WAKE UP BABE IT’S UNRIVALED DAY

Plus, Boulder Star Headed to Dallas?

January 17, 2025

…So, if you’ve been waiting for a “dark, satirical buddy-cop mystery” featuring Jalen Rose, Matt Barnes, J.R. Smith, and Ros Gold, that’s very specific—but today is your lucky day. 

The baseball world is in mourning as they say goodbye to a famed broadcaster, Mr. Baseball. Milwaukee will miss you, king.

No one is a better hater or better at being hated than Danielle Collins, who bathed in the boos of the Aussie crowd and thanked them for paying her tab. 

The best sports merch moments have been officially unofficially decided. The results are kind of surprising, but do not include sports movies, which is all the more fun. 

Everyone’s favorite funny duo are such big Lions fans, they include getting certain game days off in their contracts. 

@espnw

The Big Three is BACK … and judging just a little 😏 First stop: #LSU at #SouthCarolina 🏀 #basketball #wcbb

Hear ye! Hear ye! Gather round, noble sports fans, for the moment you’ve long awaited is here. Tonight, at 7 pm (ET), we usher in a whole new league of women hoopers. The heads have been talking and selecting their All-Menace rosters. We’ve all picked our favs of the 6 teams. 

They've all basically got an equal shot at the ‘ship, and the race will end with 6 lucky players rolling around in a huge pile of cash to the tune of $250k. 

So, what are we watching, and who are we picking to take it all?

The Laces with a fierce backcourt and Alyssa “My Two Torn Labrums Want Me To Stop Playing Basketball So Badly, But I’m Not Going To” Thomas. 

Or the Lunar Owls, who will be intense competitors, and maybe even prone to a small tiff or two, with SDS and Courtney Williams. If they’re as fun to watch on the court as they are at Guess Who, we might just be in their corner. 

How about The Mist, who will see Jewell “Seattle Storm Please Trade Me” Loyd and league-founder slash newly New York Liberty-cored Breanna Stewart reunite?

Meanwhile, the Phantom’s swag will be unrivaled (thank you, Natasha Cloud). 

But then again, the Rose will have the divine energy of their Point Gawd, Chelsea Gray.

And finally, maybe we’ll be #blessed with an Arike buzzer beater moment to win it all for the Vinyl. 

It all starts tonight. So from now until March 17, hold onto your hats because we’ve got women’s professional basketball in January. 

Ari Chambers is hopping a special SMS channel just for OffBall fans, to give us her live thoughts for the opening of the Unrivaled season.

Text UNRIVALED to 213-698-5138 to join and we’ll see you tonight at tip-off 7p ET. 

It’s been a few days of rumors, but could Deion really Beion the Dallas Cowboys coaching staff soon? It’s more likely than you think. That is if he can bring himself to coach someone who doesn’t share his DNA.

Mike McCarthy was relieved of his duties (that’s ok, coaches always get new jobs) with the Dallas Cowboys on Monday, and the rumor mill got to millin’. 

Then came reports that Jerry Jones, Cowboys owner, reached out to Deion Sanders about leaving his post in Boulder. Sanders replied,  “yeah, no, yeah for sure”. But it’s unclear if he meant, “yeah, no” (widely accepted to mean no) “or “no, yeah” (widely accepted to mean yes). Anyway, that’s not true, what he actually told ESPN was: "After you hang up and process it, it's intriguing.” 

So, it seems very possible that the man who has come to be America’s Coach will join America’s Team. Now, let’s imagine how every week, the Cowboys would dominate the water cooler convo. Whether Jones and Sanders are a match made in heaven or oil and water, you have to admit, it would be something to behold. 

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