Jazz ChisholmImage: AP Earning the distinction of cover athlete for your sport’s premier video game franchise is a unique honor. You didn’t necessarily win any awards, championships, or playoff games, but you played well enough for people to consider you the most marketable face they could put on the cover of their product — a … Read more
Scott Rolen is the 18th 3B to be elected into the baseball hall of fameImage: AP Unlike most sports’ Hall of Fame votes nowadays, the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame voting process has been the subject of much analysis, scrutiny, and often ridicule in recent years. There isn’t another major sport with so much … Read more
Marcus Stokesscreenshot: Sports Stars of Tomorrow/YouTube As Signing Day approaches, Nease High’s disgraced quarterback Marcus Stokes has a second chance at fulfilling his college football aspirations. After a senior season in which Stokes gained 2,672 yards, rushed for 496 yards, and scored 28 touchdowns, the four-star passer (or 3-star, depending on where you look) accepted … Read more
Mike ClevingerImage: AP It should be said at the top that it’s not clear that there’s too much the Chicago White Sox could have done before signing Mike Clevinger. It’s easy to say that they should have known, and maybe if a team was really looking for reasons to not sign someone they could have … Read more
Los Angeles Angels owner Arte Moreno, left, stands with outfielder Mike Trout after presenting Trout with a Silver Slugger Award prior to a baseball game against the Texas Rangers, Friday, April 8, 2016, in Anaheim, Calif. Image: AP There are few people on this Earth who can stare down a couple of billion dollars, and … Read more
Mike ClevingerImage: AP White Sox pitcher Mike Clevinger is under investigation by Major League Baseball following allegations of domestic violence, per a report in The Athletic, and confirmed by ESPN. The 24-year-old mother of Clevinger’s 10-month-old daughter, Olivia Finestead, told The Athletic that she’s been in touch with MLB’s Department of Investigations beginning last summer. … Read more
Ed ReedImage: Getty Images In less than a month as the new head football coach at Bethune-Cookman University — a Historically Black College & University (HBCU) — Ed Reed has already unsurprisingly proven why he never should have been hired. Over the weekend, the College and Pro Football Hall of Famer took to social media … Read more
The Seahawks delighted fans with their New Edition TD celebration in 2019.screenshot: Seahawks YouTube The NFL used to be a league full of expression and originality, and much of that was on display in the endzone during touchdown celebrations. We used to look forward to certain players scoring in anticipation of their signature dance or … Read more
Cowboys’ kicker Brett Maher had the entire sports world talking about the yips Monday night.Image: Getty Images Monday night, Dallas Cowboys’ kicker Brett Maher, a man who has made over 60-yard field goals than anyone in NFL history, went one for five on extra points. Because Tampa Bay basically had their asses handed to them … Read more
Brett BatyImage: Getty Images Well, it was more than just Scott Boras using Jon Heyman as a puppet (though one suspects Boras enjoys doing that whenever he can, whether it’s a tactic or an actual leak or just a guy playing with his toys). Carlos Correa didn’t want anything to do with the Mets’ nfl … Read more