Month: March 2021

Tua Tagovailoa gets his audition as the Miami Dolphins’ QB of the future, which NFL Draft prospect ‘ran his way out of the NFL Draft,’ and much more. The Miami Dolphins were previously sitting in the three-hole of next month’s NFL Draft quarterback bonanza. On Friday, they instead opted to execute a pair of trades […]

Kellen Mond was off the Pro Day radar on Tuesday, but his showing on Texas A&M’s campus will silence any haters. With all the attention on the pro days for Alabama’s Mac Jones and Ohio State’s Justin Fields, Texas A&M’s Kellen Mond was the proverbial third quarterback wheel on Tuesday. But that doesn’t mean he shouldn’t […]

LSU’s Ja’Marr Chase had his Pro Day on Wednesday, and NFL teams already licking their chops to draft him just got even hungrier.  Let’s not mince words here, Ja’Marr Chase is an absolute monster of an athlete. We already knew this after watching him at LSU for the past few years, but Chase showed out […]

Islamabad: Retired colonel Mohammad Asif Zaman on Tuesday was appointed the new Director-General of Pakistan Sports Board (PSB) on a contract basis for three years.

Glenn Burke, the first gay man to play Major League Baseball, was a pioneer. In Andrew Maraniss’ new biography, Singled Out, Burke’s story is told in full. Glenn Burke made history on April 9, 1976, when, in a losing effort against the San Francisco Giants, he pinch-hit for the Los Angeles Dodgers. That day, Burke, […]

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. Russell Westbrook and his triple-doubles are back in the news. This week he became the Washington Wizards’ all-time franchise leader in triple-doubles even though it’s just his first year […]

Tobias Harris is having a career-best season playing off Joel Embiid and Ben Simmons within the Sixers’ new offense, after years of trying to do too much. Batman and Robin didn’t have a No. 3. Most planes don’t need three pilots. There’s nothing sexy about being the third part of a trio — on dates, […]

KARACHI: Pakistan U19 squad has returned negative in their first COVID-19 testing ahead of the Bangladesh tour.