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• Friday Question: Which athlete do you hate the most?

Time to be a big old bunch of haters. In a perfect world there’d be no hate. I don’t know if John Lennon said that, or Elmo from Sesame Street. Obviously we all should aspire to hate less and love more, but when it comes to sports that’s not an option. Naturally there are athletes we just grow to hate with a red-hot passion. People who get our blood boiling every single time they set food on the f...2025
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• Friday Question: Which athlete left your team and broke you?

Photo by MLB via Getty Images Let’s process some feelings. The only thing more painful than seeing your team lose a championship is saying goodbye to your favorite athlete. Time comes for us all, but there’s something uniquely heartbreaking when it comes to seeing an athlete you love leave your team. It’s not just the player leaving, but the pain of unrealized potential. Oftentimes it’s sa...2025
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• Why we love the NFL Draft

Kirby Lee-Imagn Images Yes, the NFL Draft has become almost burdensome. But we still love it We get it. The NFL’s constant march into every corner of our lives almost feels intrusive. Games on almost every single day of the week. Games on Thanksgiving, on Christmas, on Friday nights, Saturday nights, and probably pretty soon, Tuesday mornings if the ratings are good enough. There is a week...2025
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• What’s your team’s biggest NFL Draft regret? These are ours.

Photo by Jason Miller/Getty Images Let’s talk NFL Draft busts. intro by james Cleveland Browns — ALLLLLLL of them The Browns draft history is pathetic, almost all of it. There are only a few first-rounders since “The Return” in 1999 that got second contracts, including Joe Thomas, Joe Haden and Myles Garrett. Cleveland fans have had the NFL draft as their Super Bowl for years and, year aft...2025
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• You tell us: Who are you most afraid of in the NFL Draft?

Photo by Bryan Lynn/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images These are the playoffs we don’t want our teams to pick. We’re less than two weeks from the first round of the NFL Draft with rumors flying left and right. Some of the biggest, boldest decisions in war rooms are being made now — with strong convictions from scouts and executives worming their way into the process. This 2025 class doesn’t ...2025
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• Lions Mock Draft Roundup 10.0: Offensive line options increasing

Photo by Matthew Visinsky/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Taking a closer look at the prospects from the 2025 NFL Draft that have been projected to the Detroit Lions over the past week. We’re less than three weeks away from the NFL Draft and things still seem very wide open for the Detroit Lions. Most analysts have narrowed the Lions projected targets down to only a handful of positions, ...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for March 19, 2025

Photo by Aryanna Frank/MLB Photos via Getty Images MLB.com examines one player in each camp that is making the biggest impression, with pitcher Daniel Lynch IV representing the Kansas City Royals. There aren’t too many roster battles for the Royals this camp, but Lynch has made the biggest one — the fifth starter battle — at least an interesting conversation. His spring ERA jumped to 3.21 ...2025
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• Our favorite fictional athletes, from Lightning McQueen to Rocky Balboa

Photo by Jed Jacobsohn/Getty Images SB Nation’s favorite fictional athletes The blooming partnership between Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce over the past two NFL seasons has meant many things. Not only did that relationship open the door for the legion of Swifties to learn about the NFL — as our intrepid James Dator learned when he joined their Discord server early in the relationship — but...2025
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• Watching sports is harder and more expensive than ever

Photo by Luke Hales/Getty Images It feels harder and more expensive than ever to watch sports these day There have never been more ways to consume content — and it’s never been more annoying to be a sports fan. Now we could be reaching the breaking point where the frustration of trying to watch sports is passing the desire to actually enjoy them. A new report shows that several NBA teams h...2025
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• 30 players most likely to be moved at the NBA trade deadline

Photo by Justin Casterline/Getty Images Let’s jump around the league to find the players most likely to get relocated at the 2025 NBA trade deadline. In a now-annual tradition at SB Nation, we are scouring through the internet’s endless supply of NBA trade rumors and asking around our NBA team site network to ask our local experts (alongside some national analysis from yours truly) to see ...2025
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• How do the Vikings handle Sam Darnold’s free agency after dream season?

