Author: Mikesportz
Los Angeles Rams wide receiver Puka Nacua has been dating his girlfriend, Hallie Aiono, since at least 2021 quickly became a star in the 2023 NFL season — and his girlfriend, Hallie Aiono, has been rooting for him from the sidelines. The Los Angeles Rams wide receiver has been dating his girlfriend since at least 2021 when he was a student at Brigham Young University. The pair have posted snaps of each other on their Instagrams, including photos of them attending a Los Angeles Lakers game together in January 2024. When Nacua scored his first touchdown as a professional in…
Vikings quarterback Kirk Cousins is rocketing toward free agency. And the Vikings are letting him. That was the clear takeaway from our Tuesday visit with Vikings coach Kevin O’Connell at the Scouting Combine. The Vikings want Cousins back. O’Connell made that clear. But he also said that Cousins has earned the right to “bet on himself.” This position assumes the risk that Cousins will win his bet by finding another team that will pay him more than whatever the Vikings are willing to pay. The Vikings are about to find out. Cousins is about to find…
Ciraldo’s huge call as star Bulldogs recruit Stephen Crichton handed 2024 captaincy Canterbury-Bankstown coach Cameron Ciraldo has made one of the biggest calls of his coaching career by appointing star recruit Stephen Crichton as the club’s new captain. Three-time premiership winner Crichton, 23, will replace Reed Mahoney and Matt Burton with Ciraldo informing the Bulldogs playing group of the news on Thursday morning. A St Clair Comets junior out of the Penrith Panthers system, Crichton returned to training early prior to Christmas and has impressed so much he’s now been handed the role of leading Canterbury-Bankstown back towards…
The Phoenix Suns have themselves something in Bol Bol. If sustainable, it could shift the entire dynamic of the team. While he will remain a fan favorite, it’s time to start taking Bol Bol seriously if you aren’t already. The Phoenix Suns already added Royce O’Neale and Thaddeus Young to shore up their playoff rotation, but this whole time Bol Bol could’ve been the missing piece that puts them over the top. Yes, the veteran additions were much needed, but Bol’s emergence raises the ceiling for a team with championship aspirations. Was he hiding in plain sight this…
INDIANAPOLIS — Brock Purdy, the quarterback who finished fourth in the NFL MVP voting, is the 34th highest-paid player on the 49ers. But general manager John Lynch is quick to point out that it’s not his fault — nor is there anything he can do about it until after the 2024 NFL season. “A lot of people get mad, like, ‘You’re being cruel to this guy; why don’t you give him something?’ ” Lynch said during an interview for the latest “49ers Talk.” “We can’t. I’d love to.” Lynch began to joke that, if he could, he would take money…
Tennessee Titans running back Derrick Henry is set to hit free agency for the first time in his career, and in a market that is demand-heavy for top-tier running backs, we might already have an indication of where Henry could end up. NFL insider Ari Meirov said the Titans tried trading Henry to the Baltimore Ravens last season before the Oct. 31 trade deadline. Clearly, the trade wasn’t worked out, but it does tell us one thing. The Ravens are clearly interested in the former Alabama running back. Henry’s name is at the top of the list of running…
This offseason, there are expected to be some big changes coming for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Even some of their biggest names have some uncertainty surrounding them ahead of the 2024 NFL season. That includes 13-year veteran Cameron Heyward. Heyward carries a cap hit of more than $22 million for the 2024 season, which has many expecting him to be a candidate for his contract to be restructured. Even if Heyward and he team work out a way to limit the cap hit in 2024, it seems that could be the end of his time in Pittsburgh. In a preview…
Hendon Hooker spent his rookie season in the National Football League rehabilitating from a torn ACL suffered in college and learning the ropes. It is expected the talented signal-caller will compete to be Jared Goff’s backup in 2024. This offseason, Hooker will spend extensive time training in Florida with Teddy Bridgewater, who recently retired and will coach a high school football team down South. After being taken off the injured reserve list, Detroit’s 2023 third-round draft pick did not hesitate to pick the brains of the veterans on the roster. Hooker explained at the end of the season, “It gave…
PHOENIX — The respect for Los Angeles Lakers forward LeBron James extends far and wide throughout the globe, and you can count Phoenix Suns guard Bradley Beal as one his admirers. It’s always interesting to see the discourse on James – obviously one of the best players to ever grace a basketball court – and the differences between players who have competed against him and people such as you and I, who will never get the opportunity to match up against him. It’s also been a pleasure to dive deep inside of Beal’s mind in his series of Andscape…
Bears general manager Ryan Poles shed some light on an important topic of conversation this offseason: the status of a contract extension for All-Pro cornerback Jaylon Johnson. Poles addressed a myriad of topics during his Tuesday NFL Scouting Combine press conference — although he did not have a master plan to present everyone about the team’s current quarterback dilemma. But it was progress with Johnson’s extension that was the biggest takeaway. Poles said they are in the process of getting a contract extension done for Johnson, where conversations are going well and he sounded optimistic about getting a…