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If quarterbacks are the NFL’s main characters, then this season has been playing out like one long Ozymandias episode for a spoiled generation. Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers — along with more moderately aged stars Russell Wilson and Matthew Stafford — have suddenly been humbled by the game they dominated for so long. After years
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When the Miami Dolphins hired Mike McDaniel, their social media team was on the private plane conveniently taking video of his first FaceTime call with Tua Tagovailoa. “My job is to coach you to get all that greatness out of you,” McDaniel said, via MSN. “This is an awesome day for me, and I’m damn
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Deion Sanders had numerous goals when, in 2020, he accepted the job as head coach at Jackson State, a historical Black college in Mississippi. One was to restore the Tigers program, whose illustrious history includes four Pro Football Hall of Famers (Lem Barney, Walter Payton, Robert Brazile and Jackie Slater). Well, JSU is 9-0, boasts
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What a turn of events for the NFC North. After years of the Green Bay Packers dunking on the Detroit Lions and generally being on different planes of competition, the Lions beat the Packers soundly at home Sunday and held them to just nine points — the fewest amount of points an Aaron Rodgers-led Packers
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It’s the era of the Houston Astros. Five years after they grew a winner out of a controlled burn, and three years after that team’s sign-stealing scandal roiled the sport, baseball’s omnipresent contenders staked their claim to a championship that can be despised, but not denied. With six more innings of dazzling work from Framber
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Rookie shortstop Jeremy Peña drove in two key runs and veteran ace Justin Verlander gutted through five innings as the Houston Astros beat the Philadelphia Philles, 3-2, in Game 5 of the World Series on Thursday night. Verlander’s first career World Series win has the Astros on the cusp of this core’s second championship, and
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Steve Nash was dismissed, Sean Marks was disheveled and Kyrie Irving has his fingerprints on dismantling yet another team with championship aspirations. That’s three, if you’re keeping count. This is why Kevin Durant understood this dysfunction wasn’t gonna change, that this powder keg of bad ingredients was always due to explode and he tried to
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INGLEWOOD, Calif. — As he was formulating his game plan to attack the Los Angeles Rams last Thursday night, San Francisco 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan raised a pressing question about his team’s newest weapon. “Does anyone know if Christian can throw?” Shanahan shouted to any assistants within earshot. When tight ends coach Brian Fleury
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The Philadelphia Phillies got knocked down. But they got up again, climbed back and finally overtook the Houston Astros on J.T. Realmuto‘s go-ahead home run to win World Series Game 1, 6-5, in 10 innings. After falling behind 5-0 early, the Phillies rallied against likely Cy Young winner Justin Verlander, with Realmuto ripping the game-tying
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Free from the gauntlet of the SEC West, it was reasonable to assume that Bo Nix would find a good deal of success as a senior playing at Oregon. But playing like a legitimate Heisman candidate for a College Football Playoff contender? You won’t find many who had that in their preseason prognostications. Nix, a
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The San Francisco 49ers value the running game as much as any team in the NFL, and they got one of the best running backs in the league on Thursday night. The Carolina Panthers traded McCaffrey to the 49ers, as reported by Yahoo Sports’ Jori Epstein. It won’t come cheap. The 49ers are giving up
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As the 2022 NBA championship hangovers subsided and gave way to the sober self-analysis every team must perform entering the summer, the Golden State Warriors faced some very important offseason questions. How would they handle the unrestricted free agencies of several contributors to their title run? (The answer: Let Gary Payton II and Otto Porter
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