Month: October 2024

Stop the free agent talk! The lockout has commenced and with it there will be no more free agent signings until MLB and the MLB Players’ Association agree on a new CBA for the next five years. That being said, there are still several big-name free agents who remained unsigned through the Wednesday CBA deadline, the biggest of which is undoubtedly longtime Astros shortstop Carlos Correa. Correa recorded a 6.6 WAR in 2021 — 0.6 more than the next highest shortstop in this loaded 2021 free agent class (Trevor Story), and Correa did it all while being the youngest free agent shortstop of them all. Correa posted the highest 2021 WAR of any free agent still available outside of Freddie Freeman. What Correa has over Freeman, though, is a Platinum Glove Award. Correa won the coveted award l…

“These were the new horror days of a nation that was all played out, a nation of riot and yobbery, a nation with a ridiculous government, an economy in a tailspin – England, whatever the hell happened to England?”

There is probably some comfort to be found that these words were written three decades ago, coda to another epic tournament, another moment of cultural shift that seemed, at the time, to be oddly bound up with England football.

Gareth Southgate has defined a notion of Englishness, both traditional and radical | Julian ComanRead more

All Played Out, Pete Davies’s chronicle of Italia 90, is still the most profoundly brilliant book written about football, Englishness and English football. As Gareth Sou…

The Liverpool defender Gilly Flaherty, holder of the Women’s Super League appearance record, announced her retirement from football aged 31 on Thursday for family reasons.

Flaherty made 177 appearances for Arsenal, Chelsea, West Ham and Liverpool, winning the WSL four times. She also won seven Women’s FA Cups, as well as the Women’s Champions League in 2007.

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In the end of an era for the club, and perhaps for English football too, Norwich City announced the departure of Delia Smith in a manner consistent with modern times.

The news was broken online via a statement entitled “Norfolk Holdings reaches agreement to enable majority control of Norwich City”. The seven paragraphs that followed addressed “the creation of non-voting preference shares”, their subsequent conversion into “ordinary” shares and an application for a “rule 9 waiver by the Takeover Panel”. Any mention of Smith and her husband and co-owner, Michael Wynn-Jones, came in passing.

There will be time yet to celebrate and commemorate Smith’s 27-year reign at the club as she passes the baton t…

Any team lacking a true QB1 that is picking No. 15 or lower in the 2023 NFL Draft needs to take a long look at former Tennessee Volunteers signal-caller Hendon Hooker. He has his flaws, but on the field, they are no worse than any of the top quarterback prospects. His are just different. Hooker has ideal size, mobility, and arm strength, and he played in two different offenses during his college career — albeit one was eternally run-heavy at Virginia Tech. The hang-up on Hooker, even more than playing in Josh Heupel’s quarterback-friendly offense, is his age. He turned 25 years old in January. The NFL has been skittish about drafting quarterbacks that age and up for many years. The concern is both wear and tear on a body closer to 30 years old than college freshman, and also the la…

The 2013 Astros have the worst record in baseball, the third-worst attendance, the lowest payroll of the century, and they are on pace to be perhaps the most profitable team in baseball history, taking in nearly $100 million after expenses. Who says you have to spend money to make money? The Astros opened the season with a paltry $26 million payroll, and since then have traded or released six of their eight highest-paid players. Yet according to this report from Forbes, the team projects to have an operating income of about $99 million. That's much more than any previous team, and as Forbes points out, more than the last six World Series-winning teams combined. The big benefactor is TV money. Regional sports networks aren't just for successful or popular teams anymore! The A…

Every morning, the fine folks at Sports Radio Interviews sift through the a.m. drive-time chatter to bring you the best interviews with coaches, players, and personalities across the sports landscape. Today: Playing at MetLife Stadium is "retarded?" Why doesn't Flacco have any Jersey pride? Al Kelly, the CEO of the host committee for the 2014 Super Bowl, joined WFAN in New York with Boomer and Carton to discuss his reaction to Joe Flacco believing it's foolish to host the Super Bowl in New York/New Jersey in 2014, the sponsorship for next year's Super Bowl being terrific, Super Bowl activities taking place in New Jersey, dealing with the cold-weather scenario of a Super Bowl and more cold-weather NFL cities hosting the Super Bowl in years to come. What's y…

In another chapter of our ongoing series Why Google Is Full Of Geniuses, we present this "Week 11 roundup" from the NFL, featuring a 30-year-old man who appears to, uh, really like Kentucky basketball. He has a unique cadence for broadcasting, we think; there's a future there. Hey, Van Pelt: You really should really write a letter of recommendation for this guy. At the very least, he'd be an entertaining sideline reporter. Talkin' 'bout Kentucky B-B-B-B-B-B-B-Basketball! …

data-mm-id=”_mka0i6jq6″>A scheduled off day in the National League Championship Series didn't stop Sean Doolittle from throwing heat.The Washington Nationals pitcher came to the defense of fellow reliever Daniel Hudson. Hudson, who is Washington's closer, excused himself from playing in Game 1 of the NLCS against the St. Louis Cardinals to be with his wife Sara as the couple welcomed their third daughter Millie. Some fans and analysts criticized Hudson's decision to skip a playoff game, but Doolittle held back nothing in sticking up for his teammate. "If your reaction to someone having a baby is anything other than, ‘Congratulations, I hope everybody is healthy,’ you’re an a*****e." Hudson declared to Britt Ghiroli of The Athletic. Appropriately, Doolittl…