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Commissioner Calls Aces’ Bluff, Possibly Folding Playoff Hopes

By Danielle McCartan (@CoachMcCartan and http://www.Facebook.com/CoachMcCartan) BERGEN COUNTY, N.J. – A professional basketball team looks to board a plane to play a game across the country. The flight’s stopover destination delays the outbound flight twice, causing the team to chase z’s on the airport terminal chairs. The flight the team boards will arrive late, approximately…

A 3-Game Skid: NEW YORK LIBERTY’S Frustration Mounting Following WASHINGTON MYSTICS’ Delle Donne’s Dominance

By Danielle McCartan (@CoachMcCartan and http://www.Facebook.com/CoachMcCartan) WHITE PLAINS, NEW YORK – Frustration continues to mount in White Plains as the New York Liberty (7-17) dropped its third game in a row, this afternoon to the Washington Mystics (14-10). Today’s matinee, a game that featured only two lead changes, the Liberty were only ahead of the…

NEW YORK METS: Dropped Ball on Absence of ASG Nod for Nimmo

By Danielle McCartan (@CoachMcCartan and http://www.Facebook.com/CoachMcCartan) WAYNE, N.J.- The culmination of the Mets not-so bright-and-cheery season is, as of today, a record that puts them tied with the Miami Marlins for last place in the NL East (13.5 games back). Besides 2018 All-Star Jacob deGrom’s quest for the National League Cy Young award, there seems to…

NEW YORK YANKEES: A Complete Trade-Deadline Pitching Guide

By Danielle McCartan (@CoachMcCartan and http://www.Facebook.com/CoachMcCartan) BERGEN COUNTY, N.J.- Dating back to the inception of the sport of baseball in America, there have only been six seasons in which three clubs have won 100 games or more. This season might make lucky number seven: the New York Yankees, Boston Red Sox, and Houston Astros are…

DEZ BRYANT: The Newest Member of the ________- An Analysis and a Prediction

By Danielle McCartan (@CoachMcCartan and http://www.Facebook.com/CoachMcCartan) For which team will 29-year-old (30 in November) wide receiver Dez Bryant play in 2018? While some players are having prophetic dreams about the answer to the question, I will consult my crystal ball of logic. Why I had the craziest dream last night. OG @DezBryant was back on…

2018: The Year of “Renaissance Manning”?

By Danielle McCartan (@CoachMcCartan and http://www.Facebook.com/CoachMcCartan) BERGEN COUNTY, N.J.- Since 2004, Eli Manning, with one of the punniest names in New York sports media history, has many monikers: “Super Manning”, “Eli-te”, “Easy Eli”, even “E-Lie”. I have a new nickname for the longest tenured starting quarterback in Giants history: “Renaissance Manning”. While Il Rinascimento, the Italian…

NEW YORK GIANTS: Coach Odell Beckham Jr. on Eve of Contract Crash Course

By Danielle McCartan (@CoachMcCartan and Facebook.com/CoachMcCartan) METUCHEN, N.J.- Odell Beckham, Jr. (proper noun): “Diva“, “Egomaniac“, “selfish and immature“, “Tantrum-thrower”. It’s hard to believe words from those headlines described the man that hosted his third annual Procamp for 520 of his closest, adoring fans. Odell Beckham, Jr., the most electrifying wide receiver in the National Football League,…

LAS VEGAS ACES Dealt Winning Hand, Achieve First Winning Streak at NEW YORK LIBERTY

By Danielle McCartan (@CoachMcCartan and Facebook.com/CoachMcCartan) WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.- It was Las Vegas Aces’ head coach Bill Laimbeer’s first (and only) regular-season return to the Big Apple. After coaching the Liberty to three playoff births in five seasons, he bequeathed the team to one of his assistant coaches, a WNBA legend: Katie Smith. It was…

VICTOR CRUZ: “All I Need is an Opportunity”

By Danielle McCartan (@CoachMcCartan and http://www.Facebook.com/CoachMcCartan) BERGEN COUNTRY, N.J.- From growing up in the fourth ward of Paterson, New Jersey to catching a touchdown pass in the Super Bowl to secure a win in football’s biggest game for his hometown New York Giants, Victor Cruz has certainly “been there, done that”. Cruz, 31, is not…

INTERVIEWS: CHICAGO BEARS PLAYERS-In Trubisky and Nagy We Trust

By Danielle McCartan (@CoachMcCartan and http://www.Facebook.com/coachmccartan) BERGEN COUNTY, N.J.- In the 2017 National Football League Draft, the Chicago Bears, with the second overall pick, selected Mitchell Trubisky, a 6’3″ quarterback from the University of North Carolina. After watching from the sidelines, Trubisky got the opportunity he had been working toward for his entire life in week…

New England Patriots’ Devin McCourty: The Players Coalition and Colin Kaepernick

By Danielle McCartan (@CoachMcCartan and Facebook.com/CoachMcCartan) BERGEN COUNTRY, N.J.- Quarterback-turned-activist Colin Kaepernick ignited a movement in the National Football League, in the United States of America, and in the world by choosing to kneel during the playing of The Star Spangled Banner on August 26, 2016. It was only a preseason game against the Green…

Drew Bledsoe’s Winemaking and Quarterback Rankings

By Danielle McCartan (@CoachMcCartan and facebook.com/CoachMcCartan) MORRIS PLAINS, N.J.- The first overall pick in the National Football League draft was a quarterback, on a mission bequeathed to him: to rescue his new franchise from oblivion. In 1993, Drew Bledsoe was that young signal caller, and believe it or not, that team was the New England…