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The Vikings are the latest team to need their backup QB in 2023 after Kirk Cousins’ injury.
Success in the NFL is often built on two things: Who is healthiest as the season wears on and who has the deepest roster. The NFL is a war of attrition, and 2023’s Week 8 showed that even more than most at one position.
Across the NFL, backup quarterbacks have stepped in and stepped up, leading their teams to victories and playing huge roles for squads in the mix for the postseason.
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Texas rolled to a 35-6 win over BYU in its first game of the season without quarterback Quinn Ewers, who is expected to be sidelined for several weeks due to a shoulder injury. And although it was backup Maalik Murphy who got the starting nod Saturday, fans held out hope that five-star freshman Arch Manning would see playing time as well—which didn’t prove to be the case.
After the Longhorns wrapped up the win, Texas coach Steve Sarkisian addressed the decision not to play Manning despite the lopsided score.
Eventbrite revealed its blatant, extreme-left political standing recently after prohibiting Riley Gaines from promoting her speaking event about protecting women’s sports at Harvard. Co-founder and chairman of Eventbrite, Kevin Hartz, has managed to post profanity-filled messages to X, formerly Twitter, but Gaines says she has not heard from him after the debacle.
The organization kept Gaines from promoting her event while allowing other parties to list upcoming pro-Hamas rallies.
Week 8 of the NFL showed us that professional football is unpredictable and wild. It also reminded us that a lot of funny things happen over the course of roughly a dozen games.
The Denver Broncos pulled off a shocking upset of the Kansas City Chiefs yesterday, winning 24-9. Forget the fact that Patrick Mahomes couldn’t crack double-digits against the previously woeful Broncos. This victory ended some pretty significant streaks in the series between these two AFC West rivals.
Despite being the reigning national champion, UConn enters the season ranked No. 6 in the AP poll, receiving just two first-place votes.
Cooper Flagg, the projected No. 1 pick in the 2025 NBA draft, on Monday announced his commitment to the Duke Blue Devils.
The No. 1 recruit in the Class of 2024 picked the Blue Devils over UConn. Here’s how his decision affects both schools — and college basketball — for the 2024-25 season.
When you’re as good a shooter as Warriors star Stephen Curry is, sometimes you don’t even have to look at the rim to know your shot is going in.
In Sunday night’s matchup with the Rockets, Curry brought a little sauce to one of his six made threes. Before the shot had even went through the back of the net, Curry was already running back the other way, with only a slight head turn to ensure that he had actually knocked down the shot. It’s the type of swagger we’ve all come to expect from perhaps the greatest shooter of all time, and remains worth watching every time.
Good morning, I’m Dan Gartland. Fortunately, I didn’t have to see the sloppy Jets-Giants game for myself on TV—listening to it on radio, driving home from a wedding was misery enough.
In today’s SI:AM:
The Niners’ QB problem
Duke’s big recruiting win
Scherzer vs. Pfaadt
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