As we enter the second weekend of March Madness, it’s impossible to not think of the college basketball legends of the past few decades. So many undersized scoring guards, guys like Carsen Edwards, Melo Trimble, and Markus Howard, would seemingly drop multiple 30-point masterclasses every March. And then there are the old-school big men, Perry Ellis, Udoka Azubuike, and Brice Johnson, who could dominate your favorite team in the paint. There’s one thing that all six of those guys have in common: they played their entire college career with one single team.
I remember a time when I looked forward to the NBA All-Star Game. I was six years old, and the idea of seeing legends like Kobe, Melo, and LeBron share the court (alongside the Knicks’ very own David Lee) was mind-boggling. I remember anticipating the event for a week, but I was surprised when my dad told me he had a dinner scheduled during the game.
If you haven’t seen a video compilation of the worst technical fouls in the NBA, you’re missing out. You’ll see Jayson Tatum getting a technical for lightly bouncing the ball after giving up a foul; Lance Stephenson for doing the air guitar celebration; and best of all, Tim Duncan getting one for laughing on the bench. The video goes on and on, and you’ll notice that an overwhelming majority of these techs come from the last 10 years. It leaves me with one takeaway: The technical foul is the most comical rule in sports.
Seemingly every year in the NFL, there’s a team that finishes last in its division one year and first the next. In the MLB, there’s almost always a team that gets hot at the right time and makes a playoff run despite a lack of stars. In the NBA, however, you can look at everyone’s roster during preseason and have a pretty good indication of how competitive each team will be.
Awards are subjective, and that’s why there are endless debates about who is the most deserving every season.
With NBA opening night approaching, why not get a head start on these debates and predict who will win these awards in the 2024-25 NBA season?
Every offseason, a number of players will “hold out,” but what does that mean, and why do some players do it and others don’t?
After a 2023 season in which the changes started to show, 2024 has brought a fire back to college football.
In college football, cheating is nothing new. There was the infamous Nevin Shapiro scandal at the University of Miami in the 2000s, when a booster was found to have given hundreds of thousands of dollars in benefits to 72 players.
When Lebron James famously announced his decision to “take his talents to South Beach,” fans were livid. The NBA was surely doomed to be under the Miami Heat’s complete control for the foreseeable future, with James, Dwyane Wade, and Chris Bosh running the show, so why even watch?
If you were a sports fanatic in the late 1990s and early 2000s, there weren’t many better places to be than St. Louis. In the NFL, the St. Louis Rams were the biggest spectacle, with their high-powered offense being referred to as “The Greatest Show on Turf.”
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