Photo by Brooke Sutton/Getty Images Sam Darnold’s dream season ended in a nightmare. Should the Vikings extend him? A dream season for the Minnesota Vikings ended brutally on Monday night, as Minnesota lost to the Los Angeles Rams 27-9. Despite winning 14 games in the regular season, Sam Darnold and the Vikings will be watching the Divisional Round from the couch along with the rest of us....2025
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• F1 Court: Was Liam Lawson the right pick for Red Bull?

In the first-ever ‘F1 Court’ SB Nation asked whether Red Bull was right to pick Liam Lawson As someone who takes a bit of pride in describing themselves as a “reformed lawyer,” I must admit that I have more than a soft spot for the military courtroom thriller A Few Good Men. There is a scene in that movie where Tom Cruise makes an appearance at an initial hearing and after it is adjourned he pause...2024
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• Juan Soto’s contract surpasses LeBron and Tom Brady’s combined career earnings, and 6 other wild facts

Photo by Alex Slitz/Getty Images Juan Soto’s massive new contract with the Mets, in perspective. Sunday night the news the baseball world was waiting for finally broke. Juan Soto had agreed to a market-shattering ten-year deal with the New York Mets, for $765 million. While the top-line number exceeds what the Los Angeles Dodgers signed Shohei Ohtani for last year (Ohtani’s contract hit t...2024
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• How to spend $20 at The Masters’ legendary concession stands
The cheapest food in sports is back, and remains incredible. The Masters is all about tradition, pageantry, and one of the most iconic settings in all of sports. If there’s anything more beautiful than the rolling hills of Augusta it’s the concessions menu — which remains the greatest triumph in American sports. Seriously, just look at this thing. Huge shoutout to The Masters for continuously be...2023
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• Travis Hunter’s NFL position is the great draft debate. Do you think he’s a CB, WR, or both?

Photo by Todd Rosenberg/Getty Images Let’s fight about Travis Hunter’s best position in the NFL What position will Travis Hunter Jr. play at the next level? It’s one of the most fascinating questions in the 2025 NFL Draft class, which is right around the corner. The two-way standout shined as both a wide receiver and a cornerback during his collegiate days, securing Heisman Trophy honors a...2025
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• What the Russell Wilson signing means for New York Giants in 2025 NFL Draft

Kara Durrette/Getty Images Does signing Russell Wilson change the calculus for the Giants in the 2025 NFL Draft? Russell Wilson is riding to the Big Apple. Late in the afternoon on Tuesday word broke that the veteran quarterback was putting pen to paper on a one-year deal with the New York Giants worth up to $21 million, with $10.5 million fully guaranteed. Wilson, coming off one season wi...2025
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• 6 sports group chats we’d love to be added to on accident

Photo by Layne Murdoch/NBAE via Getty Images These are the sports group chats we’d love to be added to. If you have been near a computer or looked at your phone in the past 24 hours, odds are you have seen the story about several Trump Administration figures discussing plans for an upcoming military action in a group chat on Signal, the messaging app. However, one of the individuals added ...2025
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• John Cena finally turned heel in WWE, but will it work?

Fans waited years, but will they get everything they wanted? It finally happened. John Cena has become a heel. After spending the vast majority of his 24-year wrestling career as the symbolic and literal “face” of WWE, Cena shocked the world during Elimination Chamber on Saturday night by siding with The Rock and beating down champion Cody Rhodes to cement himself as the bad guy entering Wrestlema...2025
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• Is Eli Manning a Hall of Famer?

