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  This summer, the New York Jets went all in as they acquired Super Bowl champion quarterback Aaron Rodgers from the Green Bay Packers. The Jets gave up 4 draft picks for Rodgers in the hopes that he would be the savior - the one that would lead Gang Green to the promised land of the Super Bowl. He had even restructured his contract to give the Jets more flexibility in terms of the salary cap. His much anticipated Jets debut would come on the 22nd anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on America - a nationally televisied Monday Night Football game against the AFC East rival Buffalo Bills. This is where things would go horribly wrong. It was a routine 1st down play. Jets were lined up in the gun package on offense with the Bills lined up in the dime defense. Rodgers is the kind of quarterback who can extend plays and make his own time in the pocket. However...that didn't happen. The protection from the offensive line broke down, which allowed Bills linebacker Leonard Floyd to easily pierc...

 We are 2 months shy of the start of the 2023-24 NCAA Mens' Basketball season on November 6, when the road to the Final Four at State Farm Stadium in Glendale will begin in earnest. With tipoff fast approaching, I think it's time to take a look at who I think are the top teams heading into the season and who will be the first four in, the last four in and the first four out in the road to Glendale. 1. UConn Would be pretty hard not to put the defending National Champions atop this list. Sure, the losses of Adama Sonago and Andre Jackson to the NBA Draft do hurt, but Tristen Newton is back and the losses of Sonago and Jackson are quickly offset by a top five recruiting class that includes combo guard Stephon Castle. Plus Cam Spencer is coming over from Rutgers to bring some experience and top-tier shooting ability. Expect the Huskies to be a threat for the National Title again. 2. Kansas The return of Kevin McCullar Jr. as well as incoming players Nick Timberlake and Hunter Dick...

 With just three weeks to go until baseball's postseason, the road to the World Series looks to run through Baltimore in the American League and Atlanta in the National League respectively. But what about the preseason favorites - the ones all the prognosticators expected to make it into the October party?  The Mets, Padres and Yankees all made significant upgrades over the past winter, spending big bucks on their rotation, their bullpens, their lineups all in an attempt to make it to October and potentially make a run at the World Series. But as Murphy's law dictates - whatever can go wrong will go wrong. And for the Mets, Padres and Yankees, that's exactly what happened. Whatever could go wrong did. So what really went wrong for these 3 teams? We begin with... NEW YORK METS The Mets under Steve Cohen have been no stranger to spending...and spending big. They lose arguably the best pitcher of a generation in Jacob deGrom to the Texas Rangers. Cohen counters by going out an...

 For my first post in 3 years, let's take a look at one of the biggest controversies in NASCAR history. I'm talking about Spingate. To gain more insight on Spingate, let's first go back to September 7, 2013. It's the 2013 Federated Auto Parts 400 - thenn the 26th and final race in the NASCAR Cup Series regular season. Back then, 12 drivers qualified for the Chase for the Sprint Cup - 10 of which were in on points, the other 2 were wild cards: drivers 11th-20th in points based on how many wins a driver had in the 26 races leading up to the Chase. Heading into the regular season finale, Kasey Khane - then driving for Hendrick Motorsports - was the only driver locked into a wild card spot, having won 2 races on the season: Bristol in March and Pocono in August. New Jersey's own Martin Truex Jr. held the 2nd wild card with Ryan Newman right behind him. In order to ensure a Chase spot, Newman had to either win or finish 5 positions ahead of Truex and hope that Greg Biffl...

Ever heard the Beatles’ hit song ‘Can’t Buy Me Love’? Well on Thursday night, the Rams had a song titled ‘Can’t Buy Me Buckets’ as they looked to close out their season on a high note against the Lions of Mount St. Mary’s Academy out of Watchung.  The Rams started off okay, only down 11-4 after 1. After that, the buckets became rarer than vowels on the popular TV game show ‘Wheel of Fortune’ – the Rams just couldn’t buy a bucket. Their shooters went cold, they couldn’t take care of the ball as they committed costly turnovers and they were falling victim to a favorite tactic of the New Jersey Devils: the trap. The Rams found themselves down 22-10 at the break and the nosedive just continued from there as they found themselves down by 24 at one point. Sure, they played tough throughout, but they just couldn’t make the adjustments that they needed to and the buckets came at more of a premium for the Rams as they fell in their final game by a 53-30 final to drop to 11-12 on t...

It was Senior Night on Monday at Hightstown High as the Rams looked to close out the regular season against the Lions of Jackson Liberty, who were looking to snap a 3-game losing skid.  Rams started 4 seniors on their night, all of whom brought someone special and were honored before the game. However, there wasn’t much to celebrate afterwards as the Rams quickly fell behind 14-0 after 1.  While they would get on the board in the 2 nd quarter, they still found themselves behind by double digits at 27-11. They would get to within 12 after 3, but could not get any closer.  While the Rams were able to drown out the distractions of Senior Night after the 1 st quarter, it just wasn’t enough as Jackson Liberty scored early and often.  The scoreless opening quarter did the Rams in as they fell 50-36 to close the regular season at 12-10, while Jackson Liberty finishes at 12-11 with the State Tournament on the horizon and their run in the MCT set to contin...

Former Cup Series champion teams with Gander Outdoors CEO to put bounty on Kyle Busch After Kyle Busch won yet another Truck Series race Friday night in Vegas, Kevin Harvick put his promotional skills to the test as he put up a $50,000 bounty for any full-time Cup Series driver who can drive a truck and defeat Kyle Busch in any of his remaining 4 Truck Series events (March 14 at Atlanta, March 20 th at Homestead, March 27 th at Texas and May 30 th at Kansas).  Marcus Lemonis, CEO of Truck Series title sponsor Gander RV & Outdoors, was quick to throw his hat into the ring and put up another $50,000, making for a $100,000 bounty for any full time Cup Series driver to step into a truck and take down Kyle Busch. There’s but one catch, though…you can’t wreck him. So, sorry, Ricky Stenhouse Jr., you must race him clean. Obviously, Kyle Busch, the target of the bounty…was not amused. “Put money on a bounty on somebody and bad things tend to happen,” Busch said a...