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New York Mets’ Javy Baez’s top moment from Wednesday night’s game didn’t come on the field, but off of it as he welcomed a group of cancer patients from Puerto Rico to Citi Field. The New York Mets have had their fair share of troubles this season and while making the playoffs seems unattainable at […]

Weigh in results for UFC Vegas 37: Anthony Smith vs. Ryan Spann. The UFC returns to their home of the UFC APEX this week for UFC Vegas 37. The card which features 14 stacked fights will have huge implications in the various divisions of the promotion for months and even years to come. The main […]

No one has mentioned Gus Malzahn as a candidate for USC, but he felt the need to say he’s not interested in the job anyway. After his tenure at Auburn finally came to an end, Gus Malzahn landed at UCF and the Knights are 2-0 on the young season. He might be a candidate to […]

Denver Nuggets forward Michael Porter Jr. reflects on his pre-draft journey and how close he was to being written off from the NBA.  Within the first two minutes of his collegiate debut with the University of Missouri in 2017, Michael Porter Jr. suffered a lower back injury that required surgery. It was a tough blow […]

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. I have to admit, I am fascinated by Basketball-Reference’s Hall-of-Fame probability model. If you’re not familiar with it, the model uses several key stats to measure the likelihood of […]

Younger audiences, raised on video games and YouTube, have grown increasingly disinterested in sports. The time is now to make soccer games shorter and here’s how. I am a soccer purist. I generally hate gimmicks. When crazy ideas were thrown out around enlarging goals, I was the first to denounce those notions as idiotic. More […]

The New York Giants are 0-2 following a Thursday night thriller in Washington, if they can’t turn it around, it should be time to clean house. For the fifth successive season, the New York Giants find themselves in an 0-2 hole following a heartbreaking loss to the Washington Football Team on Thursday night. The Giants […]

A John Wall trade to the Los Angeles Clippers is unlikely according to one NBA insider. With John Wall and the Houston Rockets working to find Wall a new destination, many speculated the Los Angeles Clippers could be a possible landing spot. They’ve been in the market for a facilitating point guard for the past […]

Let’s break down 10 tight end sleepers to target for fantasy football Week 2. Week 1 in the NFL was filled with a lot of surprises. Subsequently, there were several tight ends, who exceeded fantasy football expectations or took on a larger role in their respective offense than anticipated. So, let’s look at ten tight […]