With the Dallas Mavericks playing in the Western Conference Finals a year ago, expectations were high heading into the new season, but they haven’t come close to meeting them thus far. The Mavs are just four games over .500 through 44 games this season. And outside of Luka Doncic, the team hasn’t shown much life.
It’s no secret that without Doncic this Mavericks team would be in shambles, just like any other team with a superstar on the roster.
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All hail the greatest regular season Pro Bowl quarterback in the NFL.
There’s going to be no shortage of jokes about the Vikings this week. Their fraudulent path to the No. 3 seed was a road littered with near-losses to mediocre teams. The play inside the game against the Giants, uninspired, boring, and failed in key places at the worst possible times. Even their future, which is is looking, well, kind of bleak. Minnesota is projected to be well above the salary cap, and without much draft capital to get younger — or better in the process.
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Just hear me out.
Full disclosure: I am a Falcons fan. So what you’re about to read may seem a little self-serving (OK, more than a little self-serving). But I believe in my heart that the Chargers’ implosion against the Jaguars during the NFL’s Super Wild Card Weekend was absolutely worse than the Falcons’ implosion against the Patriots in Super Bowl LI.
Why even bring up 28-3, you ask? Because I, an innocent person minding my own business, am catching stray after stray after that loss.
He’s in danger of falling off the ballot, but he deserves more consideration.
Hunter was one of the most well-rounded and consistent players in baseball for 15 years.
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Torii Hunter’s mentor and center field predecessor with the Twins was Kirby Puckett. The player who eventually pushed Hunter to the corner outfield for good was Mike Trout. One is in the Hall of Fame, and the other is sure to be enshrined at the soonest possible moment. Whether Hunter gets the call to join them is another question entirely.
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After a long layoff, the Gesicki Griddy is back
Mike Gesicki promised us his Griddy days were over.
On Sunday in the playoffs against the Buffalo Bills, he broke that promise.
Back in October, Gesicki’s Griddy became something of a national story. During the Miami Dolphins’ Week 2 win over the Baltimore Ravens, Gesicki dropped his debut Griddy on all of us, drawing comparisons to the Roadrunner in the process.
A closer look at potential suitors for the Ravens quarterback. Plus, what we’re hearing on the coaching front with the Cardinals, Panthers, Broncos, Texans and Colts.
We are through the meat of Super Wild-Card Weekend. I’ll fall in line with NFL branding protocol this one time given that the games were, kind of, mostly, really super.
With Buccaneers-Cowboys still to come Monday night, here are 10 takeaways from what we’ve seen already in the opening round, and what you might have missed …
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Last week we ran a number of posts with the TLN contributors weighing in on what they thought of the Leafs season so far.
John Harbaugh was not in a talkative mood Sunday night against the Bengals.
During the 24-17 loss in the playoffs to Joe Burrow and company, the Ravens coach gave a sideline interview to Melissa Stark at the start of the second quarter, and he looked like he wanted to be anywhere else. When asked if the Ravens might make a switch at QB off Tyler Huntley, John Harbaugh looked visibly annoyed.
He just cracked what appeared to be a semi-sarcastic smile and said, “We’ll just say how the game goes, okay? Thanks.”
John Harbaugh was so not in the mood pic.twitter.
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The F1 driver and his team struggle with connection issues in the 24 Hours of Le Mans Virtual
Formula 1 drivers are just like us.
They get frustrated when gaming due to glitches.
The latest example is none other than Max Verstappen, the two-time F1 Drivers’ Champion. Verstappen was competing in the 24 Hours of Le Mans Virtual this weekend with the #1 Team Redline, along with his teammates Luke Browning, Jeffrey Rietveld and Diogo Pinto.
Bethune-Cookman football coach Ed Reed is not impressed with the state of the campus and program.
The legendary safety followed Deion Sanders’ footsteps by taking an HBCU head coaching job, but things aren’t off to a great start.
The former Miami Hurricanes superstar posted an expletive-filled rant on social media taking a flamethrower to the conditions he’s facing.
Ed Reed ripped the state of Bethune-Cookman in viral rant. (Photo by Joe Robbins/Getty Images)
“Now, I’m out here walking with the football team picking up trash … I should leave.