data-mm-id=”_vyv039z6z”>We are all trapped inside our homes for the foreseeable future. ESPN, a sports channel, is completely without sports for the same undetermined amount of time. Every day we're both scrambling to fill the hours. The time has come for ESPN to turn back the clock to a time when ratings where high, online poker was legal, and we somehow has a less problematic person in the White House. The time has come for ESPN to break out the World Series of Poker broadcasts that started the poker boom.Chris Moneymaker and ESPN's broadcast of the 2003 WSOP was America at i's most optimistic. A guy turned $39 into $2.5 million. This is inspiration we need right now. We need to be reminded that anything is possible, assuming anyone has $39 left when this is all over. …
data-mm-id=”_mqfepqrw7″>The game of quarterback musical chairs has slowed down since the frenetic pace of last week. Tom Brady went to the Bucs, Philip Rivers to the Colts, Nick Foles to the Bears and Teddy Bridgewater to the Panthers. Now, Jameis Winston is a free agent, and Cam Newton and Andy Dalton are probably available, either for a late-round draft pick or perhaps eventually outright release. As far as Winston goes, Adam Schefter doesn't see him being a starter "on paper" right now:Schefter doesn't envision the Chargers or Patriots — two teams who would appear on the outside to be quarterback needy; the Chargers have Tyrod Taylor while the Patriots have Jarrett Stidham and Brian Hoyer — as suitors for him. Therefore, he finds himself in a situation similar …
data-mm-id=”_deog59jt6″>Willie Mays finally broke through on May 28, 1951 and he did it in style, against a future Hall of Famer.A 20-year-old rookie center fielder, Mays was called up to the New York Giants in 1951 and went hitless in his first 12 at bats. It was not the start anyone had envisioned for his career after he tore up the minor leagues. But on May 28 everything changed. The Giants hosted the Boston Braves that day, and face Warren Spahn was on the hill for the visiting team. Mays got his chance early, as he was batting third and got to dig in with two outs in the first inning. Mays didn't just get a hit off Spahn, he blasted a home run over the left field roof at the Polo Grounds. A legend was born. Mays obviously found his footing in the big leagues after that. He w…
data-mm-id=”_drsz52ucy”>In what I would categorize as unexpected news, Amazon announced today it was partnering up with Bethesda Studios to make a television series based on the popular Fallout video game franchise. Here's the announcement trailer, which is modeled after the opening title sequence of the games. Two of the creators of Westworld will be working on the project. Amazon Studios announced a Fallout TV series, with Westworld creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy serving as producers.Please Stand By: https://t.co/mB6a15AYvA pic.twitter.com/AGwTqr5OxV— IGN (@IGN) July 2, 2020For those not in the know, the Fallout series is based in a future where the United States has been ravaged by nuclear disaster. The main character wakes up in a "vault," one of several hun…
data-mm-id=”_1rw9tbrun”>The MVP hype train left the station early for several elite NFL quarterbacks already. But while Russell Wilson, Patrick Mahomes, Lamar Jackson, Aaron Rodgers and Kyler Murray have all gotten the recognition they deserve for their outstanding play so far this season, there's another quarterback shining in relative obscurity who's earned, at least, a hype motorcade.It's time we discuss Josh Allen's MVP case, which is absurd considering we're only two games into the 2020 NFL season. But if other people on this site are going to do it for Wilson, I'm not going to miss the opportunity to jump on the Allen bandwagon. Not because he's been the best player in the NFL this year. In my opinion, you have to give that honor to Wilson as it…
data-mm-id=”_jviywvlot”>The Dolphins stunned the NFL community when they announced Tua Tagovailoa was taking over the starting job from Ryan Fitzpatrick this week after Fitzpatrick had played well and led Miami to two straight wins going into its bye. Now we know why. It's because the Dolphins are hedging their bet on Tagovailoa. According to Adam Schefter, one of the factors in starting Tagovailoa is the Dolphins want to evaluate whether he's good enough to lead the franchise moving forward or whether they should use one of their many draft picks on a quarterback in 2021. Here's more from Schefter. “The Dolphins need to know what they have in Tagovailoa as they enter the 2021 draft with two picks in each of the first two rounds, courtesy of their trade last year that se…
data-mm-id=”_g9yeci1ho”>When a company loses billions of dollars and continues to operate, it makes you wonder if money is even real to these people, ahem, corporations. I mean, if Verizon can just eat a few billion in losses and walk away smiling, what the hell does that mean for the rest of us? In a deal unsurprising for those who have been following Verizon's not-so-subtle desire to get out of the media game it entered full force just a few years ago, the internet company has reportedly sold the vast majority of its stake in Yahoo and AOL to Apollo Global Management, whatever the hell that company is, according to CNBC. The price paid by AGM (let's just call them that for fun) was reportedly $5 billion. Verizon bought AOL for $4.4 billion in 2015 and Yahoo for $4.5 billion…
data-mm-id=”_8w6fuhkd1″>Ja Morant was allegedly involved in another incident involving a high school kid, according to TMZ Sports. Back in September Morant, his baby daughter, parents and a group of adult males showed up at a high school gymnasium to confront a student who had a confrontation with Morant's sister. Police were called. Via TMZ Sports: According to the documents, most of the group — excluding Ja's father — went to confront the student in the stands at the game who had been quarreling with Ja's sister."Which one of ya'll called her a bitch?" Jamie Morant, Ja's mother, allegedly said.Cops say in the docs they told Jamie she "can not come upstairs and confront the students and they did not need to make a scene at the school." B…
data-mm-id=”_ahmi9ynmt”>The Texas Rangers have been in the middle of an epic collapse for weeks, though they had seemed to right the ship over the last few games. Unfortunately, a season riddled with bad luck took another blow on Wednesday. The Rangers announced that big trade deadline acquisition Max Scherzer would miss the rest of the season after straining his teres major muscle. It's unlikely Scherzer will return even if the Rangers make a deep playoff run. Right-hander Max Scherzer is expected to miss the remainder of the regular season with a strained teres major — a muscle that connects the scapula to the humerus. Scherzer is, Texas GM Chris Young told reporters, "unlikely" to pitch in the playoffs.Brutal news for the Rangers.— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) Septemb…
data-mm-id=”_rcp5xcnfe”>Toronto Blue Jays lefty Yusei Kikuchi left is start on Tuesday night with cramps, which isn't a great development for a team involved in a tight American League Wild Card chase. But fear not, dear fans, Kikuchi believes the cramps were a result of not getting enough sleep. You see, he only got 11 hours of sleep Monday night. Apparently that's not enough for the 32-year-old. Kikuchi claimed that he usually gets between 13 and 14 hours of sleep every night. He typically goes to bed around 11 p.m. and wakes up at 1 p.m. Yusei said he goes to bed around 11 p.m. usually and wakes up at 1 p.m. Anyway, all this means I’ll have to have a full 3000-word feature on Kikuchi’s sleep schedule at some point— Kaitlyn McGrath (@kaitlyncmcgrath) September 20, 202…