Darren McFadden was one of the best running backs in college football during the mid-2000s. Now, his son is looking to make his mark.
Diesel McFadden, a high school football player who is coming off his freshman season, announced on twitter that he will visit Illinois. The running back and linebacker still has three years until he graduates from William Taft High School in Chicago in 2026, but he seems ready to take college visits, starting with a local Big Ten program.
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The significant Major League Baseball rule changes for the 2023 season, largely aimed to speed up the game, have been broadly popular so far this year. The pitch clock is probably the most significant in shaving down dead time in the game, and for that, fans are usually quite thankful.
However, there are some moments that baseball should still let breathe. Cody Bellinger’s return to Dodger Stadium was certainly one of them. The former Dodgers star, now with the Cubs, got a pretty touching standing ovation from the L.A.
ESPN will be keeping a familiar face on its NFL team for the foreseeable future.
The network has agreed to a four-year extension with NFL analyst Marcus Spears, according to a Friday evening report from Andrew Marchand of The New York Post.
Spears, 40, played defensive end for the Cowboys from 2005-12 and the Ravens in 2013. He was named to the NFL’s All-Rookie team in ’05 after Dallas drafted him 20th overall out of LSU.
ESPN initially brought Spears on board in April 2014 to join the then-nascent SEC Network.
In stoppage time of the second half vs. VfB Stuttgart, Borussia Dortmund midfielder Gio Reyna scored a huge goal to put his team up 3–2.
The goal, a strike off a rebound inside the box, was Reyna’s first goal since February 4 for Dortmund and his sixth of the season overall. The score snapped a five-game goal-less streak, Reyna’s longest since the World Cup, when he went 11 straight games without a goal for both Dortmund and the USMNT in Bundesliga matches, Champions League games and international friendlies.
The Dalvin Cook-Minnesota Vikings situation doesn’t seem to be firing on all cylinders right now.
And by that, I mean Cook’s agent, Zach Hiller, joined the Caps Off podcast and called the franchise mediocre while also saying the star running back has basically been playing on one healthy shoulder for years now.
So, yeah … not great!
“People are starting to realize, Dalvin averages 107 yards per game, he has Hall of Fame numbers, but he’s been in Minnesota, they’ve been mediocre, and, like, he actually has incredible statistics,” Hiller says in one clip.
Piers Morgan wasn’t tolerating any nonsense about Riley Gaines from Congresswoman Katie Porter.
The pair appeared Friday night on “Real Time with Bill Maher,” and the conversation pivoted to Gaines late in the episode.
The former D1 swimmer was attacked and harassed by a mob at San Francisco State University while speaking out in support of women’s rights. Instead of everyone condemning the behavior of the unhinged mob, there has been a stunning amount of silence from the sports world and political leaders.
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UCF’s John Rhys Plumlee went right from the diamond to the gridiron on Friday night
It was quite the Friday night for UCF’s John Rhys Plumlee.
Plumlee is an outfielder for UCF’s baseball team, who had a home game Friday night for Memphis.
Plumlee is also the team’s starting quarterback, and as the scheduling gods would have it, UCF’s Spring Game was scheduled for Friday night as well.
That made for quite the busy night for the athlete.
Despite a sour final few seasons, Cubs center fielder Cody Bellinger’s tenure with the Dodgers was largely successful. In 2017, Bellinger delivered one of the best seasons by a rookie of this century; two years later, he was named the NL’s MVP after batting .305 with 47 home runs and 115 RBIs.
However, Bellinger had the ill fortune of leaving Los Angeles before the 2023 season—making his big homecoming liable for interruption.
With the NFL draft only a few weeks away, the debate over who is the best quarterback continues. While each of the top four prospects at the position has a case, Alabama’s Bryce Young remains the consistent favorite as the No.1 pick in the draft.
Young’s supporters remain steadfast that he will shine in the NFL, including those who coached him in college. Texas head coach Steve Sarkisian, who helped recruit and coach Young at Alabama before heading to Austin, had a special comparison for the quarterback.
Umpires missed a call on a ball off the wall that a Royals outfielder misplayed, but that wasn’t what enraged Atlanta manager Brian Snitker.