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• Alexander Ovechkin has almost caught Wayne Gretzky’s goal record, but one stat is mind blowing

Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images Ovechkin is about to break one of The Great One’s records, but there’s something else to keep in mind. Alexander Ovechkin’s pursuit of The Great One is approaching its final stage. Ovi needs just 22 goals to overtake Wayne Gretzky as the NHL’s all-time leading goal scorer with 895. Not only is Ovechkin on pace to break the record, he’s also trending to ...2025
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• Every NBA All-Star candidate in 2025, and the 24 players who should actually make team

Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images Here’s a big list of deserving NBA All-Star candidates, plus our picks for the players who should make the team. It feels like the NBA is stocked with more elite talent than ever before. That’s going to lead to a lot of hard feelings as it relates to the 2025 NBA All-Star Game. There are only 12 spots on the All-Star roster in the Eastern and Western Con...2025
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• Ravens vs. Bills will be a kaiju fight between two of the NFL’s scariest monster offenses

Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images These two teams are a lot a like. Now the slugfest begins. Normally, I spend this section talking about a specific matchup. What one side of the ball needs to do to the other, or something that I’m watching. However, this kaiju battle between two of the best offenses in football actually reminds me of a quote from one of the world’s greatest scribes, No...2025
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• How have the Buffalo Bills changed since Week 4?

Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images Both rosters are different from Week 4, so how have the Buffalo Bills changed since their previous meeting with the Ravens? The Baltimore Ravens blew out the Buffalo Bills in Week 4, excelling on both sides of the ball to shut down the Josh Allen-led offense as well as shred the suspect run defense of head coach Sean McDermott. But September was a long t...2025
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• Which version of the Royals bullpen will we see in 2025?

Lucas Erceg #60 of the Kansas City Royals pitches the ball against the Baltimore Orioles during the ninth inning of Game Two of the Wild Card Series at Oriole Park at Camden Yards on October 02, 2024 in Baltimore, Maryland. | Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images The good or the bad? You can contextualize why the Kansas City Royals made the playoffs last year in a few different ways. Most of...2025
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• Ravens vs Steelers Game Thread

Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images Wild Card Weekend continues with an AFC North clash Wild Card Weekend continues tonight when the Baltimore Ravens host the Pittsburgh Steelers in an AFC North rivalry game. Kickoff is scheduled for 8:00 pm EST. The 12-5 Baltimore Ravens come into this game riding a four game winning streak after losing three of their prior six games. The Ravens beat out ...2025
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• How have the Buffalo Bills changed since Week 4?
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• Which version of the Royals bullpen will we see in 2025?
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• Running back rankings for Wild Card Round fantasy football

Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images We rank out all the running backs playing in the Wild Card round as you prepare for playoff fantasy football. The 2025 NFL Playoffs are upon us! The Wild Card round gets underway on Saturday with the first of six games through Monday evening. 12 teams open the playoffs with the Chiefs and Lions getting a bye through the first round. The start of the play...2025
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• Ravens - Steelers: Ball security and starting fast among 5 keys to victory

Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images Mapping a out a blueprint to success in this AFC North playoff showdown. The Baltimore Ravens will open the postseason at home with a Wild Card round matchup with the Pittsburgh Steelers in the second double-header game on Saturday in primetime. They are favored to prevail by nearly double-digit points as they are going up against a team they just blew o...2025
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• Cowboys may learn how much run game improvements can help them improve in ‘25 in Week 18

Photo by Matthew Pearce/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The Cowboys season will come to a merciful end on Sunday afternoon. For all intents and purposes, the Dallas Cowboys are in offseason mode. It feels like an afterthought of all afterthoughts that this team must go through the motions of four more quarters on Sunday afternoon from AT&T Stadium against the Washington Commanders to offi...2025
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• Ravens defeat Browns; win back-to-back AFC North Division Title

Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images For the third time in franchise history, the Ravens have won back-to-back division titles For the ninth time in franchise history, the Baltimore Ravens have won the AFC North division after defeating the Cleveland Browns in Week 18, 35-10. Along with being their ninth division crown, it’s the third time in franchise history they’ve won back-to-back divis...2025
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• What has been your favorite Rams season under Sean McVay?

