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Eagles’ Malcolm Jenkins to appear on HBO’s The Shop: Uninterrupted with Maverick Carter

Malcolm Jenkins to appear on HBO’s The Shop: Uninterrupted with Maverick Carter

On top of being one of the most talented safeties in the NFL, Malcolm Jenkins has given his time and resources to fighting social injustice, while co-founding the Players Coalition, a public charity and advocacy organization to advance social justice and racial equity.

With the offseason in full swing and Jenkins having more free time on his hands, the Eagles star will make a guest appearance on LeBron James show, ‘The Shop’: Uninterrupted on HBO.

Jenkins will be joined by host Maverick Carter, Megan Rapinoe, Whoopi Goldberg, Sue Bird, Stacey Abrams & Hasan Minhaj.

Steelers will ‘grin and bear it,’ if chosen for 2020 season of ‘Hard Knocks’

The Pittsburgh Steelers are one of the five eligible teams and they have declared their approach to the show if it becomes a part of their 2020 fate.

The Pittsburgh Steelers are one of the five eligible teams and they have declared their approach to the show if it becomes a part of their 2020 fate.

Steelers will ‘grin and bear it,’ if chosen for 2020 season of ‘Hard Knocks’ (Steelerswire)

The Pittsburgh Steelers are one of the five eligible teams and they have declared their approach to the show if it becomes a part of their 2020 fate.

The Pittsburgh Steelers are one of the five eligible teams and they have declared their approach to the show if it becomes a part of their 2020 fate.

With firing of Pat Shurmur, Giants will once again avoid ‘Hard Knocks’

After firing head coach Pat Shurmur, the New York Giants are exempt from appearing on HBO’s “Hard Knocks” in 2020.

The New York Giants very nearly landed on HBO’s “Hard Knocks” in 2019, but ultimately avoided the big stage when the Oakland Raiders were given the nod.

That was obviously a sigh of relief for co-owner John Mara, who has stated previously that the Giants will appear on “Hard Knocks” only over his dead body.

The good news for Mara & Co? They won’t even be in the running to appear on HBO’s successful docuseries in 2020.

Unless the Giants volunteer — which they certainly won’t — they no longer meet the criteria as outlined by the NFL.

A team is exempt from appearing on the show if:

  • It has a first-year head coach.
  • It has made the playoffs in either of the previous two years.
  • It has appeared on “Hard Knocks” over the previous 10 seasons.

Currently, only five teams meet the necessary criteria to appear — the Arizona Cardinals, Detroit Lions, Denver Broncos, Jacksonville Jaguars and Pittsburgh Steelers.

Another year, another win for the Giants over HBO.

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Nick Saban and Bill Belichick -The Art of Coaching premieres tonight

One of the most intriguing HBO documentaries premieres tonight, December 10th, on HBO at 8PM CT.

One of the most intriguing HBO documentaries premieres tonight, December 10th, on HBO at 8PM CT.

The Art of Coaching, which is a 73 minute documentary, will take you down a long road of history and friendship between Saban and Belichick.

According to HBO,

“Bill Belichick and Nick Saban–two of the most successful and revered football coaches in the history of the sport–open up in this documentary that looks at their four-decade-long friendship as they share a multi layered conversation about their interwoven history, admiration for each other, coaching philosophies and more. Combined with one-on-one interviews and extensive inside access captured over the past three decades, the film includes topics never publicly broached before, including their fathers’ respective influences on their careers, their tenures with the Cleveland Browns organization in the 1990s, and how they connect with the newest generation of players. The film features interviews with peers, assistant coaches and family members, including both coaches’ children, Hall of Fame tight end and former Ravens General Manager Ozzie Newsome, Georgia Head Coach Kirby Smart and Patriots Offensive Coordinator Josh McDaniels, among many others.”

There’s no doubt this documentary will be one of the best we’ve ever seen on Nick Saban. We know him as one of the most successful college coaches of all time. But how did he get here, and how does Saban do what he do?

You’ll find that out, and more, tonight.

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Fans cannot sue over Mayweather-Pacquiao bout, U.S. appeals court rules

Fans who were unhappy with the highly anticipated fight between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao cannot pursue a lawsuit on that basis.

Fans who felt swindled after learning that Manny Pacquiao was injured going into his long-awaited fight with Floyd Mayweather in 2015 cannot follow through with a class-action lawsuit because they were disappointed with the outcome, according to a verdict by the U.S. appeals court Thursday.

The ruling applies to both those who watched the fight on pay-per-view and fans in attendance at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.

“The Fight of the Century” fell short of expectations, as Mayweather cruised to a unanimous decision victory. The fans turned their ire on defendants Pacquiao, Mayweather, HBO (which distributed the pay-per-view) and promoter Top Rank and its CEO Bob Arum.  However, The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 3-0 that the fans “got what they paid for” even if Pacquiao’s alleged injury was one of the reasons that the fight turned out to be a dud.

Judge Jacqueline Nguyen wrote: “Although the match may have lacked the drama worthy of the pre-fight hype, Pacquiao’s shoulder condition did not prevent him from going the full 12 rounds. Plaintiffs therefore essentially got what they paid for – a full-length regulation fight between these two boxing legends.”

Pacquiao revealed immediately after the fight that he had injured his right shoulder nearly four weeks earlier. His team believed that the Nevada State Athletic Commission, which presided over the fight, would have allowed Pacquiao to take an anti-inflammatory drug to numb the pain but paperwork reportedly was bungled. As a result, the commission learned of the injury three hours before the fight started. The commission denied the team’s request for a shot at that time. 

“We are very pleased,” Daniel Petrocelli, a lawyer for Top Rank and Arum, told Reuters. “The court established the very important principle that while sports fans may be zealous and passionate they do not have the right to sue because they are disappointed in how a contest was conducted, or in the outcome.”

As unsatisfactory as the fight was, Mayweather-Pacquiao generated a record 4.6 million pay-per-view buys and more than $400 million in revenue.