After a Game 7 loss that quickly turned ugly, the franchise’s focus shifts toward another offseason of uncertainty and intrigue.
Author: Michael
Matt Ryan is headed to television as an NFL game and studio analyst for CBS Sports.
After 15 seasons as a starter and as a 37-year-old quarterback who was benched multiple times and generally struggled in 2022, the question is whether this marks the end of his career.
He says not yet.
Excited to join the @NFLonCBS family! Looking forward to breaking down the game this season.
P.S. – this is not a retirement post pic.twitter.com/4fCTVpFxK0
— Matt Ryan (@M_Ryan02) May 15, 2023
Matt Ryan Not Ready To Retire Yet
So the question becomes when exactly Ryan will move to the booth.
Jayson Tatum set the NBA record for points in a Game 7 with 51 as his Boston Celtics beat the Philadelphia 76ers 112-88 to advance to the Eastern Conference finals.
76ers coach Doc Rivers said he intends to return next season. Meanwhile, James Harden said he hasn’t thought about his offseason decision-making process.
German pop singer Kim Petras has been named one of the four cover models for the 2023 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit edition.
As a transgender woman, Petras has become an icon in the LGBTQ+ community. She opened up to SI Swim about the “pressure” she feels to represent the trans community at times. You can watch her whole discussion about the topic by clicking here.
Petras emerged on the the scene back in 2017 when she released her first song, “I Don’t Want It at All.” The 30-year-old has continued to make music since then.
Joel Embiid wants to run it back.
“We got an unfinished job,” Embiid said.
Doc Rivers says this team deserves another shot.
“I believe that wholeheartedly,” Rivers said.
James Harden feels the 76ers have a higher ceiling.
“We’re a really good team,” Harden said. “We were a couple shots away from being in the Eastern Conference finals.”
In the aftermath of another second-round flameout, the Sixers’ future has never been murkier. Philadelphia didn’t just lose Sunday. It was drubbed. Tattooed. Pasted. The Sixers trailed by three at halftime and were still in it.
Brooks Nader broke into the modeling industry back in 2019, when she won the SI Swim Search open casting call competition. Now she returns as one of its four cover models for the 2023 edition of the magazine.
Nader joins Megan Fox, Martha Stewart and Kim Petras as a cover model for the 2023 SI Swimsuit Issue. A total of 28 women are featured in this year’s edition.
View Brooks Nader’s full 2023 SI Swimsuit gallery here.
Since Nader first appeared in the magazine four years ago, she has returned in every edition since.
Philadelphia’s Bryce Harper and Colorado’s Jake Bird were caught in the middle of the scuffle between the Phillies and Rockies on Sunday. After tempers cooled off following the final out, Bird elected to take the high road while reflecting on the incident, while Harper went a different route with his postgame comments.
With the Rockies up 4-0 in the seventh inning, Bird took his time walking off the mound before clapping his glove at Philadelphia’s dugout. Harper didn’t appreciate the gesture and charged toward the reliever.
The news got to the Lions through dribs and drabs.
The first piece of information passed along to team president Rod Wood came Tuesday, with the NFL letting Detroit know it wouldn’t be in an international game. On Wednesday morning, Wood was told that one Lions game would be announced Thursday morning, ahead of the full schedule release. And then came the schedule in full, later in the day Wednesday, with that top line being of most interest.
The one catch was the security around it.
Globally renowned businesswoman Martha Stewart made Sports Illustrated Swimsuit history Monday, as the 81-year-old was revealed as the oldest cover model in the publication’s history.
Stewart rose to fame in the 1980s when she began writing cookbooks after her success as a chef. Since those first cookbooks, Stewart is now the best-selling author to 99 books over the course of her career. She launched her magazine, Martha Stewart Living, in 1990.
View Martha Stewart’s full 2023 SI Swimsuit gallery here.
Stewart made a name for herself in other media as well, including television.