Category: Football

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🏀 Five things to know Tuesday The Knicks are going to the NBA Finals for the first time since 1999. The Knicks completed their Eastern Conference Finals sweep of the Cavaliers with a 130-93 throttling in Game 4. New York now rolls into the NBA Finals on an 11-game winning streak, and it has been utterly dominant throughout this playoff run. Now, the Knicks will

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Welcome to the Monday edition of the Pick Six newsletter!

It’s Memorial Day, and although most people are out of the office, I’m in the office, because this newsletter isn’t going to write itself. And to be honest, that’s probably for the best, because if it did write itself, I’d be out of a job. There’s probably an AI joke in there somewhere, but I’m too lazy to make it. 

As always, here’s your reminder to tell your friends to sign up for the newsletter. It makes the perfect graduation gift and that’s mostly because it’s free. Alright, let’s get to the rundown. 

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Jaxson Dart was sacked by one of his own teammates after the New York Giants quarterback took part in President Donald Trump’s campaign-style rally for Republican Rep. Mike Lawler in New York on Friday. 

Dart, who introduced Trump on stage, was called out afterward by Giants pass rusher Abdul Carter, who like Dart was selected by the Giants in the first round of the 2025 NFL Draft. 

“Thought this (expletive) was AI,” Carter wrote on X while alluding to Dart’s introductory speech. “What we doing, man?”  

Carter’s response quickly led to speculation about potential issues within the Giants’ locker room. New York

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In the weeks leading up to the release of the 2026 NFL schedule, debate raged about who the Seattle Seahawks would kick off the season against in Week 1.

The NFL traditionally assigns the reigning Super Bowl champion to host the first game of the following season. With the game in Seattle, the Seahawks were going to face one of the nine opponents on their 2026 home schedule: The Rams, Cardinals, 49ers, Cowboys, Giants, Bears, Chiefs, Chargers or Patriots. 

With the Rams and 49ers playing in Australia in Week 1, those two teams were out. 

The NFL usually tries to start the season with a big

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Matthew Stafford had one of the best years of his career in 2025, but that almost didn’t happen, because the Los Angeles Rams came close to placing him on injured reserve to start the season. 

The 2025 season started with Stafford missing the first month of training camp due to a back injury. Rams coach Sean McVay has now revealed just how bad things got during that period. Los Angeles gave some serious thought to placing Stafford on IR, which would have knocked him out for at least the first four games of the season, McVay said during an interview on the

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The New York Giants kept their front office intact amid a coaching change earlier this offseason, and now they are locking it in for the long term. General manager Joe Schoen signed a multi-year extension with the team, the Giants announced Thursday, to retain the position he has held since 2022.

While the Giants remain in search of their first playoff appearance since Schoen’s debut season, they enter 2026 with momentum and clearly want to give Schoen a chance to see things through with the promising players he added over the last couple of years.

The extension, however, figures to draw mixed

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