Author: Michael

Saudi Arabia’s Al Hilal soccer team has offered what would be a world-record fee of around $332 million for Kylian Mbappe with the French superstar potentially fetching a wage of $776 million for one single season. The mind-numbing offer caught the attention of the entire sports world, including LeBron James.
To no surprise, James wouldn’t bother worrying about the deplorable human rights records of Saudi Arabia and would immediately make the move if a team in the country offered him that size contract. That one-year, $776 million contract is simply too good to pass up.

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Jordan Rodgers uncorked an all-time wild college football take about Tennessee QB Joe Milton.
The college football season is just around the corner, and week zero will be here before we know it. Fans can’t wait. It’s the best time of year.
One of the best parts about college football is the fact people love dropping hot takes. There are too many hot take artists to even count when it comes to college football.
Jordan Rodgers thinks Joe Milton is the best QB in college football. (Photo by Eric Espada/Getty Images)
Jordan Rodgers unleashes incredible take about Joe Milton.

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Nearly three years removed from overcoming a battle with cancer, 18-year-old Linda Caicedo seized the spotlight in her FIFA Women’s World Cup debut on Monday with an inspiring goal against South Korea.
The teenage phenom stepped onto the pitch representing her native Colombia on the sport’s biggest stage for the first time in her young career and quickly delighted the fans inside Allianz Stadium in Australia.

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It’s been over three years since the Red Sox made the controversial decision to trade former American League MVP and fan favorite Mookie Betts to the Dodgers in a move that was largely financially motivated. With Los Angeles owning the National League’s second-best record and Boston currently sitting on the outside of the AL playoff picture, Betts discussed the now-infamous trade as a guest on the Foul Territory podcast, which is co-hosted by former Red Sox teammate Brock Holt.

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Mess with Elly De La Cruz once and you’ll pay for it two wags of a baseball bat later.
MLB clubs are learning not to poke the bear, if the bear’s De La Cruz, the hard way.
On Monday, the electric Cincinnati Reds shortstop made the Milwaukee Brewers’ scoreboard operator pay after trolling De La Cruz for a stolen homer in his first at-bat.

MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN – JULY 24: Elly De La Cruz #44 of the Cincinnati Reds celebrates a two run home run against the Milwaukee Brewers in the third inning at American Family Field on July 24, 2023 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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Two Northwestern athletes stepped up the legal fight against their school for serious hazing methods, according to new lawsuits filed on Monday.
The new suits land atop a pile of hazing allegations that Northwestern has received since The Daily Northwestern‘s takedown of Wildcats men’s football coach Pat Fitzgerald after overseeing hazing practices that included sexual misconduct.
One of the athletes is a female volleyball player claiming the team allowed severe punishment after she allegedly broke team guidelines by getting COVID in 2021.

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Few players have made life in the major leagues look so easy so quickly like Elly De La Cruz has in 2023. Through his first 41 games, the 22-year-old phenom has stretched the physical limits of the game: He broke the record for the fastest infield assist ever recorded—then broke it again. He stole three bases over the course of a single inning as part of a bravura sequence that comprised about a minute of real time.
And for his latest feat of wonder? He hit a ball out of the entire stadium.

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