The Rangers-Penguins series may have turned due to an elbow. For sure, Game 5 did. The Rangers’ season seemed all but over deep into the second period Wednesday night, and then Sidney Crosby left the ice a few minutes after he took Jacob Trouba elbow to the head. Without the services of their superstar center, […]
AP Photo/Charles Krupa Shaquille O’Neal calls them “The Others”—the role players on a team that surrounds its superstars. On Wednesday night, Giannis Antetokounmpo needed one of his sidekicks to step up in a better way, with Khris Middleton still out with an injury. Enter Junior Holiday. The Milwaukee Bucks point guard came up with a […]
We’re less than 24 hours away from the NFL schedule release for the 2022 season. Semi-annoyingly but cleverly, the league has been slowly leaking out the regular season matchups little by little. The first Thursday Night Football game on Amazon is confirmed, ditto the International Series, one of three Christmas Day games, and the first […]
How about that comeback, Bucks fans? Down 14 points in the fourth quarter, the Milwaukee Bucks made critical play after critical play down the stretch to defeat the Boston Celtics, 110-107, in Game 5 of their Eastern Conference semifinal playoff series on Wednesday night. The Bucks can close out the Celtics in Game 6 on […]
I have a confession to make: I’m not a big schedule-release guy. Doesn’t do much for me. Seems to be becoming an excessively bloated exercise. That doesn’t mean I won’t be playing along, at least to some degree (possibly as an official scorer of a Little League game), as Global Football Consumers digest the dump […]
Nuggets center Nikola Jokic becomes the 13th player in NBA history to be named MVP in consecutive seasons. NEW YORK – Denver Nuggets center Nikola Jokić has been named the 2021-22 Kia NBA Most Valuable Player, the NBA announced today. This is the second Kia NBA Most Valuable Player Award for Jokić, who also earned […]
Oh, the Chicago Bears needed wide receivers? Say it ain’t so? What, like this isn’t something I’ve broken several tables over during this offseason- Anyway, the 2022 NFL Draft came and went. Despite dealing their way to gaining an impressive eleven draft picks, only one of those were used on a wide receiver (Velus Jones […]
It was more than 50 months ago when wide receiver JJ Hester was offered by Oklahoma. A lifetime ago and now a second chance for both sides to get it right. Hester, who entered the transfer portal two weeks ago after a couple of years at Missouri, is going to be a Sooner, announcing his […]
Photo by: 2017 Nick Cammett/Diamond Images/Getty Images Former NFL running back Danny Woodhead moved on in local qualifying for the US Open after shooting an even-par 71 at Omaha Country Club on Wednesday, according to Charean Williams of ProFootballTalk. Woodhead earned one of the five final qualifying berths, and if he fully advances through the […]
The Golden State Warriors entered Game 5 of the Western Conference semifinals up 3-1, with a chance to end the Memphis Grizzlies’ playoff run. Ahead of the potential series closer, Stephen Curry gave Kendra Andrews some insight on Golden State’s mentality, saying: “Whoop that trick! That is our game plan.” “Whoop That Trick” is a […]