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On SportsCenter’s bonus segment, Pardon The I
Brooklyn Nets forward Michael Porter Jr. torched the fantasy that WNBA players could cross over and compete in men’s basketball.
MPJ isn’t afraid to stir the pot, claiming WNBA players can’t compete with men.
Porter’s blunt take, shared on Lonzo Ball’s podcast “Ball in the Family,” has already prompted the Nets to warn him about speaking too freely.
During the conversation, Porter recalled how, as a grade-school kid, he practiced against his college-playing sisters and WNBA pros like Sophie Cunningham.
READ: NBA Star Michael Porter, Jr.
On the latest SVPod, Scott Van Pelt and Stanfor
Arizona Fall League
One of the secret delights of living in Arizona, which gives you the chance to see some of the top prospects in baseball for the price of a Chase Field beer. Six teams are formed from players sent by all thirty MLB teams, playing in a league for about a month after the end of the regular season. These may be prospects the organization wants to challenge, those who missed playing time earlier in the year due to injury, etc. The D-backs involved were part of the Salt River Rafters roster, playing on home turf.
The College Football Playoff committee has been roasted pretty heavily by fans and many members of the media alike after the release of the third edition of CFP rankings on Tuesday night. The Canes moved up from 15 to 13, but they remained 4 spots behind Notre Dame, who everyone knows they defeated 27-24 back in Week 1.
The comments of CFP chairman Hunter served as a catalyst for much of the controversy.
“I think when you look at Notre Dame and Miami, we really compare the losses of those two teams,” Hunter Yurachek said after the rankings release.
Joey Mueller
Over this past week, the UCF Knights sports world saw two teams make it into the NCAA Tournament while another made program history.
We also have our Knight of the Week and Play of the Week in this Wednesday, Nov. 19 edition of KnightCap.
It’s not unusual for teams that have made a few deep playoff runs in a row to start having some injury issues. The Florida Panthers are no exception.
After a loss in the Stanley Cup Final to the Vegas Golden Knights in 2023, and back-to-back wins in 2024 and 2025, the Panthers haven’t just been bitten by the injury bug; they’re getting eaten alive by it.
Captain Aleksander Barkov is out for the season.
Star forward Matthew Tkachuk has yet to play a game, and the same goes for Tomas Nosek.
After working out multiple kickers, the 49ers have found their temporary replacement for Eddy Pineiro.
The team signed Matt Gay to the practice squad on Wednesday, cutting wide receiver Russell Gage Jr. from the practice squad in a corresponding move.
Pineiro has a Grade 1 hamstring strain, which prompted the kicker tryouts this week.
Gay, 31, was waived by the Commanders earlier this week.
He has made only 13 of 19 field goals, and he missed two field goals in Sunday’s overtime loss to the Dolphins. His 68.
In Daniel Cormier’s eyes, out of all current UFC champions, Merab Dvalishvili is the one that’s best handling his career.
Cormier, a former two-division UFC champion who retired and is now working as a UFC commentator, thinks Dvalishvili (21-4 MMA, 14-2 UFC) is setting himself apart from the other champions in the UFC, making him a unique and special figure in MMA.
“He went from being a guy that nobody really paid attention to, to a guy that’s almost universally loved,” Cormier told MMA Junkie Radio.