Author: Michael

With 12:32 to go in the third quarter of Sunday’s Texans–Buccaneers game, C.J. Stroud took the ball at his own 25-yard line trailing 20–10. About 27 game minutes later, he had the rookie single-game passing yards record, four more touchdown passes and possibly the most improbable late-game comeback of the season, with the Texans’ having about a 10% chance (according to ESPN’s win probability metric) of clinching the game after Tampa Bay went up by four points with 46 seconds remaining.

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Baltimore Ravens wide receiver Odell Beckham, Jr. finally scored a touchdown. After missing the entire 2022 season, Beckham got into the end zone (with the football) for the first time since Super Bowl LVI with the Los Angeles Rams.
The touchdown came in “garbage time” in a blowout win for the Ravens over the Seattle Seahawks. The game was so out of hand that Lamar Jackson wasn’t even playing anymore. Instead, the pass came from backup quarterback Tyler Huntley.
But Beckham doesn’t care about that.

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Six games into his first NBA season, Victor Wembayama is fulfilling the expectations of a No. 1 overall draft pick. The rookie is quickly providing multiple highlight plays in each game with ballhandling, movement, shooting touch, and playmaking that hasn’t been seen by someone his size (7’4”). 
Sunday’s matchup between the Spurs and Raptors produced the latest dazzling moment from Wembayama showing how difficult–if not impossible–it is to shoot over his eight-foot wingspan.

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Eagles offensive lineman Jason Kelce brought the intensity for Sunday’s rivalry clash against the Cowboys, and that was on display during a wild moment in the first half, which was caught on the Fox broadcast just before a commercial break.
Late into the second quarter, Kelce was blocking Dallas’s Damone Clark when the two got face to face. While grabbing onto Clark’s shoulder pads, Kelce could be seen cocking his head back and unleashing what appeared to be a massive scream right into the face of his opponent.

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The Vikings are ultimate proof that there are two totally disparate, but oddly parallel, conversations that happen in regards to an NFL team each year: 1) What is best for the organization, and 2) what is the best for each person in the locker room at a given moment who could care less about the holistically crafted 10-year business plan presented by some Harvard MBA during their front-office interview.
Minnesota continues to butt up against a theoretical ceiling.

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The most American thing possible happened in Germany today, and I’m not talking about the Chiefs-Dolphins game. 
During the NFL matchup, roughly 40,000 fans at Frankfurt Stadium started singing a song. It wasn’t anything German, which would have made sense. A Taylor Swift tune didn’t start blaring over the speakers either, although that would have been appropriate.
Instead, the large crowd started belting out “Take Me Home, Country Roads” by John Denver, as tradition dictates.

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