Month: April 2021

This is how a 16-team College Football Playoff field would have played out last season. With the College Football Playoff potentially expanding to as many as 16 teams in the coming years, let’s take a look at how a 16-team format could have played out a season ago. Even though there are an infinite number of […]

Zach Wilson, Patrick Mahomes, and Tom Brady? Talent evaluators have some pretty interesting comparisons ahead of the NFL Draft.   Thursday night at 8:15 p.m., the Jacksonville Jaguars and new head coach Urban Meyer will have their quarterback, officially, when they choose the prize of this year’s NFL Draft class, Clemson’s Trevor Lawrence, but they […]

Keeping Tom Brady happy is a huge priority for the Buccaneers. That’s a big reason why Antonio Brown is returning to Tampa Bay on a one-year deal.  The Buccaneers finally gave Tom Brady his wish. The Hall of Fame quarterback wanted all of his weapons to return for the 2021 season and Tampa Bay achieved […]

Former Collingwood president Eddie McGuire and Port Adelaide great Kane Cornes have gone head-to-head over the Power's right to wear its iconic black and white 'prison bars' heritage jersey.

The 2021 NFL Draft is only a few days away, and with that, we take a look at our final first-round mock draft heading into Thursday night. The 2021 NFL Draft will officially open on Thursday night, as the league will begin their three-day event with the first round. Commissioner Roger Goodell is vaccinated and […]

Rugby league legend Brad Fittler says the inability for two Sydney teams to face off in a grand final would be a major drawback of the NRL's mooted two-conference system.

Harare: Pakistan’s all-format captain Babar Azam has responded to veteran Shoaib Malik’s comments in which he suggested Babar to call the shots in team selection.

Nick Saban didn’t need to coach in the NFL to leave his mark on the league. Even though he was on three different NFL staffs over the course of eight years, Nick Saban never needed to coach in the league to make an indelible impact on it. Saban spent two years as the then-Houston Oilers […]

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’ll be perfectly honest: I’m not a fan of the idea of play-in games for the upcoming 2021 NBA Playoffs. Last year, in a bizarro bubble experience where 22 teams […]