Ohio State had a chance to pad its record before its Los Angeles swing, but instead lost at home to Northwestern 70-49 on Thursday. The Buckeyes are now 15-12 and that record is not good enough to get in the NCAA Tournament. That LA trip is now of vital importance to Ohio State. The SEC … Read more
Ohio State had a chance to pad its record before its Los Angeles swing, but instead lost at home to Northwestern 70-49 on Thursday. The Buckeyes are now 15-12 and that record is not good enough to get in the NCAA Tournament. That LA trip is now of vital importance to Ohio State. The SEC … Read more
After five decades of clean-shaven faces, the New York Yankees are phasing out their longtime hair and grooming policy. Yankees owner Hal Steinbrenner announced Friday that the team’s infamous — and antiquated — facial hair policy will now leave room for “well-groomed beards.” The rule has been in place since the 1970s, when George Steinbrenner … Read more
Major League Soccer enters its 30th season as the biggest soccer league in the world. Not the best, nor the most popular; but, with 30 teams scattered coast to coast, across two countries and four time zones, it is vast. And its vastness, in many ways, is an emblem of success. MLS survived a rocky … Read more
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Welcome to the Thursday edition of the Pick Six newsletter! I hope you enjoyed this quiet week around the NFL because things could get chaotic as soon as next week. First of all, the NFL Scouting Combine will be starting with the first batch of players reporting to Indianapolis on Sunday, but don’t get too … Read more
The NFL offseason moves fast and furious, and we are quickly closing in on the first major event centered around player movement: free agency. The legal tampering period begins Monday, March 10 at noon ET, and the free agency signing period officially begins two days later on March 12 at the start of the new … Read more
While the page has quickly been turned to the 2025 offseason, we have some unfinished business to tend to regarding the 2024 NFL season. Now that all of the games have been played and a champion has been crowned, it’s time to assign grades for all 32 teams based on how they performed last year, … Read more
What does one do, how does one function when there’s no NFL football being played? Easy. Reading rankings from the season to see where your team stacks up against the rest of the league. It’s all we got right now. Well, that is, until the NFL Scouting Combine, free agency, and the draft in late … Read more
This would have been a different type of article last year. Let’s just begin by saying that. Then, writing a piece on the ten best teams left in the Champions League after the group stage could only have been subjective. That’s not entirely the case in the new format. There’s now a league table to … Read more