Month: June 2021

Gerrit Cole’s stellar results haven’t changed since joining the Yankees, but the star pitcher’s methodology has taken a significant shift.  The Yankees gave Gerrit Cole a massive contract to become the ace of their starting rotation and he’s done just that. The interesting thing about Cole’s tenure in the Bronx is the way he’s changed […]

This has to be the year the Georgia football program puts 1980 to bed once and for all. After years of building under head coach Kirby Smart, the Georgia football program has the team to win its first national championship in over 40 years. During Smart’s first five years back at his alma mater, the […]

Rugby league great Billy Slater has urged the Broncos to target Dragons fullback Matt Dufty after the unwanted star was crucial in St George Illawarra's 52-24 thrashing of Brisbane tonight.

The Nets and Bucks have been on a collision course all season and are finally squaring off in the second round of the NBA playoffs. It’s not often that a second-round playoff matchup delivers the best series of the entire postseason, but it’s equally rare that two juggernauts like the Milwaukee Bucks and Brooklyn Nets […]

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. Well that was fast. Seriously, did anyone outside of the most optimistic of Atlanta Hawks fans imagine this first-round series ending in five quick games, with the New York […]

George Burgess has confirmed he's in talks with the Dragons about a potential NRL comeback and says he can "definitely" return to his best after he underwent surgery on a chronic hip injury.

Karachi: Pakistan men’s team will leave for England for the limited-overs series on June 25, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) announced today.