Month: October 2024

data-mm-id=”_w6kmb8yiz”>Damian Lillard put his stamp on Game 1 of the Lakers-Blazers series by hitting a shot from 35 feet. It was a warning of what was to come as the superstar put his team on his back and fended off the title favorites for a victory. And that, friends, may have been the last positive coda on Portland's season. Because since then, all LeBron James & Co. have done is beat the living snot out of their inferior opponents and served notice to the rest of the world that any championship will run through purple-and-gold-lined streets. Los Angeles' Game 4 rout was immediate and efficient. It should have come with a parental guidance trigger warning as things were far more out of hand than the final 20-point margin suggests. As if the thorough ass-kicking wasn&#…

data-mm-id=”_fd79uiobc”>The NFL has now seen their first in-season positive COVID tests. Three Tennessee Titans players and five more team employees have tested positive and the league has shut down in-person activities. The Minnesota Vikings, who played the Titans on Sunday, have also paused in-person operations. The #Titans had three new player positives and five new personnel positives for COVID-19, sources tell me and @MikeGarafolo. Both Titans and Vikings, who hosted them Sunday, will suspend in person club activities starting today.— Tom Pelissero (@TomPelissero) September 29, 2020ESPN's Dianna Russini tweeted that the Titans would shut things down until Saturday. With a game scheduled on Sunday against the Steelers, you have to think the game will be in danger of being po…

data-mm-id=”_vau8uxo2l”>Deshaun Watson might want a trade. That's the rumor Mike Florio reported on Thursday morning. Via Pro Football Talk: “Rumors already are circulating, and we’ve already heard them from multiple different people, that Watson has quietly broached with teammates the possibility of requesting a trade.”This is obviously a long way away from Watson actually asking for a trade. But such rumblings are often the first step in a superstar's quest to get out of his current situation. Nobody would blame Watson, either. He led the NFL in passing this season but his team managed only four wins. Bill O'Brien's wild ride as GM has left the Texans without their first two picks this season and robbed Watson of his favorite receiver, DeAndre Hopkins. The team …

data-mm-id=”_ibriqhuax”>Through revolutionary foresight and an endless stable of creative innovators, SportsCenter transformed the way sports fans consume news, gather information, and made the world smaller. And while the highlights themselves have always been the lifeblood, the personalities delivering them serve as the heart to keep the life coursing through veins.Attempting to determine which of the hundreds of SportsCenter hosts have been the best is an impossible task. Viewers have differing tastes and mileage will vary. Despite these pitfalls, we gave it a try anyway.Longevity, star power, innovation, and a certain je ne sais quoi were weighed in the decision. Our apologies to the snubs. Remember that those who can’t do judge those who can.#15 Sage SteeleSteele and Kevin Negan…

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data-mm-id=”_iek61lr4j”>The 2023-24 NHL season kicked off this week and last night was the home opener for the Los Angeles Kings. They hosted the Colorado Avalanche and quickly found themselves on the ropes as the visiting side went up 3-1 by halfway through the second period. With nine minutes left in the frame, Kings rookie Alex Laferriere had the honor of getting into his team's first fight of the year, squaring up with Logan O'Conner after a roughing penalty sparked a scuffle between the two sides. Laferriere was drafted in 2020 but last night was his NHL debut and the cameras panned to his family as he fought for the first time on professional ice. They were going absolutely buck-wild. It was incredible. First time I've seen a family celebrate a guy fighting in his …

data-mm-id=”_8yosa3nce”>The Dallas Cowboys had an emphatic win over the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday night, 33-13. Seated at his locker after the game DeMarcus Lawrence gave the assembled press a very colorful quote about hitting someone in the face over and over. Early in the quote Lawrence used one of the seven words that you cannot say on television. Unfortunately, SportsCenter did in fact air the unedited version of Lawrence's quote on Monday morning. Whoops. That probably wasn't supposed to be in there pic.twitter.com/f3rCaepPeF— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) December 11, 2023The quote made it into a montage from the Eagles-Cowboys game on ESPN during the 7 a.m. hour. After it aired – and right before Get Up started – anchor Ryan Smith apologized while co-host K…