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While most NBA teams got better or at least broke even during free agency, an unlucky few had more talent outgoing than incoming. In the NBA, it only takes one team for your best-laid free-agent plans to go awry. Whether a team hopes to re-sign an incumbent player or snag a free agent from elsewhere, […]

It’s the final scheduled week of the season when not every team will play. It’s the final week of the season in which teams have some time off. The 4-8 Carolina Panthers and the 7-5 Tampa Bay Buccaneers get some much-needed rest while the other 30 clubs will be in action. But this week’s schedule […]

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. Much like the Houston Rockets are trying to keep James Harden happy with the John Wall trade, so too are the Washington Wizards hoping to satisfy Bradley Beal […]

The Atlanta Braves could make another deal or two this offseason. One team that may make a blockbuster trade this offseason is the Atlanta Braves. Atlanta was one win away from getting to its first World Series since 1999. The Braves had its best season since 2001, as the team won two postseason series to […]

Several teams should be calling the Pirates this offseason about a trade for Josh Bell. The Pittsburgh Pirates seem to be in an endless cycle of rebuilding. The team last made the postseason in 2015 and finished the 2020 season with a record of 19-41. The organization has routinely traded away top talent and Josh […]

Canberra: A speculation has been mounted among the cricketing world after Yuzvendra Chahal replaced Ravindra Jadeja as a ‘concussion substitute’ in the first T20I between Australia and India. 

Angry Australia coach Justin Langer has blown up at match referee and former teammate David Boon after India star Ravi Jadeja was controversially allowed a concussion replacement in the opening T20 international in Canberra.

Australian captain Aaron Finch is set for scans after suffering an apparent hip/glute injury during his side's 11-run loss in the opening T20 against India.

Canberra: India defeated Australia by 11 runs in the first T20I of the three-match series courtesy of Ravindra Jadeja’s 44 runs from just 23 balls to help India set up a target of 162 at Manuka Oval.