Life is good right now for New York Jets fans, as their team went to Detroit for the opening Monday Night Football doubleheader and administered a 48-17 beatdown of the Lions. The Jets did everything well and got a nice showing from highly touted rookie quarterback Sam Darnold, the third pick in the draft out […]
The women’s final of the U.S. Open tennis tournament this past Saturday in New York was set to be historic. Serena Williams was going for her record-tying 24th championship in a Grand Slam tournament and her first since childbirth. Naomi Oaska, 20-years-old from Japan, was aiming to win her first title on a stage of […]
Of the four teams that are favored to grab the College Football Playoff spots, Georgia was the one I had the most doubts about coming into the season. While the Bulldogs are clearly the coming force on the national landscape—as evidenced by their eclipsing Alabama on the recruiting trail last offseason—I wondered if the best […]
The Drew Brees/Sean Payton ticket starts its 13th year in the Bayou this Sunday when the New Orleans Saints host the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The Brees-Payton run has been, by far, the greatest in the mostly troubled history of the franchise. With the quarterback 39-years-old, we’ve reached the point of never knowing when the end […]
The battle for the National League Cy Young Award is the most compelling of baseball’s individual award races as we head down the stretch. Three starting pitchers are making a strong case to win it and all are in the NL East—Max Scherzer in Washington, Philadelphia’s Aaron Nola and New York Mets’ ace Jacob de […]
We’re going to know quickly whether Gary Patterson’s TCU Horned Frogs can make a serious dark horse push for the College Football Playoff. After a tuneup win over Southern this past weekend, TCU faces the following—a Friday night road game with SMU (8 PM ET, ESPN), a bowl team from last year, that sets the […]
I’m not optimistic about Adrian Peterson’s chances of a career revival with the Washington Redskins. As a ‘Skins fan, I immediately texted a friend to say simply “Dan Snyder has done it again”. That is, signed a big-name, but washed-up player to falsely stir up our hopes in August. After the text exchange and after […]
The college football season kicks off tonight when Northwestern plays Purdue (8 PM ET, ESPN) to start a five-day college football extravaganza that runs all the way through Labor Day Night. To set the tone for the season, here’s a basic outlook on the season looks. This is based on a combination of the AP […]
They have the lowest payroll in the major leagues. They traded away half of their starting rotation at the trade deadline. They’re forced into using one game out of every five as a “bullpen day”, with no starter reliable enough to give at least five innings. And in spite of all that, the Tampa Bay […]
The Minnesota Vikings and Green Bay Packers enter this season feeling the pressure. The Vikings made Kirk Cousins the highest-paid quarterback in the history of the NFL, hoping he can be the missing piece to put them over the top and win their first Super Bowl. The Packers have Aaron Rodgers back after injury in […]
Times for good for those of us who reside in Red Sox Nation. Boston comes into Sunday’s games on a pace to win 111 games. They’ve got a comfortable seven-game lead on a New York Yankees team that’s on a pace to exceed 100 victories themselves. The Red Sox are the 11-4 betting favorite to […]
The Pittsburgh Pirates have been a nice story this season, making a run at a winning record and having flirted with the playoffs for a longer stretch of time than anyone anticipated. The longshot bid for the postseason probably went by the boards for good with a crushing Friday night loss in Milwaukee. But at […]