Johnny Manziel has agreed to resume his playing career with a startup league called Fan Controlled Football, where fans set rosters and call plays.
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Johnny Manziel has agreed to resume his playing career with a startup league called Fan Controlled Football, where fans set rosters and call plays.
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Chicago was left for dead after a six-game losing streak, but now it enters Week 17 with a good shot at the playoffs. An unlikely duo has sparked the turnaround.
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A couple weeks ago, the Rams looked like locks to make the playoffs. Now they’ve lost two games in a row, they’ve lost their starting quarterback to an injury, their top receiver is on the COVID-19 reserve list, and their leading rusher is on injured reserve. Rams coach Sean McVay says his team has to [more]
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Victor Oladipo says he wouldn’t change a thing about his continued recovery from knee surgery: “I don’t believe God would put me through this if I couldn’t handle it. … I’m actually thankful that I had to go through it, because I learned a lot about myself.”
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Nate Bjorkgren on the Pacers’ fourth-quarter struggles: “We had a very active third quarter. You can’t let your guard down for a second. … We just didn’t get a few bounces that we needed there in that fourth quarter, but it wasn’t due to lack of fight.”
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Does playing two-game series remind Justin Holiday of the playoffs? “I’m not going to lie to you, it’s more of a D League feel, because this happened a lot when I was in the D League. … THat’s what it reminds me of because it’s not postseason yet.”
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Domantas Sabonis on coming through with the go-ahead basket: “Coach trusts me with the ball in my hands on the last possession. It’s awesome having that feeling from Coach.”
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Matt Harmon and Dalton Del Don look back at a season of noteworthy stats and trends on the latest Fantasy Football Forecast!
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The Kansas City star, who helmed an epic comeback in the Super Bowl to end the Chiefs’ 50-year title hoodoo, continues to recalibrate our expectations of what’s possible. And he’s only 25To describe Patrick Mahomes as the best player at the most important position in America’s most popular sport, which he is, somehow feels like an undersell. From the moment he took over as the first-choice quarterback of the Kansas City Chiefs three years ago, Mahomes has turned the National Football League on its ear and laid waste to tired misconceptions about black passers with one record-breaking, dogma-defying performance after another. The whole piece continues to unfold with the dizzying illogic of a dream we’ve yet to wake up from.Occasionally, the Chiefs will finish a game with fewer points than their opponent. It’s become increasingly rare as their quarterback’s career has progressed – they’ve lost exactly once in 21 games over the past 416 days – but it does and can still happen. Yet Mahomes has never had a bad game as a professional. I mean take a look. He’s won 42 of his 51 career starts and put up 40, 51, 28, 31, 31, 13, 24, 32 and 32 points in the defeats. It’s hard to overstate how not normal this is. But the totality of Mahomes’ body of work has forced us to recalibrate our expectations of what’s possible on a football field.The closest thing to a bad day at the office we’ve seen from the Kansas City superstar came, fascinatingly, in the biggest game of his life. For more than three quarters in this year’s Super Bowl, he was harried, hassled and hounded by the San Francisco 49ers’ historically stingy defense. With the Chiefs trailing 20-10 and less than 12 minutes remaining, he threw behind his receiver on a crossing route for his second interception of the night. At that point, Mahomes had completed 18 of 29 passes for 172 yards and no touchdowns.But Kansas City’s defense forced the Niners to punt and Mahomes did as Mahomes does. He marshaled three straight touchdown drives in just over five minutes, swinging a double-digit deficit into a double-digit win and nailing down Kansas City’s first NFL championship since the Nixon administration. The only surprise was that we were surprised at all.But even that doesn’t fully communicate the transformative effect Mahomes has wrought, the extent to which he’s changed a notoriously stolid league for the better. It’s not just that he wins but the way he goes about it. Yes, the NFL has seen its share devil-may-care gunslingers in its 101-year history, from Sammy Baugh to Sonny Jurgensen to Dan Fouts to Brett Favre, but Mahomes’s ability to freelance and casual disregard for traditional mechanics, with no compromise in accuracy, is in a category of its own. He delivers the ball overhead, side-armed, (nearly) underhanded and even left-handed with the improvisational flair more typical of the sandlot than the NFL’s billion-dollar stadiums. Overcommit to the pass and he will beat you with his feet. There’s never been another quite like him.Next month Mahomes and the Chiefs will enter the playoffs as hot favorites to win back-to-back Super Bowl titles for the first time since the New England Patriots in the early aughts (and the first to accomplish it legally since the Denver Broncos back in the 90s). But with the standard he’s established in three short years, the outcome almost feels secondary. Mahomes has come to embody a certain boundlessness of possibility: there’s no limit to what may come with the next year, the next week, the next snap. When the dream’s this good, reality can wait.
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A 10-win team will miss the playoffs this season, and a team with a losing record will make the postseason. When the NFL expanded the playoffs from six to seven teams per conference this season, the fear is it would allow an inferior team into the postseason.
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Annie Sabo and Kevin Lynch break down the Minnesota Timberwolves’ 124-101 loss to the Los Angeles Clippers.
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Check out the best highlights from the Minnesota Timberwolves’ 124-101 loss to the Los Angeles Clippers.
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There have been only seven NBA gamedays so far this season, yet the league has already had 11 games where one team has led by at least 30 points.
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Dario Melendez and Steve Novak break down the Milwaukee Bucks’ 144-97 win over the Miami Heat.
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Check out the best highlights from the Milwaukee Bucks’ 144-97 win over the Miami Heat.
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Selton Miguel made a game-winning 3-pointer with 9.6 seconds left as Kansas State held off Omaha for a 60-58 victory on Tuesday night.
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Montez Mathis had a career-high 25 points and No. 14 Rutgers beat Purdue 81-76 on Tuesday night without leading scorer Ron Harper Jr.
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Iowa Hawkeyes guard Jordan Bohannon was 6-for-9 from deep and poured in 24 points in his team’s big 87-72 win over the Northwestern Wildcats on Tuesday night.
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Iowa Hawkeyes star center Luka Garza scored 18 points in his team’s 87-72 win over the Northwestern Wildcats, falling short of 20 points for the first time in conference play since last season.
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The Milwaukee Bucks dominated the Miami Heat 144-97 and made 29 3-pointers in the process, setting a single-game NBA record.
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The Boston Celtics regrouped after a rough third quarter and erased a 17-point deficit to defeat the Indiana Pacers 116-111 on Tuesday.
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Andre Drummond notched his fourth double-double for the Cavaliers (3-1) with 18 points, 17 rebounds and a season-high six blocked shots.
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Darius Garland, Collin Sexton and other Cavs players took the court following their loss to the Knicks to work on their shots.
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Jerami Grant led Detroit with 27 points
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Myles Turner says it was a personal goal of his to start strong defensively: “I’ve already proven that you can lead the league in blocks and not make All-Defensive Team and not be Defensive Player of the Year, so it’s time to do more and assert myself more on that end.”
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Montez Mathis went a perfect 5-for-5 from three-point land and racked up 25 total points, five rebounds and an assist as his Rutgers Scarlet Knights defeated the Purdue Boilermakers, 81-76.
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Senior Spotlight: Southwest High School soccer star Ramzi Ouro-Akondo
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Which duo was NXT’s Tag Team of the Year in 2020?
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Who will win NXT Future Star of the Year
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See the nominees for NXT Rivalry of the Year
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