Robert Lewandowski came on for Bayern Munich at halftime in a match they were losing 1-0 to Wolfsburg. Five minutes and 40 seconds into his appearance, his first goal hit the back of the net. Almost exactly nine minutes later, his fifth goal did the same. This man is on fire. You can find his first three goals in the video above. The first one he didn’t have to do much for, barely turning a Thomas Müller pass/shot into the net with an outstretched left foot. Before the Bayern crowd was done chanting his name in celebration of that one, he had already scored again. A couple minutes later he was again wide open in front of the net, and though it took three shots to get the ball over the line, he had a hat trick in just over 180 seconds. For his fourth, he threw himself into a deflected…

data-mm-id=”_v3oa71mig”>Play someone big, they said. You’ll move up in the polls, they said.Such is the battle cry toward the University of Central Florida’s Golden Knights. College football’s most dominant program in the new century’s second decade, based on numbers alone, resides not in Clemson or Tuscaloosa but the most magical place on Earth.Just over a half hour’s drive from Disney World is where you’ll find UCF, which has been the college football personification of Charles Dickens’ famous opening line from A Tale of Two Cities. The past ten years have featured two conferences (Conference USA to the AAC), an imperfect 0-12 mark, and three “New Year’s Six” bowl appearances, two of which ended in victory. The Knights have won 28 of their last 29 games overall, …

data-mm-id=”_bewlpo98e”>With one swing of the helmet, Myles Garrett went from being known as the Browns former No. 1 overall pick to the most abhorred man in the NFL. Not since Vontaze Burfict has the general NFL community consensus been so unified: suspend this man for the rest of the season.While they are right, and Garrett does deserve to face a lengthy suspension, this one dirty play isn't the only one that needs to be taken into consideration. Much like Vontaze Burfict, the former Raiders and Bengals linebacker who was suspended for the rest of this season for his dirty hit on a defenseless receiver and all the other dirty hits he's made, Garrett has a history of questionable plays this year. It ain't pretty. Myles Garrett, 2019 dirty playsWeek 1: Punched Titans TE …

data-mm-id=”_x59vgfall”>Houston Astros owner Jim Crane apologized for the team's cheating and stealing scandalThursday morning. Crane may have thought this was damage control, but media members aren't buying it. Here are the early reactions: What a massive amount of risk to take and tremendous amount of work to do for something that "didn't impact the game." https://t.co/wIq52vd40y— Albert Breer (@AlbertBreer) February 13, 2020What an amazing opinion. This is like the people who say taking steroids to get bigger, faster and stronger don’t cause more HRs. If it doesn’t help, why are you cheating? https://t.co/4jbqy27jPQ— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) February 13, 2020“What we didn’t expect is for Jim Crane to come out and treat us all like we are too st…

data-mm-id=”_hd0ba370l”>Joe Burrow looks like he could be good. That's a positive sign for the Cincinnati Bengals and their No. 1 draft pick. Burrow threw for 316 yards and the first three touchdown passes of his NFL career on Thursday night in a reasonably close game against the Cleveland Browns. He also threw 60 passes, which is kind of rare. Joe Burrow is the first rookie since 1950 with 60+ pass attempts and zero interceptions in a game— NFL Research (@NFLResearch) September 18, 2020They noted the accomplishment(?) near the end of the Thursday Night Football broadcast and my ears perked up when I heard that Burrow had thrown the most passes by a rookie quarterback since Chris Weinke. Way back in 2001, Weinke, a rookie out of Florida State, completed 36 of 63 passes for 223 y…

data-mm-id=”_lg5nzvj9d”>The Detroit Lions, in the midst of yet another rebuild from the ground up, have decided they will not be using their franchise tag on stud wideout Kenny Golladay. Tom Pelissero had the news first with today being the final day teams can use the tag on pending free agents. The #Lions don’t plan to tag WR Kenny Golladay, per source. No final decision on whether Detroit may use a tag on someone else, but it appears Golladay is headed to the market.— Tom Pelissero (@TomPelissero) March 9, 2021This comes as something of a surprise. The Lions are attempting to rebuild while maintaining some semblance of competitiveness, as their Matthew Stafford for Jared Goff swap indicates; if that wasn't the case, they could have simply sold Stafford to whoever was offerin…