Month: October 2024

We wrote a lot of long stories this year that you probably didn’t have time to read. Now is your chance to get caught up. This Is Why NFL Star Greg Hardy Was Arrested For Assaulting His Ex-Girlfriend Barefoot and frightened, Nicole Holder walked as fast as she could through the darkness, and the moment she saw the cops she ran. She headed west on Fifth Street toward North Church, away from the Charlotte., N.C., apartment of Greg Hardy, a star defensive end then with the NFL’s Carolina Panthers. Minutes earlier he had, she said, thrown her against a tile bathtub wall, tossed her on a futon covered in assault rifles, and choked her until she told him to “kill me so I don’t have to.” Someone Appears To Be Trying To Hoax The Marlins President Out Of His Job When the Miami Marlin…

Charlotte Hornets head coach Steve Clifford will return to the team next week after spending more than a month away with a health issue. The Hornets have not publicly commented on Clifford’s health, but the  Charlotte Observer reports that he has been suffering from severe headaches since before the start of the season. He was cleared today to begin attending practice on Tuesday, and his first game back on the bench will be Wednesday at home against the Wizards.  Associate head coach Stephen Silas has taken over Clifford’s role during his absence, coaching the Hornets to a 7-11 record since December 6. [ Charlotte Observer] …

It's October (almost)! And you know what that means: everyone you know will now pretend to have cared about baseball for the past six months so that they can safely pretend to care about it for the next month. Prepare yourself for those unendurable office talks with the guy who just learned that the "J" in Pujols is actually pronounced Spanish-like, and for all of Florida to realize that it has a baseball team or two. But this is America, where everyone is welcome! Here's your guide to finding baseball on a screen for the next four weeks. On The Television TBS: It's not just for Conan and House of Payne! It's also for the Division Series. With just one exception—the second Rays-Rangers game, which will air tomorrow night on TNT—every Division Series game…

data-mm-id=”_yzcznabgz”>Mickey Callaway was fired by the New York Mets on Thursday after two years as the team's manager. What follows is a look at four candidates to replace him in that position. Carlos BeltranBeltran has received considerable buzz over the last week as Callaway's fate became more certain. He hasn't managed before but the 20-year big leaguer was a candidate for the Yankees job in 2017 before losing out to Aaron Boone. Beltran has been a special adviser to Yankees general manager Brian Cashman since December of 2018. Beltran played for the Mets from 2005 to 2011 and was a five-time All-Star with the team. He has deep connections to the Mets front office, having played under assistant GM Allard Baird with the Royals and under assistant GM Omar Minaya with…

data-mm-id=”_pixuyx2nk”>Kyrie Irving's first season with the Brooklyn Nets is over. After playing in only 20 games, Irving will undergo shoulder surgery and miss the rest of the campaign, leaving a rudderless squad in his wake. There's no way to sugarcoat it. This season is a massive failure for the Nets, and they paid a ton of money for it. The Nets made waves this offseason by signing Irving, Kevin Durant and DeAndre Jordan. Obviously Irving and Durant were the headliners, with Durant inking a four-year, $164 million deal and Irving taking one worth $142 million over four years. Jordan signed for four years and $40 million, which added three former All-NBA picks to the team's roster.Brooklyn knew Durant was highly unlikely to play during the 2019-20 season as he recove…

data-mm-id=”_efti4166k”>WWE Smackdown was hosted at TD Garden in Boston on Friday evening. Tacko Fall, a two-way player who has become a local celebrity thanks to the fact that he's over seven and a half feet tall, attended the event. Here he is getting interviewed by Smackdown correspondent Kayla Becker, who checks in at slightly over 4'11". It's never a bad time for some quality Tacko Fall Is Tall content. Fall also got to meet John Cena last night, too. Apparently he's a big fan in more than one way. …

data-mm-id=”_zrcq5oyfj”>We're three months away from the start of the NFL season (hopefully) and the Dallas Cowboys have yet to reach an extension with Dak Prescott. Prescott hasn't signed the franchise tag with negotiations ongoing. The PR war continues to rage as the Cowboys signed Andy Dalton for insurance purposes and Stephen Jones recently said the team is hesitant to dedicate a significant portion of the salary cap to their quarterback because the numbers suggest it's much harder to win a Super Bowl when that is the case. Of late, rumors suggest that the hangup is Prescott's desire for a five-year deal rather than the four years the Cowboys are offering. Marcus Spears was on Get Up on Monday to explain why that doesn't sound quite right to him, and that …

data-mm-id=”_jgaez1387″>Tua Tagovailoa is widely regarded as one of the best college quarterbacks of this decade, definitely the best Alabama quarterback of all time, and could have been the first overall pick in the 2020 NFL Draft even after going down with a hip injury halfway through his 2019 season. His resume after two seasons and change as the Crimson Tide's starter is just that impressive. Impressive to everyone but Chris Simms, that is. Simms was on his hot take game today when he went on WEEI to say he believes Jarrett Stidham is more talented than Tagovailoa. This is not the first time Simms has expressed strong doubt that everyone's high opinion of Tagovailoa is justified. It is hard to understand why! Simms said today that Tagovailoa is a "creation" of A…

data-mm-id=”_tg7izo3fe”>The Houston Rockets and Los Angeles Lakers open their Western Conference semifinal playoff series Friday night and it should be an incredible clash in styles. The Lakers are heavily favored to advance to the conference finals, but the Rockets won't be an easy out. In fact, Houston has a real chance in this series given the relative strengths and weaknesses of the teams. What follows are three things the Rockets have to do in order to upset the Lakers. Houston Has to Make ShotsThis seems obvious, right? But while the Rockets have a reputation as an outside shooting team, they actually ranked 24th in the NBA in 3-point percentage during the regular season at 34.5 percent. What canceled that out a bit was the fact that they led the league with 15.6 makes per g…