Author: Michael

Texas State’s football team might want to hop off social media for a bit after a tweet about the team’s grade point average.
For reasons I will never understand, every few years, a college athletic team decides to take to social media to brag about the program’s GPA.
In theory, it’s not a problem. The problems start when the GPAs are terrible, and it leads to being clowned online.
Enter the Texas State Bobcats.
Texas State hopped on X Monday afternoon to brag about the team’s *RECORD* 2.84 grade point average.

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I’ve always found the Kontinental Hockey League, or KHL, wildly fascinating because while it’s one of the top leagues in the world, it often seems like the bizarro NHL.
At times, it looks NHL, but then you see things happen where you’re just like, “What is going on here?” and we got one of those moments courtesy of Ak-Bars Kazan forward Nikita Dynyak.
Over the weekend, Dynyak and Ak-Bars were playing what looked to my untrained KHL eye to be Avangard Omsk, when the 27-year-old carried the puck through the neutral zone.

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Which open NFL head coaching job is the best? Let’s rank them.
Unemployment is an unfortunate fact of life for an NFL head coach.
Some of the game’s greatest have been let go from a position, or found it hard to crack back into the head coaching fraternity after changing jobs. After all, Bill Belichick could not find a job last offseason, and is now headed to Chapel Hill as the new head coach at the University of North Carolina.
So when it comes to picking a head coaching opportunity, it might pay to be selective.

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It is time to figure out who will succeed in the NFL playoffs.
Sunday marked the end of the NFL regular season which is fine and all of that jazz (funny enough seeing as Chicago authored that line and is central to all things offseason), but that means that the playoffs are officially here and we can tee off (lots of offseason participants will be golfing soon, surely).
Fourteen teams are set to do battle and 13 of them will fall victim to this, that or the other.

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Shannon Sharpe is no stranger to being exposed, but getting got live on television isn’t necessarily a regular occurrence for the former NFL tight end. Dan Orlovsky got the best of Sharpe during a recent segment on ‘First Take,’ however, that left him in awe.
Sharpe decided to test Orlovsky’s NFL knowledge by condescendingly calling him a “historian” and asking him who the last Triple Crown winner was to lead the league in catches, receiving yards, and receiving touchdowns, but miss the playoffs.

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