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Khalil Mack Once Again
Cris Collinsworth Sounds Sick While Calling Bucs- Cowboys Game
CRIS COLLINSWORTH
Cris Collinsworth was clearly not feeling like his usual self during Sunday night’s game between the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Dallas Cow- boys.
Collinsworth worked in his usual color analyst role for “Sunday Night Football” alongside new partner Mike Tirico. Viewers immediately noticed that he sounded sick, as his voice was raspy and he did not seem as enthusiastic as he usually is. Whatever was bothering Collinsworth was so obvious that Tirico ad- dressed it early in the first quarter.
Fans Lose It After Seeing Mike Tomlin Playing
Makes Raiders Pay For
Trading Him; Plays
‘Put That S— On’ After The Steelers’ Big Win
Chiefs Thursday Night
With 3:30 left
in the Raiders
season opener
against the
Chargers, they
lined up with an opportunity to
drive for the game-winning
score. It was not
unlike the 2021
season finale
against the
Chargers. Only
this time there was a notable difference — Khalil Mack.
Jon Gruden and the Raiders traded Mack to the Bears prior to the 2018 sea- son rather than pay him top dollar to play in his prime for them.
This set the table for Mack coming to Vegas to face the Raiders and the man who sent him packing last season and obliterating them in a 20-9 dismantling.
It was Gruden’s offen- sive emails that cost him his job, but it was Mack who ushered him out in a script right out of Hollywood.
Mike Tomlin and the Steelers escaped Week 1 with a huge win over division rival Cincinnati on Sunday. Pitts- burgh turned Bengals’ quar- terback Joe Burrow over five times in a big defensive performance.
Cincinnati actually ap- peared to win the game on the final play of regulation, throwing a touchdown to tie it up at 20-20 with an extra point looming. The Steelers blocked the kick, though, sending the contest to over- time.
Steelers dance to AB’s ‘Put That S— On’ After Upset Win
Mike Tomlin and the Steelers were seen dancing to
MIKE TOMLIN
AB’s ‘Put That S— On’ after the big win.
For those unfamiliar, the song is the newest release from former Pittsburgh wide- out turned rapper Antonio Brown.
The internet reaction was great. NFL fans had to say about the celebration on so- cial media.
Khalil Mack (52) silences critics with a massive showing in Week 1 win.
Continuing the script, Mack was traded to Holly- wood to suit up for the rival Chargers and his first game, he would get another shot at his former team.
The same result followed.
Mack would put up three sacks in his Chargers debut. It was the most sacks Mack has put up in a single game since his five-sack game with the Raiders against the Bron- cos 2015.
Mack and the tough Chargers defense play the high flying Patrick Ma- homes and Kansas City Chiefs.
J. R. Smith Says Jordan 'Smoked' Him At Golf And Talked
Kevin Durant Takes Issue With ‘Laughable’
Trash The Whole Time
Disrespect From Video Game
J. R. SMITH AND MICHAEL JORDAN
Not too many collegiate players are teeing it up with Michael Jordan in their free time, but then again, not too many student-athletes have won two NBA Championships and are top-20 all-time in made three-pointers.
J.R. Smith, who attends North Carolina A&T and is a member of the golf program, recently did an interview with Complex Sports in which he told the story of teeing it up alongside the Chicago Bulls legend.
According to Smith, he and Jordan were tied through 18 holes but M.J. got the bet- ter of him in the second round by three shots, which Smith referred to as getting “smoked.”
Air Jordan is legendary for his trash talk, and when Smith was asked whether Jordan “talked sh*t,” he replied, “the whole time.”
Kevin Durant is not happy with one video game company over the way they disrespected him.
NBA 2K has been releas- ing the ratings for the upcom- ing version of its video game, 2K23. On Tuesday, the game company revealed on social media that Durant has a rat- ing of 96 out of a possible 99 in this year’s version of the game.
KD was not happy, as you could imagine.
Durant said he wanted an explanation for the slight. “This has become laugh-
able,” the former MVP added. Durant may be 33 years old, and his team may have been swept in the first round of the playoffs, but there are no signs that the Brooklyn Nets forward’s game is falling
KEVIN DURANT
off.
Durant averaged 29.9
points, 7.4 rebounds, 6.4 as- sists, 0.9 steals and 0.9 blocks per game last season. He also narrowly missed having an- other 50/40/90 season by shooting 51.8 percent on field goals, 38.3 percent on three- pointers, and 91.0 percent on free throws.
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