Month: October 2024

data-mm-id=”_7sjl965th”>Last year, the Milwaukee Bucks went up 2-0 on the eventual champion Toronto Raptors in the Eastern Conference Finals. Then Kawhi Leonard happened and the Raptors won four straight games to advance to the conference finals. There was much ado about the role head coach Mike Budenholzer played in that failure. His defensive system (along with Giannis Antetokounmpo's ascension to MVP-levels of play) catapulted the Bucks from a low seed in a weak East to the best team in basketball by most statistical measures. But in the playoffs, Budenholzer didn't really change anything up, which led to his downfall. He didn't put Giannis on Leonard and neglected to play him 35-40 minutes a game, standard fare for superstar players in the postseason. A lot of other …

data-mm-id=”_qm09uwlz3″>The New England Patriots faced off against the Kansas City Chiefs as the first leg of a Monday Night Football double-header (but on CBS, not ESPN) last night. They did so without Cam Newton. They lost. That is not a surprise. What is a surprise is that the game was actually fairly close until the last 10 minutes. I'd call that a moral victory if one could be found in a loss. None of that was thanks to the efforts of Brian Hoyer. We all knew the quarterback play for the Patriots was not going to be great sans Newton, their best player. But everyone heard the standard veteran QB clichés going in, even from the Tony Romo-Jim Nantz broadcast team. He's been around a long time, he knows how to avoid making big mistakes, he knows this offense like the back …

data-mm-id=”_5zxc6wuma”>Dana White, the combative president of UFC, went on the offensive in the lead up to Conor McGregor-Dustin Poirier II, saying he was going to find and prosecute illegal streamers of the event to the fullest extent of the law. He actually even said had surveillance of the one individual's house, saying, "We got one. We got him. We're watching this guy right now. All you have to do is turn it [the stream] on Saturday, and we got you, f*cker. I can't wait." White's warning appears to have worked because, as White basked in last night, the streamer heeded his warning. I'll let White tell you the rest of the story. Dana White says he couldn’t bust the one illegal streamer he had his eye on because the streamer started selling legal…

data-mm-id=”_llt5sxuqb”>The NFL season is rapidly approaching and fans everywhere are trying to remain optimistic. That's harder to do for some franchises that find themselves in a tenuous spot. When things go wrong, the fall guy tends to be the person living in the head coach's office. With great power comes great responsibility. Here's a look at five coaches on the hot seat entering 2022.Find all NFL tickets at our trusted ticket partner TicketSmarter.com today.Matt RhuleRhule came in on a rocket from Temple, promising offensive expertise and brighter futures for the Carolina Panthers. That has not happened. The Sam Darnold Experiment has yielded precious little, and will perhaps be replaced by the Baker Mayfield Experiment. Rhule is 10-23 in his two years in Charlot…

data-mm-id=”_kfubj51ft”>Tucker Carlson left his home studio behind this weekend to do some high-profile appearances across America. On Friday he interviewed Mike Pence and five other Republican presidential candidates not named Donald Trump at the Family Leadership Summit in Iowa. On Saturday he gave a speech at Turning Point Conference in Florida. He addressed some of went on in his interview with Pence during his Saturday speech. He also laughed. A lot. A minute compilation of Tucker laughing during his speech today pic.twitter.com/scCfhOgb8B— Acyn (@Acyn) July 15, 2023There is just something jarring about Carlson's full strength laugh. Perhaps he tries to hide it when he does things like interview a chicken enthusiast or talks about Nicki MInaj's cousin's friend&#03…

data-mm-id=”_grw59s5cb”>The Green Bay Packers are out in Denver to play the Broncos and the Jordan Love-led offense has been slow out of the gate. They might had something going on an early drive when they faced a fourth-and-7 from the plus-46 but any chance to convert was thwarted before they could get an opportunity thanks to a false start call on center Josh Myers.His offense? Dropping it a bit too low and a bit too aggressively. This was called a false start in the Packers… #GBvsDEN pic.twitter.com/KtUwewpjNL— Rate the Refs App (@Rate_the_Refs) October 22, 2023Coach Matt LaFleur was hot about the five yard penalty, which prevented a potential free play and a deep shot. The broadcasting crew was equally flummoxed as such an action is fairly routine and he didn't move the b…

data-mm-id=”_wllarxcn1″>New York City Mayor Eric Adams may not be a "good mayor" in the traditional sense. Or have much of a constituency to lean on if he wishes to earn a second term. But he's great for content in the Rovellian sense of the word. He was on some morning show for PIX 11 on Monday where he was asked to describe the year in a singular word and explain why he chose that word.Adams settled on the word "New York" which is sort of weird but not the headlining weird here. Because his explanation was from another dimension. DAN MANNARINO: [Describe the year in one word & tell me why that word.]MAYOR ADAMS: "New York. This is a place where everyday you wake up you could experienceРђд a plane crashing into our Trade CenterРђд And that'…