Welcome to Bad Takes Week, where MMQB staffers have been asked to expand upon some of their worst football takes. Keep an eye out for more of these throughout the week, and every story is posted here.
Every year, when an NFL team wins the Super Bowl—regardless of the team, its makeup, its franchise location or the locations of all other franchises—it is crowned WORLD CHAMPION. Cue the laugh track. Expect the eye rolls. Then prepare for the debates.
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The AlphaTauri drivers are hoping upgrades can deliver results at the Hungaroring
The time for talking is almost over.
Soon we will finally see Daniel Ricciardo back on the track, in his first race of the season with AlphaTauri.
The grid heads to Budapest for the Hungarian Grand Prix, and before things get underway the AlphaTauri duo of Ricciardo and Yuki Tsunoda previewed the race for the media. For Ricciardo, the excitement begins with the mere fact that he is back on the grid for a team he knows well.
“I’m stoked to be back.
For Wednesday’s MLB bet, we are taking the home dogs at Camden Yards.
The Dodgers are in town, and they are favored over the Orioles with Julio Urias getting the start, but there are plenty of reasons to think the O’s can pull off the win at home.
Urias is the superior starting pitcher in this matchup, however the lefty has not been as sharp this season as in the past. More specifically, he has not been as sharp in July. Across three starts this month, Urias has an ERA of 4.20. Most of that is due to one bad showing vs.
Now that we have wrapped up our 32 teams in 32 days series, let’s highlight the emerging players who formed our list of breakout players to watch for the 2023 NFL season.
Many wide receivers, including four from the 2022 draft, caught our attention with the flashes they displayed last year. And we didn’t forget the defensive side, with a handful of former first-round edge rushers making the list.
They lost their final six games a season ago, haven’t been to the playoffs in a dozen years and haven’t managed a winning season since 2015. But the New York Jets are about to become the NFL’s most scrutinized team in 2023.
And maybe ever.
On Wednesday morning when rookies and veterans report to the team’s facility in time for Thursday’s start of training camp, everyone will notice. Why?
The sun sets on the Statue of Liberty and the Empire State Building in New York City on March 26, 2023, as seen from Bayonne, New Jersey.
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From a new major champion to another missing the cut, these bold predictions for the 151st Open Championship cover it all.
The season’s final major is here as the best professional golfers in the world will tee it up for the 2023 Open Championship at Royal Liverpool.
After an extremely entertaining Masters, PGA Championship and U.S. Open, the expectations for this final major are high.
Sitting at 7,383 yards, this par-71 course consists of only three par 5s. Two of those will play over 600 yards on 15 and 18.
We’ve seen a lot of strange ejections so far in the 2023 Major League Baseball season and the one that happened Tuesday night in Toronto might have jumped to the top of that list.
Blue Jays pitching coach Pete Walker went out to visit the mound, where he talked with his pitcher, Alek Manoah, like he would on any mound visit.
Home plate umpire Malachi Moore, who had made some bad calls before this moment, immediately made his way to the mound and was seen listening in on the conversation. A few seconds later he ejected Walker, who was never even looking in Moore’s direction.
Tiger Woods’ ex-girlfriend, Erica Herman, has dropped the lawsuit she filed in the fall of 2022 in which she was seeking $30 million in damages from the golfer’s estate. Her separate lawsuit against Woods centered around an NDA she signed with Woods is still pending.
Herman originally claimed that she and Woods had an “oral agreement” in place stating that she could live in his Florida mansion for 11 years. She claimed via landlord filing that she still had five years remaining on her tenancy but was told to leave the mansion in a surprise fashion.
The AFC South was a two-team race last season with the Jaguars and Titans clashing in Week 18 with the division on the line.
But the Texans and Colts might enter the picture for the division crown this season with rookies C.J. Stroud and Anthony Richardson, two quarterbacks drafted inside the top four in April.
For the last two Women’s World Cups, there has been just one team on top: the United State’s women’s nation team.
While the Americans are still the heavy favorites heading into this summer’s tournament, many challengers have spent the last four years (and then some) figuring out how to dethrone the reigning queens.