Lionel Messi’s arrival in Major League Soccer has been one of the league’s most exciting developments.
Messi’s debut with Inter Miami was a spectacular success, where he put home a remarkable set piece goal to seal a victory.
READ: LIONEL MESSI SCORES INCREDIBLE SET PIECE GOAL IN INTER MIAMI DEBUT
He hasn’t let up, scoring two more goals against Orlando City on Wednesday in a 3-1 win. And while nearly everyone who follows soccer in the U.S. has been excited to see one of the world’s best players, the match led to some criticism.
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The days of Urban Meyer’s tenure as the Jaguars coach in 2021 were as embarrassing as it was short. During his time in Jacksonville and soon after, several stories and reports surfaced of how the former college coach created a toxic environment — and now there’s another one to add to the list.
Jaguars safety Andrew Wingard told Tyler Dunne of Go Long a story from Meyer’s tenure where his former coach showed some extremely childish behavior.
After a 31–7 loss to the Seahawks, the team was 1–6 and they held a “Come to Jesus” meeting as their season began to spiral.
A major discussion around the NFL revolves around the value of running backs. But while many RBs are demanding long-term contracts worth big bucks, Joe Mixon took a pay cut from the Cincinnati Bengals.
On Wednesday, he explained the thought process behind the move.
“I see the task at hand and what we’re trying to build and in order to keep other players here and pieces here, sometimes you have to sacrifice,” Mixon said, according to the team’s official website. “I felt like this year was the year to sacrifice on the Super Bowl team we can potentially be.
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By making a donation by the team, and not the owners the Magic crossed a line.
The Orlando Magic have been under fire this week, and it’s a mess entirely of their owners’ making. On Tuesday news emerged that the Magic had donated $50,000 to the Super PAC for Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaign.
Team owners supporting presidential candidates is nothing new, however it’s exceedingly rare to see a team use its money to support a candidate.
There’s. a rumor floating that a high school kid managed to get Phoenix Suns shooting guard Bradley Beal’s goat.
Former NBA player Brian Scalabrine was on SiriusXM’s NBA Radio and talked about hearing that Beal went toe-to-toe with 16-year-old hoops phenom Cooper Flagg.
“I heard a rumor that my boy Cooper Flagg was at Jayson Tatum’s camp and he was busting Brad Beal 1-on-1, and Brad Beal got mad at him. Started cussing him out,” Scalabrine explained, per The Sporting News.
While Flagg is a highly-touted prospect, the 6-foot-8 teenager is known to be one fierce competitor.
There have been as many 1,500-yard receiving seasons in the last two years as there were in the previous five combined.
Cooper Kupp and Tyreek Hill each hit that milestone once; Justin Jefferson and Davante Adams both did so twice. Those four pass-catchers account for the six 1,500-yard receiving seasons since the NFL schedule expanded to 17 games in 2021. Only six players hit that mark in the five years prior (Stefon Diggs, Michael Thomas, Julio Jones, DeAndre Hopkins, Mike Evans and Antonio Brown) and none of them did so in back-to-back seasons like Jefferson and Adams.
If given a million tries, no one could guess what Rudy Gobert said after hitting his first-ever three-pointer at the professional level. While playing for the French national team on Wednesday against Montenegro, Gobert hit the career milestone and after the game he had quite the quote.
The team’s official Twitter account posted the quote in French and when you hit translate, it’s nothing short of hilarious.
“Tonight, I feel like I lost my virginity,” he said after the 80–69 win.
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Matt Wallace, the 33-year-old PGA Tour pro, didn’t hold back his distaste for the Sedgefield Country Club at the Wyndham Championship.
Matt Wallace didn’t have a terrible first round at the Wyndham Championship Thursday.
He carded a 3-under 67, placing him T5 just two shots back of leader Adam Scott. Wallace made a bogey on three of his last five holes though. That poor finish provided quite the reaction from the Englishman.
“A bit pissed off, actually, with the finish… Yeah, just frustrated,” Wallace said.
The Lions have made history ahead of the 2023 football season, as the team announced that it has sold out its season tickets for the home games at Ford Field. It is the first time in the history of the stadium that the Lions have sold out the season ticket allotment.
Detroit enters 2023 as the odds-on favorite to win the NFC North after nearly making a playoff appearance a year ago. After going just 3-13-1 in 2021, the Lions barely missed the playoffs with a 9–8 record a season ago.
Francis Ngannou won his last professional fight by unanimous decision to retain the UFC heavyweight championship, so he would seem to be the last person to need extra assistance to prepare for a bout.
But his next fight—a boxing match between undefeated world heavyweight champion Tyson Fury—is no ordinary fight. So it only makes sense that Ngannou would call in the big guns by hiring Mike Tyson to be in his corner.