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College football's strange but true historical facts for each Top 25 team College football is a beautiful connection of sport and weird history. Using Mark Schlabach's Way-Too-Early Top 25 assembled in February and some help from my colleagues, I've collected each team's strangest historical fact, or simply a weird thing that ...
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Five worst NFL franchises to bet on during the Super Bowl era The NFL season doesn't kick off for a while, but we do know the 2020 schedule, and opening lines have been released for Week 1, Monday Night Football games and some other key matchups. As we prepare to get back into the swing of things and return to ...
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Eight NFL People Who'd Make Better Documentary Subjects Than Tom Brady We're not going to notice it at first. We're going to be a few innocent hours into the Tom Brady docuseries in 2021, satiated by a few lame, approved-by-Brady-Inc nuggets about the divorce from the Patriots and Bill Belichick and all of a sudden we'll land here .
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Lions to move All-Pro Jamal Agnew to new position for 2020 season The Detroit Lions are giving one of the best returners in football an opportunity to contribute at another position. Per Peter King of NBC Sports, the Lions are moving All-Pro return man Jamal Agnew to wide receiver full time for the 2020 season -- after ...
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Texans' JJ Watt: 'The Uncertainty Is the Worst Part' About 2020-21 NFL Season Houston Texans defensive end J.J. Watt said he's "waiting and seeing" whether the 2020 NFL season kicks off on time amid the coronavirus pandemic. Watt told TMZ Sports in an interview released Wednesday the general theme of his offseason has been ...
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Vols Remain in the Mix for Coveted DB Target Ryan Barnes Offers started coming in for 2021 DB Ryan Barnes in November, and Tennessee was the first school to jump in the mix. Since then, Barnes has added 32 more Division 1 offers, and continues to have major schools recruiting him. Barnes had to cut the field ...
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Revisiting the Knicks' 2009 draft: Was there a backup plan to land Stephen Curry? Stephen Curry wanted to be drafted by the Knicks, to play in Mike D'Antoni's system in the bright lights of Madison Square Garden. Curry's father, Dell, and agent Jeff Austin both wanted Stephen in New York and called up Larry Riley, then the Warriors GM, ...
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Jets' Joe Flacco won't be ready for start of season, but he's ready for challenge of new offense Joe Flacco signed a one-year deal with the Jets last week, knowing full well that he was joining the team to be the backup to Sam Darnold. But for the 35-year-old Super Bowl-winning quarterback, his deal with the Jets is a chance to get back to playing the ...
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Phil Mickelson wants to make 'The Match' a regular thing with a rotating cast of celebrities Phil Mickelson enjoyed "The Match" as much as everyone else in the United States. Encouraged by the attention "The Match" received, Mickelson is already planning ways to make it a regular event, which would include a number of celebrities, according to ...
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Video: A Scared Ted Lenosis Kept Bradley Beal from Becoming a Member of the Oklahoma City Thunder On Draft Night of 2012, The Wizards had a chance to bring James Harden to Washington. Instead, owner Ted Lenosis, balked at the idea of paying Harden the $80,000,000 he was worth. Had fear not taken over in D.C. Bradley Beal and Chris Singleton would ...
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Top flight clubs to continue talks after agreeing to resume contact training A raft of issues including a restart date and curtailment will be discussed when Premier League clubs gather again on Thursday morning. The 20 English top-flight sides have voted unanimously in favour of protocols for a return to contact training, which is ...
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NWSL announces plan to start season on June 27, will be first US pro league to return to play The National Women's Soccer League announced on Wednesday its plan to start the 2020 season and become the first US sports league to return to play. The NWHL season, which never officially began due to the COVID-19 shutdown, will take the form of a ...
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Eddie Hearn backs crossover bout between boxing's Whyte and UFC's Ngannou this year Promoter Eddie Hearn has said he is planning to reach out to UFC boss Dana White about a potential cross-discipline clash between boxer Dillian Whyte and UFC star Francis Ngannou later this year. Responding to questions on an Instagram live chat, ...
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Sean McDermott: Some Bills still need technical support There are always some players who need a little extra coaching. Bills coach Sean McDermott, to his amazement, has found out that includes coaching them on how to use Zoom. During an appearance on former Bills center Eric Wood's What's Next? podcast, ...
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Joe Starkey: Baseball cards spring to life — and life hits back — in rollicking new book The idea. That's what initially struck me about a popular new book called "The Wax Pack: On the Open Road in Search of Baseball's Afterlife." What an idea! (Yells at self) Why didn't I have this idea? Advertisement. Brad Balukjian, a 30-something college ...
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Pac-12 voluntary workouts set to begin as soon as June 15 The Pac-12 Conference has taken its first step toward football season, as league executives voted Tuesday to allow voluntary, on-campus workouts for all athletes beginning as soon as June 15. Decisions on when those workouts begin on respective ...
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Juventus signing Kulusevski reveals 'doubts' over Inter boss Conte Dejan Kulusevski has revealed he chose Juventus over Inter as he was "in doubt" about working under Antonio Conte. The Sweden international agreed to sign for the Serie A champions from Atalanta in January, penning a four-and-a-half-year deal before ...
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NHL Playoffs Could Skate past MLB as Baseball Fights over Salaries: Unchecked The NHL has a real opportunity with Major League Baseball acting like a bunch of Astros. And if MLB isn't careful, hockey might skate right past them. Somehow, the NBA seems poised for a return and the NHL is announcing playoff plans, while MLB ...
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BWF: Qualifying process for Tokyo to begin only in 2021 The Badminton World Federation (BWF) has updated its Olympic qualification regulations for the Tokyo Games, saying the qualifying process will only resume in 2021 and players will retain the existing points earned under the Race to Tokyo ranking list.
