The college football season comes in two parts. The first half consists of September and October when teams jockey for position in the Associated Press and coaches’ polls. It’s a time when fun non-conference schedules are played and the cupcakes come to town. The Paint Line and fans cheer on their team during a game…
One of the biggest plays of Game 5 of the World Series between the Houston Astros and Philadelphia Phillies on Thursday night came on the defensive side in the bottom of the ninth inning. Phillies catcher J.T. Realmuto was up with one out in the ninth inning and took Astros closer Ryan Pressly deep to…
The Boston Celtics were headed into the 2022-23 NBA regular season as the favorites to represent the Eastern Conference in the NBA Finals months after being just two games away from the organization’s first championship since 2008. The additions of Malcolm Brogdon and Danilo Gallinari during the offseason added much-needed depth, and in another season…
The NASCAR Xfinity Series Championship Four will be held on Saturday at Phoenix International Raceway before the Cup Series holds its race the next day, and there is a lot of tension going into the event. While the stock car world has been focusing its attention on Ross Chastain’s move at Martinsville Speedway to get…
PHILADELPHIA – Justin Verlander has accomplished just about everything a pitcher can do in a Major League Baseball career. Cy Young Award? Check – times two (and likely three in a couple of weeks). All-Star? Check – times nine. World Series title? Check – and he can add another one this weekend. Triple Crown? Check. …
A cheating scandal dubbed “BagGate” has sent shock waves across the professional cornhole world. The controversy sparked in August at the 2022 American Cornhole League World Championships in South Carolina. Devon Harbaugh filed a formal complaint against cornhole players Mark Richards and Philip Lopez, claiming the No. 1 ranked doubles team used illegal beanbags. “I…
Major League Baseball has seen such a recent decline in Black ballplayers that there was a higher percentage of African Americans in the league during the Civil Rights era. On Opening Day in April, just 7.2% of major leaguers were Black. Eleven years after Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in 1947, that number was…
Just when NBA fans thought Luka Doncic could not possibly take another step toward greatness, the three-time All-Star has started off the 2022-2023 NBA season smoking hot. Doncic scored 33 points Wednesday night in a 103-100 win over the Utah Jazz, moving the Mavericks to 4-3 on the season and scoring 30 or more points…
Those who coach youth sports sometimes go overboard with how seriously and intensely they push children to success at such a young age. It’s been seen in basketball and football and on Friday another video made the rounds on social media, shocking the tennis world. The video in question, reportedly filmed in Serbia, showed a…
The controversy surrounding Brooklyn Nets star Kyrie Irving sparked harsh criticism from Basketball Hall of Famer Shaquille O’Neal on Tuesday night, as the Nets played the Chicago Bulls. Irving promoted a film on Amazon Prime that uses antisemitic tropes to push an agenda. The Nets guard kept the tweet up for a few days as…