Christian McCaffery embodied the mantra of “teammates having each other’s backs” this holiday season.
The San Francisco 49ers running back played the role of chief gift giver for Christmas. He provided every offensive player on the team with a new PXG golf bag, a coupon for a custom club fitting, and a bottle of tequila. As you know, golfing loses most of its appeal without booze.
#49ers Christian McCaffrey came through with the epic gifts to his teammates pic.twitter.
The NFL is all about its quarterbacks and the questions, storylines and narratives about the position the league’s teams perpetually create. If you don’t believe it, look at the Week 15 schedule and you’ll understand.
The NFL is playing 15 games between Saturday afternoon and Christmas night on Monday.
And 11 of those games feature teams that have significant, if not franchise-direction-setting, quarterback questions to answer once this season ends.
Arkansas State and Northern Illinois are facing off in Saturday’s Camellia Bowl, a game which is owned, operated and broadcast by ESPN.
However, in the lead-in prior to the game, ESPN made a regrettable error to promote the game at the end of a SportsCenter episode.
Viewers noticed that ESPN used Arkansas’s logo instead of Arkansas State’s alongside the icon for Northern Illinois—a tough mistake that made it seem like the SEC’s Razorbacks were playing in the game.
Yahoo Sports breaks down six players who performed well at the G League Winter Showcase, helping their position with teams and impressing other franchises looking for two-ways or other players to add to their rosters.
Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence’s status for an important Week 16 game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers has been up in the air, with the Clemson product working his way through the concussion protocol this week after sustaining a head injury late in Sunday’s Week 15 loss to the Baltimore Ravens.
On Saturday, Lawrence took an important step toward playing against the Buccaneers, as he cleared the concussion protocol and will travel with the Jaguars to Tampa, per Ian Rapoport of NFL Network.
Lawrence will reportedly travel to Tampa.
Whenever Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James elects to close the curtains on his NBA career, he undoubtedly will waltz into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame on a first-ballot induction.
However, as James continues his trek of defying father time in his 21st NBA season, it didn’t stop the four-time NBA champion from asking why active NBA players must retire before entering the hall of fame.
“Why do players have to be retired before going into the HOF?? Coaches get in while still coaching rightfully so.
The Golden State Warriors defeated the Washington Wizards, 129—118, on Friday night at the Chase Center behind 30 points and eight three-pointers from Stephen Curry.
Ho hum.
But the Warriors’ victory featured an interesting twist in the final seconds, as Wizards guard Ryan Rollins drained a meaningless three-pointer with 1.1 seconds left on the clock, cutting Golden State’s winning margin to 11 points. The triple by Rollins, who played for the Warriors last season, was significant as it allowed the Wizards, 11.5-point underdogs coming into the game, to cover the point spread.
NBA players have been known to occasionally pad their stats during garbage time, allowing them to make their numbers look more robust in the box score. That occasionally includes a shameless and easy move, which is what happened during the Atlanta Hawks–Miami Heat game on Friday.
As the clock wound down of the Heat’s 122–113 victory over the visiting Hawks, Miami center Bam Adebayo had the responsibility to dribble out the clock on the final possession.
The Los Angeles Dodgers already have added Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto in free agency this offseason, making them the favorites to win the 2024 World Series. However, they are still coming off a disappointing postseason, as the Arizona Diamondbacks swept them on their way to the National League pennant.
Diamondbacks ace Zac Gallen was at the center of Arizona’s playoff run, and he revealed his reaction to Los Angeles’s spending spree in free agency.
