Two-time WWE Hall of Famer Ric Flair is a true lover of sports. He watches it all, from college and pro football to baseball and hockey, where he especially can’t get enough of the playoffs.
But there is one sport that he’s starting to steer away from because it embodies the exact opposite of what pro wrestling is at its heart.
Scrutiny has found the NBA in recent years as resting players for “load management” on the court as well as players sitting out for injuries some believe should be played through doesn’t sit well with “The Nature Boy.
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Shohei Ohtani is in the midst of one of the most historic seasons in MLB history and on Monday night he took things to another level with a beautiful bat flip after a huge home run against the New York Yankees, and MLB fans absolutely loved it.
Ohtani crushed a two-run blast, his MLB-best 35th home run, to left-center in the bottom of seventh inning to tie the game at 3-3. He admired his blast as soon as it left his bat and then flipped his bad in the air when he knew it was gone.
All of this emotion was just so cool to see:
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The Athlon Sports 2023 Fantasy Football Annual magazine reached out to team insiders at all 32 NFL clubs to ask them three key fantasy questions heading into the season. As we count down to training camp, Sports Illustrated will publish their answers here. Today’s team: Kansas City Chiefs
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Do you expect Isiah Pacheco to emerge as the workhorse back for Kansas City? By last season’s end, Pacheco and Jerick McKinnon were playing roughly equal snaps — a trend that seems likely to continue in 2023.
Since stepping away from the NFL after the 2020 season, former defensive lineman Russell Okung has undergone one of the wildest body transformations we’ve ever seen. The once very large lineman has now lost over 150 pounds since calling it quits thanks to a miserable-sounding water diet.
Okung weighed in at 310 pounds at one point during his NFL career, but last month revealed he had lost 102 pounds since his last game in the league. Those 102 pounds clearly weren’t enough in his mind so he decided to drop another 50 pounds since then.
The AFC North has a strong case for being the league’s toughest division with the Bengals, Ravens, Browns and Steelers fielding competitive rosters.
The Bengals appear to be the team to beat as back-to-back AFC North champions, but they will need their retooled offensive line to develop quick chemistry for this to finally be the year for Cincinnati to win it all.
The Ravens are also generating hype as contenders, and they, too, have a few new pieces that are vital for the team to have success in 2023.
Oklahoma coach Brent Venables woke up and decided criticizing Deion Sanders was a great idea.
Venables is entering year two as the head coach of the Sooners, and is hoping to rebound from his awful 6-7 first season with the program.
Apparently, improving in year two means taking shots at Deion Sanders for heavily using the transfer portal and turning over his roster right from the jump at Colorado. More than 70 players had left the program or given up football by the start of May as Sanders attempted to tear down Colorado to its studs and rebuild, according to CBS Sports.
These days, it seems like there’s nothing Shohei Ohtani can’t do (that is, except make the Angels win enough games to quiet trade rumors). So it should have come as no surprise that, when the two-way superstar strode to the plate on Monday night against the Yankees with two outs and a runner on first base and his team trailing by two runs in the seventh inning, Ohtani once again delivered.
The league leader in home runs crushed a ball over the center field wall for a dramatic, game-tying homer off of Michael King to even the score at 3–3.
Ryan Noda barely swiped the dirt after striking out on Monday night in Oakland, but it was enough to trigger the ejection.
Isaiah Mobley had 28 points and 11 rebounds to help the Cleveland Cavaliers capture the NBA 2K24 Summer League championship with a 99-78 victory on Monday over the Houston Rockets.
Most rain delays in baseball are boring affairs. The tarp comes out. The local meteorologist jabbers on the Jumbotron. Your regional sports network trots out a replay of somebody’s 15-strikeout outing from 2006.
Sometimes, however, a magical occurrence elevates a weather stoppage and garners the attention of the baseball world.
Such an event took place in rainy Cincinnati Monday evening, as the Queen City grappled with a downpour that eventually forced the Reds’ contest against the Giants to be suspended with one out in the top of the eighth inning.