The Kansas City Royals are good for baseball, and not just because they’re a small market team vying for a postseason spot or because Bobby Witt Jr. is one of the game’s brightest young stars. No, the Royals are good for baseball because they’re a shining example of what every …
Read More »NFL Power Rankings Week 3: Cowboys, Ravens in trouble? Are Saints, Vikings for real?
It’s Week 3 of the NFL Power Rankings, and Tennessee Titans coach Brian Callahan speaks for all of us. What the (heck) are you doing, National Football League? In Week 2 action, the Vikings beat the 49ers, the Raiders beat the Ravens, the Buccaneers beat the Lions, Malik Willis and …
Read More »Who is each MLB playoff contender’s most indispensable ‘under-the-radar’ player? Execs weigh in
Every contending team has star players, but they also have those special players who often fly under the radar yet are indispensable to a team’s success during a playoff run. These players have intangibles that aren’t always seen by the public, and with the focus mostly on stars, they often …
Read More »What we learned from CFB’s Week 3: Arch Manning and other QB news; let’s enjoy trash talk
It’s a weekly challenge for college football fans: Let’s not make sweeping declarations after one game. It becomes even more challenging when the quarterback position is at the center of the conversation. It’s the most important position, in a game and the trajectory of a program. As we look across …
Read More »Kirk Cousins’ stunning game-winning drive shows why the Falcons paid him
PHILADELPHIA — Kirk Cousins didn’t want to say it, but Jessie Bates III finally admitted it. This is what the money is for. The Atlanta Falcons upset the Philadelphia Eagles 22-21 at Lincoln Financial Field on “Monday Night Football” on the backs of their most expensive free-agent acquisitions from the …
Read More »Traditionally birds of a different feather, Orioles and Ravens building unique bond in Baltimore
Eric DeCosta was on vacation on Cape Cod, his last downtime for many months. Training camp was still a few weeks away, and the Baltimore Ravens had no pressing issues at the moment. The mind of a talent evaluator, though, never rests. DeCosta’s childhood dreams of finding and developing players, …
Read More »Why Arch Manning leaving Texas after Quinn Ewers returned never would have made sense
On Jan. 11, Texas quarterback Quinn Ewers posted a video to more than 200,000 followers on Instagram. In it, he signed a trading card with his face and added a message below. “I’m coming back,” he wrote, holding the card up to the camera. The top comment on the post? …
Read More »MLB Power Rankings: Dodgers lose the top spot, Orioles slip; We hand out end-of-year awards
By Grant Brisbee, Andy McCullough and Stephen J. Nesbitt Every week, we ask a selected group of our baseball writers — local and national — to rank the teams from first to worst. Here are the collective results. There are two weeks left in the Major League Baseball regular season. Each …
Read More »Inside CBS’s Champions League coverage: ‘Thierry Henry gets asked about it more than Arsenal’
Pete Radovich, the coordinating producer of the UEFA Champions League coverage on CBS Sports, is reflecting on how he came to realise that the network’s Champions League Today studio now owns the global conversation on major nights of European football. “Thierry Henry, in no uncertain terms, says he gets asked …
Read More »Sidney Crosby’s new contract keeps him with Penguins — and in control
Before Sidney Crosby’s first home opener at Pittsburgh’s now-extinct Mellon Arena in October 2005, Mario Lemieux walked past a media scrum encircling Crosby and into the players’ lounge, pouring a cup of black coffee. Smirking, he opined about soon being “forgotten.” Then, in an unusually earnest moment, Lemieux predicted Crosby …
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