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Damian Lillard is sending a message to the NBA -- give us a shot at playoffs It is not unexpected that Damian Lillard says he won't participate if the Trail Blazers are brought back this summer by the NBA to play just a few games without any chance of earning a playoff berth. I would not expect one of the game's great competitors to be ...
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ESPN's predictions give the Dallas Cowboys the fifth-highest chances of winning the Super Bowl It is safe to say that some people have some pretty lofty expectations for the 2020 Dallas Cowboys. While the Cowboys finished last season with a mediocre 8-8 record, it is just about universally agreed that they fell far short of what the talent on their team ...
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Robert Kraft tells Sean Hannity he believes football will be played this fall "I believe we can do it," Kraft told host Sean Hannity in a brief segment Tuesday evening on Fox News. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell has said the league intends on starting the regular season on time, while keeping concerns amid the coronavirus ...
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Cheez-It Bowl: Orlando game gets new sponsor to replace Camping World Cheez-It is the new title sponsor for one of the two college football bowl games held annually at Camping World Stadium in Orlando. The Cheez-It Bowl will replace the Camping World Bowl during the upcoming football season. Advertisement. Cheez-It ...
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Bruins' David Pastrnak finishes season tied for Rocket Richard Trophy as NHL's top goal-scorer With the 2019-20 regular season officially over following the NHL's revelation of a plan to hold the playoffs later this summer, the Bruins are the Presidents' Trophy winner, and a few players locked up individual awards. Right wing David Pastrnak became ...
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F1 Stars Verstappen, Norris Team Up for Virtual 24H Le Mans Formula 1 stars Max Verstappen and Lando Norris will share a car in next month's virtual 24 Hours of Le Mans, as teams continue to announce their driver lineups for the race. Verstappen, who drives for Aston Martin Red Bull Racing, and McLaren driver ...
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How Michael Jordan reacted to Robert Parish taunting him at Bulls practice Don't mess with The Chief. Michael Jordan learned that lesson at a practice during Robert Parish's lone season with the Bulls in 1996-97 — the last of his 21-year career. Appearing on CLNS Media's Cedric Maxwell Podcast, Parish told the story of him ...
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Revised NHL playoffs has direct impact on Wild's draft pick from Jason Zucker trade With a plan in place to possibly resume the NHL season with a 24-team playoff, there is optimism that fans in the State of Hockey will get to see the Minnesota Wild compete against the Vancouver Canucks in a best-of-five qualifying round. Sports of any kind is ...
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'God of cricket' Tendulkar looms over India prodigy Shaw Comparisons to India's "god of cricket" Sachin Tendulkar have not always helped Prithvi Shaw as he seeks to put a doping ban and injury worries behind him and cement his place in the national side. Shaw, now 20, was instantly linked with Tendulkar when ...
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For Joe Thomas, 'absolutely brutal' challenge of Titan Games got 'those competitive juices flowing' again When Joe Thomas told his wife Annie earlier this year he was going to compete on NBC's "Titan Games," she had two questions. Joe Thomas mug. Thomas. "It's funny, when I told her about it, I was like, 'I think it's going to be a great opportunity, it's going to be ...
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NHL restart plan makes dollars and sense There remain as many questions as answers as the NHL unveiled its return-to-play plan Tuesday, but give the league credit: Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, a road map is in place. Sure, we don't know whether the league will actually resume action paused on ...
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Tulane football player arrested for alleged battery, suspended from team ZACHARY - The Zachary Police Department has launched an investigation into an incident involving a 19-year-old Tulane University football player named Tyler Judson. Authorities say Judson has been accused of beating someone up at a Waffle House on ...
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Eagles starter reveals the one offseason advantage his team has over the Cowboys and the rest of the NFC East For the past two months, practice facilities around the NFL have basically been shut down due to the coronavirus pandemic. Back in March, Roger Goodell ordered a league-wide shutdown of all practice facilities, which in theory, was supposed to put every ...
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Soap Box Derby cancels July championship races in Akron due to COVID-19 AKRON, Ohio — One of Akron's most beloved and long running summer events will not be taking place this year. On Tuesday, the International Soap Box Derby (ISBD) announced that it is canceling the 83rd FirstEnergy All-American Soap Box Derby ...
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Report: 'Foregone conclusion' Tua Tagovailoa will start Week 1 The Miami Dolphins envisioned Tua Tagovailoa as their starting quarterback for nearly a year. After putting themselves in a position to draft the star quarterback in the 2020 NFL Draft, it could now be a matter of time before Miami's dreams become reality this ...
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Hamilton on Armstrong documentary: 'There's still a lot left to be said' Tyler Hamilton has cast a critical eye over the first part of ESPN's new Lance Armstrong documentary, LANCE. The former US Postal rider teammates and teammate of Armstrong said that there is "a lot more left to be said," in the 30 for 30 documentary, which ...
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Lowes extends works Kawasaki WorldSBK contract for a further season Britain's Alex Lowes will remain with the works Kawasaki WorldSBK squad until the end of 2021 after signing a contract extension. Lowes joined the team over the winter and despite a lack of dry-weather tesing left Phillip Island with a healthy margin at the top ...
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Fortuna Dusseldorf vs. Schalke Bundesliga Betting Odds and Picks (Wednesday, May 27) Odds as of Tuesday and via FanDuel. Get up to a $500 risk-free bet at FanDuel today or see more offers and reviews for the best online sportsbooks. Wednesday's showdown between Schalke (eighth place, 37 points) and Fortuna Dusseldorf (16th place, ...
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