Patrick Hayes is a Flint, Michigan-based freelance writer who has contributed to ESPN.com, SB Nation, the Detroit Free Press, MLive, Sierra Magazine, Lifehacker, and several other publications.
For the first time since the 1940s, the Chicago Bears own the No. 1 pick in the NFL Draft. In two previous tries, the Bears didn’t exactly land household names. In 1940, the Bears took Tom Harmon, the first Heisman Trophy winner in the U...
A flurry of major trades just before the NBA’s trade deadline altered the landscape of the championship picture. Trades of two superstars, Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving, depleted the Brooklyn Nets but created two new contenders with Durant ...
The Case for Rodgers Retiring On the final day of the NFL regular season, Aaron Rodgers had a shot to lead the Green Bay Packers to an improbable playoff appearance after an uncharacteristically slow start to the season for the franchise....
The Detroit Pistons lost to the Chicago Bulls on January 19 in the first NBA game in Paris, France, since 1994. The game wasn’t a particularly exciting one, as the Pistons have been decimated by injuries this season and have the s...
Entering the 2022-23 NBA season, the greatest factor working against Denver Nuggets center Nikola Jokic winning the MVP award had little to do with what he’s capable of doing on the court. His greatest rival is simply voter fatigue. A...
The Charlotte Hornets just completed one of the odder coaching searches of the NBA offseason. The Hornets believed they had an agreement with Golden State Warriors assistant and former Brooklyn Nets coach Kenny Atkinson to take over the...
The Denver Broncos parted ways with coach Vic Fangio after three seasons and a 19-30 record. The team has not made the playoffs since their 2015 Super Bowl win, and they’ve just hired their fourth head coach since that championship. That h...
Probably the most shocking firing of the NFL offseason was the Miami Dolphins parting ways with coach Brian Flores. Flores oversaw a Dolphins team that overachieved throughout his tenure and just missed out on playoff spots each of the...
The Jacksonville Jaguars certainly didn’t expect to enter this offseason managing another coaching search after hiring former star college coach Urban Meyer last offseason. Meyer’s tenure in Jacksonville was a disaster, to put it mildly, th...
Not too long into the NFL offseason, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers were preparing to enter next season without recently retired Hall of Fame quarterback Tom Brady, but with Super Bowl winning coach Bruce Arians still at the helm. Those...