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Danny Heifetz

5 months

Never thought I would see my name next to Sally Jenkins for "excellence in sportswriting"

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Announcing the Best Sportswriting nominees for the 2024 Dan Jenkins Medal for Excellence in Sportswriting. Get all the details at .

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2 years

“And then his dragon attacked my dragon…”

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2 years

Same energy

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Screw it here is with the sound

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The T-Rex at the end of Jurassic Park

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Kadarius Toney finishing with one receiving yard, negative one rushing yards, four drops, and one of those drops leading to a pick-6 in a game KC lost by 1 point legit might go down as the worst performance any skill player has all season.

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Joe Burrow says when he was rehabbing his ACL in L.A., he didn't know many people so Rams LT Andrew Whitworth took him under his wing (both were rehabbing). They watched games together on Sundays. Burrow spent his birthday at Whitworth's house.

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Meanwhile here is Jawaan Taylor

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This is ridiculous. This is not an illegal formation.

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2 years

*Rihanna descends from the sky* *lands on Super Bowl halftime stage* *grabs mic, looks into the camera* “whopper whopper whopper whopper”

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Eli Manning telling a story about him and Saquon. Eli told him to run one route. Saquon thought he should run another. Eli responds, “If I tell you tomorrow is Easter, go paint some eggs.”

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4 years

Patrick Mahomes threw this ball 30 yards

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5 months

Here are my favorite Scottie Scheffler memes, please show me the ones I missed

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Enjoy this clip of Scottie Scheffler walking on to Valhalla with Many Men playing in the background.

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2 months

The Eagles are that guy in your fantasy football league who is in constant contact with the 2-3 worst managers

Adam Schefter

@AdamSchefter

2 months

A rare in-division trade: Washington is sending former first-round pick Jahan Dotson and a fifth-round pick to the Eagles in exchange for a 2025 third-round pick and two seventh-round picks, per sources.

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If I was going to let Saquon Barkley leave my football team I would not have filmed it and put that decision on HBO

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Chip Kelly kinda looks like a Harkonnen

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1 year

can you imagine if the Jets had traded for Kirk Cousins and he tore his Achilles

Ian Rapoport

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1 year

#Vikings QB Kirk Cousins suffered an Achilles injury. He’ll have an MRI, but often with an Achilles, the MRI only confirms.

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2 years

“Oh shit, that’s me.”

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8 months

Love you too honey

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3 years

"We're going to build the stadium East-West, so the sun completely blinds the players on the field. Also, the scoreboard will be low enough for your punter to hit it." "How much will it cost?" "One billion dollars"

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Danny Heifetz

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11 days

Welcome to Fantasy Football, everybody

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@Danny_Heifetz Tyreek hill or Trey sermon

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@Danny_Heifetz

7 months

Kenny Pickett walking into the Eagles locker room

Adam Schefter

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7 months

Trade: Steelers are sending QB Kenny Pickett to the Philadelphia Eagles in a pick swap, sources tell ESPN. Once Pittsburgh signed Russell Wilson, Pickett preferred to move on.

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3 years

The ESPN graphic to end all ESPN graphics

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5 years

Everyone has given up on Josh Rosen but for us Jews, wandering the desert is where the story starts, not where it ends

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4 years

First round QBs: 2015 1. Jameis ❌ 2. Mariota ❌ 2016 1. Goff—¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 2. Wentz—❌? 2017 2. Trubisky ❌ 10. Mahomes 🏆 12. Watson ✅ 2018: 1. Baker ✅? 3. Darnold ❌ (for now) 7. Josh Allen ✅ 10. Rosen ❌ 32. Lamar ✅ 2019 1. Kyler ✅ 6. Jones ❌ 15. Haskins ❌

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5 years

Kawhi using the Uncle Dennis System

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15 days

An NFL double standard we must address

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3 years

Your annual reminder that Jon Gruden said this in an interview to Playboy in 2003.

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4 years

Imagine if Michael Jordan took the Washington Wizards to the NBA Finals. That's what Tom Brady just did with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

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7 months

Can someone explain to me why the Eagles chose to acquire Kenny Pickett instead of trading for Justin Fields?

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7 months

Bears are trading Justin Fields for a 2025 6th-round pick that goes to a 4th-round pick based on playtime, per sources.

