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The Philadelphia Phillies will finally begin their second series of the 2020 Major League Baseball season on Monday night, squaring off against the New York Yankees, one week later than expected. The Phillies-Yankees series was originally postponed due to the Miami Marlins COVID-19 outbreak, occurring the same weekend they played against the Phillies in Philadelphia. The Phillies schedule was further […]
The National Basketball Association resumed its regular season with a TNT Thursday Night Doubleheader on July 30. The opening game featured the Utah Jazz, the very team that sparked the NBA’s initial need to shut down, and the New Orleans Pelicans, who started their journey to claw their way into the playoffs with Zion Wiliamson. The second game featured the […]
With the number of players within the Miami Marlins organization testing positive for COVID-19 rising to 15, Major League Baseball has temporarily sidelined the seasons of the Marlins and Philadelphia Phillies. The Phillies hosted the Marlins for a three-game weekend series, in which Miami took the field Sunday afternoon fully aware of the coronavirus spreading within their clubhouse. The remainder […]
The Philadelphia Phillies began their 60-game 2020 Major League Baseball season on July 24 in Citizens Bank Park, hosting the Miami Marlins, their NL East rivals. While the Phillies had some bright spots in this three-game series, they ultimately dropped two of three games. Miami terrorized Philadelphia’s pitching staff, tagging them for 11 runs in the series finale. While much […]
After over three months of delay due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Philadelphia Phillies will begin their 2020 campaign on Friday night against their NL East rival, the Miami Marlins, in Citizens Bank Park. The Phillies announced the opening lineup for their 132nd season on their Twitter account. Our 2020 #OpeningDay lineup. #RingTheBell 📺: @NBCSPhilly 📻: @SportsRadioWIP 📱💻: https://t.co/kvwlhW7OF0 // […]
One of the most high-flying yet polarizing players in the National Football League, wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr., could be changing teams for the second straight offseason. After spending five seasons with the New York Giants, breaking records left and right, the football world was stunned when New York traded the three-time Pro Bowler to the Cleveland Browns. On March […]
The NFC South has featured formidable quarterbacks for years. At the start of the 2019 NFL season, three of the division’s four starting quarterbacks had a Super Bowl appearance under their belt. The same can still be said now: though Cam Newton is done in Carolina, Tom Brady has entered the division to make the NFC South easily the most […]
The NFL offseason quarterback carousel is well underway. Tom Brady, the longest-tenured quarterback in the league with a single team, left the New England Patriots for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Philip Rivers, who had spent his entire career with the Chargers franchise, moved on to the Indianapolis Colts. Teddy Bridgewater leveraged a strong showing for the New Orleans Saints in […]
If Anthony Davis retired now from the NBA, for some unexpected reason, he would be worthy of induction into the Basketball Hall of Fame based on his career thus far. Davis doesn’t need to score another point, block another shot, be selected to another All-Star game, or even win a championship in order to become a future Hall-of-Famer: because he […]
In 2018, the Chicago Bears rode a dominant defense and just enough offense from quarterback Mitch Trubisky to a division title and playoff berth. In 2019, Chicago showed the formula has to be executed perfectly to work. With Trubisky’s offense declining, the defense was stretched thinner, and the Bears went 8-8 as a result. Trubisky is still under contract for […]
After Steph Curry’s hand injury, suffered in just the fourth game of the season, the Golden State Warriors went from fringe playoff contenders to the worst team in the league in a heartbeat. 58 games later, the former MVP will return to the court for the Warriors as they host the Toronto Raptors. Of course, the last time Curry saw […]
The 2020 XFL season is in full swing as the calendar switches over from February to March. Leap days in February only happen once every four years, but professional football on a leap day? Now that’s a real treat. This week, the Houston Roughnecks try to get to 4-0, but face a hot Dallas Renegades team that is 2-0 since […]
The Los Angeles Lakers defeated the New Orleans Pelicans 118-109 in a highly anticipated matchup between an all-time great player, still dominating the league in his 17th season, and a promising rookie that might just be the next face of the NBA. The matchup served as a highly anticipated first meeting between LeBron James and Zion Williamson. Williamson is truly […]
We’re three weeks into the 2020 XFL season, and while good and bad teams have already begun to emerge, the league remains wide-open, and the outcomes continue to be decided on the field rather than on paper. The 2-0 D.C. Defenders slotted in as 7.5-point favorites against Josh Johnson and the Los Angeles Wildcats. Los Angeles stunned Cardale Jones and […]
The Golden State Warriors season began with huge holes left my the injury/departure of Kevin Durant and the Klay Thomspon’s torn ACL. The Warriors fortunes went from bad to worse when All-Star point guard Steph Curry broke his hand in just the fourth game of the season. Since then, Golden State’s starting lineup has been ravaged by further injuries, to […]
With a pair of games in the books for all 8 XFL teams, each team’s identity is begginning to take shape. P.J. Walker and the Houston Roughnecks lead an explosive offense. The D.C. Defenders are a great all-around team, led by Cardale Jones. Both teams opened their seasons 2-0. The Tampa Bay Vipers and Los Angeles Wildcats, on the other […]
