Post-pandemic, Super Bowl hype will never be the same again

January 28, 2021 admin 0

After we emerge from the current pandemic, much of life will return to relative normal. The Super Bowl, however, may never be the same. Super Bowl LV will be very different from its recent predecessors. Calmer. Mellower. More like a football game than a zydeco/klezmer/speed metal music festival overrun by a colony of marmosets that […]

The Whiteboard: 4 teams that could free Bradley Beal from the Wizards

January 28, 2021 admin 0

The Whiteboard is The Step Back’s daily basketball newsletter, covering the NBA, WNBA and more. Subscribe here to get it delivered to you via email each morning. Bradley Beal just keeps scoring. He’s already dropped a 60-piece this season, he hung 47 on the Pelicans Wednesday night and he’s averaging 41.0 per game over his […]

Early picks for the NBA’s next Western Conference champ

January 28, 2021 admin 0

First Week Finals separates the NBA’s contenders from the pretenders after the first week of every month of the season. Now that a full month of NBA action is in the books, teams are starting to find out how this season’s version of themselves will be able to compete within their respective conferences. While chemistry […]

Ottis Anderson remembers a Super Bowl upset in Tampa 30 years ago

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Super Bowl XXV was supposed to belong to the Buffalo Bills, a seven-point favorite over the New York Giants. But one veteran running back made a prediction that proved correct. January 27, 1991; Super Bowl XXV; Tampa Bay, Florida. The Buffalo Bills were expected to defeat the New York Giants, who were led by back-up […]