Hunter Dickinson, one of the highest-profile transfers in men’s college basketball history, revealed Tuesday a key reason he decided to depart Michigan: name, image and likeness money.
On the latest episode of the Roundball Podcast, a show Dickinson co-hosts with Barstool Sports’ Marty Mush and former Iowa guard Jordan Bohannon, Dickinson made some eye-popping claims about how little money he earned through NIL last season while playing for the Wolverines.
“The people hating on me would leave their job right now for a $10,000 [a year] increase,” Dickinson said.
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The Colorado Avalanche will be without captain Gabriel Landeskog for two straight seasons.
Landeskog — who hasn’t played a game since he hoisted the Stanley Cup in 2022 — will undergo knee surgery that will sideline him for the entire 2023-24 NHL season.
Colorado Avalanche captain Gabriel Landeskog will undergo a cartilage transplant in his right knee on May 10. The surgery will be performed by Dr. Brian Cole at the Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. The 30-year-old forward is expected to miss the entire 2023-24 season. pic.twitter.
FS1 host Skip Bayless thinks it could be time for the Warriors to move on from Steve Kerr.
ESPN’s John Anderson came under fire Monday night after making an insensitive joke about Golden Knights defenseman Zach Whitecloud while calling highlights of Game 3 of the Western Conference semifinals between the Oilers and Vegas.
On Tuesday, Whitecloud addressed the media, revealing that he’s since had a conversation with Anderson and accepted the apology from the ESPN analyst, via SinBin Vegas. During his media session, Whitecloud reportedly broke into tears.
When the popularity of men’s college basketball was exploding right after the Bird-vs.-Magic national championship game of 1979, Louisville was there to grab the baton and soar with it, above the rim, helping take the sport even higher. For a stretch of time in the heyday ’80s, the Cardinals were the coolest program in the country. They won big; they were exciting; they were colorful; and they had soul.
Coach Denny Crum was the leader, and he was a fearless one.
Former San Diego State and Bills punter Matt Araiza was not present during a 2021 gang rape, according to a statement from prosecutors in a transcript and audio from the San Diego District Attorney’s office obtained by ESPN and Yahoo Sports.
Araiza, an All-American in ’21 and a sixth-round draft pick in 2022, was released by Buffalo on Aug. 27 after reports emerged that he had been named as a defendant in a gang rape lawsuit.
The lawsuit alleged that Araiza and two teammates gang-raped a girl, who was 17 at the time, at an off-campus party near the SDSU campus in the fall of ’21.
Donna Kelce — the star of Super Bowl LVII — may have leaked some details of the NFL schedule, which won’t be released until later this week.
Kelce, mother of Chiefs tight end Jason Kelce and Eagles center Jason Kelce (but you knew that), made a Facebook that appeared to allude to the upcoming schedule.
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Eagles @ Chiefs – Week 2
Donna Kelce posted a Facebook comment on May 5th stating “Chiefs plays Eagles week 2 in Arrowhead” pic.twitter.
Stephen A. Smith was not thrilled about Julius Randle’s performance in the Knicks’ 109–101 Game 4 loss to the Heat on Monday night.
Randle finished with 20 points on 8-of-13 shooting from the floor, nine rebounds and six of the New York’s 17 turnovers in the game while also fouling out with 3:08 to play in the final quarter. In addition to Randle fouling out, the Heat outrebounded the Knicks, 44–35, and failed to secure vital defensive rebounds in the final stretch of the game.
During the regular season, the Knicks were No. 3 in the league in rebounding.
South Carolina has one of the best entrances in college football, and they definitely have one of the best mascot reveals in college sports.
The identity of ‘Cocky’ is a secret for the duration of the person’s time in Columbia, but once graduation comes around, the reveal is spectacular. It’s a longstanding tradition that the identity of the person under the mascot is a secret until they graduate. The process is difficult, with South Carolina asking the person to keep their true self under the big cocky headgear until the right time.
It is going to take a special performance to beat the LSU women’s basketball team in 2023/24, but if anyone is equipted do it, it’s Caitlin Clark. The 21-year-old sharpshooter swept all the National Player of the Year honors after one of the most dominant college basketball seasons of all-time.
Clark averaged 27.8 points, 7.1 rebounds and 8.6 assists per game last season. She also knocked down 140 threes, many of which from another stratosphere.