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The Phoenix Suns have reportedly landed their first assistant as part of new head coach Mike Budenholzer’s staff. Thank you for reading this post, don’t forget to subscribe! According to AZ Central’s Duane Rankin, “The Phoenix Suns have landed Vince Legarza to work under new head coach Mike Budenholzer, sources inform The Arizona Republic.” Legarza was an assistant coach in Budenholzer’s last season with the Milwaukee Bucks in 2022-23, but wasn’t retained for the 2023-24 season under Adrian Griffin. Leagarza started his coaching career as a player development coach under Budenholzer in his first two head coaching seasons with the…
The upcoming NFL season will be a huge one for Chicago Bears defensive tackle Zacch Pickens. Now entering Year 2, the 24-year-old Pickens appeared in all 17 games for the Bears as a rookie last year. He didn’t start, playing a rotational role in the middle. Considering Pickens played just 25% of Chicago’s defensive snaps in 2024, it’s a bit of a surprise that NFL.com’s Gregg Rosenthal has the young DT pegged to start over incumbent starter Andrew Billings in his latest 53-man roster projection. “The defensive line is the biggest worry,” Rosenthal wrote on May 21. “The Bears need their…
The pressure is on the Philadelphia Eagles to prove that last season was a fluke. New defensive coordinator Vic Fangio must show that his defensive scheme can stand up to high-powered offenses and do so consistently. As fate would have, Philly will face several during the 2024-2025 calendar year. The numbers for last season’s Miami Dolphins aren’t bad. They ranked third in the league in sacks, but there are two sides to every coin. They also contributed to a 70-20 beatdown of the Denver Broncos and helped smack several lesser teams they faced last year. Last season, Miami was often hard to…
The AFC North has multiple great rivalries. Every combination is frankly a must-see game, given the current quality of the teams. Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson sees one rivalry in the division among the top rivalries in all of sports: Browns-Steelers. “Cleveland-Pittsburgh, for sure,” Watson said on his podcast, via Troy Montgomery of SteelersDepot.com. “It’s even bigger than Cincinnati. It’s not Baltimore. Baltimore is up there, but it ain’t as real as Pittsburgh.” The AFC North, previously the AFC Central, has always had strong rivalries. In the early ‘70s, Browns-Steelers stood out. By the end of the decade, the Steelers and…
When Sean McVay took the head coaching job with the Los Angeles Rams, he officially became the youngest head coach in NFL history at 30 years old and had the tall task of replacing veteran head coach Jeff Fisher. Although the odds were against him to be successful at such a young age at the helm of a storied NFL franchise that had just moved back to Los Angeles from St. Louis, McVay defied the odds and ultimately led the team to two Super Bowl appearances and one win. In the team’s first appearance in the Super Bowl with McVay…
It’s only the end of May and the MLBseason is a long one, but the Baltimore Orioles already appear poised for a deep postseason campaign. With two months of play behind them, the Orioles are second in the AL East with a record of 31-18, just three games back from the division-leading New York Yankees, and they’re showing no signs of slowing down. Still, if the Orioles want to avoid an early postseason exit like they experienced in 2023, there’s at least one area of the roster they need to focus on at the trade deadline, according to The Athletic’s…
To say that the 2024 WNBA Draft class is loaded would be an understatement. These women have brought in a lot of viewers from the NCAA all the way to Cathy Engelbert’s league. A key person amid all of this was Angel Reese. The LSU legend turned Chicago Sky rookie has been making headlines. Usually, this makes someone’s personality crack but not her. She has remained quite a good role model for aspiring young women in sports. This insane acumen to notch charisma while having a different type of prowess on the court turned the head of Dwyane Wade. Despite…
The New York Giants’ 2024 season could define Daniel Jones’ NFL career. It’s no secret that this is a make-or-break campaign for Jones as the NYG starter, but Bleacher Report analyst Brad Gagnon explained why the 2024 season goes beyond that for the former first-round talent out of Duke on May 24. “Considering his career 85.2 passer rating, there’s just no way the Giants will tolerate another letdown season from Jones and hand him another $41.6 million in 2025,” Gagnon began. Adding that “it’s now or never” for the Giants signal-caller. Later, the writer made a prediction, and it wasn’t…
By Josh Jarnagin Published: May. 26, 2024 at 11:28 PM GMT+1|Updated: 37 minutes ago KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) – Thousands of people across East Tennessee and Eastern Kentucky lost power Sunday as strong storms moved through the region. As of 6:25 p.m., the following have more than 100 outages: Knoxville Utilities Board: 6,039 outages Volunteer Energy Cooperative: 2,040 outages Powell Valley Electric Cooperative: 505 outages Appalachian Electric Cooperative: 886 outages Morristown Utilities Commission: 697 outages Cumberland Valley Electric (Kentucky): 5,253 outages (Bell, Harlan and McCreary counties) Kentucky Utilities: 2,556 outages (Bell, Harlan and McCreary counties) South Kentucky RECC: 1,647 outages (McCreary…
Predictably, lots of questions about the WNBA given the news of the week and the regular concerns about the Raptors. A good week overall. Wonder what we’ll branch out into next week? So great to hear that a WNBA franchise is coming to Toronto. Some excitable posters on X and Reddit gushed that Dr. Lowry’s attendance at the presser meant “He still loves Toronto!” Besides his friendship with and respect for Larry Tanenbaum, any word if Kyle Lowry might have a small stake in the ownership group? Trust me, Lowry has a true and deep affection for Toronto. It is…