1, I hate to quibble with Bruce Arians, but to blame Jameis Winston’s first interception on the route run by Chris Godwin is absurd. Winston overthrew Godwin by 20 yards. 2. Here’s the thing. While excusing Winston, Arians criticized the receivers and the secondary. The fourth-and-one failure was because of the offensive line. The backs […]

Sunday, 4 am. If you’re wondering where the Lightning’s points have disappeared to, the solution is easy. Just look in the sin bin. The Lighting penalized their way out of another point Saturday night, losing a 3-2 overtime decision to the Nashville Predators. The Bolts led 2-1 with 5:36 to play, but allowed the Preds […]

Saturday, 4 a.m. Before Sunday’s game, in those idle moments before his latest re-start, Jameis Winston should take a minute for himself. He should stand in the middle of the still empty Nissan Stadium, and he should look across the field. There he should find his old rival Marcus Mariota. He should exhale. There, but […]

Thursday, 4 a.m. Poor Victor Hedman. His heroics came with 56.8 seconds to go, plenty of time for him to be supplanted as the player of the game. The winning goal? The big moment? All forgotten. Andrei Vasilevskiy, on the other hand, is in charge of the last second. Vasilevskiy made a diving, stretching save […]