data-mm-id=”_d6aiacfo2″>It seems like forever ago that all anyone could seem to talk about – us included – was the ongoing circus surrounding the free agency of six-time Super Bowl champion quarterback Tom Brady. Where would he end up? Where wouldn't he end up? Even among a class of other high-profile free agents, Brady stood alone as, to quote Boston Globe writer Ben Volin, "the linchpin of the entire quarterback market". When a prospect of Brady's caliber comes on the market and you're in need of a quarterback, you have no choice but to go for it, right?Well…maybe not.A story of far greater significance has threatened to disrupt the league calendar and put the start of NFL free agency on hold, but it may also have given general managers and coaches a chanc…
data-mm-id=”_036cslgv1″>Jerry Jones returned to the Dallas Cowboys' facility in Frisco, Texas on Tuesday for the first time in two months. While it's a small move in the grand scheme of things, it's yet another sign that NFL teams are attempting to get things back to something like normal.Jerry Jones returns to @thestarinfrisco as #DallasCowboys re-open facility.Read more in Breaking News presented by @LGUS:— Dallas Cowboys (@dallascowboys) May 19, 2020Jones worked the 2020 NFL Draft from his insane yacht, so he hasn't been at the team facility for a while. NFL teams are allowed to return to their facilities if they have met their state's requirements to reopen non-essential businesses. That means franchises will likely slowly begin ramping up across the leag…
data-mm-id=”_4ojieq9un”>Major League Baseball continues to teeter on the edge of disaster, as on Monday the players rejected the league's latest offer to start the 2020 season. The owners were offering a 60-game season and the players voted against it by a 33-5 margin, further destroying any chance at peace between the two sides. Sources tell @JeffPassan and I players have voted against the league's latest proposal to play 60 games. The vote was 33-5 against.— Jesse Rogers (@JesseRogersESPN) June 22, 2020Negotiations between the owners and players appeared to pick up steam last week and ended with the owners offering a 60-game season. The players countered with an offer of 70 games, but the league flat-out rejected it. That left the players voting on the owners' 60-ga…
data-mm-id=”_i27mt3jyw”>The NFL needs to drop their week 1 Monday Night Football double-header. That's it. That's the post. It's not that no one wants two football games on Monday night, it's that no one NEEDS two football games on Monday night. There is no good argument for this game to exist. After Thursday Night Football, the national game on Sunday, Sunday Night Football, and the first Monday Night Football game it is highly unlikely, if not impossible for there to be a fifth game with a storyline worthy of a national audience.By the time the late MNF game kicks off, the celebration is over. It is no longer opening day or opening night. The season started four days earlier. There have been 15 games by the time this game begins. Absolutely no one is ever excited …
data-mm-id=”_pm7kaaiqw”>The Dallas Cowboys' season is on the verge of falling apart. Dak Prescott is out for the year, Ezekiel Elliott has the yips with five fumbles already this season, and the squad sits at 2-4 despite a loaded offensive cabinet in the worst division in football. Now they're fresh off a 38-10 loss on their home turf at the hands of the Arizona Cardinals, and problems are beginning to arise. First, NFL Network's Jane Slater tweeted that the players didn't really feel like this coaching staff was up to snuff in any regard. One player reportedly put it rather bluntly and said his bosses weren't good at their jobs. #Cowboys players initially bought into keeping things internal. Now as they sit 2-4 the discontent is leaking out. On the coaching st…
data-mm-id=”_jmp1g7qpn”>Rheal Paul Cormier was born on April 23, 1967 in Moncton, a port city in New Brunswick, Canada. He died on Monday at the age of 53 after a battle with pancreatic cancer. The durable lefthander appeared in 683 Major League games, starting 103 of them and joining 580 in progress. He was someone who came in unheralded from the bullpen to ever-so-briefly hold the fate of the game in his hands and depart, hopefully before anyone noticed he was out there. Such is existence for a middle reliever. The truest mark of greatness is to forget all the times they get out of jams and fail to remember the times they couldn't hold a lead. He went 7-10 for the Montreal Expos in 1996 while posting a 4.17 ERA. But on the eve of his 29th birthday, he threw a complete game shuto…
data-mm-id=”_p8fntsy2a”>The Los Angeles Chargers ended the 2022 season in embarrassing fashion, blowing a 27-point lead in a loss to the Jacksonville Jaguars in the Wild Card round. Now they enter an offseason of uncertainty, as they sit roughly $23 million over the cap for 2023 and that's without handing Justin Herbert the bank-breaking contract extension he's sure to get. Their cap situation is the sixth-worst in the NFL. This offseason won't be a fun one. Joey Bosa ($31 million) and Corey Linsley ($13.1 million) could restructure their deals to create some more cap space, but the Chargers are going to have to make some difficult cuts to become cap compliant. Additionally, they'll have to let a number of free agents walk because there simply isn't the money t…
data-mm-id=”_d4i81yivh”>Two women were wounded by gunfire during Friday night's Oakland Athletics-Chicago White Sox game at Guaranteed Rate Field. The incident in the left field bleachers did not stop the game at all and made for a bizarre and confusing story over the weekend with many people speculating where the bullets may have come from. This morning it was looking more clear that whomever fired the gun must have been inside the stadium.ESPN Chicago's Peggy Kusinski provided the next chapter of this tale with a tweet for the ages indicating that one of the injured women had snuck the gun into the stadium by holding it in the folds of her belly fat. As I reported on @ESPN1000 just now… the shooting at Guaranteed Rate Field during a #WhiteSox game was indeed an accidental…
data-mm-id=”_c1mg7qgt0″>Victor Wembanyama blocked a career-high five shots Sunday afternoon, but the Toronto Raptors were able to beat the San Antonio Spurs in overtime, 123-116. The player who was the victim of two of those blocks was O.G. Anunoby who otherwise had a good game, scoring 24 points on 16 field goal attempts. It could have been more, but Wemby is too tall, as Anunoby explained after the game.OG's description of Wemby?Two words: "Too Tall" 😂 pic.twitter.com/jNaDi7Fthh— NBA Canada (@NBACanada) November 6, 2023O.G. Anunoby is listed at 6-foot-7. He's in his seventh season in the NBA and he's played big minutes for most of them. He's not a big man, but there can't be many guys in the league who make him feel small. Then nearly…
data-mm-id=”_dgjj6octf”>Nick Saban surprised a lot of people by retiring yesterday. It didn't take much time at all for the coaching carousel hamster wheel to get going and Oregon's Dan Lanning jumped right up to the top of the list as the possible next coach of the Alabama Crimson Tide. There were even reports and rumors of him being in Tuscaloosa crossing Ts and dotting Is, which ultimately turned out to be wrong. Because he will not be replacing Saban and taking on a nearly impossible gig. He's actually quite comfortable and happy in Eugene as the Ducks head into their Big Ten era. Don't believe it? How about a sleek 61-second video proving his commitment to the program? Would that do the job. Because it exists. pic.twitter.com/NKnRYbS4u9— Dan Lanning (@CoachDa…