Author: Mikesportz
All you need to know about buckeyes and why it’s Ohio State’s mascot The Buckeyes take on the Notre Dame Fighting Irish today, fighting for a place in history if they win the College Football National Championship game. The 2025 College Football Playoff final will be decided today as the Notre Dame Fighting Irish take on the Ohio State Buckeyes. The team mascot – Brutus Buckeye – is one of the most celebrated in the world of college football and he has an interesting back story. In 1965 Ohio State students Ray Bourhis and Sally Huber set out to give…
As Larry Nance Jr. has come back to the Cleveland Cavaliers for this upcoming season, he is looking to help contribute to the team as a lateral move as they are in the quest for a championship. While the Cavs’ season ended in a crushing playoff exit to the Indiana Pacers in the second round, that outcome in some ways inspired Nance, leading to the present time. According to Danny Cunningham, Nance would speak Tuesday about watching Cleveland as an outside when he’s been on different teams over the years like just recently with the Atlanta Hawks. He said that…
Ind. – Seven members of the Notre Dame cross country and track and field programs were named to the 2025 College Sports Communicators Academic All-District squads. Tyler Berg and Robbie Cozean were named to the men’s Academic All-District list while Alaina Brady, Siona Chisholm, Addison Berry, Sophie Novak, and Madison Schmidt were on the women’s Academic All-District honoree list. To be eligible for the All-District honor, student-athletes must be a sophomore and carry a 3.50 cumulative GPA. Additionally, student-athletes must finish in the top 50 of a cross country NCAA regional race or rank in the top 50 in the…
The Indiana Fever entered the WNBAseason with high expectations, much of which came from their offseason additions. Aside from bringing in first-year head coach Stephanie White, the Fever also signed one of the greatest players in WNBA history, DeWanna Bonner. Bonner was set to make a major impact on Indiana’s front court, but things didn’t go as expected for both parties. The former Fever forward was reportedly frustrated with her role and requested a trade out of Indiana. After the Fever were unable to find a suitable partner, Bonner was released. She wound up signing with the Phoenix Mercury…
Myles Turner sent shockwaves through the NBA when he decided to sign with the Milwaukee Bucks right as they waived Damian Lillard, and at least one member of the Indiana Pacers’ brass was just as shocked as the rest of us. According to James Boyd of the Athletic, Pacers president of basketball operations Kevin Pritchard found out about the signing on social media, when ESPN insider Shams Charania broke the news. We would have been open on a sign-and-trade because it’s sort of mutually beneficial, but we didn’t get to that point, unfortunately,” Pritchard said. “I saw Shams tweet it,…
In the immediate aftermath of Myles Turner’s departure from the Indiana Pacers, it was believed that the team’s front office was to blame for the veteran’s exit. The initial thought was that management didn’t do enough to keep the longtime center on their roster, and ultimately let him walk to join the rival Milwaukee Bucks. In recent days, however, Pacers president Kevin Pritchard has alleged he found out about Turner’s deal with the Bucks the same way as everyone else: in a social media post from ESPN insider Shams Charania. Pritchard also claimed that the front office would have been…
I learned how courageous and how strong I was”- When Simone Biles opened up about the aftermath of her Olympic withdrawal Simone Biles once opened up about her withdrawal from the Tokyo Olympics. After her withdrawal, the American athlete shared that she realized that the decision took a lot of courage to take a step back from such a major competition to take her stand for herself. The American participated in her second consecutive Olympics in Tokyo, and her appearance raised a lot of anticipation among fans to witness her compete against some of the best gymnasts in the…
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander earned plenty of accolades during the OKC Thunder’s championship run. The 26-year-old guard became just the fourth player to ever win the scoring title, regular season MVP and Finals MVP in the same season. And on Tuesday, he accomplished something else for the first time in his career. Gilgeous-Alexander was announced as the cover athlete for the standard edition of NBA 2K26. The video game will be available for pre-order on Wednesday and is set to release in September. Gilgeous-Alexander is the second active OKC player to grace the standard edition cover of NBA 2K. Kevin Durant…
Jayden Quaintance provides update on injury recovery The new Wildcats big man hopes to be ready for the start of the 2025-2026 season. If there’s a wild card going into the Kentucky Wildcats’ 2025-26 season, it could be the health of Jayden Quaintance at the start of the season and, potentially, during it. Quaintance is recovering from a torn ACL he sustained in late February last season when he was playing for the Arizona State Sun Devils. His injury shortened a season where he was averaging 2.6 blocks per game, in addition to 9.4 points and 7.9 rebounds per…
Baylor’s Tounde Yessoufou is the top incoming addition of the offseason in Waco. Now, with him having been on campus for a bit, Scott Drew has made a comparison for him to one of the top young players in the world. Drew spoke highly of his five-star freshman this afternoon in an appearance on ‘The Gary Parrish Show’. That included a comp for Yessoufou to Anthony Edwards of the Minnesota Timberwolves, starting with his level of athleticism. Tounde is somebody that has gotten a lot of comparisons to Anthony Edwards from the standpoint physically, very strong, very athletic. Won…