1. The football season is here. Finally. We get our appetizer Thursday night with Lions-Chiefs on NBC before the main course Sunday.
From now until Super Bowl Sunday, we will be bombarded with NFL content from all forms of media: TV, radio, podcasts, streaming, social media and on and on. It can be overwhelming to wade through it all and figure out what is worth your time.
So, I’m here to help. Here are 10 shows/segments/pieces of content that I love to consume during the NFL season. These are the things I go out of my way to check out whenever they occur.
Author: Michael
Free agent defensive end Carl Nassib announced his NFL retirement on Wednesday morning after seven seasons.
Nassib, who played for the Browns, Buccaneers twice and the Raiders, shared a heartfelt post on Instagram post, saying that he could “hang up his helmet for the last time” knowing that he gave the sport everything he had.
“This is a bittersweet moment for me,” Nassib wrote. … Growing up I loved how fun football was. I loved the pursuit of perfection. I loved the small window where every player has to chase their dreams.
Sports fans aren’t the only ones growing frustrated with Spectrum’s ongoing dispute with Disney. Athletes are, too.
Nearly 15 million Spectrum cable subscribers lost access to Disney-owned channels including ABC and ESPN last week due to a dispute between Disney and Charter Communications, which operates Spectrum. Until Disney and Charter can come to an agreement, ESPN and ABC will remain blacked out for Spectrum subscribers.
One interesting wrinkle in the saga is that players competing in the U.S. Open have Spectrum cable at their hotels.
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Contract holdouts are threatening to take three of the NFL’s best defensive players off the field in Week 1.
Holdouts are common in NFL training camps, but they are typically resolved by Week 1. When three team-defining players, the most important defensive centerpieces on their respective teams are all poised to sit out the opening week — it’s surreal.
Forty names, games, teams and minutiae making news in college football, where one FCS game simply came down to who wanted it less (audio up for this one):
Third Quarter: Pac-12 Football Picked Terrible Time for Hot Start | Second Quarter: Dabo Swinney and Clemson Look Outdated | First Quarter: Colorado Seizes Moment
Fourth Quarter: A brief history of erroneous “TEXAS IS BACK” declarations
You might have heard that Texas plays Alabama on Saturday in Tuscaloosa.
Yahoo Sports analyst Matt Harmon breaks down how Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes, Ravens QB Lamar Jackson and others could end up being the most memorable figures this year.
Fantasy football analyst Matt Harmon breaks down why 11 key players could go on to be the most memorable figures of 2023.
FOX rolled the dice on Deion Sanders making Colorado relevant in Week 1 of the college football season, and it paid off in a massive way.
Couple that with the disastrous Disney-Spectrum dispute that caused massive ESPN blackouts across the country, and it was a BANNER weekend for the good guys (that’s us!).
Led by Patrick Mahomes, there’s a new breed of quarterback in the NFL and every week fans are treated to a flashy show of unmatched athleticism and offensive creativity.
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Let’s rank the last four teams standing in the FIBA World Cup by their chances of winning it all.
The 2023 men’s FIBA World Cup started with 32 teams from around the globe all competing to prove it had the best basketball country on Earth. After two rounds of group play and the start of the knockout rounds in the quarterfinals, there are now only four teams still left standing.
The United States faces Germany, while Canada faces Serbia on Friday for the right to reach the championship game of the World Cup on Sunday.