data-mm-id=”_j9r9xgha6″>The Madden 21 trailer came out this morning. Lamar Jackson is on the cover after winning MVP and emerging as the most exciting player in football by quite a margin. It will not shock you to learn that he looks as difficult to tackle in a video game as he does in real life. The trailer is also not kind to young quarterbacks. I'm pretty sure every first or second-year QB set to start this season was sacked in this trailer. However, as longtime fans of Madden know, getting excited for the new year's edition is an annual exercise in disappointment. The rosters are updated, the graphics are better, and basic mechanics are given tweaks. But nothing really ever changes. It's actually remarkable how stagnant the game has been for over a decade now. That&#…

data-mm-id=”_t1fzt6j11″>The 2020 NFL season is finally here. The Houston Texans face the Kansas City Chiefs on Thursday evening in front of a small crowd of Chiefs fans with many millions more tuning in across the country. Kansas City is kicking off their title defense. Houston looks to avenge last season's playoff loss at the hands of Patrick Mahomes and his cohorts. These two teams are in similar places when looking at the big picture. Both signed their young, superstar quarterbacks to big extensions this offseason and will be building around them for the next five years at least. These two quarterbacks are good enough that both squads have championship hopes. But while the Chiefs are perched on the edge of a potential dynasty, the Texans have a lot to prove in 2020. Specificall…

data-mm-id=”_vm6nct6iw”>The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are tied with the Dallas Cowboys and Detroit Lions with nine dropped passes this season, a stat that Tom Brady would like to see improve a bit but is ultimately helpless to change. A wise person once explained that Tommy cannot throw and catch the balls, no matter how advantageous such a situation would be.A reporting covering the NFL asked Bucs coach Bruce Arians about the extremely normal and not-at-all obscure category during media availability today, as one would do if they were preparing a story for the next day's paper on all the butterfingers out there.Arians reacted this way:"I don't know who the hell makes up these stats," Bruce Arians says when told his team leads the NFL in dropped passes this season.— Gr…

data-mm-id=”_owylfcfwi”>LeBron James is the best basketball player alive. Everyone knows this and has known it for a decade. But most of those years he was not the most valuable player in basketball, according to the people who vote for such things. That is, of course, a silly notion. Between his ability to elevate his teammates and the financial implications of his presence within an organization, there are few athletes in the world, much less the NBA, who are more valuable than LeBron. But the MVP award is about which player was most valuable to their team on the court that season. The 2018-19 season where LeBron missed a good chunk of games due to injury and missed the playoffs is the only year of the 2010s that he definitely was not the MVP. He has a case varying in degree of stren…

data-mm-id=”_zms6c67t1″>Mad Dog Unleashed's annual Super Bowl trivia contest is usually a nice, fun event providing sports radio listeners who have a tremendous amount of knowledge about history an outlet instead of having them cornering uninterested LIRR riders. But this year it's been rocked with scandal. The particulars are a bit unclear to non-listeners yet they don't really matter. Because Chris Russo noticed something untoward happening and laid down the law yesterday as only he can. Here’s radio Hall of Famer @MadDogUnleashed completely losing his mind (and name dropping some guy named Trainer) after someone misrepresented themselves during his Super Bowl trivia contest today. Absolute gold from start to finish. pic.twitter.com/zSxDCiMV3e— Jimmy Traina (@Jimmy…

data-mm-id=”_w614zmru1″>Donald Trump was interviewed by Larry Kudlow on Fox Business. The interview touched on many business things, but both Kudlow and Trump were especially passionate about Joe Biden's supposed war against comfort appliances. This gave Trump a chance to explain how there is plenty of water for everyone because it comes straight from heaven. Trump: "Most of the country has plenty of water. Rain from heaven. It comes right from heaven. Beautiful rain, you don't know what to do." pic.twitter.com/2iL65A2W6Q— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 17, 2023"So you remember when we were having a discussion about it. They sell, if you buy a new house, you have water that doesn't even come out. Even if you're in areas – most of the country has plen…

data-mm-id=”_wlbwn9quu”>The Miami Dolphins traveled to Germany earlier this week as they prepare to take on the Kansas City Chiefs in Frankfurt on Sunday morning, which will easily be the best NFL game that has taken place overseas to date. The Dolphins flew out on Monday and spent a few days getting acclimated before speaking to reporters on Wednesday morning. Mike McDaniel, ever the jokester, came to his presser prepared with an opener joke to make the international group in front of him laugh. And boy, did it not work. McDaniel made a crack about how he looks bigger in person and there was not a single laugh. You can very faintly hear a pity chuckle in the back but it may as well have been dead silent. He tried a follow-up, got nothing, and moved on. Mike McDaniel — in Germany pic…

data-mm-id=”_fmi8jf7j1″>Jersey swaps have become a thing across all of sports. It's a way for athletes to show respect for each other after hard-fought contests. Occasionally they can get weird. That happened on Thursday night. After the Milwaukee Bucks beat the San Antonio Spurs 125-121 in a thriller, Bucks center Robin Lopez did a jersey swap… with San Antonio's mascot. Yes, Robin Lopez, long-time veteran NBA center swapped jerseys with "Coyote." It was quite a scene. Here's video:Robin Lopez did a jersey swap with the Spurs mascot 😂😂 pic.twitter.com/RFkJvQ22xY— CJ Fogler account may or may not be notable (@cjzero) January 5, 2024In case you're wondering, no Lopez has never played for the Spurs. So this wasn't a coming back …