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Blue Jays acquire Cy Young winner Shane Bieber from ClevelandThe Toronto Blue Jays acquired former American League Cy Young Award winner Shane Bieber from the Cleveland Guardians on Thursday.,Bieber has not pitched in an MLB game since April 2, 2024. He underwent Tommy John surgery after just two starts in 2024 and has been rehabbing since.,In return, Clevela...

Want to reduce college football Bowl opt-outs? Pay the playersThe bowl opt-outs are a letdown, but we all saw what happened to Jaylon Smith. During the 2016 Fiesta Bowl — which was not a playoff game — his leg was mangled. A projected top-five pick fell to the second round. Since then, many star players have made the intelligent business decision to not play i...

Stephen A. Smith reminds new co-host Shannon Sharpe that he's not Skip BaylessStephen A. Smith and Skip Bayless will forever be linked to each other because of their success on ESPN’s First Take. Even after seven years apart, the sports world still flashes back to when they made sports media debate shows the hottest ticket in the industry. Smith and Bayless are connected at t...

Sometimes basketball is as simple as having taller guys everywhere

I wouldn’t pretend to be a basketball expert. My colleague Stephen will be around later to do that stuff. I do know there are myriad ways of designing an offense and defense and how to guard pick-and-rolls and rotations and a bunch of other things that coaches play with throughout a playoff series. ...

Five players the Dallas Cowboys could select at No. 26 in the 2023 draft

Every Dallas Cowboys draft is an adventure, just trying to figure out which direction Jerry Jones will go with the team’s first-round pick. Over the past decade, Jones and company have placed more stock in the draft than in free agency. Contrary to popular belief, Jones, his son Stephen, and the tea...

Who's going to win Super Bowl 57 MVP?

As the lights are brightest, some step up and have truly unforgettable efforts. And some don’t, because they suck and that’s life. And one person from Super Bowl LVII will become the game’s MVP. The chances are high it’ll end up being one of the two starting quarterbacks in Patrick Mahomes and Jalen...

World Cup 2022 Preview — Group F: Old man take a look at my defense, I’m a lot like you

“BELGIUM’S LAST CHANCE!” You’ve heard or seen this already. They are Europe’s big waste of the last decade. There has been no bigger collection of talent than what Belgium has sported for the last four major tournaments, and a 3rd place in Russia is all they’ve had to show for it. Either this is whe...

We fixed the college conferences... you're welcome

The irony of all the bellyaching about constant player movement and the free market from the NCAA and its institutions is that they aren’t even loyal to their conference partners. Those same athletic programs get a buck dangled in front of them and dive into a national conference transfer portal of ...

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2022 NFL Draft: A few thoughts on each pick in the first round

The first 10 picks of the NFL Draft are the Oscars in reverse. The biggest honorees are rewarded first. Fans show up and shout insults at the host and bone-rattling contact with Roger Goodell is encouraged....

by DJ Dunson|NFL

|Fri Apr 29 2022

Jerry Jones dumps on son for yucks

I do appreciate that Jerry Jones will actually get in front of a microphone and talk to the people. It’s something that his brethren in NFL ownership refuse to do, and maybe if they did they would have the most valuable sports franchise in the entire world. Is Jones talking for the sake of transpare...

by Stephen Knox|Jerry Jones

|Wed Apr 27 2022

Kobe on Dwight Howard: 'This shit ain't gonna work'

Anybody who watched the late Kobe Bryant’s career knows he was all business and no-nonsense on the basketball court. So, it’s no surprise that the tandem of Bryant and Dwight Howard didn’t work out when the Lakers acquired the big man back in 2012. Current ESPN analyst and former NBA player Jalen Ro...

by Criss Partee|Dwight Howard

|Fri Feb 04 2022

4 prime reasons the Cowboys will disappoint fans — again! — this season

The Dallas Cowboys and Pittsburgh Steelers officially kicked off the 2021 NFL preseason in a game that featured the ’Boys doing what they have done well over the past 25 years… losing....

by Criss Partee|Elliott

|Tue Aug 10 2021

Stephen A. Smith won't be daunted by any of Bob Costas's comments:...

by Ēl Bunchö!|Stephen

|Tue Jun 18 2013

Stephen A. Smith's Big Night

As you might have heard, tonight is the premiere of Stephen A. Smith's new show "Quite Frankly". Those of us who might find the crazy-eyed screaming of Philadelphia's nicest columnist fear the show might be a wee bit, er, grating. But that's not the least of it. According to USA Today, in October...

by Leitch|Stephen

|Tue Jun 18 2013

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