Thomas explains that Payton combined elite defense with relentless verbal pressure.

Trash talk in the NFL is often half the game. Some players rattle opponents with words as easily as they do with tackles or touchdowns. For a few, verbal warfare almost deserves its own stat line.

It was always bound to come up when legends started swapping stories — trash talk, the gritty language of competition, the stuff that didn't make it into the box scores but carved itself into memory ...

Throughout its long history, the NBA has had some phenomenal trash talkers. We see it today with guys like Anthony Edwards and Luka Doncic, but they’re only the latest in a proud lineage of guys who ...

Larry Bird still has ownership of arguably the most famous trash-talking line in the history of trash talking. In a recent appearance on the ‘Kick Club’ podcast with former NBA greats Reggie Miller ...