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2 years

The Los Angeles Rams have scored fewer points than the Chicago Bears

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2 years

This Tom Brady-Raiders story is incredible when you put it all together

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10 months

The AFC, Explained

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18 days

If Derrick Henry was born in Westeros he’d be a Khal leading a Dothraki Horde

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6 months

This is the worst officiating of the entire tournament except for the time they measured the courts wrong and also the time the ref was an alum from one of the schools in the game

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6 months

Is this because Cooper DeJean didn’t go in Round 1?

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Iowa’s 3 public universities are closing their DEI offices Iowa State’s president said they’ve established learning communities so that ‘a young man, young white man, from rural Iowa, could find the place where they could belong’

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6 months

Between Ricky Pearsall, Christian McCaffrey, and Nick Bosa, there hasn't been this much pressure on a group of white guys since January 6

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4 years

Taysom Hill’s first passing touchdown comes at 30 years old

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1 year

The TLDR explanation for Trey Lance to Dallas

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1 year

Compensation update: Cowboys are sending a fourth-round pick to the 49ers for Trey Lance, per league source.

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2 years

Elon Musk’s new algorithm for Twitter is so bad it suggested *my own tweet* for “You might like”

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Panthers

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3 years

Peyton Manning: winning the division is the key to going far in the playoffs, right Matt? Matt Stafford: I played for Detroit Peyton: *awkward laughter* *changes subject*

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1 year

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1 year

EXCLUSIVE: Nearly two months after Travis Kelce tried to give Taylor Swift his number, a source tells The Messenger that the duo has indeed linked up

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4 years

Tyrod goes from an org that stabs people in the front to an org that stabs people in the back

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Former Chargers' QB Tyrod Taylor reached agreement on a one-year deal worth up to $12.5 million with the Houston Texans, sources tell ESPN.

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7 months

Good birthday 🌸

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1 year

Zach Wilson walking right past Taylor Swift to ask out Donna Kelce after he wins this game

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LMPD today

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3 years

Allen Robinson is just getting blackout drunk somewhere right now

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4 years

The Giants have the worst record in the NFL over the last three seasons. And that stretch includes the Browns going 0-16.

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2 years

This is the key sequence of the game. Gerald Everett gets the Chargers to the goal line. He motions to the sideline to take him out of the game. But Chargers go Hurry Up offense, target Everett again, and it’s picked. Play of the game.

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4 years

The Raiders really spent $2 billion on a giant roomba

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2 months

I feel like I’m rooting for Globo-Gym and it’s awesome

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4 years

The TriWizard tournament was absolutely reckless

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4 years

J.J. Watt vs. T.J. Watt

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2 years

No look pass from Joe Burrow

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5 years

Today Josh Allen has: —had the longest run of the Bills season —caught a TD —became the first QB to do those two things —fumbled while diving sideways —fumbled without the ball being touched —lost 43 yards on two plays —fumbled laterally on purpose — got Bills to OT

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2 years

I can’t keep track of all these new rappers

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@St_Raphael9 @ledoumbe They just dealt him for a 6th

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5 years

This season is already off the rails

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5 years

Eagles knew a win tonight might get Jason Garrett fired, so they took a dive. Some 4D chess right here.

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The #Jaguars are re-signing TE Josh Pederson, the son of head coach Doug Pederson, to their practice squad, per source.

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4 years

Charles Barkley on the Trail Blazers: “we’re making our last stand like General Custard.” [silence] Charles Barkley: “Wait, Custer, or Custard?” Shaq: “Custer” Charles: “Wait, didn’t General Custer get killed with his group?” Shaq: “Yes.”

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He was arrested, released and will make his tee time is about the whitest thing I’ve ever heard.

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4 years

Sports are the reward of a functioning society

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4 years

The Saints letting Taysom Hill cook

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6 years

When you're looking for a quarterback on Amazon Prime

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3 years

A masterpiece

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1 year

Live look at Rory McIlroy

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2 years

Giants beat the Packers without their top four receivers, 3 of their top 4 cornerbacks, Saquon injuring his shoulder, and Daniel Jones bleeding from his throwing hand. Can’t imagine being a Packers fan right now.

