Often times in the sports world, insiders are constantly hearing rumblings and rumors from their network of sources and they’re tasked with vetting out what is legit and what’s not. With there being so many whispers while reporting, journalists will usually never make all the rumors they hear public.
During an interview with The 33rd Team’s Joey Mulinaro, NFL Network insider Ian Rapoport was asked what the “juiciest rumor you’ve heard at the combine” was. Rapoport proceeded to tell a story about what he was hearing when Russell Wilson’s future was up in the air back in 2022.
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The Western Conference team with the best odds to win the title is not the top-seeded Nuggets. Nor is it the Grizzlies, the Kings, or even the defending champion Warriors.
The Suns, the fourth seed in the upcoming playoffs, have the best odds of any team in their conference to win their first-ever NBA championship. Though Phoenix stands atop the field, the West is full of contenders, from Denver down to the Lakers, who qualified for the postseason via the play-in tournament Tuesday.
In his 50 years in the profession, Mack Brown has never coached in a professional football league.
But he now believes he may not have to leave the college ranks to get there.
“We’re the NFL. We’re the mini-NFL,” says the 71-year-old Brown, the oldest active FBS head coach who enters his fifth season of his second stint at North Carolina. “It’s just like the NFL. That’s where we are headed. We will never see amateurism again. It’s gone. I hate it. I thought that’s who we are, what college football is.
“Now, we are a farm league for the NFL with many NFL programs.
Following a highly successful campaign in which the team advanced to the Elite Eight despite a midseason coaching change, the Texas men’s basketball team appeared to be positioned well for next season with a pair of blue chip high school commitments. Now, though, it appears one of those pledges has altered course.
Five-star California guard A.J. Johnson told ESPN on Thursday that he would be decommitting from the Longhorns, and will instead play professionally next season for the Illawarra Hawks of the National Basketball League in Australia.
Anthony Richardson has become a near-lock to be a Top 5 pick in the NFL Draft. Following a ridiculous scouting combine performance, he flew up draft boards.
DraftKings lists him as -330 to go in the Top 5. As for the most likely spot, he’s even money (+100) to go #3 overall. Of course, the Arizona Cardinals hold that pick and they’re not going to take a quarterback.
However, there is a lot of chatter that they want to trade that pick to a team that DOES want a quarterback.
All that in mind, Anthony Richardson posted a letter to The Players’ Tribune on Thursday.
A terrible and embarrassing era for Washington football appears to be over as Dan Snyder is closing in on a sale of the team.
Rory McIlroy’s decision to skip this week’s RBC Heritage – a designated event on the PGA Tour schedule – is reportedly going to cost him a substantial amount of the bonus he’ll likely be owed at the end of the season.
PGA Tour players who qualify for the designated events on this year’s schedule are allowed to miss one of them. McIlroy, who was the loudest Tour player in favor of the designated, elevated purse events already declined to play in the Sentry Tournament of Champions in January.
Odell Beckham says he got no assurances from Lamar Jackson.
The Baltimore Ravens quarterback and the club’s newest wide receiver spoke multiple times before Beckham signed with the Ravens on Thursday. Both made it clear to the other they would be excited about playing together.
But Beckham said none of those conversations added certainty to the idea Jackson is definitely going to be playing for the Ravens in 2023.
Odell Beckham Jr. with Ravens coach John Harbaugh and GM Eric DeCosta.
Very few, if any, collegiate athletes have had a busier spring than John Rhys Plumlee and it comes to a head Friday night. The two-sport athlete will play — and start — on both the diamond and gridiron within a matter of hours minutes.
Plumlee, a senior, plays football and baseball for Central Florida. He is head football coach Guz Mahlzahn’s starting quarterback and head baseball coach Greg Lovelady’s starting right fielder.
The 22-year-old Mississippi-native also plays the piano and sings.
Nothing better to close out Early Signing Day 2.
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From Pirate swords to Dong Bongs, here’s an ongoing list of the best celebrations in the 2023 MLB season.
Major league baseball is back.
Yes, the new season is underway, but some new rules implemented ahead of the 2023 season have sparked a comeback for the MLB. Game times are down, ratings are up, and there is more genuine excitement about baseball than in years past.
Something else to be excited about with the return of baseball?
New dugout celebrations.