Photo by Perry Knotts/Getty Images We debate whether or not Eli Manning belongs in Canton this soon. The inductees into the 2024 Pro Football Hall of Fame will be announced on Thursday with one of the most contentious first-ballot nominees in recent history. This will be Eli Manning’s first chance to be enshrined, and the expectation is that he will likely get in. Does Manning deserve this...2025
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• The best and worst Christmas songs of all-time

Photo by John McCreary/NHLI via Getty Images Let’s talk about Christmas songs The 2024 NFL season is entering the stretch run. College football just completed the first round of the inaugural 12-team College Football Playoff. Women’s volleyball is coming off an incredible Final Four that not only saw Penn State reverse sweep Nebraska in the semifinals but then go on to win the title. NBA a...2024
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• Super Bowl halftime show predictions for 2026, including Post Malone, Bad Bunny, and more

Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Live Nation Who is going to headline the 2026 Super Bowl halftime show? Here’s are our predictions. With Super Bowl LIX behind us, it is time to start looking ahead to Super Bowl LX. Yes, the participants in that game might be predetermined (if you believe in the Super Bowl Logo Conspiracy, in which case James Dator has you covered here) but what about...2025
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• Lewis Hamilton’s stunning Ferrari F1 announcement, revisited a year later

One year ago Lewis Hamilton stunned the sports world The staff at SB Nation is a tremendous mix of individuals, including morning people — of which I am sadly becoming one in my later years — and night owls. With staff members living in various parts of the United States, as well as all over the world, chances are at least one of us is up at a certain hour keeping tabs on the sports world. Scrolli...2025
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• Chinese Students Make Giant Kobe Bryant Mural in the Snow
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• Zach Wilson’s reluctance to play is making Jets QB situation even weirder

Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images Zach Wilson told the Jets ‘nah, I’m good’ about starting again An upgrade at quarterback was supposed to make the New York Jets a darkhorse Super Bowl contender out of the AFC entering the season. Instead, Aaron Rodgers’ torn Achilles suffered on the first drive of Week 1 has sent New York down a sick and twisted path of QB play that somehow only keeps get...2023
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• 2023 NFL Draft grades: Detroit Lions declared massive Day 2 winners
Photo by David Eulitt/Getty Images After receiving a ton of criticism on Day 1, the Detroit Lions blew NFL Draft analysts out of the water for their Day 2 picks. After raising a lot of questions and concerns with their Day 1 selections, the Detroit Lions bounced back in an extremely aggressive way on Day 2. While the national media was not a fan of the first-round selections of running bac...2023
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• The women’s Final Four is loaded with star players and tantalizing storylines
Photo by Steph Chambers/Getty Images Caitlin Clark, undefeated South Carolina, and so much starpower highlight the women’s Final Four The women’s Final Four is set. And fans can expect two incredible matchups in Dallas. Four of the top ten teams in the final Associated Press poll are represented, and the four teams headed to Dallas all placed inside the top ten in the final NET rankings. ...2023
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• Could you gain 5 yards in the NFL for $10 million?

Our ragtag band of misfits weighs in on one of social media’s dumbest questions. I regret to inform you that once again people are arguing whether or not they could gain yards in an NFL game. This argument has taken many forms over the years, adjusting the distance needed or monetary prize — then the internet argues why they think they could actually step foot on a professional football field with...2023
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• Is Bryce Young a bust?

Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images Debating Bryce Young’s NFL future with Carolina Panthers. The Carolina Panthers might have only had one game they could win left on their schedule, and they squandered it. On Thursday Night Football the absolute inability of Carolina was on full display in front of a national audience as the Bears managed to take out the trash. Bryce Young is a tiny lig...2023
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• Justin Fields was supposed to be Bears great hope. Is he already a bust?

