Новости за 17.10.2023

Boxing seems to be at it again, testing the waters and gauging fan interest in another special attraction super fight. This time, the participants are Canelo Alvarez and Conor McGregor. Combat sport site Roots of Combat posted a clip of a young Canelo in the ring with Floyd Mayweather Jr., with the word “masterclass”…

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Milwaukee Bucks superstar Giannis Antetokounmpo is already feeling good, looking like he’s in midseason form, and the regular season hasn’t even begun. Antetokounmpo and his new running mate, Damian Lillard, look like a well-oiled machine ready to wreak havoc on the NBA. Giannis is feeling so good about it that he…

The Atlanta Falcons took a calculated zag in the 2023 NFL Draft, and a lot of people co-signed with the decision to take Bijan Robinson. His measurables, skill set, pedigree, and school indicated Art Smith was getting a can’t-miss star, perfect for his creative running schemes.

The first two games of the American League Championship Series played out as if Major League Baseball’s scriptwriters wanted to show how far the Rangers could bend without breaking, twice. Texas’ bullpen was the team’s biggest red flag by a mile heading into the postseason and its offense didn’t drive in a run after…

There was a time when the Red Sox GM job was one of the most glittering in all of sports. Before Theo Epstein, it was the seat that gave any candidate a chance to have their name live forever and end the championship drought in Boston. After Epstein, it was the chance to work for one of the more forward-thinking…

Zach Wilson isn’t old enough to know this, but the general manager who drafted him knew the fictional Shane Falco. During an early scene in The Replacements where Falco reports to training camp, striking players confront him in the parking lot. Douglas is one of the meatheads who flips Falco’s truck. I hope he…

It is very NHL, and specifically very Toronto Maple Leafs, to make a big deal out of changing their goal song for the season, and then having to change it after one game. The lesson, kids, is that you never cross Hall & Oates. The Greeks knew it, the Carthaginians knew it, and now the Six knows it. It’s also very…

Sports is politics. Don’t ever let anyone tell you otherwise. Whether it’s racism, sexism, homophobia, or transphobia… it all plays out on our screens during professional and amateur sporting events. Billie Jean King took on the wage gap back in 1973, when she was paid just $10,000 (compared to $25,000 for the men) at…

Brooklyn Nets point guard Ben Simmons recently discovered what it’s like to come face-to-face with himself. While interacting with a group of fans before Monday night’s preseason game at Barclays Center, Simmons met a young fan with a tattoo of Ben’s face on his chest. Even Simmons was a bit shocked at the piece…

Hi, Helen, let me tell you why the Eastern Conference sucks as a basketball league. Let’s say some team goes into the season, and let’s say they’re even remotely capable of winning something. Well, then they get all excited like Jojo the idiot circus boy with a pretty new pet. The pet is a possible title. Oh, my…

As the NBA expands under the epoch of spacing and volume three-point shooting, general managers across the league scramble to draft, sign, and trade as many three-point shooters who can also play switchable defense and handle the rock. But something funny has happened along the way. While the 2000s saw a top-heavy…

Derek Jeter hired Kim Ng. Derek Jeter left. Ng is gone now, too. This isn’t about the Miami Marlins having a dysfunctional front office. It’s an example of how one historic minority employee’s time with an organization came to an end after a successful season — and less than two years after the minority employee, with…

NFL football had to come back to Los Angeles. Way too much money was left on the table with no NFL team in America’s second-largest television market. For 20 years the only NFL football in California was in San Diego and the Bay Area. The league moved the Rams back to Los Angeles in 2016 and the Chargers the following…

Here’s where not to put your first fastball of the game in front of a ravenous Philly crowd that’s looking for any excuse to turn the place into a cauldron:

A great team is only as strong as its weakest link. At least that’s the consensus among every motivational coach I’ve ever heard. But for the sake of this space, it’s true for NBA contenders as well. I’ll examine the weak spots in some of the most iron-clad lineups in the NBA entering the 2023 season from…

The Todd Monken era was supposed to be the dawn of a new day for the Baltimore Ravens’ offense. Under Monken’s tutelage, Jameis Winston was making big plays even though he was not consistent, and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers weren’t winning games. At Georgia, he turned Stetson Bennett into a 4,000-yard passer. With 2019…