Welcome to 32 teams in 32 days. To get us through the offseason, we’ll be taking a closer look at every team in the league, in order of projected 2023 win totals.
The Titans took their best shot at winning it all. But after falling in the 2019 AFC title game and then cascading down the list of contenders in the following years, first-year general manager Ran Carthon has been brought aboard to reshape the roster.
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Patrick Mahomes and Jalen Hurts left a lasting impression on the 2022 NFL season by delivering a thrilling Super Bowl in Phoenix four months ago.
With the Chiefs getting the best of the Eagles, Mahomes was the one who got the victory tour this offseason, including visiting the White House and riding the Super Bowl MVP float at Disneyland.
But Hurts also received the bulk of the spotlight, turning his breakout season into a massive five-year, $255 million contract extension.
Nobody predicted Nikola Jokic would become a two-time NBA MVP and world champion when he was drafted in the second round of the 2014 NBA Draft. Julius Randle, also a member of the ’14 class, didn’t necessarily see Jokic’s dominance coming either.
Randle, who was drafted seventh overall in 2014, recently joined Paul George’s show ‘Podcast P’ and admitted that he had written off Jokic as a “slow, fat” guy but things changed for him during his second year in the league.
“The Joker, bro. I remember that,” Randle explained.
An MMA fighter climbing the ranks is now fighting for his life after suffering a cardiac arrest.
Cris Lencioni, the 28-year-old featherweight fighter for Bellator, suffered a cardiac arrest while training on June 8 and is now in the ICU. He’s listed as being in serious condition.
The Athlon Sports 2023 Fantasy Football Annual magazine reached out to team insiders at all 32 NFL clubs to ask them three key fantasy questions heading into the season. As we count down to training camp, Sports Illustrated will publish their answers here. Today’s team: Tennessee Titans
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Can we expect another 300-plus carries from Derrick Henry, or is this the year he slows down? Henry’s production (yards per carry, explosive runs) has fallen slightly the last couple seasons.
Tennis Hall of Famer Martina Navratilova has announced that she is cancer free after a six-month battle with both throat and breast cancer having been diagnosed in January.
Navratilova noticed an enlarged lymph node in her neck at the WTA Finals in Texas last November. When it did not go down in size, she underwent a biopsy with the results showing Stage 1 throat cancer.
“This double whammy is serious but still fixable, and I’m hoping for a favorable outcome,” Navratilova told Tennis.com in January. “It’s going to stink for a while, but I’ll fight with all I have got.
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The Aston Martin F1 driver is full of bold predictions this year
One down, 14 to go for Fernando Alonso.
After a disappointing seventh-place finish in the Spanish Grand Prix, his home race, the Aston Martin F1 driver was clear.
Do not get used to seeing a podium without him.
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So far, so good.
Alonso came home second in Sunday’s Canadian Grand Prix, recording his sixth podium of the season over eight races.
Former UFC athlete Alistair Overeem looks like a completely different person these days.
Overeem compiled a 47-19-1 record in the MMA world before leaving the UFC and pivoting to kickboxing. He’s currently serving a year-long suspension from kickboxing after testing positive for banned substances.
Well, Overeem doesn’t seem overly interested in keeping the weight packed on while suspended. A viral Twitter photo shared by @Beyond_Kick shows the former UFC fighter’s current look, and he has lost a staggering amount of weight.
Don’t come around Deion Sanders saying the words “my bad.”
Sanders has a major rebuild underway in Boulder and college football fans are excited to see what the former NFL star can do in the P5.
The Colorado coach has been chronicling the situation with just about everything being filmed for the web, and that’s led to some pretty fun moments.
Now, he revealed that he absolutely despises when a player says “my bad.” Don’t ever let those two words leave your mouth in his presence.
Deion Sanders is trying to turn Colorado around.
Marlins second baseman Luis Arraez has yet to hit below .294 over the course of a big-league season. He won the National League batting title a year ago. Even those accomplishments, however, couldn’t hint at what Arraez had in store for this year.
Arraez went 5-for-5 in Miami’s 11–0 win over the Blue Jays on Monday evening in Miami, raising his batting average from .388 (97-for-250) to .400 (102-for-255).
The All-Star singled in the first, third, fourth, sixth and seventh innings, becoming the first player to cross the 100-hit threshold in 2023.