Photo by Julio Aguilar/Getty Images Football Court is in session to debate the future of the Bears’ QB. Football Court is our series where we debate some of football’s biggest questions, but using facts instead of hot takes. Today on the football court docket: Case number 23-JF-08523 “Will Justin Fields ever be a good NFL QB” The Bears had an ugly start to the season as they got blown ou...2023
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• We did a Halloween candy draft and someone picked Candy Corn

Photo by Michal Fludra/NurPhoto via Getty Images How does anyone pick candy corn? Halloween is upon us and it’s a holiday everyone can enjoy without too much angst or argument. SO LET’S ADD ANGST AND ARGUMENT TO THIS THING! It’s time once again for our Halloween candy draft, a yearly tradition where we compete over selecting the best candy draft classes, argue over our decisions, and agre...2024
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• Football Court: Should NFL players be allowed to gamble?
Photo By Javier Vazquez/Europa Press via Getty Images Gambling is a big part of football, but should players participate? Everyone rise. The honorable Judge JP Acosta presiding in Football Court case No. 5621-07, “Should NFL players be allowed to gamble during the season?” Representing the affirmative —Yes, players should be allowed to gamble: Representing the negative — No, players sho...2023
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• 7 strangest things in NFL’s Halloween graphic

The NFL put together a Halloween cartoon, but we have some questions Happy Halloween, everyone. It’s that one magical night where kids dress up like ghouls and ghosts, adults find a way to make Patrick from Spongebob sexy, and everyone on the internet is trying to make special graphics for the spookiest night of the year. The NFL decided to imagine the league as children, complete with appropriate...2024
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• Texas State Fair food we’d try before Texas-Oklahoma Red River Shootout

Matthew Emmons-Imagn Images Hope you’re feeling hungry ... The Red River Rivalry is back, as this weekend No. 1 Texas will square off with No. 18 Oklahoma in one of the weekend’s most fascinating games on the college football slate. However, the real battle at Red River this week might not take place on the field, but at the State Fair of Texas itself, as attendees will tackle some of the...2024
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• Why did the Miami Dolphins lose their 2024 NFL Draft third-round pick?

Sam Navarro-USA TODAY Sports The Miami Dolphins forfeited their third-round pick in the 2024 NFL Draft, but why? The Miami Dolphins won’t start the 2024 NFL Draft’s second day with a third-round selection. If they want two Day 2 picks, they’re going to need to trade up. They didn’t use the pick as part of an earlier trade, though. It was ripped away for bad behavior. The Dolphins lost the...2024
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• March Madness’ top-50 players in 2024 men’s NCAA tournament, ranked

Let’s rank the 50 best players in the 2024 men’s NCAA tournament. March Madness feels like the culmination of a lifelong journey for so many of the athletes who have dedicated their lives to the game of basketball. Fans don’t don’t see the long hours in the gym spent honing their skills and their bodies, but when the NCAA tournament comes around, suddenly the whole country is invested in the outco...2024
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• 2024 F1 season preview: Team previews, testing recaps, questions that will dominate the season, and predictions

Will the 2024 F1 season surprise, or be more of the same? Formula 1 is back. But in many ways, it seems nothing has changed. For the first time in the history of the sport, the exact same driver lineup that finished the 2023 season will take to the grid to start the 2024 campaign. Instead of a “silly season” filled with driver movement, all 20 drivers are back in the same seat to begin this year. ...2024
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• Are the Dallas Cowboys making a mistake bringing back Mike McCarthy?

Photo by Cooper Neill/Getty Images There is only one way to determine an answer: Football Court On Wednesday evening the Dallas Cowboys announced that Mike McCarthy, fresh off a stunning loss to the Green Bay Packers, would be back as the head coach for the 2024 season. The move came as a surprise. After all, this was the third-straight season for Dallas that ended with a shocking loss in...2024
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• Dak Prescott proved he’s a legit MVP candidate in Cowboys-Seahawks

Photo by Michael Owens/Getty Images The Dallas QB is “the one writing” and he wrote a lot Thursday night There is a common joke format that is still flourishes on Twitter/X. “[So and so] read the tweets.” Usually it comes when an athlete, after performing poorly earlier in a game — and getting trashed for it online — comes through in a clutch. That’s when a stream of tweets hit the timelin...2023
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