Ryan Keane writes about sports, money, roster construction and front-office decisions for Negadelphia.
The Flyers got a 3-1 win they needed in Vancouver. NBC Sports Philadelphia's cameras caught Matvei Michkov and Nick Seeler in a heated exchange on the bench. Twelve days after Seeler talked postgame about a "me, me, me" team, and named nobody, the tape is already sitting next to those comments. A fractured room, or a pulse? The people in it have not said.
The Sixers are 8-1 and 7-0 when games enter clutch time. Maxey is third in the league in clutch points. ESPN has them languishing bottom-10 in offensive efficiency while sitting top-three defensively; Basketball-Reference has them 20th ORtg / 2nd DRtg. Cleveland, 7:30 ET, NBA Cup. Sample size still applies.
Halftime was 54-31. Final was 97-93. Penn State set a program free-throw record at 43 of 49 and still watched Anigbata's three cut it to one possession with under a second left. Credit the free throws. Do not hide the second half. Pitt is next.
Jhoan Duran threw a 1.82 ERA with 33 saves for the Phillies in 2026. Baseball-Reference has him free-agent eligible after 2027. That's one arbitration season of club control left, and every multi-year pitch sits under a Dec. 1 CBA clock.
Joel Embiid, Jaylen Brown and Tyrese Maxey count $156,492,622 against the NBA's $164.961 million salary cap this season, 94.87 percent of it (Spotrac). Their deals all run through 2028-29, and Embiid's last year is a Spotrac-listed player option. On projected caps their share keeps climbing.
Howie Roseman paid the front. Through eight games, Carter and Nolan Smith Jr. have eight of the Eagles' 10 sacks. Davis and Greenard have half of one, and one of them has a real ankle excuse.
Per NBC Sports Philadelphia, the Phillies didn't make Alec Bohm the one-year, $23.15 million qualifying offer. He's a free agent with no draft pick attached, and Dave Dombrowski already told you what they're losing.
Free agency opened Monday. If there is no new labor deal by 11:59 p.m. Dec. 1, owners are expected to lock the players out and freeze the market. What does that do to a high-payroll team with holes?
Lemon has 25 catches for 194 yards and a touchdown through seven games, and he is on the field for about three of every four offensive snaps by one estimate. Among the first-round receivers in his class who have played, he is last in yards per game, per catch and per target.
The NFL reportedly swapped Shawn Hochuli's crew onto Sunday night in place of Alex Moore's. Hochuli's history with the Eagles is fine. The Eagles' own holding is what should keep you up on Sunday night.
The Atlantic 10 calls La Salle's women's team last season one of the strongest in program history, and the league's coaches still picked them 10th of 14. The roster page gives a reason to wonder, and so does the crowd count.
Jaiden Glover-Toscano is on the Atlantic 10's preseason first team after 535 points, 433 field goal attempts and 33 assists. Derek Simpson, who had 188 of the Hawks' 556 assists, is not on the 2026-27 roster.
Michkov leads the NHL in shooting percentage at 42.9 among skaters with 20 or more shots, and he is taking fewer shots each year, 2.5 a game as a rookie and 1.4 now. The Flyers need the goals. The sample is 15 games, and the finishing rate is nowhere near his first two seasons.
Since Dave Dombrowski took over Phillies baseball operations in December 2020, the players the team got back in trades have produced +40.4 Baseball-Reference WAR in a Phillies uniform, and the players they sent away have produced +22.7 elsewhere. Five incoming players account for more than the entire gap, and nobody can price any of it without salaries.
The Flyers own their 2027 first-round pick and, for now, Toronto's too. The cap room is projected, and one of the two numbers rests on a salary cap the league has only estimated.
Nobody has reported that Penn State is firing Matt Campbell. This is what the term sheet guarantees: $62.5 million in pay for 2027 through 2033, before any offset for what he'd earn somewhere else.
Ten players, $845.95 million still owed from 2027 on, and seven of them are 33 or older.
