Given that no other player in the recent history of the NBA has received more slander than Ben Simmons, it’s easy to forget that he played in three consecutive All-Star Games with the last coming in 2021. In other words, Ben Simmons wasn’t just good three seasons ago, he was great.
To say things have gone downhill in a hurry for the former first-overall pick over the last two seasons would be a gross understatement. Simmons didn’t play a game during the 2021-22 campaign while refusing to play for the Philadelphia 76ers.
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Multiple Big Ten staff members identified analyst Connor Stalions as Michigan’s sign-stealing guru. He has since been suspended with pay as the NCAA looks into the matter.
The Red Sox reportedly are looking at one of their former players as a GM candidate.
Riley Gaines spoke with Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Missouri) regarding a conversation the senator had with NCAA president Charlie Baker on Wednesday. Hawley asked Baker a line of questions regarding the organization’s policy on transgender athletes in women’s sports. Both Gaines and Hawley were left categorically displeased with Baker’s half-hearted response.
On the latest episode of ‘Gaines For Girls,’ the former All-American swimmer discussed how Baker’s response shows that the NCAA still can’t take a firm stance on this issue.
The NFL fined Seahawks safety Jamal Adams $50,000 for inappropriate conduct towards a doctor on the bench of last week’s game vs. the Bengals, CBS Sports’s Jonathan Jones reports. According to the report, Adams “directed verbal remarks and made inappropriate physical contact” with an unaffiliated neurotrauma consultant (UNC) who was taking wide receiver Jake Bobo to the medical tent.
The league claims that Adams interfered when the UNC was treating Bobo for a potential concussion. Bobo would go on to clear concussion protocol and reenter the game shortly after.
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Koepka let it flow on Jake Paul’s podcast as the LIV golfer laid out why he left the PGA Tour and took the money.
Brooks Koepka joined Jake Paul on his “BS” Podcast, where the five-time major champion explained why he originally left the PGA Tour to join LIV Golf.
The 2023 PGA Championship winner also went into detail on the origins of the deal between the PIF and the PGA Tour, to his back story and the money.
Of course, Paul asked the question all golf fans want to know; how much did Koepka sign for.
“It was pretty good.
The Liberty’s season came down to eight seconds, one point, a struggling double-teamed Breanna Stewart and a missed Courtney Vandersloot three. But really, it was so much more than a last-ditch drawn-up play gone wrong that sealed New York’s fate as WNBA finalists rather than champions. “I put the ball in the hands of the MVP because we trust her,” coach Sandy Brondello said after the Game 4 loss of Stewart getting the ball. “It just didn’t work out today.”
New York’s stated objective ahead of the 2023 season was to win a championship.
If college football fans know Western Kentucky—traditionally much more successful on the hardwood than the gridiron—for one thing, it’s for its unorthodox mascot.
The Muppet-like Big Red has been entertaining Hilltoppers fans since the 1980 men’s basketball season, and his profile has only increased since Western Kentucky jumped up to the FBS in 2009. Now, the creature ranks among the nation’s most beloved mascots, and is trumpeted as such on the university’s official website.
The rumor mill is kicking into gear, but what should you believe? Yahoo Sports’ Charles Robinson distills the recent rumblings related to nine teams ahead of the Oct. 31 deadline.
At a sleepy NFL fall meeting, there was a topic most of the owners had on their minds—and, interestingly enough, it didn’t come up inside the meeting room during the two-day summit in Midtown Manhattan.
It’s now been about five months since Raiders owner Mark Davis and legendary quarterback Tom Brady came to an agreement for Brady to join the team as a minority owner. Brady had already gone in as a limited partner with Davis’s WNBA team, the now two-time champion Las Vegas Aces. And he’s since been around the Raiders a little, most prominently for a preseason game at Dallas.