Notre Dame’s final play wasn’t called for Arike Ogunbowale. After hitting the winning three in Friday’s semifinal win over UConn, the Notre Dame junior guard had an off shooting night against Mississippi State, and when the Irish inbounded the ball in a tie game with three seconds left, the play was designed to go to leading scorer Jessica Shepard. (“Arike hadn’t been shooting the ball particularly well,” head coach Muffet McGraw said. “Jess was.”) But Shepard wasn’t open. So Ogunbowale got open. And was the hero Jackie Young, inbounding the ball, had a contingency plan. “I didn’t like the way it looked,” Young explained. “I knew, if I threw it, it would have possibly been a turnover. So I talked to Arike before and I was like, if the matchup doesn’t loo…
PREMIER LEAGUE BACK. Yes, now that José Mourinho’s jaws are nice and spry and primed for that shit talk he loves so much, Manchester United are still bringing in and shipping out more money than many small to medium sized countries generate in annual GDP, Liverpool have yet again lost their best player, and Arsenal’s Jack Wilshere has gone ahead and done what he does best— injure himself—we feel like the English Premier League is back like it never left. We here at Screamer aim to provide you with the best in too late and too long soccer coverage anywhere, and so here we are, kicking off our EPL previews. We’ve separated the league into three tiers: the cellar dwellers, the midtablers, and the contenders. As the natural order of things, we’ll start from the bottom. The…
Yes! Yes, you should be scared of the Yankees in 2012. Terrified, probably. Because a pair of big moves made their biggest problem—35-year-old A.J. Burnett, who is owed $33 million over the next two years—essentially disappear. No more hanging knucklecurves in big games, no more walks, no more hits, no more 5.15 ERA. A frictionless world. On Friday evening, while you all were watching basketball or something, Brian Cashman traded super-prospect Jesus Montero for super-rookie Michael Pineda and signed super-innings-eater Hiroki Kuroda to a one-year deal. Montero's a nice hitter and everything, and he'll go on to success with Seattle. With any luck, he'll soon remind doubting, aged Mariner fans of Edgar Martinez. But the Mariners aren't going anywhere in 2012. The…
Your pennant run is not legitimate until Jeff Daniels makes a YouTube music video about you. A musical masterpiece, it is not. A song that will get you fired up, it also is not. What it is, is… well… I don't know what the hell it is, but it probably made Jeff Daniels feel better about himself. Lifelong Tiger Fan Blues [YouTube] …
data-mm-id=”_9t1tttlxb”>The Brooklyn Nets had one more big offseason acquisition to reveal on Monday morning: a brand-new court design that seems to be the NBA's first full-time gray court.Brooklyn took to Twitter to unveil their new playing surface, one they label as "Inspired by the borough" and "built for the borough". While fully-colored courts are sometimes seen at the college basketball level, this is the first full-time example in NBA history. According to the introductory tweet thread, the colors are labeled "weathered wood and concrete gray" and are meant to "represent playground courts throughout the borough; the brownstone-lined streets and Brooklyn’s industrial foundation". The colors of our new floor, weathered wood and concre…
data-mm-id=”_b9xzhiu8d”>A former linebacker feels that NFL teams should take Tua Tagovailoa off their big boards, but not because he'll be gone quickly in next spring's draft. Speaking on ESPN's Get Up! on Thursday, Acho argued that the best thing that injured Alabama quarterback can do for his football career is return to Tuscaloosa for his final season. "I think Tua has to go back to school."—@thEMANacho pic.twitter.com/wtfs152iDs— Get Up (@GetUpESPN) November 21, 2019"It pains me to say this, (but) I think Tua has to go back to school," Acho says. "It's because, monetarily speaking, what does Tua have to lose by going back to school? If he gets hurt again, he already has the injury notion that he is very injury-prone. But if he goes b…
data-mm-id=”_q22473rku”>After several weeks of quite public negotiations, MLB and the MLBPA appear to have reached another obstacle in the road toward play ball. The league sent over a proposal to the players that would result in a very significant salary reduction for everyone, especially the highest-paid players, and the union is unhappy about it. Despite the flare of hope that appeared a few weeks ago when July 4 was being tossed around as a date for training camp to start, baseball's status for 2020 remains very much in flux. Jeff Passan went on the Rich Eisen Show today to discuss the recent developments and revealed there are some MLB owners who would rather not play in 2020 at all because they're afraid they'll lose money as a result. Are there really some #MLB ow…
data-mm-id=”_t62yao718″>Live sports are back — just not in the United States. ESPN announced today they had reached an agreement to broadcast six Korean Baseball Organization games from South Korea per week once the KBO season begins on May 5. While the games are at crazy times, baseball is baseball. If you, like thousands of other sports-starved fans, are looking for a team to support in the only active sports league in the world, you've come to the right place. Here's a rundown of the league and the teams that make it up, including all the important details needed to make the crucial decision of who you'll be investing emotional capital into as the season goes on. Doosan Bears (Seoul) Pros: Reigning champs, history of success, host a yearly fan event called "Mr. …
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data-mm-id=”_gh5zaf75e”>A lot of people figured when the Texans fired head coach/GM Bill O'Brien earlier this season, all of the issues in Houston would magically disappear. Unfortunately for Texans fans, no magic pixy dust appears to have been sprinkled over this franchise yet. If anything, it looks they're up to their old tricks again. Over the last week, franchise leader J.J. Watt said he doesn't want to be part of a rebuild in Houston and the Texans inexplicably fired VP of Communications Amy Palcic because she's was no longer a "cultural fit," according to a poorly-framed PR release from the team. After she was let go, media members ripped the decision to fire Palcic and Watt likewise questioned the decision. Since then Palcic has hired a Houston-base…