Sports
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Bye-Bye Pro Bowl
Happy Monday, Since 1951, the AFC and NFC have faced off in the annual NFL Pro Bowl, however it will now be a thing of the past. The NFL announced this morning that it will be replacing the Pro Bowl game with “games”, which include “skills competitions and flag football”. This could be a big
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After The Final Whistle – NFL Week 2
Happy Monday, Welcome to After the Final Whistle! Week 2 of the NFL season is in the books (minus tonights Monday Night Football matchups). Lets look at some of my personal take aways from the weekend! Lions 36 – Commanders 27 The Lions were one of my picks this weekend, along with Jared Goff to
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The Joker Wins MVP, Again!
For the second straight year, the NBA writers have voted Nikola Jokic the league MVP (according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski). Jokic became the first player in NBA HISTORY to score 2,000 points, grab 1,000 rebounds, and have 500 assists in a season. The Joker averaged 27.1 pts / 13.8 reb / 7.9 ast over the
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Robinson Cano DFA’d
The Robison Cano experiment is over in Queens. The New York Mets have DFA’d the 39 year old Cano, oweing him 40 million dollars over the next 2 seasons. The Mets traded 2 of their top prospects in 2018 to the Mariners for Cano, Edwin Diaz, and 20 million dollars. Those two top prospects being
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Celtics Sweep!
Another super team has come and gone. The Brooklyn Nets were swept tonight by the Boston Celtics. The Nets have gone all in over the past three seasons, accquiring their own Big-3 in Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving, and James Harden. Trading for the…injured?… Ben Simmons, signing Blake Griffin and DeAndre Jordan, bringing in Andre Drummond,
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Why Do You Like Sports?
This past week I had a coworker tell me their reason why they don’t like sports. “All it is is drama filled”, and that was the extent of the reasoning. Yep, lots of hard thinking done there. He proceeded to tell me how extreme sports are only sports that truly are sports because those take
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Baseball is Back
This week the NFL led sports headlines. Aaron Rodgers resigned with the Packers, Carson Wentz and Russell Wilson were traded, and even today, Kalil Mack was sent to the Chargers. But, the one thing that the NFL couldn’t top was… THE RETURN OF BASEBALL. Today the MLB and MLBPA finally reached an agreement allowing the
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Kirk Herbsteit Signs with Amazon
College Football’s lead color commentator has reportedly reached a deal with Amazon to be the lead on their Thursday Night Football coverage for the upcoming season. The mega giant company paid around a reported $1 Billion (yes with a B), per year, for the next 11 seasons to cover the NFL’s Thursday Night Football. While
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If You Don’t Like The Olympics, I Don’t Like You
Happy Saturday. The title says it all. Every two years (summer-winter alternate every two years, yes I know that each games is four years apart) we get to watch a whole bunch of sports that for four years between Olympic games you forget exist. There is nothing better than cheering on the Americans in a
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Welcome to Postgame Tailgate
Happy Sunday, My name is Trevor and I started this blog as somewhere to talk about sports and a variety of topics the way I wanted to. I have no formal writing experience, I am not a journalist or ever even taken a journalism class. I am simply a guy with some hot sports takes,