data-mm-id=”_lybvxy4tb”>It was not so long ago that Melvin Ingram was considered one of the league's most feared pass rushers. Then injuries and age set in and Ingram's play fell off; he missed nearly all of 2020 and had no sacks in the games he did play. But in his last fully healthy season, Ingram registered seven sacks and 16 QB hits. He signed with the Pittsburgh Steelers this offseason on a one-year prove-it deal to show he still had something in the tank. Things haven't worked out, though. Ingram's playing time has slowly reduced over the last three weeks and he was only on the field for a quarter of the team's defensive snaps in their Week 6 loss to the Seattle Seahawks. Now Ingram is on the trade block, per Ian Rapoport: Steelers pass rusher Melvin Ingr…
data-mm-id=”_u5w4titxr”>How long is the Tour de France? Well, it's long. Approximately three weeks and 3,500 kilometers long. Featuring 21 stages over 23 days, it is the most prestigious cycling competition in the world and it's probably the only one anyone in America cares about. The race was first organized in 1903 and is the oldest of the Grand Tours. It was followed by the Giro d'Italia and Veulta a España, but neither of those were even deemed important enough for Lance Armstrong to cheat in enough to make their Wikipedia pages so you tell me how important they are. The worst way to get a feel for how long the Tour de France is would be to watch the HBO short film Tour de Pharamacy starring Andy Samberg, Orlando Bloom, Daveed Diggs and John Cena. The 41-minute mock…
data-mm-id=”_j7x99a3sh”>Tristian Thompson's stint at ESPN last season was very odd because usually when an athlete hits the studio sports show market, his playing days are done. Thompson joined ESPN in early 2023 and made appearances on NBA Today and First Take and all that. But then he got signed by the Los Angeles Lakers before the playoffs and even got some postseason minutes, leading to another deal with the Cleveland Cavaliers for this upcoming season. You almost never see that. In fact, Thompson joining ESPN at all came as a bit of a surprise. He fit the athlete-to-sports-media stereotype in some ways; he was an NBA champion and played with LeBron James. Both of those factors are appealing on their own and combined they mean Thompson is a more recognizable name to the genera…
data-mm-id=”_k4irrzedi”>Kadarius Toney is Public Enemy No. 1 today, with Kansas City Chiefs fans and neutral analysts alike ready to go at his throat for failing to line up properly against the Buffalo Bills. It's definitely a bit much, but Toney's penalty was a procedural error that all professional wideouts should get right with the game on the line. It doesn't help that Toney's screw-up took away an insane lateral for a go-ahead touchdown by Travis Kelce. Nor does it help that Patrick Mahomes and Andy Reid both loudly whined about it (by their standards) afterwards, putting Toney directly in the center of an entirely different battle between those who like the Chiefs and those who do not. Ryan Clark got in on the action during Get Up and sort of… lost his mind.…
data-mm-id=”_voqhy4bpv”>On Wednesday the quarterfinal round of Jeopardy!'s Tournament of Champions was held. It pitted several decorated former Jeopardy! contestants against one another in the first of several heavyweight bouts. Included in that group is Vermont native Jake DeArruda, who got a good laugh out of everybody during his introduction with Ken Jennings. DeArruda was asked how he spent his Jeopardy! winnings back when he won for the first time in January of 2023. He gave a fantastic answer that included a rogue shot at the New England Patriots, noting that he needed several packs of hard cider to get through the brutal season last fall. How TOC player Jake DeArruda spent his original Jeopardy winnings."Sports gambling, women and alcohol…"$20 on a CFB pick …
data-mm-id=”_blyk1owrr”>A little over a month ago my coworker Stephen Douglas penned a post on this here website comparing the drama between Barstool Sports employees to reality television and observed that Dave Portnoy's company has become very good at framing that drama as content. A standard workplace spat between two bloggers about who works on a Friday ends up getting widely aggregated, bringing clicks and eyeballs to the Barstool operation. The often-venomous nature of that drama can make it feel like the company is cannibalizing itself in order to feed the ever-hungry content machine. It is, if anything, an effective way to get attention in an extremely crowded media ecosystem. It now seems Barstool is taking that idea to its logical extreme with a content strategy that is…
data-mm-id=”_w07ntp818″>In addition to being defeated in overtime on Sunday Night Football when their defense completely fell apart during overtime, the Los Angeles Rams also lost rising star receiver Puka Nacua to a PCL sprain in his knee. Nacua, who records last season for most receptions (105) and receiving yards (1,486) by a rookie in NFL history, has been placed on the injured reserve list and will miss at least four games.Following Nacua, who caught 4-of-4 targets for 35 yards before getting hurt, suffering the PCL injury while making a catch during the second quarter of LA's 26-20 overtime loss to the Lions, his teammate Cooper Kupp went to work and finished with 14 catches for 110 yards and a touchdown on a league-high 21 targets.Considering the Rams have a bye in Week 6, …
Aston Villa head coach Unai Emery has agreed a new contract at the club until 2027, according to David Ornstein.
The 52-year-old left Villarreal to join the Premier League club in November 2022.
Unai Emery signs new Aston Villa contract
He has taken charge of 77 matches, 50 of which have come this season with the Villans in the semi-final of the Europa Conference League, where they will face Olympiacos.
They are the strong favourites to win that competition and are currently fourth in the Premier League, meaning Champions League qualification is very possible.
and Bayern Munich in recent weeks but it looks like he has no interest in joining the Bundesliga giants or replacing Jurgen Norbert Klopp.
According to The Athletic correspondent Ornstein…
Zinedine Zidane and Jude Bellingham have both recommended Man Utd winger Jadon Sancho to Real Madrid ahead of the summer transfer window, according to reports.
The England international came off the bench in the first three Premier League matches of the season before being dropped from Erik ten Hag s squad for .
Ten Hag insisted after the match that Sancho had been omitted because of his poor performance in training, which the Man Utd winger took to social media to deny.
Sancho posted that he had been made to be the scapegoat for the club s poor start to the campaign and was even reportedly banned from first-team facilities by Ten Hag.
The 24-year-old took his post down by refused to apologise to Ten Hag or his coaching staff and .
When asked abo…
Newcastle United’s Alexander Isak and Ajax’s Brian Brobbey are the two potential signings at the top of Mikel Arteta s list of Arsenal striker targets, according to reports.
The Gunners narrowly missed out on the Premier League title on Sunday with Manchester City winning their match against West Ham 3-1 and taking Arsenal s title fate out of their hands.
, thanks to a late Kai Havertz strike, but it wasn t enough as they finished two points adrift of champions Man City.
Despite their failure to win the title, the Gunners impressive improvement under Mikel Arteta over the last couple of years will make them an attractive proposition for players picking where to go in the summer transfer window.
that the club have now decided to step up their trans…