The Open at Royal Liverpool is upon us, but this year I suggest we take a different approach as we head into the year’s final major championship.
Instead of wasting a single second thinking about the fact that after the final putt drops on Sunday, we’ll have to wait a full nine months until the next major rolls around, let’s just enjoy four days of links golf. The post-major Monday hangover always hits differently after The Open, but we’ll deal with that when we get there.
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Another week, another Monday NASCAR race. Mother Nature is certainly on one this season, and she ain’t taking her foot off the gas.
But hey, at least we got a good race!
Just kidding. It was a typical New Hampshire snoozer. And don’t you dare try to tell me differently. Whenever someone leads 90% of the laps, it’s a snoozer.
Congrats, Martin Truex Jr. But that race stunk. Frankly, all NHS races do, which is why I never look forward to ’em. Great race fans up in New England, so I don’t want to take the race away entirely, but I’m begging NASCAR to do something to that track.
If you win, they will come, for free. That’s the strategy Boise State football is putting in place this season in hopes to fill their blue-turfed stadium.
In a world filled with wild ticket promotions, the Broncos are introducing one the that actually makes sense called ‘We Win, You Win.’
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Fans who purchase a $125 limited-edition ticket to Boise State’s home opener against UCF on Sept. 9 will earn a free ticket to its next home game against North Dakota if the Broncos win.
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.
Telling time by sundial. Listening to music on the beach with a boombox. Loading up a covered wagon and hitting the Oregon Trail.
All things that stopped happening once a better idea came along.
Welcome to the conversation around safeties in the NFL.
In the NFL’s golden age, few things about the on-field product are truly problematic. But the safety is boring and not properly rewarded.
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.
The Rams were playing the Chargers or Texans. The opponent doesn’t matter because it was an easy-to-forget preseason game last summer, but I do remember watching the broadcast thinking how great it was to hear Sean McVay analyze the plays called by his assistant coaches and how we need more of this.
Kentucky represented the United States at the GLOBL Jam tournament in Canada last week, a U23 event that features both pro and college players from across the globe playing for their home countries. After a tumultuous offseason in which John Calipari had to scramble to fill the back half of his roster before sticking the landing with major late additions, it was hard to know what to expect from the Wildcats.
The result exceeded expectations: Kentucky won gold, going 4–0 and looking much improved on the offensive end despite not having two key frontcourt pieces at its disposal.
For Tuesday’s MLB bet, let’s target a couple of starting pitcher props. Parlay these two bets and, if they both hit, a $10 bet would yield a $21.30 payout ($11.30 profit).
I like our plan:
1. Bryan Woo over 6.5 K (-130)
No team has struck out more than the Twins, who lead MLB with a 26.8% K rate. Meanwhile, Mariners starter Bryan Woo is striking out batters at a rate of more than 11 per nine innings. His strikeout rate is in the 88th percentile of the league and his chase rate is in the 85th. Woo has exceeded this strikeout prop in four of his seven starts this season.
Joel Embiid provided a bit of a scare to 76ers fans while sending many others into the land of hypothetical trades following his recent comments. But if the early reports and Embiid’s own response hold any weight, it may be safe to pump the brakes on the idea of a potential sequel to “The Process.”
It was a 15-word sentence from Embiid while discussing expectations going forward in his career with UNINTERRUPTED CEO and LeBron James’s business manager Maverick Carter last week that first created the buzz.
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Both Daniel Ricciardo and F1 are back this week, for the Hungarian Grand Prix
After a week off, Formula 1 is back this week, as the grid heads to the Hungaroring for the Hungarian Grand Prix.
But F1 is not the only thing making a comeback.
Yes, Daniel Ricciardo is back, with AlphaTauri making the stunning decision to slide the Red Bull reserve into Nyck de Vries’ seat hours after the conclusion of the British Grand Prix. But while his return is one of the major storylines in F1 this week, it is not the only one.
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.