The Arizona Diamondbacks are four wins away from their first World Series since one of the more famous walk-offs in Major League Baseball history.
And the author of that will be right there again if the D-Backs make it.
Luis Gonzalez blooped a one-out, bases-loaded, RBI single to shallow center off New York Yankees’ closer extraordinaire Mariano Rivera in the bottom of the ninth inning on Nov. 4, 2001. The hit gave Arizona a 3-2, walk-off win and its only World Series title to date.
Prosecutors dropped one of Kevin Porter Jr.’s assault charges Monday after it was revealed the Houston Rockets guard did not break his girlfriend’s neck during an alleged attack last month.
Police arrested Porter on Sept. 11 after staff at the Millennium Hotel in Manhattan found Kysre Gondrezick in a hallway covered in blood. According to Assistant District Attorney Mirah Curzer, Gondrezick had a laceration near her right eye and a fractured bone in her neck.
But as it turns out, her neck fracture is actually a congenital defect and was not inflicted by Porter.
Even though his name has been thrown around recently in-regards to returning to the sidelines, Urban Meyer made it clear he has ‘no desire’ to coach again.
Speaking at the Knoxville QB Club on Monday, the former national championship winning coach is happy with where his life is at. According to KnoxNews reporter Mike Wilson, Urban was not asked about a specific job, but shutdown the notion he wants to return.
“I am good, I never really took a day off,” Urban Meyer said. “People, when I say that, they scratch their head. I am like I never took a day off.
During and after Monday’s episode of ESPN’s First Take, Shannon Sharpe may have thought that football fans would engage with his assertion that Dolphins receiver Tyreek Hill is the most valuable non-quarterback in the NFL.
However, Sharpe’s opinions and analysis weren’t attracting the attention of many viewers. On social media, the topic was how Sharpe looked on screen.
More specifically, observers were fixated on Sharpe’s makeup, which appeared to be heavy on the powder. That provoked several unflattering comparisons to celebrities as Sharpe became a meme throughout the day.
Welcome to Week 6 of the 2023 NFL season here at The MMQB. Below are links to everything Albert Breer wrote over the weekend, plus more from our staff.
Zac Taylor on Joe Burrow’s Health, Thoughtfulness and the Bengals’ Defense
Joe Burrow’s teammates will do anything for him, the coach says.
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Albert Breer talks to Zac Taylor about why the Bengals are capable of lifting their QB up in the same way he has lifted the team over the past few years.
There was a point during the Browns’ upset of the 49ers on Sunday when the help Deshaun Watson was giving PJ Walker was about to pay off. Or so Walker thought, after he’d missed a throw to Elijah Moore and retreated to the Cleveland sideline.
“I missed the throw to Elijah, and we were talking about how they, as a defense, play with your eyes,” Walker said postgame, as he was readying to leave Cleveland Browns Stadium. “And he was like, ‘If you just hold your eyes right, you will be able to go back to Dave [Njoku] instead of Elijah.’ That was big. We didn’t get back to it.
When the Eagles allowed Jets running back Breece Hall to score a touchdown with 1:50 to play and New York down by two, 14-12, the reaction from many was that the Jets should not have scored.
Legendary ESPN college basketball analyst Dick Vitale spoke publicly for the first time in months Monday amid his cancer fight.
In July, Vitale announced that his vocal cord cancer had resurfaced. Although he worked on air last season, Vitale missed portions of the 2021-22 campaign, underwent surgery for dysplasia on his vocal cords in ’21 and battled diagnoses of melanoma and lymphoma that same season.
On Monday, Dr.
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The Browns’ defense is looking like the scariest unit in football
Going into Sunday afternoon, the Cleveland Browns were missing their starting QB against the juggernaut that is the San Francisco 49ers. The odds of them keeping it close, let alone winning, were slim to start the game.
Then the Browns defense got involved.
The Browns pulled off a monumental upset of the 49ers, winning 19-17 in what effectively was the worst game of 49ers’ QB Brock Purdy’s career.
With the NBA season right around the corner, now is as good a time as any to take stock of the best talent around the league. So before the regular season officially begins, Sports Illustrated will be ranking the top five players at every position in the NBA. Here, we are focusing on point guards, a loaded position with players who employ very different styles.
Apologies to: Jamal Murray, Tyrese Haliburton
5. De’Aaron Fox
Fox saw the most efficient year of his career last season.
