Cubs make wrong kind of MLB history yet again against Phillies
The Chicago Cubs have just done something in MLB history that has never been done before. One of the special things about sports is that everything is documented. Because of that, we get to marvel at unique stats and cherish witnessing things that have never happened in the 100-plus years of professional sports in the […]
Week 3 college football picks against the spread: How to bet every Top 25 game
College football picks against the spread for Week 3 as we tackle the lines for every top 25 team in action on the week and place our bets. There is an abundance of top 25 college football action on the slate this week including some incredibly intriguing games. Alabama vs. Florida is one of […]
Javy Baez invites group of cancer patients from Puerto Rico to Mets home game
New York Mets’ Javy Baez’s top moment from Wednesday night’s game didn’t come on the field, but off of it as he welcomed a group of cancer patients from Puerto Rico to Citi Field. The New York Mets have had their fair share of troubles this season and while making the playoffs seems unattainable at […]
UFC Vegas 37: Anthony Smith vs. Ryan Spann weigh-in results
Weigh in results for UFC Vegas 37: Anthony Smith vs. Ryan Spann. The UFC returns to their home of the UFC APEX this week for UFC Vegas 37. The card which features 14 stacked fights will have huge implications in the various divisions of the promotion for months and even years to come. The main […]
Gus Malzahn turns down USC job despite no one asking him
No one has mentioned Gus Malzahn as a candidate for USC, but he felt the need to say he’s not interested in the job anyway. After his tenure at Auburn finally came to an end, Gus Malzahn landed at UCF and the Knights are 2-0 on the young season. He might be a candidate to […]
Michael Porter Jr. reveals which team almost kept him from getting drafted
Denver Nuggets forward Michael Porter Jr. reflects on his pre-draft journey and how close he was to being written off from the NBA. Within the first two minutes of his collegiate debut with the University of Missouri in 2017, Michael Porter Jr. suffered a lower back injury that required surgery. It was a tough blow […]
The Whiteboard: LeBron, Kobe, Michael Jordan and a race to the Hall of Fame
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. I have to admit, I am fascinated by Basketball-Reference’s Hall-of-Fame probability model. If you’re not familiar with it, the model uses several key stats to measure the likelihood of […]
The time has finally come to add a stop clock to soccer games
Younger audiences, raised on video games and YouTube, have grown increasingly disinterested in sports. The time is now to make soccer games shorter and here’s how. I am a soccer purist. I generally hate gimmicks. When crazy ideas were thrown out around enlarging goals, I was the first to denounce those notions as idiotic. More […]