Month: March 2021

After trading up into the top three, it’s clear the San Francisco 49ers control a 2021 NFL Draft. For anyone still wondering what could happen on draft night, things have drastically changed over the past week. With the San Francisco 49ers moving up from No. 12 to No. 3 in a blockbuster trade with the […]

Texas football will want to get the Steve Sarkisian era off to a hot start, but the Longhorns have to keep a wary eye out for the trap game on the schedule. Texas football will face plenty of challenges in Steve Sarkisian’s first year as head coach. They’ll have to go to Arkansas and Iowa […]

Preview and prediction for Bellator 255: Patricio Pitbull vs. Emmanuel Sanchez Bellator MMA begins its 2021 schedule on April 2 with Bellator 255, topped by the second semifinal of the Bellator Featherweight Grand Prix featuring Patricio “Pitbull” Freire defending the Bellator featherweight world championship against Emmanuel Sanchez. This isn’t the first time the two have […]

Lahore: 27 women cricketers will undergo skills and fitness training at the Moin Khan Academy in Karachi in the emerging women’s camp, which begins on 3 April.

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. The NBA trade deadline has come and gone, the buyout market has basically shriveled up, and for better or worse, most teams simply are what they are heading into […]

Andrew Forbes’ new book The Only Way is the Steady Way: Essays on Baseball, Ichiro, and How We Watch the Game is a splendid meditation on life and the game. When I finished reading Andrew Forbes’ first collection of baseball essays in 2017, The Utility of Boredom, I knew I had found another fan with […]

Karachi: The recent events in Pakistan’s football have led women’s team captain Hajra Khan and five others have announced not to further participate in the 2021 National Women’s Football Championship (NWFC).