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Mike Tomlin Defends Mason Rudolph From Racial Slur Allegations

Mike Tomlin Defends Mason Rudolph From Racial Slur Allegations | Sports Takes & News | TooAthletic.com Myles Garrett has been reinstated by the league, bringing an end to his indefinite suspension just weeks after the conclusion of this last season. The suspension was a result of an ugly brawl between Garrett’s Cleveland Browns and the …

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Embiid Simmons Chemistry

Kendrick Perkins: Ben Simmons Speech About Chemistry With Embiid Was BS

Kendrick Perkins: Ben Simmons Speech About Chemistry With Embiid Was BS | Sports Takes & News | TooAthletic.com Joel Embiid and Ben Simmons have had what could be called “issues” with their chemistry this season, looking at times like a poor fit on the court. During the All Star Weekend festivities, Ben Simmons was asked …

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Stephen A. Smith Believes LeBron & Anthony Davis Will Be Enough To Get To The NBA Finals

LeBron Anthony Davis NBA Finals | Sports Takes & News | TooAthletic.com When LeBron James missed the playoffs for the first time in over a decade in his first year with the Lakers, people wondered how far away he was from competing for a title again in his career and whether he had enough time …

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ESPN Tries To Explain Joel Embiid And Jimmy Butler’s Cryptic Twitter Exchange

ESPN Tries To Explain Joel Embiid And Jimmy Butler’s Cryptic Twitter Exchange | Sports Takes & News | TooAthletic.com Something is rotten in the state of Philadelphia. Joel Embiid, The Process himself, came out to a chorus of boos in his latest home game, a byproduct of the 76ers uneven play for the first half …

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Stephen A. Smith Is Strongly Against The Sixers Ever Trading Joel Embiid

Joel Embiid Trade | Sports Takes & News | TooAthletic.com There seems to be some friction, if we want to understate it, between the Philadelphia 76ers and their superstar big man Joel Embiid. Embiid has returned to his old social media habits of clowning around and trolling fans and other players, something the team has …

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Philip Rivers Retire

Stephen A. Smith Believes Its Time For Philip Rivers To Retire

Stephen A. Smith Believes Its Time For Philip Rivers To Retire | Sports Takes & News | TooAthletic.com What we all thought was going to happen finally did, with Philip Rivers and the San Diego (I know not anymore, but I’m sticking with it) Chargers officially parting ways. Rivers is a classic example of unrealized …

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Marcus Morris

Kendrick Perkins: Time For Lakers To Start Panicking After Clippers Sign Marcus Morris

Kendrick Perkins: Time For Lakers To Start Panicking After Clippers Sign Marcus Morris | TooAthletic.com The Lakers stood pat at the trade deadline, opting to head into the latter portion of the season and playoffs with Lebron James, Anthony Davis, and the mannequins from Kohl’s in the starting lineup. Their co-tenants in Los Angeles were not …

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ESPN’s Jay Williams Loses It Over Joel Embiid’s Recent Effort

Joel Embiid Effort | Sports Takes & News | TooAthletic.com The Philadelphia 76ers are coming off of a disastrous, winless road trip that saw a pretty bothersome lack of effort in some games. A season that started out with so much promise has turned into one in which they are underachieving, now dealing with internal …

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Jay Williams

Jay Williams Goes Off On Max Kellerman For Choosing Kawhi Over LeBron

Jay Williams Goes Off On Max Kellerman For Choosing Kawhi Over LeBron | Sports Takes & News | TooAthletic.com Max Kellerman of First Take is in, well, the take business. Hot takes, lukewarm takes, smart takes, dumb takes, it’s where he plies his trade. So when he professed his belief recently that, at this moment, …

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Kevin Durant Burner Account

Max Kellerman Reacts To Kevin Durant Admitting To Having Burner Accounts

Max Kellerman Reacts To Kevin Durant Admitting To Having Burner Accounts | TooAthletic.com Kevin Durant has been caught on social media using “burner accounts,” a throwaway account that uses a fake name, to defend himself online. He was outed for this embarrassing behavior a couple of years ago when people noticed certain accounts had a …

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Frank Clark

Frank Clark Was Confident Jimmy Garoppolo Would Not Beat The Chiefs

Frank Clark Was Confident Jimmy Garoppolo Would Not Beat The Chiefs | Sports Takes & News | TooAthletic.com The Super Bowl this year was a treat, with a close game going into the fourth quarter before the Kansas City Chiefs started to pull away from the San Francisco 49ers. They ended up posting 21 unanswered …

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LeBron Playing

ESPN’s First Take Debate If LeBron Is Playing Too Hard In The Regular Season… No Seriously

ESPN’s First Take Debate If LeBron Is Playing Too Hard In The Regular Season… No Seriously | TooAthletic.com I try very hard not to fall into the trap of longing for days gone by, when talk of load management was never even dreamed of and players didn’t take days off unless necessary. But when I …

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Adam Schefter: Tua Tagovailoa Would Be Number One Pick If He Didn’t Get Injured

Tua Tagovailoa Joe Burrow | Sports Takes & News | TooAthletic.com The end of the college football season saw LSU capture the championship on the back of historically good performances from Joe Burrow, who has collected mountains of acclaim as the most pro ready quarterback prospect in years. Alternately, Alabama failed to even make the …

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Stephen A. Smith Has Doubts On Zion Williamson Leading The Pelicans To A Championship