Photo by Brooke Sutton/Getty Images LA’s most winningest head coach has had a historic run during his time in Los Angeles but which stand out? Since 2017, Sean McVay has won the NFC West as many times as the rest of the division combined, making it’s hard to pick just one season during his time as head coach that stands out above the rest. After a drought of success spanning over a decade ...2025
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• Success of ex-Giants deepens misery for New York, and GM Joe Schoen

Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images Let’s assess the decisions on six players the Giants have lost since Schoen became GM With so many former New York Giants enjoying tremendous success this season with new teams it has become fashionable to wonder what might have been had the Giants been able to keep most, if not all, of those players. And to bash GM Joe Schoen for letting them go. Let’s ...2024
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• Updated NFC playoff picture: Detroit Lions face stiff competition

Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images An updated look at the NFC playoff picture, where no one is letting the Detroit Lions walk away with the top seed. The Detroit Lions eked out a win over the Chicago Bears to improve to 11-1—the best record in franchise history through 12 games. But despite their historic start, they are going through some adversity with the mounting injuries on defense....2024
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"Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images The Cowboys aren’t likely to change their entire ‘bread and butter’ on offense moving forward to be a read-option type team in their approach to running the ball, not after seeing Prescott suffer a season ending injury in year one of his new lucrative contract."

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"Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images The Ravens top tight end has returned to practice On Friday, tight end Mark Andrews returned to practice for the Baltimore Ravens."

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"| Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images Fowler has had a terrific bounce-back season in 2022-23."

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"Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images Yes, it’s happening."

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"Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images The game wasn’t much better than the pun."

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"Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images Dear athletes who have been affected by a cancelled season due to the Coronavirus Pandemic, The news of playoffs and seasons coming to a screeching halt caught everyone off guard this week."

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• Every NBA All-Star candidate in 2025, and the 24 players who should actually make team
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• Ravens vs. Bills will be a kaiju fight between two of the NFL’s scariest monster offenses
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• Which version of the Royals bullpen will we see in 2025?
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• Cowboys may learn how much run game improvements can help them improve in ‘25 in Week 18
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• What has been your favorite Rams season under Sean McVay?
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• Success of ex-Giants deepens misery for New York, and GM Joe Schoen
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• Updated NFC playoff picture: Detroit Lions face stiff competition
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• Cowboys vs Giants on Thanksgiving: Dallas is favored after weeks as underdog

Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images The Dallas Cowboys are Thanksgiving Day favorites The Dallas Cowboys got back in the win column with a surprising upset over the Washington Commanders. Surprising in the fact that Dallas won, and surprising in that it was one of the crazier games seen in a while. The fourth-quarter alone was worth the price of admission. The Cowboys were able to get the...2024
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• Dallas Cowboys win against Washington was their biggest as an underdog in over 14 years

Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images The Cowboys win was big on Sunday, but it was notable in that it came with them as a serious underdog. The Dallas Cowboys won on Sunday. You obviously, I would assume, know that. I’d also assume that you yourself assumed that the Cowboys had no chance at winning on the road against the Washington Commanders. Why would you have thought that they would, th...2024
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• Alexander Ovechkin has almost caught Wayne Gretzky’s goal record, but one stat is mind blowing
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• Ravens vs. Bills will be a kaiju fight between two of the NFL’s scariest monster offenses
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• Wild Card Weekend: Saturday playoff games

Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images We get two AFC playoff games today. Happy Postseason! The first matchup of Wild Card Weekend will feature the Los Angeles Chargers (11-6) on the road against the Houston Texans (10-7). The Chargers lead the all-time regular season series between these teams, 6-3, and have the most recent win, back in 2022, 34-24 in Houston. They’ve never faced each other...2025
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• Ravens - Steelers: Ball security and starting fast among 5 keys to victory
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• Cowboys may learn how much run game improvements can help them improve in ‘25 in Week 18
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• 1 sad stat perfectly sums up just how futile this Wizards season has been

Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images CJ McCollum is the latest NBA star to discover this season’s secret to getting 50: Play against the Wizards. CJ McCollum erupted for a career-high tying 50 points to lead the New Orleans Pelicans to their sixth win of the season against the Washington Wizards on Friday night. And while giving up half-a-Wilt to a player that had only scored more than 25 p...2025
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• What has been your favorite Rams season under Sean McVay?
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• Updated NFC playoff picture: Detroit Lions face stiff competition
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• Alexander Ovechkin has almost caught Wayne Gretzky’s goal record, but one stat is mind blowing
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• Success of ex-Giants deepens misery for New York, and GM Joe Schoen
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• The Linc - Deshaun Watson could not be playing worse ahead of the Eagles-Browns game

Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images Philadelphia Eagles news and links for 10/08/24. Let’s get to the Philadelphia Eagles links ... The Browns have to bench Deshaun Watson - SB NationIt’s coming to the point where the Browns’ offense is actively sinking with Watson at QB. Yes, the offensive line hasn’t played well due to injury, but it’s largely the same group that Stefanski and the Browns...2024
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• Dread it. Run from it. But it might be time to accept the season is over for the Browns

Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images Cleveland is a broken franchise with few avenues to improve over the season’s final 12 games. During his prime as Cleveland’s sports talk host from 1972 to 1987, Pete Franklin would reach a point during the sports season where he would hold an on-air funeral marking the end of one of the city’s sports team’s playoff hopes. These are most associated in th...2024
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• NFL free agency: Meet Browns new QB Tyler Huntley

Photo by Robin Alam/ISI Photos/Getty Images Cleveland’s quarterback room is very full The 2023 season for the Cleveland Browns could be called several monikers. The most obvious would be “The Year of the Quarterback.” After the season began very promising with Deshaun Watson hoping to play a full season, he was ruled out in a game-time decision of the Week 4 game against division foe Balti...2024
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• Taylor Swift’s real NFL screen time is so much lower than you think

Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images Taylor Swift’s NFL screen time is not a real problem. There is an unreasonably large group of people who have decided that cameras occasionally panning to the biggest pop star in the entire world for a few seconds during Kansas City Chiefs games equals Taylor Swift ruining not only NFL football, but the entire United States of America. Now, I could under...2024
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• Dallas Cowboys have company with teams crashing and burning on the way to the Super Bowl

Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images As it turns out reaching the Super Bowl is a really difficult thing to do. The Dallas Cowboys were humiliated in the playoffs. As a team, the Cowboys were overwhelmed in every single way and had no answer to any of the adversity that they faced. They lived up to every silly stereotype and opened themselves up to completely fair criticism as a result. We ...2024
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• NFL taunting needs to be celebrated, not penalized

Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images ‘Let the guys taunt’ The subject of taunting is back on the menu. On Sunday it was Zay Flowers’ turn, when the Ravens receiver was critically flagged in the second half for taunting Chiefs’ DB L’Jarius Sneed. And yes, to be 100 percent clear: This was absolutely taunting by the letter of the law. Agree with the taunting call? pic.twitter.com/StcuPKSoEe...2024
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• Travelers Championship: Rickie Fowler shows unreal moxy, posts historic 60 to climb into contention
CROMWELL, Conn. Rickie Fowler waves on the 14th green during the second round of the Travelers Championship at TPC River Highlands on June 23, 2023. | Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images Fowler has had a terrific bounce-back season in 2022-23. That was on full display Saturday at the Travelers Championship. Rickie Fowler’s third round at the Travelers Championship Saturday resembled his tr...2023
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• Smith and Ebden charge into Eastbourne semifinals
John-Patrick Smith and Matt Ebden have eliminated one of the world's top teams to reach the doubles semifinals…...2023
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• Petty Family Foundation making gift boxes for overseas soldiers
DAYTONA BEACH, FL - JULY 03: NASCAR Hall of Famer and team owner Richard Petty looks on during practice for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Coke Zero 400 at Daytona International Speedway on July 3, 2015 in Daytona Beach, Florida. (Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images) Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images Getty Images North AmericaThe Petty Family Foundation is taking care of our troops ... and you c...2015
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• 'Gobble 'til you wobble': NASCAR personalities celebrate joyous Thanksgiving
Danica Patrick and Ricky Stenhouse Jr. were among those who shared their Thanksgiving fun on Twitter. Patrick Smith Getty Images North AmericaNot surprisingly, members of the NASCAR community celebrated Thursday's Thanksgiving holiday in style.From drivers, to drivers' significant others, to FOX Sports TV personalities, check out some of the best "Turkey Day" tweets from around the NASCAR world. ...2015
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• The Cubs are signing Dansby Swanson for seven years and $177 million
Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images Yes, it’s happening. News item: BREAKING: Shortstop Dansby Swanson and the Chicago Cubs are finalizing an agreement on a contract, sources tell ESPN.— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) December 17, 2022 We entered this offseason hoping the Cubs would sign one of the four “big shortstops,” and now it has apparently happened. Swanson, of course, got married o...2022
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• Richard Petty's in-house speed shop offering bodacious Mustangs
NASCAR Hall of Famer and team owner Richard Petty is a car enthusiast. Patrick Smith Getty Images North AmericaRichard Petty isn't slowing down at all, despite being 78 years old. Known to all as simply "The King," Petty continues to lead the Richard Petty Motorsports NASCAR Sprint Cup Series team. And now the seven-time NASCAR champion is also working with Ford Motor Co. to create some bodacious...2015
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• John Carlson Scores Goal In Return to Lineup, Three Months to the Day of Serious Head Injury
Patrick Smith/Getty Images Washington Capitals defenseman John Carlson wasted no time making an impact in his return to the lineup against the Chicago Blackhawks, picking up his ninth goal of the 2022-23 season. The goal came in the third period … Continue reading →...2023
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• Capitals Hammer Blackhawks, 6-1; John Carlson Scores In Return; Alex Ovechkin Scores 41st Of The Season
Photo: Patrick Smith/NHL via Getty Images The Washington Capitals trounced the Chicago Blackhawks, 6-1 Thursday night at Capital One Arena in the District. The victory improves Washington’s record to 34-31-8 (76 points) on the season. The Capitals got goals from … Continue reading →...2023
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• Alexander Ovechkin has almost caught Wayne Gretzky’s goal record, but one stat is mind blowing
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• Ravens vs. Bills will be a kaiju fight between two of the NFL’s scariest monster offenses
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• How have the Buffalo Bills changed since Week 4?
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• Ravens vs. Steelers Wild Card Game Thread

Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images The Baltimore Ravens face the Pittsburgh Steelers in the Wild Card round of the 2024-25 NFL Playoffs The first round of the NFL playoffs have arrived and the Baltimore Ravens now host the Pittsburgh Steelers in the Wild Card round. Pre-Game Reads Rashod Bateman vs. Steelers CBs among critical matchups Ravens - Steelers: Putting together a Saturday nigh...2025
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• What has been your favorite Rams season under Sean McVay?
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• Jahan Dotson trade: Eagles acquire Commanders wide receiver

Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images The WR3 trade finally happened! After much speculation about the Philadelphia Eagles making a trade for a third wide receiver, Howie Roseman finally pulled the trigger ... in the form a rare in-division deal. The team officially announced the following exchange with their NFC East rival Washington Commanders on Thursday morning: EAGLES RECEIVE — Jahan Do...2024
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• Taylor Swift conspiracy: Did the NFL push to get the Chiefs in the Super Bowl?

Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images This year was the Taylor Swift bandwagon season When any television viewer would tune in for a Kansas City Chiefs game, several times a game the TV cameras would pan to pop star Taylor Swift in some secure luxury suite. Movie stars and music legends being shown on the TV screen are nothing new. Who hasn’t viewed Jack Nicholson for any home Los Angeles L...2024
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• Chiefs-Ravens rapid reaction: Kansas City is going back to the Super Bowl

Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images The Chiefs are once again winners of the Lamar Hunt Trophy. They are AFC champions. The Kansas City Chiefs defeated the Baltimore Ravens 17-10 in the AFC Championship on Sunday, clinching their fourth Super Bowl trip in five seasons. As the reigning champions, the Chiefs now have the opportunity to become the league’s first repeat champions since 2004. B...2024
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• 2023 NFL Power Rankings Wildcard Round: Ravens stay on top despite meaningless season finale loss

Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images The latest power rankings following their Week 18 defeat in a game in which they rested several starters. The vast majority of national pundits still view the Baltimore Ravens as the undisputed best team in the league even after they after they had their six-game winning streak snapped in a Week 18 loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers that saw several starter...2024
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• Ravens call all-black uniforms ‘sexy’ and ‘physical, death-row type defense’

Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images Well, this got a lot more traction than I originally anticipated. At the podium on Wednesday, I asked Head Coach John Harbaugh about the Ravens all-black uniforms for Thursday night against the Cincinnati Bengals. I try not to give too many off-topic/silly questions and waste time at the podium but it felt like a little bit of lighthearted fun would be n...2023
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• After another comeback win, the Eagles should not fear their upcoming schedule

Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images My prediction: the Eagles are going to be just fine. They did it again. On Sunday, against Ron Rivera’s inferior Washington Commanders squad, the Philadelphia Eagles allowed Sam Howell and his pedestrian comrades to run roughshod all over the field and pile up 31 points. The offense lost two fumbles inside the three-yard line, wiping an almost certain 14...2023
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• Week 8 power rankings: Lions slide—but not too far—after disaster in Baltimore

Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images Checking in on where the Detroit Lions stand in the national rankings after Week 8 of the NFL season. The Detroit Lions have slowly and steadily been on the rise in this year's national power rankings. Last week, after four consecutive wins of at least 14 points, the Lions ranked between No. 2 and No. 7 in all the rankings we track. Then in Week 8, Detr...2023
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• Phil Mickelson’s 2nd place finish at The Masters stunned everyone
Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images Vintage Phil Mickelson resurfaced at The Masters. Not many people expected vintage Phil Mickelson to show up at the 2023 Masters. Since leaving the PGA Tour for Saudi-funded LIV Golf last spring, Mickelson has been treated like an afterthought and a punchline. For a superstar player, who is one of the most accomplished competitors in golf history, it’s ...2023
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