Month: August 2021

The name Anthony Bennet has, unfortunately, become synonymous with NBA Draft bust. But apparently not synonymous enough to get spelled correctly. Anthony Bennett played his last NBA game during the 2016-17 season with the Brooklyn Nets. He is gone, but not forgotten, from the NBA landscape. Bennett was selected by the Cleveland Cavaliers with the […]

ONE Championship just hosted a FOTY scrap while everyone was sleeping. While North Americans slept, ONE Championship hosted a banger of a fight between Tial Thang and Song Min Jong from Singapore. The bout, one of six fights on ONE Battleground 3, could easily be considered a Fight of the Year contender and it’s easy […]

UFC Vegas 35: Edson Barboza vs. Giga Chikadze official weigh-in results Two top-10 featherweights will do battle in the main event of UFC Vegas 35, as Edson Barboza will look to continue his attempt to move up the ranks in a second weight class, while Giga Chikadze looks to stay unbeaten in the UFC. Before […]

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. We’ve officially hit the doldrums of the NBA offseason — 25 days since NBA free agency opened, 31 days from the opening of training camps. This means it’s ranking […]

If you don’t understand NFT, then Mike Shannon might want to get a beer with you and shout about it along with you.  One of the most fascinating subplots of our third act of COVID quarantine was the explosion of NFT. The rise of NBA Top Shot introduced the market to the idea of owning […]

Manchester United is officially in talks to sign Cristiano Ronaldo, with talks involving the board as the club races to beat its rival Man City to the punch.  The stakes are always high when the Manchester Derby gets underway, but the highest stakes in the rivalry are happening behind closed doors and away from the […]