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Is This the Rams' Last Best Chance to Win the Super Bowl?

Heading into the playoffs, I picked the Rams to win the Super Bowl. To me, they have the right balance of an efficient running game, an explosive passing game, a young and dangerous defensive line, as well as a super hero at quarterback and play-callers on both sides of the ball that have built mansions on the cutting edge of the NFL scheme world. This is, to my eye, the best McVay team ever including the one that won the Super Bowl. Even after a relatively average last month of the season, and a life and death win against the 8-9 Panthers, I…

Three Key Takeaways from the 2026 AFL Fixture

18 Nov 2025 • GuyWhoLikesSport

The AFL released its fixture in dribs and drabs last week, but now, finally, the full thing is out. Anyone need a trifold #AFL fixture for next year? pic.twitter.com/wchgDV2lS4— calculon559 (@calculon559) November 14, 2025 After taking some time to mull it over, here are three key takeaways from the 2026 AFL fixture. The AFL is a real estate business My dad’s side of the family came to this country from Greece in the early 70s. All the Greeks that came here worked hard and bought land pretty much as soon as they could. That, combined with free university education from…

Can Anyone Stop Barcelona from Reclaiming the Women's Champions League?

13 Nov 2025 • Chandler Milligan

If there was doubt, it’s been quashed. Three games into their UEFA Women’s Champions League campaign, and last year’s runners-up have made their intent clear. Having featured in each of the last five UWCL Grand Finals, Barcelona Femeni have been comfortably the best team in Europe since the turn of the decade. Following last summer’s shock 1-0 defeat to Arsenal in the UWCL Final, their dream of a stunning three-peat was ended. And in the aftermath of that pain, it looked like the walls were crumbling down around the incredible dynasty that the Barca Femeni has created over the last…

The Recession the Bills had to Have

12 Nov 2025 • GuyWhoLikesSport

In 1990, Paul Keating famously described an incoming recession as “the recession we had to have”. I bet Brandon Beane and the Buffalo Bills are thinking the same thing, at least offensively. Fresh off a drubbing at the hands of the Dolphins, the Bills are having the year offensively that they were meant to have last year. 2024 was meant to be the reset year after running into financial and existential football problems and deciding to let key offensive contributors Mitch Morse, Stefon Diggs, and Gabe Davis walk in the offseason as well as a number of ageing defensive starters.…

The AFL has a Plagiarism Problem

10 Nov 2025 • GuyWhoLikesSport

I started the new Vince Gilligan show Pluribus last night. The first two episodes are really good and it’s nice to see Kim from Better Call Saul back. The genius of Pluribus is that, like with Breaking Bad, Gilligan has clearly taken pieces from other shows that he likes and retrofitted them onto the world that he wants to live in. With Pluribus, at least early, I see a lot of The Leftovers and a bit of Severance, but it’s not exactly the same. It’s inspired by rather than copied from. Gilligan did the same with Breaking Bad: borrowed the…

It’s Time to Accept Vincent Kompany as One of the Best Managers in the World

6 Nov 2025 • Chandler Milligan

When Vincent Kompany was announced as the Bayern Munich manager ahead of the 2024/25 season, it felt like a bit of a joke. A real ‘games gone’ moment. He had, after all, just steered Burnley to a miserable 19th-place finish in the Premier League. Somehow, he failed upwards and was rewarded for a disastrous relegation campaign with the keys to one of the greatest football clubs in history. Off the back of Bayer Leverkusen’s invincible season, it was imperative that the Bavarians reclaimed the title that they had won 11 times in a row before Xabi Alonso’s historic campaign. With…

Why Not Seattle?

5 Nov 2025 • GuyWhoLikesSport

The Seahawks are contenders this year. I don’t know why we aren’t talking about it. Maybe it’s because the last time we saw their new quarterback Sam Darnold in a big spot, he turtled like Dee Reynolds doing stand-up. Is it because their head coach Mike McDonald hasn’t quite penetrated the mainstream as a defensive genius yet? Whatever it is, they aren’t getting the respect they deserve even after demolishing the Commanders in prime time. But if you look around the league, they have to be in the conversation. Part of the reason has to be their recent history. The…

The Nostalgia Trap And How The MLB Avoided It

3 Nov 2025 • GuyWhoLikesSport

Two things happened this weekend that seemed to be in conversation with one another. The first was that Oasis came to Melbourne, continuing their world tour of bangers from the 90s. Here's the story Liam Gallagher promised us here on @oasisworld_ Proper psychedelic 😅#oasislive25 https://t.co/TZ4CWm0zDI pic.twitter.com/5JDcMtY8QC— Oasis World (@oasisworld_) November 1, 2025 The second was the LA Dodgers won the World Series in a classic Game 7. Video: Japanese announcers react to the Dodgers winning the World Series. It was wild seeing Yamamoto pitch two days in a row, but it worked out in the end. pic.twitter.com/UFsi0kRd71— Jeffrey J. Hall…

The Premier League Title Belongs to Arsenal

30 Oct 2025 • Chandler Milligan

If somebody read that title to you five years ago, you would laugh until your eyes were streaming. COVID-19 Arsenal was a glorious trainwreck to behold, but those days are long behind us now. Lockdown Arsenal are commonly trolled as one of the worst Premier League teams ever, with players tripping over their own feet, David Luiz making more mistakes than passes, open goal misses, embarrassing defeats, and Hector Bellerin’s inability to take a proper throw-in. But, after three consecutive runners-up finishes in the English Premier League, it feels almost fated that the Gunners will be crowned Champions come May…

What to do With the Denver Broncos?

30 Oct 2025 • GuyWhoLikesSport

The Broncos have me confused, like I’m Michael Bluth meeting Anne for the very first time. They just demolished the Dallas Cowboys in a de facto prime time spot. How 'bout them Broncos‼️ pic.twitter.com/wH4SFBEzui— Denver Broncos (@Broncos) October 26, 2025 They did it on the back of a dominating defensive performance where they rendered the Dallas death star no better than one of the SpaceX rockets that explodes all the time. The Cowboys had their worst success rate game of the season offensivelyand quarterback Dak Prescott had his worst game for the season by both EPA/play and total EPA. DAK…