Desmond Green has a destination in mind for his journey. Whether he ever reaches it is difficult to answer.
Green, 33, has been a force to be reckoned with BYB Extreme Bare Knuckle Fighting Series. He has dominated all three of his bouts en route to becoming the reigning BYB middleweight champion. Later tonight, he will wear the once-familiar MMA gloves in a nontitle crossover bout against Lyntai Earnest at the BYB Extreme Trigon Combat, which airs on FITE TV.
Yet bare-knuckle fighting is not the end goal, but rather a launching pad back to where he longs to be.
Author: Michael
Winning in Week 18 changed the entire draft for the Texans, Colts, Panthers and Bears
January 8, 2023 — The Texans and Colts just want it to all be over. Houston is 2-13-1, looking to close out the season and rebuild with the No. 1 pick in the NFL Draft, while Indianapolis is still licking its wounds from the disastrous hiring of Jeff Saturday and a complete collapse after firing Frank Reich.
Despite their shared disappointment, the Week 18 game between the Texans and Colts is remarkably close. The AFC South rivals are fighting for pride, and nothing else.
The best pitcher never to have won a Cy Young Award is off to a historic start. Gerrit Cole of the Yankees makes his sixth start tonight at Texas. He has zeroes at the beginning of his ERA (0.79) and under the columns of losses and home runs allowed.
Since MLB started handing out Cy Young Awards in 1956, only six other pitchers started a season with triple zeroes like this. Four of them went on to win the Cy:
Triple-Zero Start0 Losses, 0 Home Runs, ERA Begins with 0(First 25 Games, Minimum 34 Innings, Since 1956)
*Won Cy Young Award
Player
Year
W-L
ERA
Mike Norris
1980
4-0
0.
It’s draft day. It’s finally here. Let’s go!
• And, to me, what best defines this draft class is what’s happening with the teams between 10 and 14—in order, the Eagles, Titans, Texans, Packers and Patriots. I’m told all five of those teams have been making calls to teams above them about trading up and down. And it’s no coincidence that, in a year when everyone seems to be looking to trade down, it’s the group in that alley of picks that are looking both ways at this intersection of the draft.
By now, you’ve probably seen the circus shot Jimmy Butler hit with under a second remaining in regulation to send Game 5 between the Heat and Bucks to overtime, a game Miami would eventually win to become the sixth No. 8 seed ever to win a first-round series.
But Butler, despite having a game-high 38 points on the night at that point, wasn’t Heat coach Erik Spoelstra’s original first option for the game-tying shot. According to ESPN, Spoelstra entered the huddle and originally drew up a play for another Heat player. Butler, when informed of this, had other ideas.
Grayson Allen, what are you doing?
The Milwaukee Bucks were considered the championship favorites entering the 2023 NBA Playoffs. They ended the season being sent home in the first round, becoming the sixth No. 1 seed to lose to a No. 8 seed in league history, while being the first top seed to only win one game in a best-of-seven first round series.
The Heat beat the Bucks, 128-126, in a Game 5 overtime thriller on Wednesday night to eliminate Milwaukee and reach the second round.
Diamondbacks starter Zac Gallen continued his impressive run of success on Wednesday night against the Royals—aided by a pitch that no one knew what to make of.
For the fourth consecutive start, Gallen did not allow a run as Arizona won 2–0. He struck out 12 batters, none stranger than his sixth-inning punch-out of Vinnie Pasquantino. On a 2–2 count, Gallen threw what was supposed to be a changeup. But the pitch actually moved like a cutter, crossing up catcher José Herrera, who saw the ball go sailing past his glove.
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Jimmy gets buckets, but this bucket might be the most impressive of them all
A wise man once said, “Jimmy G Buckets, and the G stands for gets.”
Butler has been on a tear to open the 2023 NBA playoffs, averaging 36.5 points through the first four games, helping the 8 seed Miami Heat sprint out to a 3-1 lead over the Bucks. The Heat had a chance to close out the series in Milwaukee. Miami was down two with 2.1 seconds left, when Jimmy Butler hit the most miraculous shot I think I’ve ever seen.
Happy draft day! After months of speculation, Reddit rumors, mock drafts and ever-changing odds, the first round of the 2023 NFL draft is just hours away.
We’ve been keying in on every corner of the draft in the weeks leading up to it and you can find links to our coverage below. And during the draft tonight, our analysts will be reacting to picks in real time to help put into context what certain selections mean from a fantasy football point of view.
Nathan MacKinnon let his emotions get the best of him and it ended up costing his team in a big way.