This week, Adam Schefter reported that the NFL will be ending the traditional “Pro Bowl” game to end the season. Instead, Pro Bowlers will participate in various competitive skill competitions across a “Pro Bowl Weekend.” NFL is replacing the Pro Bowl with a multi-day skills competition and flag football game that will be played in […]
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On Thursday, the NBA officially retired Bill Russell’s jersey number 6 across the entire NBA. The move came less than two weeks after Russell passed away at his home in Mercer Island, WA. Russell famously won 11 championships in 13 seasons with the Boston Celtics, including two titles where he served the franchise as a […]
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The NBA off-season is filled with WojBombs, empty gym workout videos, and the occasional appearance at fashion week. While NBA players have been active in Pro-Am leagues and tournaments for decades, their visibility has increased dramatically in the social media age. This summer, after an impromptu appearance by LeBron James, The Drew League in Los […]
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What’s in a jersey number? In team sports, players wear numbers on their uniforms as a way to differentiate from one another. Whether it’s for a new fan, a season ticket holder in the nosebleeds, or the statistician, the number on the jersey is just supposed to separate players from one another. 45, 34, and […]
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The Las Vegas Summer League has been one of the most booming attractions in the NBA. Each summer, NBA teams send their young and prospective players to Las Vegas, amongst other cities, to get some organized basketball on film. While fans don’t get to see the workouts in between game days, it also gives the […]
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The Las Vegas Summer League is the unofficial red carpet event of the NBA summer. Stars show up to watch their young players. Executives come to spy on their investments from draft night. Management takes breaks from cutting deals on their phones to watch the young assets they’re dealing. All of this happens in the […]
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Fans of the Houston Rockets went into the weekend jubilant. After a successful draft night, Houston has begun the countdown to the Las Vegas Summer League next month. While the roster is still to be determined it will presumably feature all three rookies from the draft as well as a handful of second-year players who […]
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Friday, June 24th, 2022 will be a monumental day in history books. In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court of the United States overturned the Roe v. Wade decision from 1973. Roe famously protected a woman’s right to choose to have an abortion at a federal level. If you didn’t notice, Justice Clarence Thomas wrote […]
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After another season full of growth in losses, the Rockets missed the playoffs. But Houston Rockets fans have been looking forward to the NBA Draft since the season ended on April 10th (if not before). While the majority of the league began focusing on playoff basketball, the Rockets and their fans dove into the tape […]
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After what felt like a decade of discussion, the 18-month Christian Wood experiment is over in Houston. Wood arrived in Houston in a sign and trade that, at the moment, made him a tertiary piece on a roster competing for the NBA Championship. With James Harden and Russell Westbrook, the Houston Rockets felt they had […]
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NBA historians look at the 1980s as a time when the game was changing. The game was slowly moving to the perimeter. Stars like Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, and Michael Jordan were coming into the league of giants and immediately shifting the way the NBA played basketball. Simultaneously, NBA coaches were having to adjust. As […]
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“I’m not going to talk about basketball… Any basketball questions don’t matter.” – Steve Kerr Golden State Warriors Coach Steve Kerr opened up his pregame press conference with emotions. Eerily familiar emotions. Uniquely American emotions. Unintentionally rehearsed emotions. Kerr opened the presser and spent two minutes pouring his heart out onto the Warriors branded table […]
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For those who haven’t followed the story, or listened to the “F” In Sports podcast, I am a history teacher by day. I’ve been teaching since the fall of 2013, and have had a number of very sharp and very fun students. Frequently, I get an advisory full of sports fans because I am a […]
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How I Met Your Mother was a series that went on for nine seasons on CBS. In the first season, about halfway through, Ted Mosby and the crew are in a limo going from New Year’s Eve party to New Year’s Eve party. The crux of the episode is that New Year’s Eve is an […]
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