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Dennis Young
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New Orleans-based writer and editor
A year and a month ago, Shakyla Hill pulled off one of the rarest stat lines in sports: a quadruple-double in…
Rob Gronkowski is hobbled and washed, and Patriots brass at least in part blames Alex Guerrero, Tom Brady’s…
Florida State has cut starting quarterback Deondre Francois after he was accused of domestic violence for the second…
Forty-four-year-old MMA veteran Cedric Marks was arrested last month in Michigan on burglary charges connected to…
The Warriors coaching staff has worked two All-Star Games in their run of dominating the league, and that apparently…
Bats invading the San Antonio Spurs’ home arena is such a common occurrence that “the Spurs’ mascot caught a bat in…
Throughout the 2016 campaign and well into his administration, Donald Trump has made a point of calling the modern…
The entire NBA needs a nap right now, and tensions must be especially high in LA with every player on the roster not…
The Patriots beat the Chiefs 37-31 in an overtime instant classic at Kansas City, clinching the AFC title and a…
Julian Edelman’s hands ruled the most consequential sequence so far in tonight’s AFC title game. First, down 17-14,…
It is absolutely rotten that the Saints’ season was ended at least in part by two blown pass interference calls,…
Look: the officials didn’t make Drew Brees throw a horrific interception in overtime, and they didn’t make Rams…
The Saints have been force-feeding the ball to their Tebowian backup quarterback Taysom Hill in crucial situations,…
You’re not hearing things—it does sound like a whistle is blowing before every Rams offensive play in today’s NFC…
MMQB senior editor Gary Gramling delivers the truly batshit take that Andy Reid—who lost four NFC championship games to mostly inferior teams in Philadelphia and then authored two of the worst meltdowns in NFL playoff history in Kansas City—is actually good in the playoffs. Specifically, “‘Andy Reid chokes in the… Read more
Dating back a few years, the NFL has put microchips in players’ pads to track their movements in games. Since the…
Thunder-Sixers has become an inordinately frisky inter-conference rivalry. Last season’s two matchups were marked by…