Month: October 2024

data-mm-id=”_h78w0tn9d”>Skip Bayless, who follows zero people on Twitter, combined several of his passions into one tweet on Christmas Day. Weightlifting. Bragging. Building a take around LeBron James. Here it is. I'm lifting weights while watching LeBron-Luka. They finally closed the gym in my gated community. LA is now the world Covid epicenter. Got a new home gym for Christmas. Cardio every day. Lift every Mon/Wed/Fri, even on Christmas. Love it. #NeverMiss— Skip Bayless (@RealSkipBayless) December 26, 2020Can you imagine how jacked the 69-year-old is going to be in a few months now that he won't have to waste time walking down to the clubhouse at his gated community and can use that time for extra sets of tricep pulldowns and calf raises? Dude's going to look NICER…

data-mm-id=”_9p7k4z430″>Two months ago, when the Golden State Warriors were playing the Sacramento Kings in the first round of the playoffs, Draymond Green's future with the franchise was considered up in the air. He could hit free agency after the season was over and his evisceration of Domantas Sabonis' chest made many pundits publicly question whether the Warriors really wanted him back. At that time, we here at The Big Lead pondered where Green might end up should he leave the Warriors. Golden State would go on to defeat the Kings even after Green got suspended for the stomp but fell to the Los Angeles Lakers in the following round. Now Green has officially opted out of his contract and will become an unrestricted free agent. Golden State Warriors four-time NBA champion D…

data-mm-id=”_nujaedpkw”>The Taylor Swift-Travis Kelce romance has been really good for ratings and NBC's Sunday Night Football got a big boost from her latest appearance at a Kansas City Chiefs game. The Chiefs' 23-20 win over the New York Jets in Week 4 scored huge ratings for the network. This week's Sunday Night Football drew an average audience of 27 million viewers, which was up 22 percent over the same week in 2022. At its peak (from 9:30 to 9:45 p.m. ET), the game had 29.4 million viewers. NBC claims the audience also included 2 million more women.NBC also made the following notes:Compared to an average of the first three weeks of "Sunday Night Football," the biggest demographic gains were among girls 12 to 17 (53%), women 18 to 24 (24%) and women older …

data-mm-id=”_dl24ex830″>The Pittsburgh Steelers and Arizona Cardinals played a never-ending game this afternoon as inclement weather forced two separate delays. This meant everybody's enthusiasm was waning by the fourth quarter, which is normally true of any 2023 Steelers game but was especially the case on Sunday. That did not stop Diontae Johnson from embarrassing himself on the field again. Down 24-3 after many helpless offensive drives and missing Kenny Pickett, Pittsburgh actually managed to get down the field and score a touchdown with less than five minutes left in the game. Mitchell Trubisky found Diontae Johnson for the score. Johnson's stunning inability to score touchdowns has been a running storyline for two seasons now so it probably shouldn't have surprised…

data-mm-id=”_rykpnj70f”>The start of Doc Rivers' tenure with the Milwaukee Bucks has been defined by losing and a whole lot of complaining from the head coach. The Bucks entered the All-Star Break with a record of 3-7 with Rivers at the helm. The final loss before the break was perhaps the worst of them all as Milwaukee lost to the Memphis Grizzlies, who at this point are missing their entire starting lineup. Rivers accused his roster of mentally being on vacation already. Which is a bit of a funny heel turn after his media appearances to that point had been basically devoid of criticism and instead were chock-full of quotes bemoaning how difficult his job was after taking over halfway through the year. Enter the We're All Trying To Find The Guy Who Did This meme. Rivers was …

data-mm-id=”_xfhikiqw7″>Long associated with college athletics, the phrase "pay for play" took on a slightly different meaning with the advent of NIL in the NCAA. Now, thanks to the Oklahoma State Cowboys football program, the phrase "pay by play" may become in vogue.Led by Mike Gundy, who is in his 20th year as head coach, the Cowboys will be wearing QR codes on their helmets this season which will allow fans to donate to a general team fund which will be split between every student-athlete on the team's roster.Affixed to the back of each helmet via 1.5-square-inch decals, the codes will feature each player's name and number in the design. The team doesn't anticipate the QR codes to be visible from the stands, but it does expect them to be useful for…

data-mm-id=”_u167qyhtx”>Through two weeks in the NFL season it's difficult to separate the contenders from the pretenders. ESPN's FPI calculates each team's current playoff odds — it hasn't updated the New England Patriots and New York Jets odds after Thursday night's game — and right now 15 teams have higher than 50% chance to reach the postseason.Just using FPI's numbers heading into Week 3, the seeding for each conference would look like this:AFC: The Kansas City Chiefs, Buffalo Bills, Houston Texans and Pittsburgh Steelers would be division winners, and the Los Angeles Chargers, Jets and Cincinnati Bengals would be the wild cards.NFC: The New Orleans Saints, Philadelphia Eagles, San Francisco 49ers and Green Bay Packers would be division winners, and…