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A Wednesday full of drama was fueled by frauds.
The swirling drama involving the Chicago Bears made the sports landscape surreal on Wednesday, while also becoming the most disgusting day in recent memory when it comes to how sports are covered.
It kicked off early in the day with Bears QB Justin Fields throwing his coaching staff under the bus when asked about his lack of production. This was quickly washed away and replaced with rumors about Bears defensive coordinator Alan Williams.
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Things got a bit testy between Dodgers pitcher Bobby Miller and Tigers infielder Zach McKinstry in Wednesday night’s game in Los Angeles.
McKinstry, a former Dodger, had one pitch from Miller during his first plate appearance run up and in. Then, in his second turn at the plate, Miller hit McKinstry in the shoulder. It couldn’t have been intentional—there were two runners on base with nobody out and Miller had just thrown a wild pitch to the previous batter—but McKinstry was still ticked off.
After a pair of dominant victories to open the 2023 season, the hype train for the Dallas Cowboys is leaving the station. And on ESPN’s First Take on Thursday, Dan Orlovsky heaped some heavy praise on Dallas heading into Week 3.
“Watching the way that Dak [Prescott] is playing… it’s the best he’s looked since his rookie year,” Orlovsky said. “That’s the best team in football right now. I know that they haven’t proven it in playoffs, but that’s the best team.
On Wednesday, Justin Fields opened up about his struggles early in the season, in part saying that coaching was hurting him so far this year.
“They’re doing their job when they’re giving me what to look at, stuff like that,” Fields said. “But at the end of the day, I can’t be thinking about that when the game comes.”
While fans and analysts took those quotes as Fields blaming the coaching, at least in part, for him not playing up to standard, the Bears don’t seem to agree.
Let’s take a step back through history and pick the NFL’s best pass-rusher in every season since 1981.
NBC analyst and former NFL defensive back Rodney Harrison knows well the folly of doubting the Patriots.
On Oct. 14, 2001, Harrison’s Chargers butted heads with a 1–3 New England team. Led by second-year quarterback Tom Brady, the Patriots rallied from a 26–16 deficit to win in overtime; they would go on to win Super Bowl XXXVI.
Harrison would go on to join New England and contribute to its 2003 and ’04 title teams. Now, two decades later, he is urging fans to have patience as the Patriots reel from an 0–2 start.
Michael Block won the 2023 Southern California PGA Professional Championship. | Michael Block, Instagram @blockiegolf
Michael Block won the Southern California PGA Professional Championship this week, a tournament he has now won four times.
Michael Block has won again.
For the fourth time, Block captured the title at the Southern California PGA (SCPGA) Professional Championship, thus earning an exemption in the PGA Tour’s American Express in January.
He entered the final round of the 54-hole event two shots back of the leader, but Block carded a 6-under 66 to win by four.
Potential Ohio State recruits are demanding a solid amount of cash to simply visit Columbus.
The debate around NIL and how much money is flowing through major college athletics has become a focal point, and there is momentum at the federal level to regulate it.
While there’s nothing set in stone yet, it appears there’s growing support to dial back the wild west atmosphere NIL currently enjoys.
Ohio State AD Gene Smith claims recruits want to be paid big money to visit campus. (Photo by Dylan Buell/Getty Images)
Ohio State AD Gene Smith says recruits want to be paid for visits.
Major League Baseball continues to have way too many umps struggling to do their jobs correctly, and that trend continued in New York on Wednesday night when Lance Barrett had a dreadful night calling balls and strikes in the Blue Jays–Yankees game.
Barrett started the game off by throwing out a foul-mouthed Aaron Boone in the second inning after he chirped the ump about some calls. And then Barrett proceeded to frustrate both teams with a strike zone that made absolutely no sense.
Marcellus Wiley has been paying attention to what Stephen A. Smith has had to say about their mutual former co-host Max Kellerman, and he hasn’t appreciated what he’s heard.
The drama between Smith and Kellerman has been drawn out longer than anyone truly hoped it would, and Smith is responsible for that being the case. Just recently, Smith joined the ‘Joe Budden Podcast’ and admitted that he “didn’t like working” with Kellerman revealing that he had him kicked off of ESPN’s ‘First Take.