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🏈 Maye & Stafford Lead MVP Odds
In different eras of any sport, you have your usual suspects that are the MVP candidates throughout the entire season. Recently, it’s been Mahomes, Allen, and Lamar. One way or another, you will see those names at the top. In basketball, it’s been Jokic, Giannis, and now SGA, who have been regulars in the top 3. The 2025 NFL Season is doing something a little different! If I asked you who you would give the MVP to after 10 weeks in the regular season, who would you say? The b

Zaid Malik
Nov 103 min read


1️⃣5️⃣ Friday Fifteen - Lots of NBA News to Debrief. The Colts Have Sauce.
Friday 15 Time… 🏈 Let’s start with Thursday Night Football from last night. I always try to keep it real with you all. Been a little ill these last 48. Right around kickoff, I shut my eyes for a few. No joke I woke up with a minute left in the fourth and saw that the score was 10-7. I think it’s safe to say I missed an absolute SNOOZER! Broncos move to 8-2! 🟠 Do you know who the best team is in the East right now? The CHICAGO BULLS 🔴! At 6-1, these guys are firing on all

Zaid Malik
Nov 73 min read


1️⃣5️⃣ Friday Fifteen - Guess Who's Writing a Book?!
To choose just one thing to highlight today would be a disservice to sports in general. There’s so much to discuss, react to, and preview across MANY different sports. Let’s start…in Toronto! ⚾️ The Toronto Blue Jays are 1 game away from winning the World Series . The series heads back to Toronto tonight with the Jays up 3 games to 2. It was a statement 6-1 win in Game 5 that has brought them this close. If tonight is the last game of the season, what a ride it has been! It’l

Zaid Malik
Oct 313 min read


🍩 More Than Just Doughnuts!
A Stump Story won’t do this one justice, but twice this week we got to see a peek behind the curtain of Courtland Sutton talking about the late Bronco great Demaryius Thomas (DT), who was one of the great receivers of the 2010s, and passed away in 2021 at the age of 33. The late great Demaryius Thomas was inducted into the Denver Broncos Ring of Honor yesterday. He was a Denver great and was very deserving of this accolade. One thing that doesn’t get talked about enough in pr

Zaid Malik
Oct 192 min read


🟠 “There’s Something About Flacco…”
In an NFL landscape with numerous young guns leading their teams at QB, a Thursday Night Football showdown between 41-year old Aaron Rodgers and 40-year old Joe Flacco was exactly what we needed for a Throwback Thursday Before we get going here, THIS is one of our favorite videos here at SGS HQ! It fits the situation of a great Flacco joke from Ravens fans. I don’t know what is left to be said about Joe Flacco, he’s been in Cincy for 10 days, had to play 2 games, and just had

Zaid Malik
Oct 162 min read


🎯 A Dart is Thrown - The Subject of Today’s Class: Class
On Wednesday we talked about greatness, and enjoying it while it’s here. LeBron is an anomaly, performing at that level at this point in his career in ridiculous. What about the athletes who are not what they used to be. The way they handle that realization sure is something. A Dart was thrown this week, we’ll have to wait until Sunday to see where it lands, but what we did already get was a Russell Wilson reaction. The number of interviews athletes have to do is insane. Pre-

Zaid Malik
Sep 253 min read


Andre Szmyt - Keep. On. Going.
Browns Kicker Andre Szmyt after Game-Winning FG against Packers - (Brian Fisher - For The News-Herald) Adversity, life, and unexpected...

Zaid Malik
Sep 212 min read
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