Zion Williamson NBA Championship | TooAthletic.com Zion Williamson’s career with the Pelicans isn’t even ten games old yet, but with somebody as talented as Zion is people can’t help but look to the future. His impressive debut has opened the eyes of many sports pundits, albeit tempered by concerns about his ability to stay healthy, …

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Shannon Sharpe Believes Tom Brady Will Not Be On The Patriots Next Season

Tom Brady Leaving Patriots | Sports Takes & News | TooAthletic.com The will Tom Brady stay or will he go discussions are already at fever pitch, and we are just three days into this offseason. Patriots owner Bob Kraft made news recently with his declaration that the Patriots would be willing to pay top dollar …

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Brady Raiders

Stephen A. Smith Doesn’t Think The Raiders Are A Suitable Destination For Tom Brady

The end of the football season has done nothing to stop the swirl of rumors regarding Tom Brady’s eventual landing spot with his lack of a contract with the New England Patriots. A team that is repeatedly brought up is the Raiders, who would allow Tom Brady to return to his native West Coast and …

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Brett Brown

Matt Barnes On Sixers: They Don’t Respect Brett Brown Anymore

Matt Barnes On Sixers: They Don’t Respect Brett Brown Anymore | Sports Takes & News | TooAthletic.com The Philadelphia 76ers came into the season with high expectations, with many looking at them as favorites to come out of the East with Kawhi’s departure to LA. Pundits were expecting another year of progress for both Simmons …

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Patrick Mahomes Michael Jordan

Max Kellerman Can See Patrick Mahomes Reaching Michael Jordan Level

Max Kellerman Can See Patrick Mahomes Reaching Michael Jordan Level | Sports Takes & News | TooAthletic.com Fresh off of a Super Bowl MVP on his way to his first title, Patrick Mahomes stock is as high as it’s ever been. Having already captured a title in just his second year as a starter in …

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Eli Manning Hall Of Fame

Stephen A. Smith Targets Eli Manning As An Example Of How The NFL Hall Of Fame Is Easy To Get Into

Stephen A. Smith Targets Eli Manning As An Example Of How The NFL Hall Of Fame Is Easy To Get Into | TooAthletic.com Deion Sanders has never shied away from giving his opinion on a topic, so when the Football Hall of Fame came up while he was on the Dan Patrick Show his week, …

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Paul Pierce Discusses How Kobe Bryant’s Death Made Him Want To Mend The Relationship With His Father

Paul Pierce Kobe Bryant | Sports Takes & News | TooAthletic.com The Kobe Bryant tragedy helped to provide everybody with a type of perspective, a new outlook on a life we may take for granted. It’s sudden nature and the way it snatched the life away from people so young and full of life, providing …

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Dan Marino Super Bowl

Dan Marino Gives Patrick Mahomes The Most Basic Super Bowl Advice Ever

Dan Marino Gives Patrick Mahomes The Most Basic Super Bowl Advice Ever | Sports Takes & News | TooAthletic.com Dan Marino is one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time, but there is one thing associated with his reputation that he just can’t shake: his inability to bring a Super Bowl title to Miami. Marino …

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Brian Dawkins

Brian Dawkins Calls For Terrell Owens And Donovan McNabb To Squash Their Beef

Brian Dawkins Calls For Terrell Owens And Donovan McNabb To Squash Their Beef | TooAthletic.com A lot has been forgiven and forgotten by Eagles fans the last few years. Decades of suffering and heartbreak were alleviated when Nick Foles led them to a Super Bowl title filling in for Carson Wentz, their first championship in …

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Matthew Stafford Lions Tua

Bart Scott On Matthew Stafford: You’re Not Gonna Win A Super Bowl With Him

Matthew Stafford Lions Tua | Sports Takes & News | TooAthletic.com Tua Tagovailoa was the apple of everyone’s eye coming into this season, and while he is still a highly sought after prospect the focus certainly seems to have shifted away from him and towards Joe Burrow. This was not really through Tua’s own fault: …

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Adam Schefter NFL Draft

Adam Schefter Guarantees The Bengals Will Take Joe Burrow In The NFL Draft

Adam Schefter Guarantees The Bengals Will Take Joe Burrow In The NFL Draft | Sports Takes & News | TooAthletic.com It’s a story we have all seen play out before. A terrible team with a similarly terrible front office stumbles all the way to the worst record in the league, rewarding them with the top …

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Eli Manning Ben Roethlisberger

Stephen A. Smith And Max Kellerman Choose Between Eli Manning And Ben Roethlisberger

Stephen A. Smith And Max Kellerman Choose Between Eli Manning And Ben Roethlisberger | TooAthletic.com With Eli Manning’s retirement, he became the first of the Eli-Ben-Philip trio, all drafted in the same class in 2004, to hang up his cleats. With Rivers beginning to fizzle out in Los Angeles and Big Ben, missing the vast …

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Chiefs Receivers

Stephen A. Smith Says The Chiefs Have 3 Number One Receivers

Stephen A. Smith Says The Chiefs Have 3 Number One Receivers | Sports Takes & News | TooAthletic.com The Kansas City Chiefs are riding high going into next week’s Super Bowl, with their two playoff victories thus far coming on the backs of incredible offensive performances anchored by their elite starting quarterback, Patrick Mahomes. During …

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Stephen A. Smith Is Not Sure Daniel Jones Can Fill Eli Manning’s Shoes

Eli Manning Daniel Jones | Sports Takes & News | TooAthletic.com Eli Manning’s retirement came in part because of Daniel Jones. The New York Giants drafted Jones last offseason, signaling they were ready to move on from the Eli era, and with Manning’s desire to be a Giant for life it meant the end was …

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