The wild AL West race, crowded NL wild-card picture, Acuña vs. Betts for MVP and more to follow in the regular season’s final month.
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Inter Miami CF’s Lionel Messi’s MLS deal seems like it just keeps getting sweeter and sweeter.
The cash is nice. The side deals with the likes of Apple and Adidas must be really nice. But Messi has it so good in the MLS, that the league even let him have his own media agreement.
In other words, he’ll talk to the media whenever he feels like it.
After joining Inter Miami in July, Messi addressed the media following his first two matches.
However, after that, he has been nowhere to be found when it comes time to do a post-game presser.
Florida isn’t what it used to be.
Under coach Urban Meyer from 2005 to ’10, the Gators were the envy of college football. They won national championships in ’06 and ’08, in an era where the spread offense introduced uncharacteristic parity to the game; the team’s successes and controversies were recently chronicled in Netflix’s Untold docuseries.
Now, coach Billy Napier’s program is stuck in the mud, four years removed from its last 10-win season under Dan Mullen. The Gators looked sloppy in a 24–11 loss to No.
Fox Sports and Skip Bayless revamped Undisputed, adding three former NFL players to replace Shannon Sharpe, but the show struggled in its first week.
According to Michael McCarthy of Front Office Sports, Undisputed drew just 131,000 viewers on day one of the new panel, and the ratings dipped to 120,000 and 78,000 on Tuesday and Wednesday, respectively. All three of those numbers are below the ratings for Sharpe’s final Undisputed show in June, which sat at 154,000.
Meanwhile, McCarthy reports that Stephen A.
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Skip Bayless left First Take and ESPN in 2016 to create Undisputed on FS1. The show was of an identical format, except Bayless now debated Shannon Sharpe instead of Stephen A. Smith. ESPN replaced Bayless on First Take with Max Kellerman.
Sharpe and Kellerman were tasked with the same role: a foe of the opposite race to their more television-famous counterpart.
Bayless and Smith were equals. Sharpe and Kellerman were sidekicks.
On Monday, seven years after joining Bayless, Sharpe will join Stephen A. as a new contributor to First Take.
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On the heels of sending Trey Lance to the Cowboys following a tumultuous two years, 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan offered a candid admission on Thursday regarding the club’s feelings on the quarterback’s brief tenure.
Appearing on KNBR 680’s Tolbert & Ratto, Shanahan discussed the ambitious trade that set the Niners up to draft Lance with the No. 3 pick in 2021, saying the move was “definitely a mistake” for both parties based on how things went. He also chalked the deal up as one the team “needed” to make, given the lack of available veteran free-agent QBs.
The moment it joined the SEC on July 1, 2012, Missouri became a bit of a black sheep.
In a league largely composed of football-first Southern schools, the Tigers were basketball-first and sort of Midwestern. Their football history was lean and largely given over to agonizing near-misses. It eventually became clear that, despite two early division titles, they were no Alabama nor even Texas A&M.
Unfortunately for Missouri, life in the SEC got incrementally more difficult Thursday.
The ACC became the latest truly national college sports conference Friday with its additions of Stanford, Cal and SMU. And while the league’s spanning from California to Boston may have been the right move from a pure survivalist perspective, it does come at a cost: weakening further what used to be one of the best men’s college basketball products around.