Are you in need of the ultimate thirst quencher? Are you dying for a cold Gatorade? That’s great. But if you haven’t sweat it, you won’t get it. MORE: NFL Jersey confidence index | NFL stadium rankings Allow J.J. Watt to demonstrate. Again. And again. And again. J.J. Watt will shut you down.
Mettenberger started the week with a serious mustache and the selfies just rolled in from there, including one on Sunday before the game. MORE: Patriots embarrass Bears | John Idzik did this to the Jets | Eagles tackling themselves Perhaps Mettenberger didn’t think Watt would have his eye on him until the game but Watt had been watching the whole time. After recording a sack on the young quarterback he proceeded to take a selfie as well....
James and Smith even found time to crack a joke when asked for their reactions to Raptors center Bismack Biyombo’s finger wagging, via Fox Sports. MORE: Five things we learned from Raptors’ Game 3 win “He probably admires him (Dikembe Mutumbo),” James said. “We all take something from somebody. If I shoot a fadeaway, I got it from MJ. Throw a no-look pass, I get it from Magic. He (Smith) shoots fadeaway 3s, I don’t know where he gets those from....
Jack Morris, a Hall of Fame pitcher who’s a color analyst for the Tigers, said the Tigers should “be very, very careful” when pitching to Ohtani in the upcoming at-bat. Morris didn’t say it with his regular tone, but something more modified. Many thought Morris was making fun of the Asian community. By the ninth inning, as Ohtani came to the plate again, Morris apologized. During the sixth inning, with a 2-2 game, Angels outfielder Juan Lagares had just struck out to bring Ohtani to the plate with two outs and a runner on second, Tigers play-by-play announcer Matt Shepard asked Morris, “Now, what do you do with Ohtani?...
Jack Nicklaus, a six-time Masters winner, congratulated Willett on Twitter late Sunday night, but not before offering encouragement to Spieth. MORE: The 12 worst Masters choke jobs | The worst chokes in sports history “I think the whole golfing world feels for Jordan Spieth. He had a chance to do something truly special and something very few have done before — and be the youngest to accomplish that — and he just didn’t pull through,” Nicklaus said....
Woods played the event on a broken leg and still had enough strength and energy to win his 14th major title. He was still just 32 years old and it seemed like a matter of when, not if he would break Jack Nicklaus’ long-standing record of 18 major wins. MORE: Tiger’s career in photos | Tiger’s media star still blazes But that mild Monday on the California coast is the last time Woods hoisted a major championship trophy, and now, seven years later, Woods has seemingly thrown in the towel....
“The Dodgers have a rich history of breaking barriers, and it all began with Jackie Robinson in 1947,” Dodger president and CEO Stan Kasten said. “Therefore, it is altogether fitting that our first statue at Dodger Stadium be of Jackie.” MORE: 42 Robinson photos from SN’s archives | Robinson’s first spring training Robinson, the first modern African-American to play major league baseball, played for the Brooklyn Dodgers from 1947-56 and went to six All-Star games....
“The United States of America is the greatest beacon of hope and democracy the world has ever known,” Judge Jackson said from the Cross Hall of the White House after being introduced by the president. Breyer, 84, faced calls from liberals to step down while Democrats have control of Congress and the presidency. He will retire at the end of the 2021-2022 term. Judge Jackson will need the support of a simple majority of the U....
As the Braves continue to close in on them in the NL East, the return of league-wide ace Jacob deGrom appears to be imminent. The two-time Cy Young winner completed a rehab start at St. Lucie on Sunday, and it went about how one might expect. DeGrom, who hasn’t pitched this season due to a stress reaction in his shoulder before the year began, faced six batters, striking out five....
In a recent interview with Yahoo Sports’ Eric Edholm, the Jaguars’ No. 1 overall pick in the 2021 NFL Draft said that Tebow’s “heyday at Florida” was one of the things that got him into football. “That was really when I started to get into watching football and college football, right when Tim Tebow was in his heyday at Florida,” Lawrence said. “I played with him on all the NCAA games....
The latest such signal-caller is second-year Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence, who on Wednesday said he “can’t imagine” Arrowhead Stadium would be much louder than TIAA Bank Field was during the Chargers’ visit during wild-card weekend. He did preface that statement by calling the Chiefs’ home stadium “one of if not the best in the NFL.” Here’s a clip of Lawrence speaking about Arrowhead, originally from NFL.com: MORE: How loud is Arrowhead Stadium?...
