Notre Dame came into this college football season ranked ninth, and upended the Louisville Cardinals pretty easily on Labor Day. This continues the string of regular season success they have had going back through last year’s undefeated campaign that landed them a College Football Playoff selection. However, in that postseason game, they were beaten in …
Jadeveon Clowney was dealt to the Seattle Seahawks in the last week in a trade with the Texans, one that from the outside seems as though the Texans did not really receive the value they should have gotten for a player of Clowney’s quality. However, the star pass rusher was disappointed with the Texans method …
Damien Woody and Marcus Spears filled in for the normal First Take crew, with Stephen A. Smith and Max Kellerman taking a break before the non stop action of the NFL regular season. While kicking around how the two of them expected the NFC South to shake out, the question of who the most talented …
Aaron Rodgers is coming off of another disappointing season up in Green Bay, one bad enough to cost former head coach Mike McCarthy his job. With a new coaching regime coming in, many have tempered their expectations for what the Packers should expect to do this year. Max Kellerman, however believes that despite all of …
The New York Giants made the decision to select Daniel Jones as their quarterback of the future in the draft this offseason, and while it wasn’t an automatic death knell for Eli Manning’s career, it certainly put an expiration date on it. Many believe Eli should still start the season out of respect for all …
Framed against the backdrop of Serena Williams, and her quest to win yet another major tournament championship in Queens at the US Open, Stephen A. Smith took the crew of First Take on the road to the courts to discuss who he felt were the five most impactful athletes in history. This was meant to …
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Josh Gordon has been in and out of the league for the entirety of his career because of his inability to step away from illegal substances long enough not to fail drug tests, and in the most recent chapter in his saga he has been reinstated after a long suspension. He will rejoin the New …
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Baker Mayfield has made a lot of headlines this offseason centered around the nonsense that has come out of his mouth. Patrick Mahomes spent last season generating headlines because of the incredible, superhuman things he did on the field. With both of these high profile passers heading into next season with huge expectations, its no …
Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O’Neal have tossed their long term beef back on the barbeque just before the long Labor Day weekend, with Kobe saying that if O’Neal shared his work ethic, he would have a dozen rings rather than the five he ended up with. Shaq, never one to take these things laying down, …
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Antonio Brown, between the frostbitten feet and the helmet dispute, has had a tumultuous offseason. One thing that had never seemingly come into question was his talent and rank as one of the best pass catchers in the league, but the slew of issues surrounding the wide out may have changed a few people’s minds. …
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In my longtime favorite beef ever, Lakers greats Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O’Neal have been thrust back into the spotlight by Kobe’s recent claim that Shaq would have been the greatest of all time if he had been endowed with Kobe’s work ethic. Kobe went on to claim that he would have twelve rings if …
I’m pretty sure I just wrote a post where Stephen A. Smith of First Take was singing the praises of Cam Newton to the heavens, but here I am today writing a post about how Smith believes Cam is overrated. I’m proud that Smith has come around to reason, but disoriented by how fast the …
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As the league continue to reflect and react to Andrew Luck’s departure from the game in what would seem to be the prim of his career, one unexpected outcome of his retirement could be difficulty in getting players to accept an 18 game season that many of the owners had been hoping to use to …
A lot of ink is being spilled about Indianapolis fans booing Andrew Luck when they learned about his plans to retire as he walked off the field the other night after a preseason game. Many have pinned it on the callousness of the fans, but one person who thinks the boo birds were justified is …
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Man, who would have thought a week ago that Robert Griffin III would be in the league longer than Andrew Luck? Drafted in 2012 in the same class, up until this moment there careers had few parallels, with Griffin absorbing an early injury and failing to land a starting job since he left Washington, and …
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Clearly the biggest story of the NFL preseason will be the premature retirement of Andrew Luck, who cited a loss of love for the game as his reason for hanging up his cleats early. Nagged by injuries and exposed to abuse by a forever terrible offensive line, he has elected to call it a career …
Cam Newton’s career in the NFL has been one of extreme ups and downs. For certain, there have been stretches put him, at the peak of his talents, as a perennial MVP candidate in the league. However, shortcomings in the postseason have limited his reputation as a juggernaut in the sport, and injuries have further …
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Ezekiel Elliot and the Dallas Cowboys are embroiled in what is clearly a pretty contentious dispute about his value to the franchise. With Zeke refusing to report for training camp or preseason games until a new deal is worked out, it is becoming clear he may miss some real time to start the season. With …
Jalen Rose joined Mike Greenberg on Get Up to react to former NBA player Royce White’s recent comments that Carmelo Anthony was being blackballed by teams, and should be playing in the league in the coming season. Rose echoed that sentiment. “There are 450 getting paid to play this sport this year. I would say, …
Carmelo Anthony, after a long NBA career that has been successful by anybody’s metric, currently finds himself on the outside looking in on the league that has long been his home. Dogged by talk of selfish play and locker room turmoil, it seems teams have determined he just isn’t worth the headaches for the production …
Comments by Baker Mayfield made months ago regarding the New York Giants’ to draft Daniel Jones recently came to light, and they are not flattering. The comments, at face value, have Mayfield intoning that the Giants chose poorly with Jones because he did not do enough winning in college, with Baker saying, “Some people overthink …
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Max Kellerman has been spending too much time with Stephen A. Smith. He has fallen under the impression that making an argument repeatedly and loudly will make it correct. Such was the case when he claimed that the Giants would regret their decision to deal malcontent Odell Beckham Jr., to the Browns this offseason. “Yes …
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A recent survey of NBA rookies revealed that, among incoming rookies, only five percent believe that the much hyped Zion Williamson is going to have the best career among at the end of their respective runs in the league. While this is an opinion that has met some agreement with some scouts who fear Zion’s …
It certainly seems as though the Lakers and Dwight Howard are ready to enter the second stage of their professional relationship, with LA getting the okay from the Memphis Grizzlies to work out the aging center to see if they would be interested in dealing for him. It’s almost as though everybody has forgotten how …
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The Antonio Brown situation has gone nowhere fast, with a protracted disagreement with the league about which helmets would be legal for him to wear on the field seemingly devoid of any real resolution. That does not mean, however, that it hasn’t made for interesting viewing. While the Raiders wait impatiently for their diva receiver …