Out of sight, out of mind. While some may see the San Diego Chargers’ decision to keep rookie linebacker Manti Te’o away from the media as a step in the wrong direction, the headline snatcher can only benefit from the move. Even with their relentless need for more Manti, the media can’t keep feeding off [...]
Coming into Saturday’s game, fans of the Chicago Blackhawks were trying to be optimistic. They kept invoking memories of the team’s seven-game quarterfinals series against the Vancouver Canucks in 2011. The team fought back after being down 3-0 in the series only to lose in overtime in Game Seven. This time, the Blackhawks would fight [...]
One thing seems to be a constant among the best teams in Major League Baseball. Each of them have at least one breakout offensive star. Also each has a supporting cast of offensive stars that regularly produce and take the pressure off of the big producing star. Each of them has as strong starting pitching [...]
Throughout the 2012-2013 NBA regular season, much of the same narrative could be found when it came to the San Antonio Spurs; “they’re too old to keep up the pace” or “they’re fizzle out in the playoffs like they have the last couple seasons”. Apparently this is the year where the Spurs prove their doubters [...]
Thankfully, the college football season is just 97 days away. With that in mind, it’s time to preview team No. 97 in the Rant Sports 100 in 100 series: the Marshall Thundering Herd. Let’s be honest: last season was a huge disappointment for MU fans. Entering the season fresh off of a St. Petersburg Bowl victory, the Herd dropped to [...]
The Kansas Jayhawks will have a very similar situation in the 2013-14 college basketball season as the Kentucky Wildcats had this past season. Don’t get me wrong, these two teams play in two very different conferences and have completely different players. However, Kentucky had a great recruiting class coming in, with really no one on [...]
Memorial Day weekend is the opening weekend of the 6th Installment of the Fast and Furious Franchise as the worldwide opening of Fast and Furious 6 premiers. With the booming financial success of Fast Five in 2o11, Fast Six promises to do just as well and the numbers are currently proving it as we speak. It appears that pop culture [...]
The major private school in Oklahoma – Tulsa — and the two major state universities — Oklahoma and Oklahoma State — are usually not fond of one another, especially when it comes to college sports, but after this week’s tragedy in Oklahoma City, these universities have put their on-field rivalries aside, and have come together to raise [...]
Houston, we have a problem. Actually, not at all, but I have been waiting to be able to “say” that for quite some time now, and you are not going to ruin it. Anyway, we continue the Fantasy 32 series with the run-heavy Houston Texans. We are beginning to put a serious dent into all [...]
Take a deep breath Manchester City fans, Sergio Aguero has inked a one-year extension with the club to keep him until the summer of 2017. The Argentine striker has become an idol in the blue half of Manchester since his stunning goal against QPR to win the 2011-2012 Premier League title. Aguero has been a rumored target of Spanish [...]
Howard Smith – USA Today Sports Chip Kelly will have the final say in who lines up under center on Sept. 9 when the Philadelphia Eagles travel to our nation’s capital to square off with the Washington Redskins. However, he isn’t likely to make that call anytime soon. Nick Foles and Michael Vick are embroiled [...]
Since the day he accepted the job as Philadelphia Eagles head coach, Chip Kelly has asserted that it is an open competition for the team’s starting quarterback job. If fans and observers of this team did not take Kelly at his word in January, all assuredly took notice after the Eagles moved up in the [...]
For the first time since the tail-end of the Philadelphia Eagles’ atrocious 2012 campaign, the Birds’ backup, scrub QB Nick Foles is actually making headlines. Foles raised eyebrows Wednesday when he said that he believes he will win the competition for the Eagles’ starting quarterback job heading into the 2013 season. The Eagles had high [...]
If Chip Kelly wasn’t the head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles, then there’s probably a good chance that Nick Foles would be the starting quarterback for the team. But with the change in offensive schemes, Foles now finds himself almost guaranteed of backing up Michael Vick in the 2013 season. The main reason why? At [...]
The relentless backlash against QB Michael Vick has certainly been well-documented and largely debated ever since 2007, when he was convicted of financing and operating an illegal dog-fighting ring. Well unfortunately, in the midst of his current book tour promoting his new autobiography, Finally Free, the backlash escalated to violent threats directed towards himself as [...]
The overwhelming majority of headline news that has surrounded the Philadelphia Eagles ever since the conclusion of their horrid 2012 campaign has been regarding the quarterback position. At first, we were all waiting anxiously for QB Michael Vick to be cut loose, until the Eagles decided to keep him in Philly by restructuring his contract [...]
It was less than a year ago when Philadelphia Eagles’ fans seemed oh-so certain that QB Nick Foles would be their franchise savior who would take over for the aging and battered QB Michael Vick. Currently, Foles is the clear-cut third-teamer for head coach Chip Kelly when it comes to the quarterback spot, as Vick [...]
After spending ten years with the Philadelphia Eagles from 1999-2008, Pat Shurmur was only able to stay out of Philly for four years before being lured back by new Eagles head coach Chip Kelly. Shurmur saw much greater days with the Eagles, where he experienced incredible success as QB Donovan McNabb’s quarterback coach, than with the [...]
Following a horrifying 4-12 campaign this past season, the Philadelphia Eagles can’t look past any budding talent in this year’s 2013 NFL Scouting Combine, which begins Thursday. Each and every year, the Combine proves to be one of the most important factors in an athlete’s draft status, because the glorified event gauges nearly every physical [...]
