The annual tradition of rumors swirling about Jim Harbaugh making a return to the NFL is, once again, underway.
For the past several years, there’s been nonstop chatter about the Michigan coach leaving Ann Arbor and returning to the NFL.
It seems like the conversation happens nearly every offseason, and Harbaugh has interviewed for multiple NFL jobs – most notably the Vikings and Broncos – over the past few years, but didn’t land any.
Will Jim Harbaugh return to the NFL? (Photo by Michael Hickey/Getty Images)
Well, there’s a new twist in the saga thanks to alleged NCAA violations.
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The best pitcher never to have won a Cy Young Award is about to lose his bittersweet title. With four starts left (or five if he oddly pushes it), Gerrit Cole of the Yankees has the inside track to the AL Cy Young.
There is still time for Sonny Gray, his chief competitor, to make a run, as well as Kevin Gausman, Luis Castillo, George Kirby and Framber Valdez. But they will need Cole to fall to back of the pack, given that he leads the league in innings, ERA, winning percentage and WAR.
Cole (13-4, 2.
A large number of runners in last month’s Mexico City Marathon have been disqualified for allegedly cutting the course short during the 26.2-mile race. When we say large number, we mean large number, as in 11,000 participants.
The marathon had a 30,000-person field, which means over one-third of the runners were booted from the race.
According to Spanish newspaper Marca, runners were disqualified for missing checkpoints that were placed every five kilometers along the course.
Kliff Kingsbury has long been known as the guy who saw it in Patrick Mahomes before pretty much anyone else outside of East Texas did.
But … this?
Even he’ll stop short of saying he saw this coming.
“I just knew that I’d never seen anything like it, the arm talent, the awareness, the pocket presence, the eyes-in-the-back-of-his-head-type stuff,” Kingsbury said over the phone, coming out of a coaches meeting at USC on Tuesday. “I remember talking to Andy [Reid before the draft] and he said, ‘What do you think?’ I just said, ‘He’s the best I’ve seen.
The Angels’ star is rewriting the way we think of baseball players.
In 1918, then-manager of the Boston Red Sox Ed Barrow found himself with a bit of a conundrum to deal with. He had a very talented Red Sox team at his disposal but he also had a player who was very unique in his skill set — a unicorn of sorts. This was a 23-year-old pitcher who had already led baseball with the lowest ERA in 1916 (1.75, which was good for an ERA- of 65 which was top five in baseball at the time) and was on track to have another fine season with an ERA of 2.22 and a FIP of 2.75.
Week 1 is here! Football is back, and so are The MMQB’s weekly staff picks. There are plenty of great story lines for the opening slate, from the Lions’ getting their chance to take on the defending champion Chiefs in prime time, to several rookie quarterbacks in the starting lineup to Aaron Rodgers’s Jets debut on Monday Night Football against the Bills.
Our crew sees plenty of upset potential, especially from the Steelers, Packers and Titans.
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We look at three teams that could make the NFL playoffs after being left out in cold last season
The beauty of the NFL is that turnarounds can be quick.
Last year’s losers can easily become this year’s darlings. It happens every year. In the 2022 season, seven of the 14 teams that made the postseason did not qualify in the previous season. Fans should expect about the same rate of post-season turnover in the 2023 NFL season.
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The Red Bull advisor fires back at Mercedes in the wake of Max Verstappen’s tenth straight win
In the second episode of season 4 of Succession family patriarch Logan Roy, portrayed deftly by Brian Cox, marches into a karaoke bar where his children are plotting against him. As they listen, transfixed, Roy utters the memorable — and memeable — line:
“I love you, but you are not serious people.”
Who knew Red Bull advisor Dr.
Detroit Tigers pitcher Matt Manning missed a lot of the 2023 MLB Season after being hit in the foot with a hard-hit grounder in April, an injury that knocked him out of action for 77 days.
On Wednesday night bad luck struck again for Manning, as he was struck in the same foot with a 119.5-mph grounder by New York Yankees slugger Giancarlo Stanton, a hit that broke his foot and knocked Manning out for the rest of the season.
Manning went out in style, however, as he was somehow able to make a play on the ball and get Stanton out at first.
Every week, NFL games come down to matchups.
Unlike baseball, where 162 games are played and the main reason for winning and losing—the starting pitcher—changes every night, football is a sprint where the players are repeated in the lineups time and again.
For those reasons, stats are both important and hard to judge.
Sure, numbers can give clues about the best games of the upcoming week, but often the sample size is small. So in this weekly piece, we won’t be looking at overarching figures often but more an important pivot on which games can and will turn.