Temperatures are expected to be near freezing, while precipitation — in the form of both freezing rain and snow — appears likely, especially toward the end of the game. Patrick Mahomes and company are used to arctic temps. Trevor Lawrence’s squad? Not so much. Still, the Jags made a good account of themselves the last time they went up to Arrowhead Stadium; granted, they were greeted with clear skies in their 27-17 loss to KC in Week 10....
Paul announced he will be returning to the ring on August 6. This time, his Showtime-produced fight will be headlining MSG. His opponent will be Hasim Rahman Jr. This comes after Tommy Fury could not enter the United States for a planned fight against against his rival in Paul. After giving Fury an ultimatum, Paul moved on. ESPN reported that the fight will take place at the full cruiserweight limit of 200 pounds....
Going into Week 3’s Sunday action, Allen (+300 on DraftKings, +270 on FanDuel) and Mahomes (+450 on DraftKings, +500 on FanDuel) were the front-runners according to the sportsbooks. Hurts (+850 on DraftKings, +1000 on FanDuel) and Jackson (+1000 on DraftKings, +1300 on FanDuel) were third and fifth on the list, respectively, sandwiching another quarterback, Justin Herbert. MORE: How a pain-killing injection helped Justin Herbert start vs. Jaguars Allen and Mahomes, with the Bills and Chiefs both failing to finish road comebacks in Week 3, left the door wide open for a big change....
Coach Doug Marrone told reporters Friday that Ramsey won’t play in Week 5 and he likely will see a specialist soon. Marrone added Ramsey worked hard to be available but couldn’t get there, Florida Times-Union notes. Ramsey missed last week’s game against the Broncos because of a back injury, ending a streak of starting the first 51 regular-season games of his NFL career. He didn’t practice leading up to Week 4 because of an illness and he stepped away from the team Wednesday evening to be with his family in Nashville for the birth of his second daughter....
“I hope so. We’ll see,” he said Wednesday at his introductory press conference in Los Angeles. “I’m sure not only myself, but the coaches and everybody will come up with a good gameplan and be smart with me to go out there on Sunday. I’ve been missing football, I love football, so I would love that, but at the end of the day, we do have to be smart. So I don’t know....
Jaguars cornerback Jalen Ramsey, who played at Florida State under Fisher from 2013-15, didn’t take kindly to his image being used in the promotional graphic, which was posted on Twitter by former FSU tight ends coach Tim Brewster (now on staff at Texas A&M in the same position). MORE: Florida State 2018 lookahead Ramsey took a jab at Fisher by replying, “He didn’t teach me one DB technique…” Ramsey followed up, further voicing his displeasure at being used to promote a school he didn’t play for — and the fact the graphic suggested Fisher taught him how to play at defensive back....
The Nuggets dominated the Los Angeles Clippers 104-89 in Orlando on Tuesday to progress from an all-or-nothing Game 7, becoming the first team to recover from a 3-1 deficit twice in the same postseason. Few tipped the third-seeded Nuggets to get past a Clippers team comprising the likes of Paul George and Kawhi Leonard, particularly when the team found themselves in such a precarious position. “You got [Shaquille O’Neal], you got Charles [Barkley], I think Zach Lowe … Stephen A....
Erica Kinsman filed a civil lawsuit Thursday in Florida’s Ninth Judicial District court alleging sexual battery, assault, false imprisonment and “intentional infliction of emotional distress arising out of forcible rape,” according to the Tampa Bay Times. Kinsman accused Winston of raping her in his campus bedroom in Dec. 2012. MORE: Fisher: Winston was victim of ‘character assassination’ | Winston’s Wonderlic score John Clune, Kinsman’s attorney, released a statement concurrent with the lawsuit:...
Speaking during an event at Hillsdale College in Michigan on Wednesday, Barr criticized lockdown measures that were implemented across the country to curb the spread of the new coronavirus pandemic earlier this year. “You know, putting a national lockdown, stay-at-home orders, is like house arrest. Other than slavery, which was a different kind of restraint, this is the greatest intrusion on civil liberties in American history,” the attorney general said....
