Month: June 2022

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 offseason got off to an unofficial start last night with news that the Houston Rockets had agreed to trade Christian Wood to the Dallas Mavericks for Boban Marjanovic, […]

The Houston Astros made history by throwing two immaculate innings in the same game. What is an immaculate inning? Just about everything is going right for the Houston Astros at this point in the season. Holding a nine-game lead in the AL West thanks in part to an early-season 14-game losing streak by the Los […]

Cincinnati Reds outfielder Tommy Pham doesn’t feel bad for slapping San Francisco Giants outfielder Joc Pederson over fantasy football. Fantasy football. Yes, by now you’ve heard it all. Mike Trout was the commissioner, and Pham opted to drag the best player in baseball down with him. Pham, who evidently had a lot of money on […]

When it comes to the chase for the 2022 AL MVP, it’s New York Yankees’ slugger Aaron and then everyone else. It’s Aaron Judge‘s world, and we’re all just living in it. The New York Yankees‘ outfielder has been wrecking havoc on opposing pitchers this season and is  unquestioned No. 1-ranked player in the chase […]

There’s no easy way to say this — Alfonso Soriano is more jacked than any of us reading this article. The former MLB outfielder reappeared at a Cubs game on Wednesday. With Soriano in attendance, Chicago broke their putrid o-for streak with runners in scoring position, yet still lost to the San Diego Padres 19-5. […]

These three dream Shohei Ohtani trades should have fans hoping the Los Angeles Angels pull the plug. The Shohei Ohtani comparisons to Babe Ruth are fair. The Los Angeles Angels star is one of the game’s most uniquely-gifted players of all time. He showed last year that he’s capable of pitching and hitting at a […]