Browsing: All news

ESPN personality Stephen A. Smith ripped Jimmy Garoppolo during Wednesday’s episode of First Take for his latest comments regarding his former team, the 49ers. During an interview with Sports Illustrated’s Robin Lundberg, Garoppolo was asked about San Francisco trading Trey Lance to the Cowboys. Lance was drafted by San Francisco to replace Garoppolo which eventually led to him leaving the team to join the Raiders. 
Garoppolo called it a “weird situation” and added there have “been a lot of weird situations over there in San Francisco.

As the dispute between Colts running back Jonathan Taylor and his team continues over his contract situation, Indianapolis reportedly spoke with the Dolphins and Packers about potential trades centered around its young star ball carrier.
Reports emerged earlier this week indicating that Colts general manager Chris Ballard plans to hold on to Taylor for now, as he didn’t feel Indianapolis was receiving fair value in trade proposals for the franchise running back. The Colts had a self-imposed 4 p.m.

Though MLB is experimenting with electronic strike zones (aka “robo umps”) in the minor leagues, balls and strikes are still called by human beings at the big league level. And while major league umpires are pretty good on the whole, there’s always going to be missed calls. Unless an umpire is having a really bad day, you’ll probably see a bad call, shake your head and move on. But seeing a whole bunch of lousy calls back-to-back is a different story.

Photo by Stacy Revere/Getty Images
Woodland took to social media Wednesday to let golf fans know of a recent serious health development that is going to require surgery.
Former U.S. Open winner Gary Woodland revealed some sad news after the PGA Tour season ended. He announced that he will undergo surgery on Sept. 18 for a brain lesion.
Woodland wrote a post that he shared on all his social media platforms about his health.
“I wanted to share a recent health development with you,” Woodland wrote.

The Patriots are re-signing Bailey Zappe and Malik Cunningham to their practice squad after the quarterbacks cleared waivers on Wednesday, NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero reports.
New England waived both Zappe and Cunningham on Tuesday, leaving them with Mac Jones as the lone quarterback on the active roster. However, no other team put in a claim for either quarterback, allowing the Patriots to bring them back on the practice squad. Either Zappe or Cunningham will likely serve as Jones’s backup once the season begins.

Fantasy football analyst Dalton Del Don highlights six quarterbacks he thinks could pay off for drafters this season.

There are reasons to overlook these 6 quarterbacks when their names are sitting in your queue on draft day. Do future you a favor and just pick them.

1. The NFL held a media call Wednesday regarding several media issues as the 2023 season gets ready to kick off. Among the more notable highlights:
• The decision to not allow Sunday Ticket viewers to control the games they watch on the multiview channel, which I wrote about last week, is YouTube’s, not the NFL’s. This is highly disappointing since YouTube TV viewers were given the ability to pick the games they wanted to watch on one screen during the NCAA tournament.

Photo by Darren Carroll/PGA of America
The bets have begun to roll in on the Ryder Cup, and this one surrounds superstar Justin Thomas, a former PGA Tour pro and a tattoo.
Let the Ryder Cup shenanigans begin. The event doesn’t start until Sept. 29 at Marco Simone Golf Club in Rome, but that didn’t stop fans from making wagers.
Justin Thomas was one of the six Ryder Cup captain’s picks made by Zach Johnson on Tuesday, and it caused some interesting reactions. CBS Sports reporter and former PGA Tour pro Colt Knost loved the Thomas pick.

Ahead of Alabama’s season opener this weekend, head coach Nick Saban opted not to release a depth chart for the first time in his Alabama coaching career. Saban said he made the decision to eliminate “distractions” from the team, but it led to an awkward conversation with the media explaining his decision.
Some college football analysts did not appreciate Saban’s tone to the media during this conversation. ESPN’s Paul Finebaum said he doesn’t think Saban needed to decline giving a depth chart and overthought how secret he needed to be to the media.