by Brad Gagnon | Jun 10, 2015
Quarterback is one of the most important positions in sports and by far the top position in football. You can’t win without a good one, which is why good quarterback insurance is a great thing to have. Few backup pivots can lead teams to Super Bowls, but some of...
by Brad Gagnon | Jun 10, 2015
Every year, at least three teams that didn’t make the playoffs the previous season re-join the postseason picture. And you can pretty much guarantee that’ll be the case again in 2015. Miami Dolphins: We get the feeling someone other than the New England...
by Matt Zemek | Jun 9, 2015
It was one of those moments when talk radio and the internet blow up. Remember when David Blatt imitating LeBron James’s play signals was a thing? Remember when that story hit the airwaves just over two months ago, and Blatt became a pinata — again —...
by Andrew Bucholtz | Jun 9, 2015
One of ESPN’s longest-tenured employees will be sticking with the company for some time to come. Dick Vitale, who’s been one of the Worldwide Leader’s key analysts on college basketball since their very first year (1979-80), has agreed to a contract...
by Steve Fetch | Jun 9, 2015
Men’s college basketball, for the first time in awhile, adopted some sensible rules changes when it agreed to go to a 30 second shot clock, reduce timeouts, and expand the charge circle. Reasonable minds can disagree on the first, but the latter two are...
by Steve Fetch | Jun 9, 2015
Men’s college basketball, for the first time in awhile, adopted some sensible rules changes when it agreed to go to a 30 second shot clock, reduce timeouts, and expand the charge circle. Reasonable minds can disagree on the first, but the latter two are...
by Andrew Bucholtz | Jun 9, 2015
Networks sometimes push for changes in the sports they broadcast, but it’s highly unusual to see them pushing for changes in players’ facial hair. As Ed Sherman writes in The Chicago Tribune, though, that’s NBC Sports chairman Mark Lazarus is doing,...
by Andrew Bucholtz | Jun 9, 2015
Networks sometimes push for changes in the sports they broadcast, but it’s highly unusual to see them pushing for changes in players’ facial hair. As Ed Sherman writes in The Chicago Tribune, though, that’s NBC Sports chairman Mark Lazarus is doing,...
by Josh Howard | Jun 9, 2015
Jack Warner is in even more trouble. Warner, former and one of the primary targets of the ongoing FIFA investigation, is being further investigated for “the disappearance of money meant for victims of the Haiti earthquake.” Warner stands accused of taking...
by Randy Holt | Jun 9, 2015
The Major League Baseball Draft is such an interesting entity when considered against its peers within the other three major sports. Whereas fans are watching the NFL or NBA (as well as the NHL to an extent) draft in anticipation of seeing a player in their favorite...
by Randy Holt | Jun 9, 2015
The Major League Baseball Draft is such an interesting entity when considered against its peers within the other three major sports. Whereas fans are watching the NFL or NBA (as well as the NHL to an extent) draft in anticipation of seeing a player in their favorite...
by Brad Gagnon | Jun 9, 2015
For obvious reasons, the NFL values the integrity of the game in a special way. That partially explains why the New England Patriots were hit so hard for Spygate and Deflategate, and it fully explains why the league won’t touch anything related to Las Vegas,...
by Liam McGuire | Jun 9, 2015
Netflix’s Orange is the New Black is set to start its third season this week, being available to stream on Saturday (June 12 at 3 a.m. ET/ 12 midnight PT). There hasn’t been much released plot-wise to what’s going to happen to our...
