The highly anticipated rivalry game between Duke and North Carolina was set to be Duke’s freak phenom freshman Zion Williamson’s coming out coronation of the next great NBA prize, and he didn’t even make it out of the first minute of the game before coming out with an injury.
Colin Kaepernick’s attorney, Mark Geragos, announced that the collusion lawsuits, brought by Kaepernick and Eric Reid against the NFL for allegedly blackballing both players from being signed to an NFL team has been settled.
For the 2nd straight year, Dave Campbell’s Texas Football has released their “Program Rankings” for every school in Texas.
Dallas Cowboys WR Cole Beasley, who will become a free agent this off-season, recently took to Twitter to call out the Dallas Cowboys’ front office and it looks like he’s just about done with the Cowboys.
As a co-main event headliner for the incredibly one-sided fight between Pacquiao and a smack-talking sack of potatoes, boxers Badou Jack and Marcus Browne fought for the WBA light heavyweight title and WBC’s Silver 175 title on Saturday and boy was it a gruesome bloody mess.
Florida State has apologized for one of their accounts tweeting an incredibly bone-headed graphic of MLK positioned to look like he’s throwing the school’s signature tomahawk gesture with a photoshopped Nike branded glove fitted on his hand.
Jalen Hurts announced, via an article he wrote on The Players’ Tribune, his intentions to transfer from Alabama to Oklahoma to (likely) take over as starting quarterback this fall.
As the years pass, I’m starting to think that the New England Patriots’ incredible success over the last two decades is really due in large part of being blessed to play in the clown-college conference that is the AFC East.
Case in point, the New York Jets introduced ex-Miami Dolphins retread Adam Gase as their new head coach and man, did he look coked out of his fucking mind.
While we already have PLENTY of rankings of the top teams in the Valley from the Monitor, RGV Sports, (S)TD Dave, etc. the Bench Wire believes that EVERYONE needs their chance in the spotlight…even our comically terrible teams.
With the announcement of his retirement earlier today, it’s easy to assume that Manu Ginobili’s professional career will mostly be remembered for his contributions to the Spurs’ four championships as a member of San Antonio’s “Big Three” including Tim Duncan and Tony Parker and that’s really unfortunate. Summing his career like that is an incredibly criminal understatement because Manu was so much more. Manu was a wizard. Keep Reading
