Author: Michael

Ja Morant will appear in court next week after receiving a subpoena stemming from a fight with a teenager at his own house last year.
The Memphis Grizzlies star allegedly fought with 17-year-old Joshua Holloway during a pickup basketball game at Morant’s home. The boy’s check-in pass reportedly slipped out of his hands, and hit Morant in the face.
After the fight, Holloway allegedly said he was “going to come back and light this place up like fireworks.” That was when Morant came back outside with a gun, according to the teenager, but Morant said that account is false.

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This week, NASCAR Cup Series champ Ryan Blaney expressed interest in being the next driver to pull double duty and compete in the Indianapolis 500 and Coca-Cola 600 on the same day.
With Kyle Larson set to be the first driver to do it since 2015, please let this be a new trend in drivers trying to pull off one of the wildest feats in all of sports.
If you’re unfamiliar, the final Sunday in May is the biggest day in motorsports. You’ve got Formula 1’s Monaco Grand Prix in the morning and the Indianapolis 500 in the early afternoon.

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The most important meeting of the SEC championship happened before the game kicked off.
As Alabama and Georgia prepared to play in a game loaded with potential ramifications on the College Football Playoff, two of college football’s favorite dogs got the opportunity to sniff each other.
Uga, Georgia’s mascot, was let out to exchange greetings with ESPN commentator Kirk Herbstreit’s dog, Ben.
Ben has been traveling with Herbstreit as he jumps between jobs with Amazon Prime on Thursday Night Football and calling college football with ESPN.

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Big Boy Pants Golf threw a jab at Tiger Woods, dropping Lance Armstrong vibes that a former rival enjoyed.
Tiger Woods has made his long awaited return to professional golf this week. He is playing in the Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas, a tournament he hosts.
This comes less than eight months after having successful ankle surgery stemming from the car accident back in 2021. Not only has Woods mostly looked like himself walking the course, a big point of emphasis, but he also looks strong as an ox.

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The Pac-12 is dead; long live the Pac-12.
One of college football’s most durable conferences passed (in its current state) into history Friday evening as Washington defeated Oregon 34–31 to win the league’s final championship game. The well-played contest was a fitting sendoff to the century-old hub for power-conference football on the West Coast.
It was also, a Saturday ESPN release revealed, destined to become a bitterly ironic trivia answer.

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