Last season, one of the biggest surprises turned out to be Matt Flynn losing the starting job with the Seattle Seahawks to Russell Wilson–who played a key role in helping the team reach the playoffs last year. Now, Flynn is looking forward to a fresh start with the Oakland Raiders and while the competition may [...]
The storied divisional rivalry between the Chicago Blackhawks and Detroit Red Wings had to end the way it did on Wednesday night. It wasn’t pretty at all, with penalties, shoving and controversy in abundance, but in the end, the two teams, who will now be in opposite conferences, shook hands in the middle of the [...]
After a shaky start to the regular season, the Philadelphia Phillies are slowly working their way back to having a .500 record after another impressive win over the Boston Red Sox on Wednesday. For a team that has been dealing with too many injuries, the Phillies have had to overcome more than they would have [...]
This season the New York Knicks were able to win a playoff series and advance to the second round of the NBA postseason for the first time in over a decade before fizzing out against the Indiana Pacers. One of the reasons for the Knicks demise was their lack of a complementary scorer to Carmelo [...]
Although the Clemson Tigers are by no means considered a huge underdog in their August 31, season-opening contest against the Georgia Bulldogs, not many actually expect them to win the game. Hang with the ‘Dawgs? Yes. Beat them? No. However, this week the Tigers were bestowed upon them a gift, via the off-season misfortunes of [...]
Christian Watford may not be the most raved about player entering the 2013 NBA Draft, but he was great for the Indiana Hoosiers, even in his senior season when Cody Zeller and Victor Oladipo seemed like the only two talked about players on this team. Who knows if Watford will make it in the NBA, [...]
Over the last couple of years, photo bombing has become quite the popular trend with professional sports and whether you’re a fan of the acts or not–you can’t deny the fact that it’s hysterical to see athletes pull them off. One of the latest victims–Cam Newton of the Carolina Panthers. As you can see in [...]
Ripping Washington D.C. of its famous “Redskins” nickname is like taking the Cowboys out of Dallas and then renaming them the Dallas Sheriffs. Sure, the change might satisfy the radical groups who love to rain on parades, but dropping Redskins should not be in the plans of perhaps the most popular NFL team. Unfortunately, the radical groups [...]
A torrid start to the season for Baltimore Orioles 1B Chris Davis has continued all the way through May, and there is no end in sight for his fantasy baseball owners. Davis crushed his league-leading 18th and 19th home runs during a 4-for-4 night in Wednesday’s 9-6 win over the Washington Nationals Wednesday night. After [...]
I seriously hope that England has far more options to pick from later this year when the crucial World Cup qualifiers arrive, because from tonight’s performance, there was little to be hopeful about. Joe Hart — 6/10 Hart had a fairly uneventful outing. He was beaten by a great Shane Long header, which he can’t [...]
Colin Kaepernick. Michael Crabtree. Frank Gore. Patrick Willis. Aldon Smith. Randy Moss. Not a bad list to choose from if you’re trying to guess which players I was referring to in my article title, but everybody knows what they can do and knows they will be important to the 49ers for obvious reasons. The following [...]
Few expected the San Francisco 49ers to duplicate the success of last season to quite the same degree in 2012. They weren’t injured a whole lot , David Akers had a historically successful year as a kicker and Alex Smith didn’t take any chances and so rarely did anything to hurt the team’s chances of [...]
Contrary to what some in the media are saying, the San Francisco 49ers‘ quarterback controversy did not begin with yesterday’s loss to the St. Louis Rams. It has been slowly building for most of the season, and picked up steam a few weeks back when Colin Kaepernick replaced Alex Smith at quarterback against the Rams [...]
You have to feel for Tim Tebow. Okay, so you don’t have to feel for him—Lord knows there are many out there who don’t—but you can understand how he might be feeling today after Rex Ryan finally decided to bench Mark Sanchez during yesterday’s game; a game which Tebow was not active for and so [...]
ESPN is reporting today that Colin Kaepernick will get the start for the San Francisco 49ers this Sunday against the St. Louis Rams. While it is hard to argue with the success Kaepernick has had in his first two NFL starts, you still have to feel a little bad for Alex Smith. This guy has [...]
News broke late Wednesday night that Colin Kaepernick will be receiving the first-team reps at quarterback this week. After Kaepernick and Alex Smith met with coach Jim Harbaugh and he informed them of this decision, the news soon spread that this move was not health-related, and eyebrows that were already raised inched ever higher. Considering [...]
As I wrote here on Rant almost a month ago, there is a quarterback controversy in San Francisco. The only difference between then and now is that now the rest of America knows about it. After Colin Kaepernick dazzled viewers across the nation on Monday Night Football last night as the San Francisco 49ers absolutely [...]
Tonight’s Monday Night Football tilt between the San Francisco 49ers and the Chicago Bears has the potential to be one of the ugliest games you will see in the National Football League this season. It already figured to be a low-scoring matchup between the league’s two best defenses, but now that both starting quarterbacks—Alex Smith [...]
This Sunday’s tilt between the NFC West-leading San Francisco 49ers and the NFC West cellar-dwellers, the St. Louis Rams, figures to be a major mismatch. San Francisco has a more potent offense, arguably the NFL’s best defense, and they are playing at home against a Rams squad that has yet to win on the road [...]
Tim Tebow’s NFL future continues to be murky. He managed to avoid getting traded by the New York Jets at this year’s deadline despite reports that the owner of the Jacksonville Jaguars continues to be very interested in trading for him (and wouldn’t you be interested considering how much the state of Florida loves him, [...]
