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NFL Rumors – Minnesota Vikings & Teddy Bridgewater Want Touchdowns, Not Completions
From the little that there is to learn from the hall of fame preseason game between the Minnesota Vikings and Pittsburgh Steelers, we can make out that Teddy Bridgewater would have felt a lot better with himself had he done a little bit more.
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Nations With the Most Gold Medals in the 2015 Swimming World Championships
The 2015 Swimming world championships in Kazan are over, with the United States once again finishing on top of the medal count, gold and overall, this time thanks to one swimmer, Katie Ledecky. Australia follow with three swimmers (Mitch Larkin, Bronte Campbell and Emily Seebohm) all taking double golds in their individual events while China […]
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World Records Broken in the 2015 Swimming World Championships
A world record was broken 12 times in the 2015 Swimming world championships in Kazan, often by the same person in the same event day after day. Those who stood out were Sarah Sjostrom of Sweden in butterfly events, Adam Peaty of the United Kingdom in the breaststroke and above all of them was Katie Ledecky of the United States with an incredibly dominant week, taking no less than five gold medals.
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Liverpool FC – Philippe Coutinho Provided a Light in the Darkness
Entering something of a do-or-die season for Brendan Rodgers, Liverpool, through a beautiful Philippe Coutinho strike, managed to rise above the dreadfulness of their season opener to pick up a win in a stadium they usually don’t leave with smiles on their faces over the last few years.
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Arsenal FC – Arsene Wenger Didn’t Expect Petr Cech to Fail Him
An opening day loss for Arsenal isn’t something new, but Arsene Wenger thought the last person who’d fail him in yet another season that sets off in the wrong way will be Petr Cech, having a miserable debut for the Gunners.
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Swimming World Championships – Day 8 Results, Gold & Medal Table
The final day of the swimming world championships was packed with events, and saw one American gold medal with the 4×100 men’s medley relay, enough to put them on top of the medal table in both overall and golds. Gregorio Paltrinieri of Italy won the men’s 1500 meters freestyle; Camille Lacourt of France took the men’s 50 meters backstroke; Daiya Seto of Japan won the men’s 400 meters individual medley; Bronte Campbell of Australia won the women’s 50 meters freestyle; Jennie Johansson of Sweden won the women’s 50 meters breaststroke; Katinka Hosszu of Hungary won the women’s 400 meters individual medley and China won the final race of the championship, the women’s 4×100 medley relay.
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Phelps vs Le Clos – The Best (and only?) Feud in Swimming
It seems that Michael Phelps posting impressive times in butterfly swims away from the World Championships is re-igniting something a personal feud between him and Chad Le Clos, who has been doing a lot of trash talking (Phelps does too, on a more minor scale), already getting ready for when the two clash in the pool a year from now in the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
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Lubbock is the Most Boring City in the United States
The “home” of Texas Tech University, the city of Lubbock, Texas has been ranked as the most boring city in the United States, among those with at least 100,000 inhabitants.
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NBA Rumors – Los Angeles Lakers & Dallas Mavericks Interested in Signing JaVale McGee
Surprisingly JaVale McGee is drawing interest from a number of NBA teams looking to solidify their big man rotation, with the Dallas Mavericks and Los Angeles Lakers leading the charge.
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NFL Rumors – San Diego Chargers Happy About the Slimmer Keenan Allen
It’s been a strong training camp for Keenan Allen, coming in slimmer and lighter by six pounds compared to last season, making the San Diego Chargers very optimistic about his performance in the upcoming season.