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5 years

2009 vs. 2019

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9 months

I mispronounced “maestro” on The Ringer NFL Draft Show today and it went very poorly for me

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1 year

Well that clears it up at RB

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10 months

One of the best things to happen all NFL season is Joe Buck and Troy Aikman giving zero fucks and just saying exactly what they think all season

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3 months

Instead of calling it “aging running back body syndrome” we should call it DICAPRIO

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Alvin Kamara on the concept of RBs declining as they age: “I don’t feel like I have aging running back body syndrome.” #Saints

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3 years

If Justin Herbert or Trevor Lawrence did what Jalen Hurts just did everyone would be losing their minds

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If he's next on the tee, he must be set free.

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1 year

Oh my God

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has another player ever worn eyeblack for their headshot?

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I forgot how overstimulating all of this is

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2 years

Imagine trading away 2 first-rounders for Davante Adams, and the Chiefs trading AWAY Tyreek Hill, and still getting dropkicked by Kansas City to fall to 1-4 while they are 4–1. Just devastating.

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8 months

This is what Nate Burleson was saying about the 49ers center being illegally downfield on the McCaffrey touchdown. Good no call? Or mistake from the refs?

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11 months

True Story: In the locker room after the Chiefs won the Super Bowl, I overheard two rookie defenders laughing about how they won the Super Bowl without understanding their own defense, and how good they’ll be when they actually learn it.

Benjamin Solak

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I wrote about the Chiefs defense, which is simultaneously 1) the youngest snap-adjusted defense in the league and 2) a top 10 defense by most metrics The Chiefs are entering their complementary football era. Spooky stuff! 🔗:

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4 years

Steve Underwood's mustache looks like it ate John Bolton's mustache

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local conservatives this morning

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1 year

This is the most Jets thing that has ever happened in the history of the New York Jets

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5 years

My grandmother is 91 and, unlike Tom Brady, still in her prime

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5 years

"If I had made my fantasy championship I would have won."

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6 years

Of Tom Izzo’s 24 recruiting classes at Michigan State, 23 have gone to the Final Four (assuming they stayed all four years). Wow. 1999 2000 2001 2005 2009 2010 2015 2019

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6 months

The Chiefs calling the teams they beat in the playoffs to ask for their draft picks

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5 years

It took me four years to pronounce “Mariota” correctly. It’s “Trubisky.”

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3 years

Justin Tucker has made 71% of his field goals from beyond 50 yards. That's a higher rate than LeBron James's free throw percentage as a Laker (68%)

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4 years

The Rams trade on Robinhood, so they can only sell first-rounders, not buy them.

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6 years

Leonard Fournette getting stuffed on fourth-and-goal and then the defense giving up the longest run in NFL history on the next play is the perfect microcosm for how Jacksonville's 2017 identity got flipped this year

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10 months

This is the best take I’ve seen all day. The Chiefs had two players lined up wrong on the same play—and they are the same players who have been making mistakes since Kansas City’s first game

Sam Monson

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My favorite thing about this penalty is you could have just as reasonably thrown a flag on Jawaan Taylor on the other side for lining up too far off the line, AGAIN. Stupid way for a game to be decided, but KC are making these mistakes. All year.

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2 years

The NFC East is 11-5 The AFC West is 8-8

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10 months

There were jokes that Brandon Staley would be fired at halftime because the Chargers gave up 21 points in the first quarter and then the Chargers gave up another 21 points in the second quarter

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6 months

"I could be an NFL GM"

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5 years

Not all voters release their ballots but for transparency here is my 2019 All-Pro team

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1 year

Jim Irsay was going to use this money to airlift a killer whale to the Pacific Northwest, but the whale died, so Jonathan Taylor gets his contract. Congrats Jon.

Adam Schefter

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Sources to ESPN: Jonathan Taylor and the Colts reached agreement on a three-year, $42 million contract extension, including $26.5M guaranteed, that makes him one of the league’s highest-paid RBs and clears him to make his season debut Sunday vs. Titans. Taylor becomes the first

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Cam Newton on this Patriots offense

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A reminder that refs penalize players for shooting imaginary bows and arrows because it’s a weapon but the Buccaneers literally fire cannons from a pirate ship in their home stadium when they score touchdowns

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Refs overshadowed —Dallas vs Detroit —CeeDee Lamb having 200+ yards & breaking multiple records —Jimmy Johnson inducted to Cowboys Ring of Honor Because a ref confused two Detroit players. Bad year for the refs but this is rock bottom

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