Month: October 2024

We hope you don't mind that we're ending the day with two videos, but we suspect this is worth it. Via the genius that is J.E. Skeets, it's NBA Live highlights delivered in the most ecstatic possible way. You know what? His shoulder IS powerful. Look How Powerful His Should Is [The Basketball Jones] …

Pro MMA veteran Leslie Smith was supposed to fight on last weekend’s UFC Fight Night card, but her bout with Aspen Ladd was scrapped under strange circumstances. Ladd weighed in 1.8 pounds over the limit, claiming that “ certain female circumstances” kept her from being able to cut weight. Smith initially okayed the catchweight fight on the condition that the UFC extend her expiring contract, but the UFC instead paid Smith her show money and win bonus for the fight, thus ending her UFC career. As Smith first told Luke Thomas last week, she believes the decision not to renew her deal is because of her efforts with Project Spearhead, a nascent pro MMA fighters’ union drive. Smith went on the MMA Hour yesterday and told Ariel Helwani that she’s planning on exploring a case aga…

I get it. You see a headline like “Real Madrid Star Karim Benzema Charged In Sextape Blackmail Case” or “Transcript: Karim Benzema Helped Facilitate Blackmail Plot Against Teammate Over Sextape” and you aren’t quite moved. Sure, words like sex tape and blackmail seem juicy, but who is Karim Benzema to you, the typical American sports fan? You might know about Real Madrid—though even that is no guarantee—but why, you think, should some scandal taking place half a world away with protagonists you don’t know in a sport you don’t even like take up precious time out of your day? The answer to that, as you might’ve surmised by now, is that this is the most batshit crazy thing happening in sports right now. Imagine Chris Bosh getting investigated in a blackmailing scheme t…

data-mm-id=”_q6ahr5y7b”>Saturday marked the latest edition of the Red River Rivalry when No. 7 Oklahoma and No. 11 Texas faced off in Dallas. It ended up being far uglier than anyone expected; Oklahoma's defense came to play and didn't allow Texas to get anything going all game, while Jalen Hurts had his worst game of the year and turned the ball over twice in the red zone (although he did go behind the back in a sweet move). But CeeDee Lamb was nothing short of ridiculous. He's had a great season and already solidified himself as one of the best receivers in an absolutely stacked draft class, but he brought it to another level today. Without Lamb, it's hard to see Oklahoma pulling it out. Just look at these stats: Jalen Hurts Passing by Target …

data-mm-id=”_at7s4f9xd”>Apparently the Bengals are willing to do anything they can to keep Joe Burrow happy, even though he's not officially a member of their franchise yet. That includes allowing him to influence personnel decisions. Reportedly. According to Peter King, Burrow pulled a LeBron James when he met with the Bengals at the Scouting Combine last week, telling them he thinks they should keep former star WR A.J. Green in the mix. Listening to the man they plan to pick No. 1 in the upcoming draft, a report leaked yesterday saying the Bengals will give Green the franchise tag if they can't agree to a long-term deal. Earlier this week Joe Burrow was asked about the possibility of playing with A.J. Green:"A.J.'s been one of the best players at his position for …

data-mm-id=”_d84moovzx”>Tom Brady's free agency will seemingly never start or stop. Where will he play next season? Only Brady knows. Maybe. Maybe he isn't even sure. Brady recently told Charlie Weis that "nobody knows anything." So anyone who says they know doesn't know and everyone says they know he's headed somewhere. Just two weeks ago we heard that the Tennessee Titans were the favorites to land Brady. That was a couple weeks after we heard Brady and Gisele were visiting a Nashville school. Unfortunately, the second story was started by a confused high schooler. The first one may also prove inaccurate because the Titans have already moved on even though Brady is interested.Right.According to @diannaESPN on @GetUpESPN: Brady to Tennessee is a "bit…

data-mm-id=”_73xdkd3s6″>It's always been a backdrop for bored basketball fans, but the lack of live sports combined with the airing of The Last Dance has significantly increased the theoretical discussion of how Michael Jordan would perform in today's game. Channing Frye dumped a large bucket of gas on that particular fire last night when he hopped on NBC Sports' Talkin' Blazers Podcast to say he doesn't think Jordan's way of winning would translate and players wouldn't want to team up with Jordan nowadays. From the 14:10 mark of the podcast: “[Jordan] only had really one job, and that was to just score. And he did that an amazing, amazing rate. But I don’t feel like his way of winning then would translate to what it is now. Guys wouldn’t want to play…

data-mm-id=”_uc0mvw9jb”>An observant golf reporter whose name escapes me right now pointed out during last week's Charles Schwab Challenge that wondering if Jordan Spieth is back is the new wondering if Texas football is back. This person wins closest-to-the-pin honors. Because Spieth, once the anointed one, is playing alternate shot with low lows and high highs in his five rounds since the Tour returned. He rocketed out of the gates at Colonial, posting back-to-back 65s. The wheels stayed on Saturday with another two-under round before falling off on closing day, which saw three bogeys in a four-hole front-9 stretch that doomed any realistic chance of his first victory since the 2017 Open. Going off early at the RBC Heritage this morning, Spieth wasted no time getting into seriou…

data-mm-id=”_yuu5op2mx”>Colin Cowherd thinks innovation is overrated, so it's no shock that he isn't a big fan of the Houston Rockets attacking opposing NBA teams with "small ball." Cowherd went off on the Rockets on Friday, ripping them for trying to go small in the sport with the biggest athletes in the world. He kind of has a point.Here's his rant:"The Houston Rockets came up with small-ball. In the sport of America with the tallest athletes, let's be the shortest team in league history."@ColinCowherd on the Rockets failed experiment: pic.twitter.com/B44ibkj6AR— Herd w/Colin Cowherd (@TheHerd) September 11, 2020Frankly, a lot of this is true. Efficiency is the key here and the Los Angeles Lakers have swatted down the Rockets by being bigger,…