Author: Michael

Utah Utes head coach Kyle Whittingham recently shared his thoughts on the state of college football realignment and where the NCAA is heading.
And it represents a fascinating potential picture of how NIL and realignment could impact the NCAA model going forward.
Whittingham believes that there will be “massive changes, super conferences” in the not-so-distant future. “It’s going to be unrecognizable from what it is now,” he said.” Eventually, he believes those super conferences will split off from the NCAA entirely, and “govern themselves.

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Jets offensive lineman Billy Turner did not hold back on his thoughts for Sean Payton after the Broncos head coach blamed part of Denver’s turmoil last season on current New York offensive coordinator Nathaniel Hackett.
Payton told Jarrett Bell of USA TODAY Sports that Hackett’s yearlong tenure in Denver was “one of the worst coaching jobs in the history of the NFL.” Hackett went 4–11 at the helm for the Broncos and was fired in December, before the end of the regular season.

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In what could be a fun “What if…” exercise, San Francisco 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan revealed that he would’ve called Philip Rivers had his team advanced to the Super Bowl.
Of course, we all remember how things went down in the NFC Championship for the Niners. Brock Purdy got injured, then Josh Johnson entered the game, he got injured then Purdy returned with an arm that didn’t exactly work
Still, Shanahan wouldn’t be doing his job if he wasn’t thinking ahead to what he might need to do in the event that his team managed to defeat the Philadelphia Eagles.

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The Angels, who are retaining the services of star two-way talent Shohei Ohtani for at least the remainder of this season, were rewarded for their faith in a big way on Thursday afternoon.
Less than 24 hours after Sports Illustrated’s Tom Verducci reported that the organization had decided not to deal the two-way superstar at the trade deadline, Ohtani posted a historic performance during the club’s doubleheader against the Tigers.

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Another scorcher—my second consecutive triple-digit temperature day. And here come the takeaways from Vikings camp …
1. How good Minnesota’s secondary winds up remains to be seen—but it will certainly be more flexible than it was a year ago. The Vikings really emphasized position flexibility with new coordinator Brian Flores coming in, and it’s shown through the offseason in how players such as Byron Murphy (a corner capable of playing inside and outside) and Josh Metellus (a safety who can come down and play linebacker) have ascended.

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