It’s crunch time in the NFL. While there are some seeding issues left to resolve, there more importantly are three wild-card spots up for grabs and six teams still hoping to grab one. In the NFC, things are fairly simple as one wild-card spot will go to the New Orleans […]
Tom Brady is now 40 years old and one thing is clear – he is going to obliterate NFL records for quarterbacks in their 40s. To just be a starting quarterback in the NFL is rare. For Brady to still be at the top of his game as he enters […]
Last season, three teams broke the NBA single-season record of three-pointers attempted in a season, with the Houston Rockets finishing with the most, 3,306. That was 626 more than any previous team had attempted. This season, the Rockets are on pace for 3,518 three-point attempts and half the league’s 30 […]
Tom Herman’s first season as head coach of the University of Texas football team finished its regular season with a ho-hum 6-6 record. But his record has been much stronger on the recruiting trail and it looks like it is only a matter of time before Texas is back among […]
In order to fill the entire slate of college football bowl games this season, 15 teams without winning records will participate in the bowl season, but it could be worse. Not including the College Football Playoff championship game, the bowl schedule will include 40 games. Of those, 13 will have […]
The New England Patriots are once again a strong favourite to win the Super Bowl, but there are two surprising teams that are actually dominating the NFL this season – The Jacksonville Jaguars and the Los Angeles Rams. The Patriots have a 27% chance to win the Super Bowl, according […]
The Carolina Panthers owner Jerry Richardson has announced that he intends to sell his franchise after the season. This move came after an investigation was announced against Richardson amid allegations of sexual harassment in the workplace and the use of a racial slur directed at a team scout. When Richardson […]
The college football bowl season starts on Saturday with six games with off the bat. If we include the college football playoff championship game, there are now 41 bowl games that will be competed in by 80 schools. The reason there are so many bowl games has little to do […]
Prior to the 2017 NFL season, the Denver Broncos hired Vance Joseph and the Los Angeles Chargers hired Anthony Lynn to be their respective head coaches. Those two coaches were the latest additions to a growing number of minority coaches in the NFL. After the 2002 season, the NFL instituted […]
The New England Patriots are a slight favourite to win the Super Bowl, according to Nate Silver and FiveThirtyEight. It would be a record-tying sixth Super Bowl win for the Patriots, breaking their second-place tie with the Dallas Cowboys and the San Francisco 49ers. In all, six franchises have won […]
Tom Brady may be 40 years old, but he is still the best quarterback in the world. Through the first 12 games of the season, Brady has thrown 26 touchdown passes, behind only Carson Wentz (33) and Russell Wilson (29). Both of those players have played one more game than […]
Earlier this month, Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo was once again named the top footballer in the world when he won the 2017 Ballon d’Or. It was the fifth time in Ronaldo’s career that he has won the award, equaling the number won by his chief rival, Lionel Messi of F.C. […]
ESPN is losing subscribers, but they are not losing money. In fact, ESPN is making more money off subscribers than ever before, despite their dwindling numbers. In 2011, ESPN peaked when they topped 100 million subscribers. However, in the six years since then, their numbers have fallen, losing nearly 13 […]
We are still a month away from the end of the college football season and the coaching carousel is already in full swing with some of the biggest programs making leadership changes, including Florida State, Texas A&M, UCLA, Florida, Nebraska, Oregon, and Tennessee. Well, Tennessee is still trying. All of […]
College football’s final four is set as Clemson, Alabama, Oklahoma, and Georgia will compete for the championship. With just three games to go that truly matter, Alabama is a slight favourite to win it all, according to Nate Silver’s model at FiveThirtyEight.com, with a 30% chance to win it all. […]
Jimbo Fisher has hit the jackpot. He has left Florida State University to become the next football coach at Texas A&M, and signed the richest contract in college football history,a 10-year deal worth a reported $US75 million, fully guaranteed. It is not clear yet what Fisher’s salary would be for […]
The 2018 World Cup draw was held on Friday and the groups are now set. While this World Cup does not have a clear-cut “Group of Death,” there is what some are calling the “Group of Life,” and coincidentally, it features the host nation, Russia. Going into the draw, we […]
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