Month: October 2021

MLB’s hottest Hot Stove season is looking like it will be stopped cold in its tracks. Reports on Monday show that a work stoppage in Major League Baseball is almost certain to take place on December 2nd, the start of the new league year. This would be the ninth stoppage in MLB history and the […]

The SEC is back in the headlines for all the right reasons while the Big Ten’s flaws are starting to show. Can one team make a move with the College Football Playoff rankings around the corner? Penn State and Illinois made college football history with a nine overtime game on Saturday. On paper, it sounds […]

Nuno Espirito Santo wasn’t close to Tottenham’s first choice this summer, and it’s imperative that Spurs’ cut his reign atop the North London Club short.  Tottenham’s farcical choice to find a new manager was mercifully ended with Nuno Espirito Santo’s appointment this summer. Appointing the former Wolves boss stopped the bleeding for Spurs, but the […]

Who are the highest-paid head coaches in college football? Here are the 10 coaches making the most money in 2021. College football has become a very lucrative business for a lot of people. While many will point to the money a handful of college athletes are making through NIL deals and discuss the profits they’re […]

The Colorado Buffaloes sit at 2-5 with a lack of winnable games coming up, so who could replace head coach Karl Dorrell? Colorado football is 2-5 on the year with wins coming over Northern Colorado out of the FCS and an 0-7 Arizona Wildcats squad. Head coach Karl Dorrell is squarely on the hot seat […]

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. The Brooklyn Nets have gotten off to a rough 2-2 start, dropping games to both the Milwaukee Bucks and Charlotte Hornets in the first week of the season. There […]

Daryl Morey has built winning teams wherever he’s gone, but his refusal to trade Ben Simmons may hurt the Sixers in the short and long term. When Daryl Morey arrived in Philadelphia as the Sixers’ new president of basketball operations last summer, things did not look promising for the team. They had just been swept […]

Week 8 has quite a few exploitable matchups that will benefit your fantasy team. These five are some of the top of the week.  In fantasy football, it’s common practice to hone in on favorable matchups when deciding who to put in your lineup. The challenge, though, is finding these matchups and then getting the […]