Good start to my camp trip in Allen Park, Mich., a short drive west of Detroit. My takeaways from Lions camp …
1) One particular area where there could be a tangible difference is in the flexibility defensive coordinator Aaron Glenn will have on the back end, with Cam Sutton, Kerby Joseph, C.J. Gardner-Johnson and second-round pick Brian Branch among the pieces with the malleability to move all over the secondary. That should give Glenn a green light to be aggressively creative in playing mind games with quarterbacks.
Author: Michael
Last month, Sports Illustrated’s Tom Verducci stated that despite the MLB season being less than halfway completed, the AL MVP race was an absolute done deal.
Many sports bettors were in complete agreement as they flooded sportsbooks to wager on the Angels’ Shohei Ohtani to win the Most Valuable Player Award in the American League. The dominant talent, who opened as the +200 favorite at SI Sportsbook prior to the start of the season, has now become a massive prohibitive favorite at -1099.
After Sean McVay considered retiring, he chose to return to the Rams instead of taking some time off. However, McVay got some big news during the offseason away from football.
On Tuesday, the Los Angeles coach revealed his wife is pregnant with their first child, and he spent most of the offseason preparing for his arrival.
“It was great to be able to spend time with my wife, especially because it’s exciting we have a little boy coming here in a few months and my appreciation for her and just that process in general is significant,” McVay said, via ProFootballTalk.
Biff Poggi has only been the head football coach at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte since November. That has not kept his brief tenure from getting spicy!
Biff Poggi, whose legal name is not ‘Biff,’ is not afraid to let loose. He marches to the beat of his own drum. This is a real outfit that he once wore on the sideline of a nationally televised high school game:
Image courtesy: ESPN
His profile picture on Twitter is an image of an egg. No context.
He recently got in a Twitter battle with a rival coach and took aim at his own boosters.
Jimmy Graham is a New Orleans Saints legend. He played just five seasons for the Saints from 2010-14. But he made his mark on the franchise, averaging 10 touchdowns per season. He led the entire NFL with 16 touchdown catches in 2013.
He made the All-Pro Team twice and the Pro Bowl three times. But prior to the 2015 season, the Saints traded Graham to the Seattle Seahawks. He spent three years in the Pacific Northwest before two years stints in both Green Bay and Chicago.
Graham remained a productive player, though never again reaching his All-Pro level from his time in New Orleans.
The Dodgers’ first move of deadline season is to bring back a familiar face: Kiké Hernández.
As reported by Ken Rosenthal on Tuesday, the Dodgers will be acquiring Hernández from the Red Sox, with whom he spent the last three seasons. They’ll send two right-handed pitching prospects—Nick Robertson, who debuted this year, and Justin Hagenman, who is in Triple-A—back to Boston.
It’s been a rough two years for Hernández, who is due to become a free agent this winter.
With MLB’s trade deadline a week away, the Red Sox and Dodgers got a head start on the hot stove action when Boston sent utility player Kiké Hernández back to his former team in exchange for a pair of minor league relief pitchers. While the deal might not exactly qualify as a blockbuster, it serves as a good illustration of how this time of year can be difficult for players who change teams and, as a result, must bid farewell to their friends and teammates.
Look no further than Red Sox slugger Justin Turner for how difficult a process this can be.
Raiders running back Josh Jacobs will not report to the start of training camp this week as he looks to land an improved contract from the franchise.
With a potential holdout looming for Jacobs, the 25-year-old received some advice from a fellow running back with experience in holding out over a contract dispute, Melvin Gordon.
The former Chargers and Broncos running back made an appearance on Kay Adams’s show, Up & Adams. When the topic of Jacobs’s holdout was broached, Gordon explained what he would do if in Jacobs’s situation.
“I wouldn’t do it.
The indelible Kay Adams produced another fascinating piece of NFL content Tuesday, speaking with newly signed Baltimore Ravens running back, Melvin Gordon.
As a keen observer of the modern game, Adams knew to touch on the testy RB market currently ‘plaguing’ the league’s biggest runners.
Melvin Gordon Says He’d Play A Different Position, Based On Crumbling RB Market
She asked Gordon, 30, whether he’d pick a different position if he could restart his football career. Based on the sliding market, Gordon delivered a resounding ‘hell yes’ to the query.
Bronny James, an incoming freshman on USC’s basketball team and the son of NBA legend LeBron James, suffered a cardiac arrest during a practice Monday, according to a statement released by a James family spokesperson. As of Tuesday, James, 18, is out of the ICU and in stable condition, per the statement.
James committed to play for the Trojans in May, staying in Los Angeles after playing for Sierra Canyon in high school. He made a public appearance alongside his father and the rest of his family earlier in July at ESPN’s ESPY Awards.