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Like its main subject, ESPN’s “The Last Dance” is quickly putting up the numbers of an all-time great. The documentary on Michael Jordan and the 1997-98 Bulls debuted Sunday night and pulled in record viewership, averaging 6.1 million viewers for the first two episodes — instantly becoming the most-watched documentary in ESPN history, the network …
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Amid the biggest dearth of sports in a century, ESPN has swooped in to rescue us with “The Last Dance,” a docuseries about Michael Jordan’s final year with the Chicago Bulls. While the highly anticipated show’s first installment doesn’t offer too much that wasn’t already public knowledge, it’s still a fascinating look into perhaps the …
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Michael Jordan’s Chicago Bulls have long been considered the NBA’s model franchise. But before he got there, they were far from it — both on and off the court. When the Bulls drafted Jordan out of the University of North Carolina in 1984, Chicago had missed the playoffs in seven of the previous nine seasons, …
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With a few slight exceptions, the Patriots spent the last 19 years building an offense around one player. Now it’s time to get creative. With Tom Brady, who started 283 of 304 games for the franchise over the last 19 seasons, out the door and with the Buccaneers, Bill Belichick and his staff are left …
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Patriots head coach Bill Belichick is ready to move forward from longtime quarterback Tom Brady. To open up a conference call Monday, Belichick referred to the statement he made on Brady at the start of NFL free agency and added that he’s sure “we’ll be talking about him for years and decades to come.” But …
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The 2014 Jets are in the news again for all the wrong reasons, and this time Rex Ryan and Geno Smith are going at it. Appearing on ESPN’s “First Take” Wednesday, Ryan boasted he would have been a huge NFL coaching success with multiple Super Bowl titles if he had Tom Brady at quarterback. At …
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Not even Howard Stern could get Tom Brady to say a bad word about Bill Belichick. Drama between the two pillars of the Patriots dynasty reportedly played a key role in Brady’s departure after 20 years in New England, but the quarterback pushed back on that idea Wednesday during an expansive two-hour interview with Stern. …
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While the rest of the world was largely in the dark about Tom Brady’s future, the quarterback knew last fall that 2019 was likely his farewell season with the Patriots. “I don’t think there was a final, final decision until it happened, but I would say I probably knew before the start of last season …
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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot is facing backlash after she violated her own quarantine advice over the weekend to go to a salon for a haircut. Lightfoot defended her decision by saying that she is the “public face of this city” “I’m on national media and I’m out in the public eye,” she responded to a …
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Tom Brady is ready to see what he can do without the New England Patriots. In a piece for The Players’ Tribune published on Monday, Brady expressed how grateful he was for his 20 years in New England, but also alluded to wanting to prove that he can be successful without Patriots head coach Bill …
Like its main subject, ESPN’s “The Last Dance” is quickly putting up the numbers of an all-time great. The documentary on Michael Jordan and the 1997-98 Bulls debuted Sunday night and pulled in record viewership, averaging 6.1 million viewers for the first two episodes — instantly becoming the most-watched documentary in ESPN history, the network …
