Jack Savage

2 days ago | talksport.com | Jack Savage

16 years ago, Y.E. Yang happened. The PGA Championship will get underway this week, but no matter what happens at Quail Hollow Club, it will be hard to top what took place back in 2009 at the major event. This is when the 110th-ranked player in the world, Yang, shocked the golf world and outlasted prime Tiger Woods to win the PGA Championship and become the first Asia-born player to win a major golf championship. Yang took down Woods against all the odds. Specifically.

2 days ago | talksport.com | Jack Savage

Cooper Flagg, I hope you like BBQ. The fortunes of Dallas have finally swung back in their favor. The Mavericks have won the NBA lottery and will have the first pick in the 2025 draft. It's all but guaranteed that Cooper Flagg will be hearing his name called first, and now we know where he will be headed. Dallas, get ready. The Mavericks had a mere 1.8% to win the lottery. The Utah Jazz, Washington Wizards, and Charlotte Hornets had the best chance at winning the lottery, each with 14%.

2 days ago | talksport.com | Jack Savage

It's never quiet in Cincinnati. Long gone are the days of the Bengals just going about their business, staying out of the headlines and remaining out of the league spotlight. Those days are gone because you have Joe Burrow, Ja'Marr Chase and Tee Higgins forming one of the most talented and entertaining (and expensive) trios in the NFL. Oh, and because of disgruntled star pass-rusher Trey Hendrickson, who has publicly voiced his frustrations with the organization and front office on a few occasions.

2 days ago | talksport.com | Jack Savage

Everyone knows Michael Jordan could talk trash with the best of them. What people may not know is that 'the best of them' wasn't Jordan himself, but rather Boston Celtics icon Larry Bird. Larry the Legend is considered by many to be the NBA's greatest trash talker. Longtime NBA veteran Horace Grant, who won three rings with Jordan and the Chicago Bulls during their first three-peat, saw the Bird experience firsthand. "I started talking a little trash to him [Bird]," Grant recalled.

4 days ago | talksport.com | Jack Savage

It's hard enough to pitch in the majors on two legs. Now imagine doing it on one. That is what Washington Senators' Bert Shepard had to deal with when he lost everything below his right knee after being shot down in his P-38 over Germany during World War II. A leg amputation wasn't going to stop Shepard from pitching in the majors. One leg be damned. In the spring of 1945, Shepard received an invitation to the Senators' spring training complex, and the rest was history.