Month: July 2021

Alabama football has a lot of production to replace on offense, especially at the wide receiver position, but they won’t have Xavier Williams helping to replicate that production. Alabama doesn’t rebuild, they reload, but that task will be a challenge for Nick Saban and the Crimson Tide coaches in 2021. Alabama must replace Heisman Trophy […]

Shelley Meyer never misses an opportunity to troll Michigan on Twitter. Urban Meyer led Ohio State to a national championship and laid the foundation for Ryan Day to potentially lead the Buckeyes to another national title as the Ohio State Buckeyes head coach. He also had a perfect 7-0 record against rival Michigan during his […]

The Green Bay Packers and Chicago Bears have long had a brutal rivalry. In 1986, though, things took a heinous turn at Soldier Field. Charles Martin took his white towel and scribbled five numbers on it. A hit list. On Nov. 23, 1986, the Chicago Bears welcomed their longstanding rival, the Green Bay Packers, into […]

There were some big wins on the recruiting trail over the last week that shuffles the top of the updated college football recruiting rankings. The race for the top spot in the college football recruiting class rankings is heating up after some big-time programs received commitments from some big-time recruits over the last week. Ohio […]

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. Olympic basketball kicks off this weekend and with Team USA struggling we should be in for a fascinating tournament. The other international contenders will be loaded with familiar faces […]

Port Adelaide great Kane Cornes has criticised the AFL for the confusion surrounding its concussion protocols after the league overruled Adelaide's club doctors and forced Tom Doedee to sit out of its Round 18 match.

TexAgs will pay two Texas A&M football players $10,000 for exclusive interviews ahead of SEC Media Days. It hasn’t even been one month since the dawn of the NIL era in college athletics but we’re already seeing big changes in how athletes can market themselves to cash in. While the bulk of NIL deals thus […]

The NRL will reunite players with their families on Wednesday, with the Queensland government agreeing to an application to reunite immediate relatives forced apart by the league's move to the Sunshine State.