In most NFL locker rooms, the star quarterback gifts his teammates expensive gifts around the holidays, thanking them for their contributions this season.
That’s not the case in the Bay Area, however.
San Francisco 49ers star running back Christian McCaffrey was the one who splurged on teammates, giving them a new PXG golf bag, a coupon for a custom golf club fitting and a bottle of tequila.
Brock Purdy, the man once known as Mr. Irrelevant who is now the 49ers’ long-term answer under center, was relieved to find out he was on McCaffrey’s nice list.
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Philadelphia Eagles chief security officer Dom DiSandro’s appeal of his ban from the sidelines and $100,000 fine was denied by the NFL on Friday, according to Rob Maaddi of The Associated Press.
Luckily for DiSandro, the Eagles covered the $100,000 fine, as is custom for teams to do so for their staffers.
DiSandro famously was involved in a scuffle with San Francisco 49ers linebacker Dre Greenlaw during the Eagles’ 42–19 loss on Dec. 3. Greenlaw was assessed an unnecessary roughness penalty and faced a $10,927 fine.
I don’t know if you’ve had food delivered recently, but the cost of it borders on extortion. Still, you run into times when it’s still your only option, so it’s good that Olympic gymnast Frederick Richard did some mental gymnastics to justify spending more than a tank of gas for a mid-sized sedan on a salad from DoorDash.
19-year-old Richard is slated to appear at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris as a member of the United States gymnastics team.
Of course, being an athlete at the highest level means really keeping tabs on what you eat.
After a season of near-constant pressure on quarterback Shedeur Sanders, the Colorado Buffaloes have taken a much-needed step toward shoring up their offensive line.
Colorado has signed five-star offensive tackle Jordan Seaton, according to a Friday afternoon post from one of the nation’s best outstanding recruits.
“It’s official!” Seaton posted to X (formerly Twitter) along with a buffalo emoji.
It’s Official! 🦬‼️
— Jordan Seaton (@JordanSeaton_) December 22, 2023
Seaton—an IMG Academy product—gave the Buffaloes his verbal commitment on Dec.
It can sometimes seem as though crew exists less as sport than as metaphor. Rowers push themselves in fierce individual pursuit; and yet, the formation of a symphonic whole is what ultimately propels the boat. Power is nothing without precision and teamwork. As George Pocock, the British designer of wooden racing shells, once observed: “Harmony, balance and rhythm. There you have it. That’s what life is about.”
That line comes from The Boys in the Boat, the excellent 2014 book by Daniel James Brown, detailing the unlikely triumph of the 1936 University of Washington men’s crew team.
Jordan Seaton, the No. 1-ranked offensive lineman recruit in the nation, made headlines this week by not officially signing his national letter of intent with Colorado on Wednesday, despite previously committing to the Buffaloes.
That didn’t stop Colorado coach Deion Sanders from heaping praise on the 6′ 5″, 287-pound lineman on Friday.
“He’s a man, man,” Sanders told ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith on Friday during an interview streamed live on YouTube. “… This kid is a pro mentally and physically right now. He just has to put it on grass.
New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick confirmed on Friday that the kicking balls in last week’s 27-17 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs were underinflated.
Short of Aaron Rodgers, there may be no player more synonymous with the last 15+ years of Green Bay Packers football than kicker Mason Crosby. After being picked in the sixth round in the 2007 NFL draft, he spent 16 seasons as the team’s kicker, entrenching himself in the franchise record books as the Packers’ all-time scoring leader and breaking Brett Favre’s record for consecutive games played.
Like his friend Rodgers, Crosby departed the team in the offseason after Green Bay drafted his successor Anders Carlson in the sixth round of the 2023 draft.
The Los Angeles Dodgers are unquestionably the winners of the 2023 Major League Baseball offseason. And it’s not even close to over.
It shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that the Dodgers were more aggressive this year than in years past. Despite putting together a dominant, 111-win team in 2022, Los Angeles came out flat after the first round playoff bye and lost three out of four to the San Diego Padres. Then in 2023, things got worse.
The Baltimore Ravens have a little wiggle room in the AFC playoff race. Not a lot, but a little.
The team, after all, is 11–3 as the calendar nears Christmas. The Ravens are a game up on the Miami Dolphins in the race for the conference’s one-seed, and two up on the Cleveland Browns in the AFC North.
Thus, Baltimore can afford a little experimentation. The Ravens dabbled in just that Friday afternoon, with quarterback Lamar Jackson showing off strange new arm angles in the portion of practice open to reporters.