Author: Black Dog
The Texas Longhorns are heading into the 2024 college football season with national championship aspirations. While they will be led at quarterback by Quinn Ewers, they also have Arch Manning as their backup. Manning is someone many expect to become a superstar next season since he’s not expected to get much time on the field this year barring disaster. Off the field, he has already put up the numbers a high-profile starting player would, since he is the No. 3 overall NIL athlete in the nation and is ranked No. 2 among college football players specifically. He…
Former Texas Longhorns safety Quandre Diggs is beginning a new NFL journey following a five-year career with the Seattle Seahawks. Per reports from NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport, the Tennessee Titans are signing Diggs to a one-year deal that includes some notable incentives for the veteran to reach toward. Rapoport tweeted, “The Titans are giving veteran safety Quandre Diggs a 1-year deal worth $3M base with $1M more in reachable incentives based on play-time and $1M more in performance-based incentives. Max value: $5M.” Diggs, 31, started his career with the Detroit Lions after being a sixth-round pick in the…
College football fans know Texas Longhorns quarterback Quinn Ewers very well. As one of the top players in the nation playing for a huge program, the football world has known about him for a very long time. Even people who aren’t huge college football fans have almost certainly heard the name because of NIL deals. It is hard to turn on the television or scroll through social media without seeing the Texas star somewhere. Ewers has capitalized big time on college athletes now being allowed to profit off of their name, image and likeness. Being on the…
Former USA women’s soccer star Megan Rapinoe named a favorite in the WNBA’s top rookie race between Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese, two of the league’s premiere stars. The battle between the Indiana Fever’s No. 1 overall pick and the game’s top first-year post player from the Chicago Sky has carried on from both stars’ respective college careers at Iowa and LSU. Rapinoe projects Clark, who leads the WNBA in assists, will win the league’s rookie of the year despite Reese setting a new record for consecutive double-doubles this summer. “I have Caitlin,” Rapinoe said. “She’s leading in…
Caitlin Clark, not Angel Reese, is the WNBA Rookie of the Year according to women’s basketball legend Sue Bird. Bird appeared at a panel discussion with girlfriend Megan Rapinoe and was asked about the hotly contested race between Clark and Reese. She credited both players for remarkable rookie seasons, but said that by the eye test, it’s Clark who should get the nod. “I don’t do the stat comparison,” Bird said. “It can help when things are close… I just do the eye test, and to me, [Caitlin Clark] is Rookie of the Year.” But she also…
Klay Thompson remembers telling Luka Doncic he thought the Dallas superstar was on a path to greatness after Golden State beat the Mavericks in the Western Conference finals two years ago. Now, Thompson has left the only NBA team he has known in 13 years to join the path to greatness. He joins Doncic and Kyrie Irving in Texas, he’s ready to celebrate with, rather than console, the 25-year-old sensation. “He was real gracious in defeat,” Thompson said of Doncic on Tuesday during his introductory news conference with the Mavs. “I just appreciate someone who is not afraid…
Kyrie Irving broke his left hand during an offseason workout and had surgery, and the Dallas Mavericks didn’t provide a timeline for his recovery in an announcement of the injury Tuesday night. Irving and Luka Doncic led the Mavericks to the NBA Finals in their first full season together. Boston won the title series in five games. The 32-year-old Irving averaged 25.6 points in 58 games during the regular season while dealing with foot, heel and thumb injuries. Irving made his deepest playoff run since going to the finals with Cleveland in 2017, and helped the Mavs…
Steelers’ Trade Talks For Brandon Aiyuk Are Heating Up With 49ers: ‘Motivated Now To Get Something Done’ The Pittsburgh Steelers have been closely monitoring the situation with the San Francisco 49ers and their disgruntled receiver, Brandon Aiyuk. All offseason long, Aiyuk has been talking about how he wants a new contract, and how the 49ers don’t even want him on the team at all. The Steelers have recently denied the claims that they were looking to trade for any big-name receiver, but Omar Khan is known as a guy that will always at least learn the asking price of a…
The Pittsburgh Steelers wrapped up Week 2 of training camp on Sunday, taking Monday as a rest day ahead of the homestretch of camp and Friday’s preseason game against the Houston Texans. A jam-packed six days of action, the past week was an appetizer for what we will see ahead of September 8th’s kickoff in Atlanta. And while there were plenty of players who walked away from Week 2 with a rise in stock, similar to what happened in the real world on Monday, here are the Steelers seeing their percentages fall. me Quizzes Watch Newsletter Steelers Stock…
It’s never smart to overreact to small sample sizes. We have decades of baseball data to tell us as much. But that does not change the fact that the Orioles have felt different—more exciting—over the last week compared to the previous month. The Orioles are 6-3 over their last nine games. In the five weeks preceding that, they were 12-18. While correlation might not equal causation, the roster transformation that has taken place recently cannot be ignored as at least a contributing factor to the turnaround. O’s GM Mike Elias used the trade deadline (and the surrounding days)…