Author: Mikesportz

BOWLING GREEN, Ky.- A Florida newspaper is reporting the death of a former Western Kentucky University football player. According to the Sarasota Herald Tribune, Cody Hughes died Monday. Hughes played offensive line for the Hilltoppers from 2006-2009 and served as a team captain. Hughes had recently been one of the coaches for the Sarasota, Fl. High School football team. Prior to that, according to his Linkedin page, Hughes was an instructor at South Warren High School. The Herald Tribune article does not list a cause of death.

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The time when it’s reasonable to fire a head coach during the season seems to keep moving up. We had one fired after five games this season, and it seems like others could happen before Thanksgiving. Maybe Halloween. The NFL is getting more impatient, whether it’s with draft pick development, quarterbacks or coaches. Robert Saleh was fired by the New York Jets after a 2-3 start. Maybe that emboldens other teams to make a move in the first half of the season. Pederson fired his defensive coordinator after last season, has been defiant over the idea he take play-calling duties…

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Lamar Jackson admitted he was disappointed as the offense that helped his team to the NFL’s best record in the regular season failed to ignite with a place in the Super Bowl on the line. The Ravens had won Jackson’s last seven starts coming into Sunday’s AFC Championship Game against the Kansas City Chiefs, averaging 33.9 points a game over that span. But the offense scored only 10 points against Kansas City, and committed three turnovers, including a fumble and interception from Jackson. Miscues, bad luck and ladybugs: how the Lions blew their best chance at a Super Bowl“We’re mad,”…

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he last few months of Kylian Mbappe at PSG were among the most tumultuous. Practically since the end of the World Cup in Qatar, the tug-of-war between the striker and the club’s top management, in particular with Nasser Al-Khelaifi, was a constant until his departure last summer to Real Madrid. A series of episodes that has been reviewed today by the newspaper L’Equipe. The relationship between the president and the star began to crack in the summer of 2023, when Kylian sent a letter to PSG informing them that he would not activate the clause in his contract that allowed…

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