data-mm-id=”_zfdmkjpiv”>Buck up Chase Young, you might not have to stay in Ohio after all. Not that Ohio is a bad state. More like the Bengals are a bad organization, one a potentially-transcendent player like Young needs no part of. Want further proof? Check out the quarterback turmoil they're currently embroiled in. In Week 10, the Bengals benched veteran Andy Dalton as their starting quarterback in favor of rookie Ryan Finley. That move didn't make sense at the time, because Dalton was clearly not the issue in Cincinnati. Now, just three weeks later, they're going back to Dalton, which is slightly awkward considering the veteran asked to be traded after being benched. Now he's being thrown back into the fire to replace a rookie who never should have been starting…

data-mm-id=”_ntphp06wo”>NBA basketball returned this weekend after their regularly scheduled short hiatus following the All-Star game. Sunday afternoon featured a marquee matchup between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Boston Celtics. The Lakers won a tight game despite a 41-point effort from Jayson Tatum, fresh off his first All-Star selection. Tatum looked unstoppable in the second and third quarter. He's been pegged as a future superstar since he led the Celtics to two playoff series wins in 2018 despite missing Kyrie Irving and Gordon Hayward. Like the entirety of the team, he stagnated in 2019. But now that we're in 2020, he's clearly starting to tap in to the star power we caught a glimpse of 18 or so months ago. Nick Wright is here to tell everyone to pump the brea…

data-mm-id=”_bbrgvc87e”>A sports-starved nation is ready for some action on the links, and the upcoming Tiger Woods and Peyton Manning vs. Phil Mickelson and Tom Brady golf match provided much to be excited about. Then they decided to throw a cold wet blanket on the excitement by choosing to have them play a format reserved for hackers and has-beens at a country club member-guest tournament. Listen, it's hard to call out this event because the proceeds are going to benefit coronavirus relief efforts. You should donate to the cause and watch it on Sunday, May 24 at 3 ET. I will be watching for sure. But playing nine holes of best ball (taking the best score) and nine holes of quasi-alternate shot as the 18-hole format isn't exactly a thrilling setup. The first part is to be ex…

data-mm-id=”_8n9nyyfn1″>WARNING: SPOILERS FOR BETTER CALL SAUL As Lalo Salamanca stands over the last living would-be assassin sent by Gus Fring to kill him, he looked over at a glass half full of tequila and knows he's been betrayed by assumed-confidant Nacho Varga. After Lalo orders the assassin to tell his boss the hit was done, he trudges through a compound filled with dead bodies and into the night to exact his revenge. The credits role and Season 5 of Better Call Saul ends. It was the cliffhanger of all cliffhangers, a finale that feels like a precursor to looming disaster and, for the first time in in its history, Better Call Saul finally lived up to its predecessor's immense legacy. There's little point in going through the history of Breaking Bad. If you're…

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 …