Bad weekend, or bad omen? That’s the big question for the Maple Leafs right now. Entering the weekend fresh off five wins in their past six games, the Leafs were swept in a back-to-back at home. The first loss came against an undermanned Boston team missing its top center and best defenseman, in a game […]
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How are we already 10 weeks through this NFL season? And how are the Patriots currently sitting at 8-2? With road wins over the Bills and Buccaneers? I’ll tell you how: like Tony Romo said in yesterday’s broadcast, this team is D.T.F. I don’t remember what Romo filled out those letters with – Determined, Talented, […]
Major League Baseball’s annual GM Meetings kick off today and run through Thursday in Las Vegas. Note that this is not the same thing as the winter meetings, which don’t happen until December. There tends to be a lot less player movement at the November GM meetings (because we’re still so early in the offseason, […]
Mike and Dan recap a week of great, bad and ugly as the Islanders follow-up a no-show performance at home with a hilarious win on the road. The week started with an eventful, entertaining game against the Bruins that didn’t go the Islanders’ way, and also included some social media drama. All of that was […]
Cincinnati Reds lefty Andrew Abbott averaged 92.8 mph with his fastball during his All Star campaign in 2025, a mark that ranked him in just the 26th percentile according to MLB’s Statcast. He also generated grounders just 32.9% of the time, a mark that ranked in just the 9th percentile. I point out his weaknesses […]
Good win for the Celtics and it's great to see guys who have been written off like Walsh and Garza coming up big in the win. Magic fans are fickle. They go from expecting a triple double from Banchero to calling him trash and saying that he's not a star. It would seem that they like the Celtics players better than they do their own. They trashed most of their own players and wanted to trade them for Celtics. They also covet the Celtics coach. My favori...
The New England Patriots were under some pressure entering their Week 10 game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. On Thursday, the Denver Broncos opened the week with a victory to improve to 8-2 on the season. Earlier on Sunday, the Indianapolis Colts celebrated a win in Germany to tie their record and reclaim the top […]
The Celtics spent a taxing three-day weekend in Orlando. It began with a return to NBA Cup play, where the Celtics watched a fourth-quarter lead unravel into a nightmarish 26-14 Magic run on Friday night. Boston chalked up the defeat — and its late-game Jenga tower collapse — to “growing pains” and a steep “learning […]
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Ahead of this year’s training camp, New England Patriots head coach Mike Vrabel explained that he was looking at his team’s performances in three distinct categories. There is the good, the bad, and, as he called it, the s—t that gets you beat. Sunday’s 28-23 victory over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers saw plenty of all […]
The Atlanta Falcons have perfected loss. They lose on the road and at home, in the United States and Europe. They lose in blowouts to the Miami Dolphins and squeakers to the New England Patriots. They lose in regulation and they lose in overtime. They lose after productive games give us hope and they lose […]
Brayan Bello entered 2025 looking to take a step forward. The Red Sox were rolling out Garret Crochet and Tanner Houck as a 1-2 punch, with Bello, Lucas Giolito, and Walker Buehler set to figure out the 3, 4, and 5 spots in the starting rotation. But, of course, the rotation suffered a lot over […]
He may not have played his best game of the season on Sunday against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, but Drake Maye once again led the New England Patriots to victory while making several highlight-reel plays. As a consequence, he now can officially call himself MVP frontrunner. With the first 10 weeks of the NFL season […]
ORLANDO — Anfernee Simons played just two minutes in the first half of Friday’s 123-110 loss to the Orlando Magic. The Celtics were outscored by 11 in that stretch, and Joe Mazzulla opted to give Jordan Walsh and Hugo Gonzalez more extended run. Afterwards, Simons was gracious about his benching. “J-Walsh and Hugo came in […]
It was a slow start for the New England Patriots offense down in Tampa Bay on Sunday. Then Kyle Williams joined the party. After their first two drives of the afternoon ended in punts, the Patriots were looking for a spark. They found it on the first play of their third possession, as Drake Maye […]
Luka Garza’s first ten games as a Boston Celtic have had some ups and some downs. That is to be expected from a player on his third team in five years and has never had a regular rotation role. In fact, before Sunday night, Garza only had one game where he was a positive in […]
The New England Patriots stayed in the win column on Sunday, celebrating a seventh straight W to improve to 8-2 on the year. Here is who caught our eye for better or worse upon live viewing the 28-23 victory. Winners RB TreVeyon Henderson: It was a career-day for New England’s rookie back, who was forced […]
The New York Jets have won two straight games after defeating the Cleveland Browns 27 – 20 on Sunday. The Jets were thoroughly outplayed by the Browns in most aspects of the game on Sunday. The Browns had nearly twice the number of first downs as the Jets. The Browns nearly tripled the Jets’ passing […]
ORLANDO — Normally, when Jordan Walsh plays the entire fourth quarter, it means the game is out of reach. Just a week ago, in a blowout Celtics loss to the Houston Rockets, Walsh played all 12 fourth-quarter minutes, running around and getting up shots against the Rockets’ two-way players. But this time, Walsh’s fourth-quarter minutes […]
The Denver Broncos won on Thursday night to set the bar in the AFC early in Week 10. On Sunday morning, the Indianapolis Colts found a way to win in overtime to pull even with the Broncos and retake first place in the conference on a tiebreaker. The New England Patriots won to solidify the […]
The Buffalo Bills have fallen further behind the New England Patriots and no longer control their own destiny in the AFC East. New England beat the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, one of the few good teams left on their schedule, and they moved to 8-2. The Bills, meanwhile, lost to the lowly Miami Dolphins and fell […]
Anfernee Simons ignited the Celtics in the first half, Luka Garza shifted the momentum late and Jordan Walsh provided the finishing touches to steer the Celtics to a 111-107 road win over the Magic on Sunday. Simons poured in all 25 of his points before the break, putting on a show in his hometown. Garza […]
Hey, don’t write this team off yetIt’s only in your head, you feel left out (of the playoffs)Or in the tank They’ll try their bestTry everything they canAnd don’t you worry what they tell themselvesWhen on the road It just takes some timeLittle team, you’re in the middle of the rideEverything, everything’ll be just fineEverything, […]
Outside of a 72-yard touchdown by rookie wide receiver Kyle Williams, the New England Patriots offense did not find a lot of success early on against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday. The tide started to turn late in the second quarter, however. Starting on their own 22-yard line, they managed to string some plays […]
The New England Patriots took care of business in Week 10, going on the road and beating the Tampa Bay Buccaneers with a final score of 28-23. The victory improves their record on the season to 8-2, and allows them to stay in touch with the current top two in the conference, the Indianapolis Colts […]