#The Other Guys

Every week during the college basketball season, and every other week during the offseason former Michigan Basketball standout Tim McCormick joins TMI's Sam Webb for a podcast called'The Michigan Basketball Insider.' Each show offers a deep dive into the X's & O's and statistical analysis from Michigan's games, commentary on college basketball in…

SAN JOSE - Sharks general manager Mike Grier attended the recent IIHF World Junior Championships in Canada and just like everyone else, was blown away by the unbelievable performance of Connor Bedard. "It's a 19-year-old tournament," Grier said Friday. "For a kid to go in there and do what he did as a 17-year-old. After one game I said, 'I don't…

Welcome to NHL 99, The Athletic's countdown of the best 100 players in modern NHL history. We're ranking 100 players but calling it 99 because we all know who's No. 1 - it's the 99 spots behind No. 99 we have to figure out. Every Monday through Saturday until February we'll unveil new members of the list. Brett Hull was just 21 years old and coming…

It wasn't the fair season that Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers expected. The Buccaneers and the Packers had several issues with the franchise. Despite the woes, Tampa Bay nailed the division, but the Packers are yet to seal their spot. Performance-wise, both have failed to dominate, and other teams may think of them as a weak link. But a Hall of Fame…

Post columnist Steve Serby catches up with Yankees catcher Jose Trevino to take a swing at some Q&A. Q: How close were you to quitting baseball when your late father Joe was ill? A: I was coming home, I was ready to come home. I was gonna try to support my family. It was me and my mom, I talked to my mom and my mom was like, "No, you're not doing…

Poland will look to talisman Robert Lewandowski to improve their paltry European Championship goalscoring returns when they face Slovakia in Euro 2020 Group E. In their 11 previous matches at the finals, Poland have never scored more than one goal, while they also have a habit of making sluggish starts. A 1-0 win over Northern Ireland at Euro 2016…

Things can't get much worse for the Detroit Pistons right now. They currently hold the NBA's worst record, but even more painful is the fact that they lost Cade Cunningham for the season, which means it's a lost season for the team since he's the franchise player they are building around. It's hard to evaluate the other guys without Cade in the…

The inaugural MLB Draft Lottery ensured that all non-playoff teams would have a chance to receive the highest picks in the following year's Draft -- and no team benefited from the newly structured rules more than the Twins. Minnesota entered Tuesday night with the 13th-best odds in the Lottery -- and emerged with the No. 5 overall pick. That…

The 2022 Heisman Trophy ballots will be counted pretty soon, and the Heisman Trophy winner will be announced in a few days' time. Less than a handful of contenders remain in a race that was pretty wide open for most of this 2022 college football season. For whatever it's worth, all who remain are quarterbacks. Michigan's Blake Corum is out. Ditto…

The NBA regular season is a quarter of the season through and we have some of the top players leading the way in terms of the 2023 NBA MVP race. Luka Doncic, Giannis Antetokounmpo, Jayson Tatum, and Stephen Curry have the top-four odds to win the award. Let's zoom into each one and figure out who we should bet on to win the award by the end of the…

Last week, I built a parlay that I tried to base on stats and historical precedent and said that if we lost, it'd come because of a historical performance. So Anthony Davis went out and did something entirely unprecedented in NBA history. Right. Lesson learned. Still, if we had just taken the over on rebounds, we'd have hit. But Vegas is rolling in…

The New York Mets were an embarrassment last year. Billionaire hedge fund manager Steven Cohen spent almost $200 million in payroll to finish 77-85, players fought with fans on social media -- and through the actual media -- and Cohen had his say publicly as well. GM Jared Porter was hired and then fired about a month later for inappropriate…

The Charlotte Hornets open the 2022-23 season on the road Wednesday in San Antonio against the Spurs, and there are a lot of questions circulating around the franchise. LaMelo Ball won't play because of an ankle injury. Miles Bridges will not be with the team for the foreseeable future because of domestic violence charges. James Bouknight was just…

Nailing yet another heart-stopping win under jockey Vincent Ho, Hong Kong's champion savoured the 19th win of his career to set a new record in town, surpassing the previous mantle of 18 he shared with Silent Witness and Beauty Generation, dating back to when the professional era of Hong Kong racing commenced in 1971. Smashing a fine field of 10…

