Month: March 2022

Minnesota Vikings general manager Kwesi Adofo-Mensah compared this year’s draft class to 2017, which produced the likes of Patrick Mahomes. Adofo-Mensah, of course, has Kirk Cousins as his starting signal-caller moving forward. The new GM and his choice for head coach, Kevin O’Connell, had backed Cousins as their long-term starter, though every now and then we […]

The Over and Back Podcast celebrates the 60 year anniversary of Wilt Chamberlain's 100-point game with author Gary Pomerantz. 

Max Scherzer is wrong about the MLB luxury tax, which is meant to serve the cause of competitive balance.  MLB is one of the only major American sports leagues without a salary cap in place. The players and MLBPA would rather keep it this way, and the owners knew not to bother bringing it up […]

Iowa basketball star Caitlin Clark is taking the nation by storm, leading the Hawkeyes to a Big Ten championship while getting praise from LeBron James and Steph Curry. Could Caitlin Clark beat LeBron James in a shooting contest? “I don’t know about that,” she said when asked. While she might have some humble doubt, the […]

The Green Bay Packers have not received any trade offers for quarterback Aaron Rodgers, per general manager Brian Gutekunst. The Denver Broncos were a rumored interested party in Rodgers earlier this offseason, but so far the Packers haven’t had any takers. Rodgers himself hasn’t given us much information about his future, other than he’s taking […]

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. After the 76ers’ acquisition of James Harden, the biggest question was how his ball-dominant style would mesh with Joel Embiid. Of slightly less visceral importance, was how Harden would […]

When he arrived as a rookie with the Golden State Warriors, the NBA had never seen anyone like Gilbert Arenas. It may never see anyone like him again. Here’s a truth: before the 2001 NBA Draft, Gilbert Arenas — who would potentially become a hoop star, but was still a college student at the time […]