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Robert Frost once famously observed, “Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.” The “Big 3” of men’s tennis (Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic) – playing in what many consider to be the golden age of men’s tennis – have been poetically dominating the sport for decades, despite playing by the same rules as everyone else, with the net up and all. Do ...

It’s hard to believe the 2020 NFL season is just weeks away from concluding before the playoffs begin. But that is the case with week 14 in the books and it ended wildly on Monday night with a Baltimore victory over Cleveland in what turned out to be a crazy shootout. Some teams had impressive performances and others that took major steps backward. The rundown of all the resul ...

The Philadelphia Eagles rookie Quarterback Jalen Hurts saw his first action in replacement of a struggling Carson Wentz in week 13 against the Green Bay Packers. Discussion of Wentz being benched for Hurts has been the talk of the Eagles for weeks, Hurts was subbed in the 2nd half and gave Eagles life on offense. Driving down the field and nailing Wideout Greg Ward to close in ...

When the National Football League crowns its champion at this season’s Super Bowl it will end what will go down as the strangest, most controversial, disruptive, and bizarre seasons in the league’s history. All because of COVID-19. This season has been a mishmash of players being placed on IR due to a positive result for the virus as well as most stadiums either being empty wi ...

The NFL season is winding down with just four games to play. The Kansas City Chiefs are the only team to clinch a playoff spot. Division titles are still up for grabs and so are playoff spots. This last quarter of games will determine who gets to play at least one extra game and be a partner in the big dance while others will find out that they will be spending the playoff seas ...

This week members of the 1972 Miami Dolphins once again popped a bottle of champagne to celebrate the fact that another team challenging their historic undefeated season capped off by a Super Bowl victory remains untouched. That’s because The Washington Football Team upset the previously undefeated Pittsburgh Steelers at Heinz Field handing the Black and Gold their first loss o ...

Going into Sunday’s game, the 4-7 New York Giants faced the favorite 8-3 Seattle Seahawks at home. Giants’ starting Quarterback Daniel Jones suffered a knee injury in the Week 12 matchup against the Cincinnati Bengals. Ten-year veteran Quarterback Colt McCoy relieved Jones for the rest of the game, only taking %37 percent of the snaps. Holding off the Bengals, to close the game ...

There has been much conversation this year about how LeBron James is the greatest player in the history of the National Basketball Association. Most of the discussion centers around a comparison between “King James” and the great Michael Jordan. The debate rages almost daily but unfair to some of the other all-time greats is the fact they aren’t thrown into the mix. If you had ...

It took three reschedules to get the Baltimore Ravens and Pittsburgh Steelers on the field, but these two AFC rivals finally got the job done last Wednesday afternoon at Heinz Field. In a game that was originally scheduled for Thanksgiving night, because of Baltimore’s problems with COVID-19 the game was moved to a Sunday night matchup a few days later. After more positive tes ...

It’s that time of year! Thanksgiving and lots of football. This year we get three games again on Turkey day although it won’t have the same feel as in the past given the COVID-19 world we now find ourselves in. While there are many cities discouraging families from having large gatherings, there will be plenty of football watching. Once again there are some very important games ...