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Florida Panthers Need To Contain Connor McDavid To Win Stanley Cup Finals
The Florida Panthers need to stop Connor McDavid in order to finish this series against the Edmonton Oilers....
NHL Stanley Cup Final Isn’t Over For Edmonton Oilers: Or Is It?
The Edmonton Oilers are desperately trying to crawl back in the Staley Cup Final. Can they do it? ...

The Florida Panthers are getting started early this year
Cat Scratch Fever has shifted up the calendar a couple months this time around. Last year, the Florida Panthers spent the first half of the season looking for a signal on their phone before closing the second half with a flourish to make the playoffs. That carried over into the postseason as they ch...

This week in the NHL February 24, 2024
Sebastian Aho scored with 18.9 seconds to play and Pyotr Kochetkov stopped 44 shots as the Carolina Hurricanes outlasted the visiting Florida Panthers to win 1-0 on Thursday night in a showdown between two of the Eastern Conference's best teams in Raleigh, N.C. - Field Level Media Read More...

This week in the NFL, NCAA: A Black vs. white game?; Aaron Rodgers fooling no one; Chargers coaching intrigue; time to talk MVP Award
The Week 15 finale on Monday Night Football has the biggest NFC playoff ramifications of any game on the slate. The Philadelphia Eagles travel to Seattle to face the Seahawks in a game neither can afford to lose this late in the season. It’s pretty apropos of these teams closing out Week 15, seeing ...

Faux conservative blames Donald Trump support on UFC loss
Colby Covington said his support of former President Donald Trump is what swayed judges to award Leon Edwards the decision in the pair’s UFC 296 welterweight title fight last weekend. ...

If Florida State leaves the ACC, where does it go?
Updated Dec. 21: Florida State University’s Board of Trustees will meet Friday, with the Seminoles’ conference affiliation as the meeting’s central focus. According to a report from Yahoo Sports, the school may seek a declaratory judgment action in an attempt to argue that it is not bound to its con...

Why don't Florida politicians have the same energy for FAMU’s national title as they do for FSU’s snub?
A social media post is one thing. The launching of an investigation is another. Florida A&M University received the former from Florida politicians after winning a college football national championship. Florida State University got the latter. ...

Jordan Travis' injury did play a role in FSU's CFP snub
We didn’t believe that Florida State was worthy of the college football playoffs without starting quarterback Jordan Travis — and it appears the CFP committee also agreed with that sentiment....

Florida officials aren't gonna let the FSU playoff snub go
The Florida State playoff snub saga continues. ...

If you're trying to reach the College Football Playoff committee...
The wrath of Florida State football fans continues to be felt after being snubbed by the College Football Playoff Committee for a shot at the National Title. ...

How did Ron DeSantis get to be so weird?
If you thought Ron DeSantis stumbling around debate stages in what looked like a pair of high heels, attempting and failing to resemble a human being when he smiles, and being hyper-focused on other people’s genitals is weird, wait until you find out how DeSantis wants to spend a million dollars of ...

Florida State should boycott the Orange Bowl
If they’re going to shut you out, then don’t show up....

This year’s College Football Playoff controversy is the sport at its best
Amidst all the outrage and taunting on Sunday, I hope everyone took the time to enjoy the rush. A reminder about college sports: the athletes are not as good as the pros. The game is not nearly as polished. What makes up for the majority of participants having no chance at becoming well-paid profess...

Tampa Bay Rays fans have plenty of reasons to take a WFH day — even during the playoffs
Call it an all-around epic fail. ...

LeBron James, wife and 2 associates named in federal PED investigation
There hasn’t been a performance-enhancing drugs scandal in basketball. At least, not to the level of, say, the likes of BALCO and Major League Baseball. As close as we came was when the NBA started testing players for HGH before the beginning of the 2015-16 season. The trendy thing to do online at t...

Conference realignment, NIL deals, and the end of loyalty in college sports
The recently prophesied collapse of college athletics is being attributed to the transfer portal, and name, image, and likeness deals. The chaos caused by player movement and an unregulated free market has caught the eye of politicians, quick to offer assistance with a handout for universities that ...

Choosing Orlando for the Pro Bowl exemplifies the NFL’s wishy-washy stance on racial, social issues
There’s nothing more infuriating than a fake ally. And no one is a better model of that than the NFL....

Donald Trump taking away Miami's spotlight like OJ's Bronco chase
June is typically the unofficial end of the sports calendar and a month-long sporting season finale. Once the calendar flips to late July, MLB’s All-Star festivities, intermittent tennis Grand Slams, and international football competitions are the major scheduled events to keep us going until the NF...

The Florida Panthers get their sharp ends back
Most want to attribute some kind of special potion or Cornwallis-like strategy cooked up by coach Paul Maurice and GM Bill Zito to explain the Florida Panthers’ success. After all, there has to be something mystical that got the lowest-seeded team to the Stanley Cup Final. But it isn’t that hard. Ma...