Two decades ago, the San Francisco 49ers selected Utah quarterback Alex Smith with the first overall pick in the 2005 NFL Draft. According to Smith, today’s rookie quarterbacks are much better prepared for the National Football League than those of his era. In an appearance on the Rich Eisen Show, Smith cited the current college … Read more
Arman Tsarukyan stands as a former rival of Khamzat Chimaev. The two locked horns for a grappling match in the Russian fighting-based reality show, HYPE Global Reality, during the buildup of Tsarukyan’s cancelled fight against Islam Makhachev at UFC 310. Both fighters looked hell-bent on winning the encounter inside the cage, but the fight seemed … Read more
Every NFL team handles retired jersey numbers differently. The Pittsburgh Steelers, for example, only have three officially retired jersey numbers, but they have a plethora of unofficially retired numbers, like Ben Roethlisberger’s No. 7, that they do not hand out. The New York Giants, on the other hand, are tied with the Chicago Bears for … Read more
It is only sort of true to say that you know what you’re going to get when Donald Trump sits for a television interview. It is true in the sense that, after a decade spent alternately threatening and occupying the White House, everyone knows how he is going to act. There is some more uncertainty … Read more
Time is running out for star quarterback Dak Prescott to lead the Dallas Cowboys to success. After his 2024 season was cut short due to injury, he will have the opportunity to bounce back going into the 2025 campaign. However, he would benefit by having a stronger receiving corps to throw the ball to. Aside … Read more
The Cleveland Browns made the unorthodox move of drafting two quarterbacks in the middle rounds of the draft, taking Oregon standout Dillon Gabriel in the third and, surprisingly, Shedeur Sanders in the fifth. Now, the Browns have a quarterback room crowded with two rookies, 40-year-old veteran Joe Flacco, the injured Deshaun Watson, and former first … Read more
INTRO: You turn to Pewter Report for the inside scoop on the Bucs, especially when it comes to draft season. And we deliver. Here’s some of the scoop I was able to obtain about this year’s Tampa Bay draft class – and undrafted free agents – along with some of my insight and analysis. Enjoy! … Read more
TOKYO — Last year, when I visited Major League ballparks in Philadelphia and Minnesota for the first time, I made the same obvious-but-still-true observation: “It looks like it does on TV.” Well, Korakuen Hall feels like it does on TV, or at least, on the Japanese wrestling streams I watch on my laptop: unadorned, practical, … Read more
The Los Angeles Rams were in a complicated position heading into free agency. Two standouts of their past half-decade renaissance, Matthew Stafford and Cooper Kupp, were potentially on their way out, leaving Los Angeles staring at an uncertain situation. While they did bring back Stafford, the team elected to part ways with Kupp. Instead, they … Read more
As a child, Claire Sneed had a morbid fascination with natural disasters. In first grade, she followed NOAA’s online storm tracker. Later she witnessed Hurricanes Irene and Sandy sweep past her home in the Philadelphia area. On visits to Santa Fe to see her grandfather, Sneed marveled at the dramatic cliffs of Bandelier National Monument, … Read more