Month: October 2024

data-mm-id=”_ahrozgngi”>America is finally getting a closer look at the Tampa Bay Rays during the 2020 World Series, and what baseball fans are witnessing looks like nothing like the game they're used to. Tampa Bay does things differently and it often isn't pretty, but damn if it isn't effective. The Rays played to their script Wednesday night and turned in a winning performance. The unconventional American League champions topped the Los Angeles Dodgers 6-4 in Game 2 of the World Series and proved they can go toe-to-toe with their juggernaut of an opponent. The Rays won by playing their way, which includes an unconventional style of handling pitchers, fielders and an offense without any big names. Regardless of how crazy it may seem from the outside, the formula has bee…

data-mm-id=”_4oq5q0acw”>The Washington Football Team now has a new quarterback in the form of journeyman and cult hero Ryan Fitzpatrick. Fitzpatrick, also known as Fitzmagic or Fitztragic depending on the day, has spent the last few seasons enjoying the sun in South Beach with the Dolphins. The weather might be a bit (okay, a lot) worse in the DMV, but I'm sure the $10 million he'll be receiving to make the move makes that particular aspect easier to deal with. Fitzpatrick will also have the chance to start for a team that won its division last season. That, admittedly, is less impressive when the division in question was the NFC East and the Football Team won only six football games in that effort. Nevertheless! They gave the eventual champion Buccaneers all they could handl…

data-mm-id=”_ck2z9u72a”>No one is quite sure what's going on with Ohio State basketball this season but there's no beating around the bush, the Buckeyes flat-out stink. They lost at home to Penn State Thursday night and fell to 11-17 on the season and 3-14 in the Big Ten. As if that wasn't bad enough, the Buckeyes finished the game with one of the more embarrassing sequences we've seen in college basketball this season. After Penn State's Jalen Pickett made two free throws to extend the Nittany Lions' lead to 75-71 with 28 seconds remaining, Ohio State brought the ball up the floor looking for a bucket. Sean McNeil took it on the right wing, dribbled to the middle of the floor and fired a 3-pointer with roughly 21 seconds to go. He missed badly off the fr…

data-mm-id=”_d4tbi5pj7″>The New York Jets' season simply cannot begin soon enough because the coverage is a straight-up challenge, bordering on the absurd and it's going to be great to see how all of these lofty expectations and bold predictions hold up. This morning Get Up called our attention to Aaron Rodgers' Instagram stories, which yesterday featured a post about loving his wide receivers who wear No. 17. He tagged Davante Adams. He tagged Garrett Wilson. And if you hover your clicker over Rodgers' butt — if that's something you're into — you will discover he also tagged his former left tackle David Bakhtiari.It could be a rear end joke or it could mean something. Harry Douglas believes it's the latter. "He is not going to send…

data-mm-id=”_ky3qsxff4″>New York Jets head coach Robert Saleh is a big fan of defensive tackle Quinnen Williams, and hates that some are judging him by his sack numbers. When discussing Williams' value, Saleh claimed we live in a society where sack production is used to measure how good a defensive player is and that those numbers shouldn't actually matter. He's right. Here's what Saleh had to say:Coach Saleh on looking past just sack numbers with DT Quinnen Williams' 2023 season. pic.twitter.com/aS49oAAXSN— New York Jets (@nyjets) November 8, 2023Williams currently has 0.5 sacks this season, but Pro Football Focus gives him a grade of 90.0 for the campaign. The 25-year-old is arguably one of the NFL's five best players, which is why the Jets gave him a …

data-mm-id=”_l3vpzb787″>The Dallas Cowboys are currently getting hammered by the Green Bay Packers in the Wild Card round of the NFL playoffs. The Packers raced to a 27-0 lead before giving up a touchdown on the final play of the first half. But, here's the thing, it shouldn't have counted. Officials missed an obvious false start on the Cowboys that should have wiped it off the board. Packers coach Matt LaFleur spotted it and was furious. The Cowboys faced second-and-goal from Green Bay's one-yard line with six seconds left in the half. Before Dak Prescott snapped the ball, left guard Tyler Smith jumped. It wasn't called. Prescott was able to complete a short pass to tight end Jake Ferguson for the touchdown. Here's the play:The Cowboys score with no time left …

data-mm-id=”_ezs1jdkjn”>The Pac-12 Conference will consist of two teams in a matter of weeks. The "Beaver-Cougar Conference," "the Pacific Northwest Conference," or even the "Game of NCAA Musical Chairs Losers Conference" would represent a more accurate exercise in branding at this point.One Pac-12 slogan that is proving accurate, even as membership dissolves from 12 to 2: "Conference of Champions."While the Pac-12 never could figure out how to capitalize on marketing its plethora of Olympians present and future, the opening of the 2024 Paris Games on Friday serves as a reminder where the U.S. gets its best athletes. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Harlan Cohen (@harlancohen)The leading alma mater of all 2024 Olympi…

data-mm-id=”_zlswtieuh”>The Las Vegas Raiders and Los Angeles Chargers kick off their 2024 NFL seasons at SoFi Stadium this Sunday at 4:05 p.m. ET.Impact-Site-Verification: f017563b-1df8-4951-ac18-bfc8695eaa3dThe Raiders had a quiet preseason, going 0-2-1, and didn't give their starters much action. However, there's plenty of excitement surrounding the new additions to the team. The Raiders signed quarterback Gardner Minshew, and picked up Georgia tight Brock Bowers in the first round of the NFL draft, giving Minshew another big target to hit. After an 8-9 finish last season, Las Vegas is hungry to climb back into playoff contention.WATCH: Raiders vs Chargers Live for FreeOn the other side, the Chargers are looking to turn things around after a tough 5-12 season in 2023, whic…