Month: October 2024

data-mm-id=”_2cvtzyifp”>The NFL has been pretty silent on the public side of things in the weeks after the Bengals reported the Patriots for sending a camera crew to record their sideline ahead of their Week 15 matchup. New England and Bill Belichick adamantly denied the camera crew had anything to do with their football operations, and were sent as a part of a docu-series by the Patriots' production team. The Washington Post now reports the NFL has found no connection between the camera crew and the football side of things within the organization. From Mark Maske: “The NFL has found no evidence to this point linking Coach Bill Belichick or others on the New England Patriots’ football staff to the video shot by a crew on behalf of the team showing footage of the Cincinnati Beng…

data-mm-id=”_ygwovroqx”>Doris Burke tested positive for COVID-19. The ESPN NBA analyist revealed the news on Adrian Wojnarowski's latest podcast. According to Burke, she first felt a symptom on March 11th, the day she worked the Denver Nuggets – Dallas Mavericks game. The same one where Mark Cuban was sitting courtside when he learned the season had been suspended. Doris Burke joins The Woj Pod to reveal she's tested positive for the COVID-19 virus. She details her symptoms, her hospital testing experience, recovery and goal of sharing importance of social distancing and other measures underway to combat pandemic. https://t.co/4RAbMO5LPL— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) March 27, 2020Burke said she felt tired during the day, but worked the game. Thursday, as everything starte…

data-mm-id=”_mow8waw7h”>The NBA returned in a form yesterday when a half-dozen teams participated in televised scrimmages that were only 40 minutes long. As to be expected, the basketball wasn't exactly pretty, but it was LIVE basketball, and that's all that really mattered. Plus, Bol Bol went off and it was awesome. The viewing experience was definitely strange. Not as strange as I anticipated, but watching two NBA teams duke it out in an empty gym with no crowd noise was odd. The Denver Nuggets broadcast did not help very much with their Zoom announcing experiment. It was fun hearing the players complain to the refs and communicate on defense, though. The networks might have to fiddle with the audio a bit, given the squeaking of sneakers was louder than the broadcasters at …

data-mm-id=”_ra2f99f62″>The NBA restart is rapidly approaching, and finally the airwaves are filled with regular-old sports content. Like, say, championship odds. Nick Wright had Antoine Walker on First Things First to discuss the likelihood the Boston Celtics can make a run and win the whole shebang down in Orlando. Wright is not particularly bullish, slotting the Celtics at a precisely zero (0) percent chance to walk away as champs in the strangest season of NBA basketball to date. "The chances the Celtics win a title are, by my calculations, is 0%." — @getnickwright pic.twitter.com/RNk7t7GoDa— First Things First (@FTFonFS1) July 8, 2020Wright reasons that if the Lakers have a 62 percent chance, the Bucks have a 28 percent chance, the Rockets have a five percent chance,…

data-mm-id=”_u2cni5uqj”>The Boston Celtics are in trouble. Not like, real, serious, actual bad things are going to happen trouble, but like unimportant to the real world sports trouble. How much longer can this team fall short before they break up?The Celtics will bring back their core next season. Going all the way back to the 2016-2017 season, Brad Stevens, Jaylen Brown and Marcus Smart have been to the conference finals three times in four seasons. Jayson Tatum, Gordon Hayward and Daniel Theis joined the fray in '17-'18. Last summer, Kemba Walker signed a max deal.All those players are under contract next season, assuming Hayward takes his player option. Then the next year Hayward and Theis become free agents and Tatum becomes unrestricted. Tatum will be ready to negotiate…

data-mm-id=”_uu0hywr6o”>The Jim Harbaugh NFL buzz has begun, even if it is a quiet murmur. Yahoo's Pete Thamel kicked off the whispering and eyebrow-raising with a piece exploring the Michigan Man's future. The focus is on the best-laid plans of next year and the potential allure of a greener former pasture. And while that's all interesting, the real intrigue is what happens after next year. Allow me to move some of these beer cans and papers off the table and offer this scenario for inspection. The Wolverines' post a 5-3 record this year and are crushed by Ohio State for yet again. Harbaugh, who still hasn't been offered a contract extension in his penultimate year (a lot rarer situation than one may think), will have, somehow, some way, failed to do any of th…

data-mm-id=”_hnp8srodo”>Colin Cowherd wanted to gloat about the latest addition to his podcast network, The Volume, so he posted a video on Twitter of him smoking a victory cigar while discussing how excited he was to bring Liv Moods onto the team. Solid addition, no doubt, and plenty of reason for celebration. Unfortunately for Cowherd, Dan Le Batard saw that video and decided to have some fun with it, creating a response post which was clearly in jest, but nevertheless hilarious. First the Cowherd announcement. In a good MOOD(s) today ?Just wait. The next couple of weeks on @TheVolumeSports are going to be big. pic.twitter.com/RdLlVXW7TA— Colin Cowherd (@ColinCowherd) August 4, 2021Can't blame Cowherd for wanting to celebrate. Moods is a noted personality in the gambling space…