak Djokovic has found all of them. Coco Gauff may yet one day, though she found the one for this US Open. While Djokovic has had to vary his game at various points to overcome various challenges, at the base of it all remains the same truth as the day he showed up. It's...Read more...

Bill Parcells was correct when he said you are what your record says you are." In all sports, the champion is decided by who wins the tournament, and the seeding is determined by victories leading up to it.Read more...

The Atlanta Braves became the first team in the majors to clinch a postseason berth on Sunday, but manager Brian Snitker is already focused on the next task at hand.Read more...

The Atlanta Braves became the first team in the majors to clinch a postseason berth on Sunday, but manager Brian Snitker is already focused on the next task at hand.Read more...

Riding a dominant defense and special teams, the Dallas Cowboys embarrassed the host New York Giants 40-0 in Sunday night's season opener in East Rutherford, N.J.Read more...

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Thairo Estrada, Mitch Haniger and Joc Pederson hit home runs, Keaton Winn recorded his first big-league win and the San Francisco Giants finished off a much-needed sweep of the visiting Colorado Rockies with a 6-3 victory on Sunday night.Read more...

Substitute Billy Sharp leveled the game in the 82nd minute to help the LA Galaxy rally from two goals down and salvage a 2-2 draw at home against 10-man St. Louis City on Sunday.Read more...

Tyreek Hill's 4-yard touchdown catch from Tua Tagovailoa with 1:45 to play served as the game-winner as the Miami Dolphins survived a back-and-forth fourth quarter and prevailed 36-34 over the Los Angeles Chargers on Sunday in Inglewood, Calif.Read more...

The Miami Dolphins and Los Angeles Chargers gave us a late Sunday afternoon thriller and lived up to the hype of being the game of the week that most people didn't have available to watch.Read more...