This article was written by Thoughts From the Bench's newest writer, Smalls. Wow. It’s been another incredible, albeit predictable, college football season. The season started with unbelievable hype around the supposed Hawaiian Jesus himself, Tua Tagovailoa. Urban Meyer was somehow only suspended for three games after poorly handling the Zach Smith situation (“poorly handling” isContinue reading "College Football Season Wrap-up: How Do We Fix the current CFP?"

The NHL has released its jerseys for the 2019 Honda All-Star Game. All players will be wearing the new eco-innovative ocean inspired Adizero jerseys during the NHL Skills Competition and Allstar game. The jerseys will be made from recycled Marine plastic waste materials, which will be the first of its kind. My thoughts, the overallContinue reading "NHL All-Star Jerseys Released"

Beyond the Arc by Ben Fiore   There are over 90 major cities in the United States, and approximately 60% of those cities do not have a professional sports team.  For the major cities that do have sports teams, some are missing one of the major sports.  Basketball is left out of some markets thatContinue reading "Top 5 (practical) U.S. Cities That Deserve an NBA Team"

May 25th 2019 Las Vegas, Nevada Double or Nothing! All Elite Wrestling has set the date for their first show at the press conference today in Jacksonville Florida outside of TIAA Bank Field. The hour press conference featured a few other announcements. First SCU (Christopher Daniels, Frankie Kazarian, and Scorpio Sky) came out to officiallyContinue reading "AEW Press Conference"

Well we have reached the halfway mark. Generally at this point we can see who the playoff contenders and pretender are. So let’s get the Real F*cking Deal labeler out and see which of these teams could be making a run for Lord Stanley’s Cup.   RFD Pittsburgh Penguins. Over the weekend the news brokeContinue reading "NHL Halfway Mark"

Tonight the Pittsburgh Penguins face off against the Florida Panthers at PPG Paints Arena. The Penguins and their fans will be celebrating 70s night. Fans will be able to hear all of the classic 70s hits, play classic arcade games, and are encouraged to dress in 70s inspired attire. The Penguins plan on having aContinue reading "Tubular Tuesday"

To qualify for this list the quarterback must have played at least half of the season or eight games. Two quarterbacks for example who would not count for this list would be Lamar Jackson Jeff Driskel   These two quarterbacks played a majority of the season but did not play for the amount acquired forContinue reading "2018 Quarterback Rankings"

Unbelievable. I can't remember the last time I looked at something so elite like Alabama and thought "They are getting their asses kicked on the biggest stage". Last nights National Championship game didn't disappoint, unless you wanted to see Saban beat Bear for his 7th national championship. Clemson was dominant, and Trevor Lawrence proved thatContinue reading "Clemson Wins the Nattty"

Beyond the Arc by Ben Fiore   Last night the Minnesota Timberwolves fired their Head Coach and President of basketball operations Tom Thibodeau.  The T-Wolves are (19-21) under Tom Thibodeau who posted a (97-107) record with the franchise since joining them in 2016.  To me, this genuinely comes as a surprise.  I mean come on,Continue reading "Here We Thibodeau Again"

I would like to start off by saying that even if the Steelers would have limped into the playoffs, the Chargers are legit Super Bowl contenders this year and it would have taken arguably our best game ever to defeat LA today. We OBVIOUSLY would have done better than the Ravens, but still that wouldContinue reading "The Ravens have made their decision….was it the right one?"