Jon Lester cashed in for $155 million over six years when he signed with the Chicago Cubs in 2014. The offseason prior, Boston offered Lester $70 million over 4 years to remain in Boston. He declined, and four months later he was traded to Oakland. There was certainly a middle…

Investment proprieties are so easy lol, Mac’s playbook is def worse and the nba wants to expand Our buddy Tobin sells season ticket packages for the Pats down at Gillette. He’s definitely someone you’d consider to be “in the know”. Every week he’ll have a guest column entitled #CanConfirm in which he’ll share the latest rumors and gossip from around the world of sports. Investments are easy…

Getting into the playoffs is not going to be easy but it’s also not impossible, either. — The doom and gloom surrounding New England is predictable — there’s no longer a sense that a surefire path to the playoffs will surface, thanks to Monday night’s loss (well, asskicking technically) at home against Chicago. The same Chicago Bears routinely mocked for their offensive ineptitude, somehow, in a head-scratching…

My buddy Tobin sells season ticket packages for the Pats down at Gillette. He’s definitely someone you’d consider to be “in the know”. Every week he’ll have a guest column entitled #CanConfirm in which he’ll share the latest rumors and gossip from around the world of sports. My name is…

The Tennessee Volunteers time is almost here. It won’t come Saturday, though, and that’s okay. — For once, finally, Tennessee is good. They’re not back, per se, but they’re there. They exist on a “plays good football” plane and that’s a meaningful mark for a program which usually occupies a flooded crawlspace. Hendon Hooker is a legitimate Heisman contender; Josh Heupel has brought pride back to…

Can someone take the calculators and spreadsheets away from these psychopaths? — Andy Reid left his offense on the field up 7. An extra point would have put the Chiefs up 8 and left the Raiders with a daunting task in the games final 6 minutes: score a touchdown and successfully convert a two-point conversion. Instead, Reid went for it — the…

Nick Foligno, Chris Wagner and Mike Reilly are Providence bound. At least on paper, anyway. — How does a team become cap strapped? Well, bad contracts are an obvious start. Perhaps it wasn’t wise to sign an aging Nick Foligno to a 2-year, $7.6 million contract. And in hindsight, Mike Reilly’s inconsistence and relegation to the press box probably aren’t worth the 3 years and $9…

Tom Brady, Gisele Bundchen Headed for Splitsville Tom Brady, the football boy, retired a few months ago. He spent about two weeks at home with the family and said: “yeah, no thanks, I gotta get outta here.” So he went back to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and that didn’t exactly…

The Italian Stallion Is Back, Baby! Have you ever heard of NewsNation? Me neither. But that didn’t stop hunk of monk, Chris Cuomo, from returning to the screen and reading from a prompter. The disgraced CNN anchor, and brother to noted pervert Andrew Cuomo (RIP SEX QUEEN!) is, after nearly…