Everything was finally coming together. I drafted Justin Jefferson with the first-overall pick in a big-money, 14-team fantasy football league. I used my second pick to select Cooper Kupp, happy to wait out his IR stint thanks to his incredible upside. Plus, I spent almost my entire FAAB to acquire star rookie De’Von Achane.
Sunday morning arrived. Cooper Kupp and Justin Jefferson both in my fantasy football lineup for the first time this season. I looked around at the teams of my league mates. No one can compete with my 1-2 punch. Throw in also taking Josh Allen, and my team looks great.
Author: Michael
1. Bill Belichick has won six Super Bowls as Patriots head coach, but apparently that doesn’t give him enough cachet with some New England fans, who have turned on the coach after the team’s abysmal start this season.
Many Patriots fans are pulling out the argument that without Tom Brady, Belichick is nothing. Some New England fans think the game has passed the 71-year-old by.
All of this anger, of course, is great news for sports-talk radio in Boston. You have to have to be off in some way to call a sports-talk radio station and go off.
If you’ve been paying attention to the current era of college football, then Mike Gundy’s comments on NIL are a road map of where we’re headed. Forget raising money for facilities, put it towards the NIL bank at Oklahoma State.
Reality has struck college coaches around the country that rather than having donations go towards the university or a new project, it needs to go towards buying players. It’s tough for most of these coaches to wrap their brains around legal pay-for-play, because the NCAA isn’t going to do a thing about it.
As part of its 2023–24 men’s basketball preseason coverage, Sports Illustrated is rolling out previews for each of the six high-major conferences. First up is the ACC.
The ACC stumbled to seventh in KenPom’s conference rankings last season, the lowest the league has been in the history of the site, which dates back to 1997. After substantial coaching turnover at some of the conference’s top programs in recent years, a step back may have been inevitable.
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The Vikings’ ‘competitive rebuild’ is a disaster,
It’s been a horrific start to the season for the Minnesota Vikings. There’s not much pleasure telling fans “I told you so” when they bristled in August that Kirk Cousins and Co. were lingering around the middle of the league in preseason power rankings when they finished 13-4 last year. For Vikings fans there was an expectation for greatness, and now they’re 1-4 with their lone win coming against the hapless Panthers, and that was still a one-score game that came down to the wire.
Former NFL quarterback and current ESPN analyst Robert Griffin III was trying to make a point countless fans have made over the years: Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson has gotten vanishingly little help at times from his offensive teammates.
However, he did so in a fashion that could be interpreted as colorful — depending on your audio fidelity, mood, or predisposition toward Griffin III’s on-air wit.
Not much has gone right for the Patriots to start the 2023 NFL season. The team is off to a 1–4 start and coach Bill Belichick is taking the brunt of the heat for it. But with frustrations and criticism on the rise, none other than Tom Brady stepped in to address the situation and defend his former coach.
Brady spoke about Belichick on his latest Let’s Go! podcast, and was asked whether he believes his longtime coach will continue to be the same guy he’s been throughout his career.
“Absolutely.
The opening stand of the superteam WNBA Finals was a tale of two halves, with the Aces riding a surge down the stretch to a 99–82 win over the Liberty. Stars like LeBron James, Sheryl Swoopes and Tom Brady (who purchased a minority share in the franchise in March), were on hand for Game 1, with Michelob Ultra Arena euphoric as the Aces broke away from New York in emphatic fashion.
Sandy Brondello’s team will once again have to face down the unfriendly and unruly Sin City environment in Game 2, in hopes of leveling the series before making the trip back to Brooklyn.
The final play of Game 2 between the Braves and Phillies is kind of play that you can watch over and over again. Luckily, because it’s the postseason, it was captured from all sorts of angles—each of which is better than the last.
In case you somehow missed it, the game ended on a dramatic double play by Atlanta. Center fielder Michael Harris II made a leaping catch at the wall on a deep fly ball hit by Nick Castellanos. Bryce Harper, who had taken off from first after Castellanos hit the ball, needed to hustle back to the base to avoid being doubled up.
The 2023-24 NBA season is near, so at the end of another eventful summer we take our annual trip too close to the sun, daring you to stand the swelter of these views.