Author: Michael

For the time being, the Arizona Coyotes are dead in the water. Technically, they’re inactive, but after former owner Alex Meruelo threw up his hands after another failed attempt at building them a new barn that would allow the team to return to the NHL, there doesn’t seem to be much hope for the team.
However, a new potential owner may have just popped up and that’s Phoenix Suns owner Mat Ishbia.
“I’m definitely going to be part of the community, and if I can help bring hockey back, I’ll look at that,” he told Sportico.

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Charles Barkley is poised to be among the big winners of the NBA’s massive new media deal
‘Inside the NBA’ is the rare sports studio show that oftentimes feels like a bigger deal than the games happening on the court. The cast of Ernie Johnson, Charles Barkley, Shaquille O’Neal, and Kenny Smith wasn’t just framing the discourse around the biggest stories in the NBA, it was often creating new talking points and viral moments out of thin air by leveraging the panel’s amazing chemistry.

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New Orleans Saints general manager Mickey Loomis has not been criticized much over the last 18 years. So he bristled at the question this week as training camp neared for the troubled franchise in Irvine, California.
“This team is pretty widely dismissed,” former ESPN Saints’ writer Mike Triplett, now with NewOrleans.Football, said on the eve of training camp on Tuesday. “There was a publication (ESPN by John Sigler) today that had you ranked as having the 31st brightest future in the NFL.

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