LEXINGTON, Ky. - In 2015, American Pharoah showed the world his greatness by winning the Breeders' Cup Classic at Keeneland Race Course after sweeping the Triple Crown earlier in the year. The Classic will be run again at the venerable Kentucky racetrack as the talented Flightline will look to add to his growing resume where he takes on seven…

Epicenter in his Oct. 30 work at Keeneland. Coady Photography Breeders' Cup Notes LEXINGTON, Ky.-Keeneland is a busy place this week with horses getting in gallops and schooling in the gate and paddock. Epicenter, Flightline, Happy Saver, Life Is Good, Hot Rod Charlie, Rich Strike and Taiba were all out and about. Epicenter - Winchell…

Who in the world would have envisioned this? One full week-plus into October there were still two managers with "interim" tags who awoke on Friday not fearing the guillotine. Rather, the two were as frisky as fillies and as happy as larks. Or should we say more precisely, they were as frisky as Phillies, and their fans, as Philadelphia's own Rob…

Let's clear all the necessary caveats up front: I am not a gambling "expert," which I believe in proper parlance would be a "sharp," or perhaps a "tout" if I sold my picks. I am none of those things. What I am though, is a brand ambassador for Coolbet, because I already liked to bet on sports well before it was government sanctioned, and I…

Picking winners of a golf tournament is hard. Doing it consistently is downright impossible. But finding value is something all bettors must practice in order to give themselves the best chance to make hay when the day comes that they ping a champion. Below, we will cover the best bets for the Sanderson Farms Championship based on current form,…

With such outstanding quarterbacks dueling against each other, the Over is tempting when handicapping Troy vs. Western Kentucky odds, but Austin Reed and his Hilltoppers playing at home with a better defense gets our attention. This game might be obscure, being televised on ESPN+, but we'll venture that this will be one of Saturday's more exciting…

SEATTLE -- Jerry Dipoto was in the thick of meetings ahead of the MLB Draft in early July, huddling with right-hand man Justin Hollander, when their focus shifted momentarily and they asked an even bigger-picture question: What would an extension for Julio Rodríguez look like? Rather than dilly-dally or daydream, the Mariners president of baseball…

The teenage sensation broke all sorts of records in New York to lift his first Grand Slam title at the US Open. With his electric energy and infectious smile, Carlos Alcaraz has captured the imagination of the tennis world. The bold play, the sprinter-style movement, he's the real deal. The hype, the expectations, the comparisons with all-time…

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Jonathan Aranda hasn't missed a beat in the batter's box since getting called up to the big leagues for the second time. After hitting.318 with 18 homers in Triple-A Durham, he's batting.343 for the Rays, and hit his first career major-league homer earlier this week in Toronto. On Saturday, he'll enjoy another first. He's…

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) - Chase Elliott wasn't around to see the fireworks at the end of last weekend's NASCAR Cup Series race at Darlington. Or, for that matter, the fire coming from Kevin Harvick's car. Elliott's playoff opener was over early after the regular-season champion lost control of his No. 9 Chevrolet and brushed the wall in Turns 1 and…

The Boston Bruins (25-14-3, 53 pts) welcome the Seattle Kraken (14-26-4, 32 pts) to TD Garden for the first-ever meeting between the B's and the NHL's newest expansion club (7:05 PM ET, NESN, ROOT-NW). The Bruins will look to bounce back from a humiliating 6-1 loss to the Stars in Dallas on Sunday and head into their week break on a positive…

This week's edition takes us to Bourbon country, where an always-talented Kentucky squad looks to redeem itself after a monumental upset loss at the hands of Saint Peter's, one of the most memorable underdogs in NCAA Tournament history. While the viewing public fawned over the Peacocks' miraculous run to the Elite Eight, Big Blue could only stew at…

A former Heavyweight title challenger attempts to dazzle his countrymen this Saturday (Sept. 3, 2022) when Ciryl Gane takes on Tai Tuivasa inside Accor Arena in Paris, France. Down at 185 pounds, Robert Whittaker squares off with Marvin Vettori in a bout that could easily put the winner on the brink of a title shot, while Charles Jourdain fights…